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31 Mar 2012 (Consejo de Ministros de Cuba-La Habana) Cuba's Council of Ministers has issued a communique indicating that, as recently requested by Pope Benedict XVI, it had decided to declare Friday, April 6, 2012, the date of the upcoming Good Friday holiday, as a one-off non-working public holiday (receso laboral) in Cuba. • 28 Mar 2012 (ACI Prensa-La Habana) Yesterday, during his meeting with Cuban President, Raúl Castro, Pope Benedict XVI requested that Good Friday be declared another annual non-working public holiday in Cuba. • 18 Mar 2012 (Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba-Granma) The Cuban government has finally announced that it would declare public holidays from March 26 to 28, 2012, to coincide with the upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Santiago de Cuba and Havana. • 29 Feb 2012 (Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba-Granma) The Cuban government has announced that it has not yet decided whether to declare one or more public holidays during the upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Santiago de Cuba and Havana, on March 26, 27 and 28, 2012. • 26 Dec 2011 (Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba-Granma) Cuba's Ministry of Labor has announced that Friday, December 30, 2011, had been declared a national non-working public holiday throughout Cuba. • 26 Apr 2011 (The Havana Times-Havana) Cuba's Ministry of Labor has announced that Monday, May 2, 2011, would be treated as a national non-working public holiday. • 20 Nov 2007 (Milenio + Univision) The Government of Cuba decreed 2 new annual public holidays, December 31 and January 2, to take effect immediately (Decreto Ley No. 254 del 18 de septiembre de 2007). • 19 Jun 2007 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban Government has declared today, Tuesday, June 19, 2007, a national day of mourning, following last night's death of Vilma Espín, Cuba's unofficial First Lady for the last 47 years. • 20 Dec 2006 (Es Más-La Habana) The Minister of Labor and Social Secutrity has decreed that Tuesday January 2, 2006, would be a one-off additional public holiday. • 02 Dec 1998 (Reuters-La Habana) Cuba's Politburo has announced that the Cuban Communist Party had asked the State Council to declare Christmas Day (December 25) as an annual public holiday for all citizens (para cristianos y no cristianos, creyentes y no creyentes). • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Cuba public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Christmas: The celebration of Christmas as a public holiday in Cuba, was stopped in 1970 (to use that extra working day to increase sugar production). But, after a 30 year absence, Cuba re-established Christmas as one of its public holidays, in 1998, on the eve of the visit of Pope John Paul II . • Cuba International Codes CU and CUB (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .cu (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Cuba information and news: Central Bank of Cuba (Cuba central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Cuba maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Cuba), and Wikipedia (includes Cuba commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Cuba, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2012 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Cuba, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Cuba, before planning any trip to Cuba. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.