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The Tiendas Caribe chain, part of the GAESA military consortium, inaugurated a new wholesale establishment that functions with US dollars.

Airbnb has indefinitely suspended both payments and services on the island, offering no clear explanation to those hosts affected.

The most vulnerable Cubans don’t need speeches or pretty words. They need a system that is truly functional, dignified, and humane…

Official figures show annual domestic consumption is around 700,000 tons, the 2024 harvest barely reached 80,000 tons, covering only 11%.

Several people wrote to El Toque expressing concerns regarding a possible elimination of the magnetic MLC for shopping in government stores.

A glaring symbol of inequality: it stands across from a similarly named MLC store whose shelves, once well-stocked, are practically empty.

Rather than greater openness and flexibility, 2024 was marked by decrees that mostly imposed tighter control over the private sector.

These instruments have been marked by non-compliance and Cubans loss of trust in the country’s financial system.

A meeting of private business owners with a Deputy Minister of Finance and Prices exposes tensions over new price caps.

The modifications range from the export of cloud-based services to the redefinition of independent entrepreneurs in the private sector.