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If you are a journalist interested in doing a
professional job in Cuba, you must obtain a
journalist visa at the Cuban Embassy in
Doha, Qatar. Our email is
embacuba@qatar.net.qa and our fax number is
411 0387.
To obtain a journalist visa, you must
present your request to the Cuban Embassy. This
request must include some basic informations,
needed for the procedures, such as:
- A letter from your media, endorsing your
proposal
- A detailed project of the journalist work that
you want to do in Cuba (culture, social issues,
sports, education, economy, etc). This is
particularly important for the Centre for
International Press to organizer, in advance,
the program of official interviews and visits
that you may need.
- Your name, passport number and date of birth
(if you traveling with a crew, you must give
those details for every member of the staff,
specifying their functions: cameraman, sound
technician, scriptwriter, and photographer).
- Proposed dates, arrival and departure.
- If you are traveling with equipments (cameras,
sound, etc) you must make a list of them, in
order to facilitate the procedures with the
customer at the airport.
The Embassy of the Republic of Cuba will be
grateful to receive this information with, at
least, 3 weeks in advance, to give proper time
for the procedures.
The Center for International Press (CPI)
The CPI is the Cuban Institution responsible for
giving the accreditations and services to the
foreign media, in order to facilitate their
professional work in Cuba. They have a key role
to organizer a program of official interviews
and visits to different official governmental
institutions, according to your interests. They
can accompany you, for help, to those official
interviews and also can expedite your attendance
to press conference, fairs, conferences and
other interesting events with international
coverage in Cuba at the moment of your stay.
They can also provide transportation,
communications, conference rooms, food,
photography and other services that you could
need.
When you arrive to Cuba for your journalist
work, you must go to the CPI for be officially
accredited. This accreditation is valid for 90
days.
Address:
- 23 rd. Street No. 152, Vedado, Plaza de la
Revolucion, Havana City.
Tel: (537) 832 6091/ (537) 832 0526, 27 and 28
E-mail:
cpi@cpi.minrex.gov.cu
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