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Business in Cuba: A risky venture

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:02:56 GMT

Standing beside Belarusian tractors and Chinese machine parts at Havana's annual trade fair last month...more

Cuba Says Imports From US off Sharply in 2010

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:02:11 GMT

Cuban imports from the United States fell sharply in 2010 while the country increasingly turned to trade with ally Venezuela...more

Cuba reports big increase in food prices

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:02:55 GMT

Cubans paid almost 20 percent more for food in 2011 as economic reforms, reduced imports and stagnating farm production...more

Follow the money: Braszilian president travels to Cuba and Haiti

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:01:01 GMT

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, who arrived in Cuba Monday, plans to meet with President Raul Castro today in a trip touted as a trade booster...more

Talk is cheap

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:01:57 GMT

Cubans are not know for the brevity of their conversations. Unless, that is, they are speaking on a mobile phone...more

Private Entrepreneurship in Cuba: Hard Way of Capitalism

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:01:04 GMT

It has been a long time when the social democracy leader Felipe Gonz�les, a former Spanish prime minister announced to the press, not without a reason, something what makes you think: “The capitalism is the best of the bad systems which exist.” After two decades, in Cuba of Castro brothers, it seems that somebody recognizes it. The ... more

The Longest Way

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:12:33 GMT

In the decade of the 80�s, the Chinese discovered something what the Cuban leaders are discovering now: “The communism is the longest way to reach the capitalism.”

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Private Business and Emerging Chaos

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:10:27 GMT

Private Business and Emerging Chaos

Returning of licenses for business running on one�s own account in Cuba, more than a sign of opening the centralized system of state employment, it is a fact which recognizes a fiasco of the economic model introduced in the country.

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