Former Secretary of State and former First Lady of the United States Hillary Clinton claims to have urged President Barack Obama to end the long economic embargo on Cuba, states her soon to be released memoirs entitled “Hard Choices.”
Read MoreJaime Olano “Lefty” tells us about his experience in the food industry working in one of the cooperatives that the government established to take over some of its failing businesses, collecting taxes instead instead of losses.
Read MoreThe “contrived obstacle” is a category of the communist project undertaken by socialism, Here, I will attempt to analyze this aberrant practice.
Read MoreThe Cuban government is considering lowering to three years the period of prohibition of entry to the country after an act of illegal immigration and plans to expand the amount of currency that travelers can carry upon entry without formally declaring it.
Read MoreThe Canadian company Sherritt announced Monday the signing of a new contract with Cuban authorities for joint venture drilling and gas production for 10 years, extendable to 2028. The company’s executives have suffered reprisals from Washington for its economic relationship with Cuba, including being denied entry to the USA.
Read MoreThe socialist state telephone company, ETECSA, complains about the competition from individuals “using the Internet as an alternative route” to supplant “the role that corresponds to the company” and “International Telephone Companies” bringing “heavy financial losses.”
Read More“Cuba is changing some of its economic policies and the private sector is evidently growing,” said US Chamber of Commerce President, Thomas Donahue, during his speech at the University of Havana, in which he condemned the economic embargo Washington has been imposing on Havana for more than fifty years.
Read MoreThe Cuban Customs office issued a statement today warning travelers to the island of a crackdown on the carrying of packages for third parties. The measure especially affects Cuban-Americans who routinely carry parcels from friends and neighbors when traveling to the island.
Read MoreThomas J. Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, on Wednesday visited an automotive repair cooperative in Havana, where he maintained a “fluid” chat with the workers. “Donohue was interested in the ‘before and after’ of this enterprise […] about how workers are hired and protected,” said Marcelo González, manager of the Vehicle Reconstruction Cooperative in the Cerro municipality of Havana.
Read MoreA delegation from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce arrived Tuesday afternoon in Havana, led by its chief executive officer, Thomas J. Donohue; Steve Van Andel, chairman of the Chamber’s board of directors and president of the Amway corporation; and Marcel Smits, executive vice president and financial director of the Cargill corporation.
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