The Fate of Two Cuban-American’s Businesses on the Island
Not all private businesses on the Island receive the same treatment by the Cuban Government. We feature two cases.
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Will Price Controls Increase Supply or Scarcity in Cuba?
A meeting of private business owners with a Deputy Minister of Finance and Prices exposes tensions over new price caps.
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How Ortega Took Over Nicaragua’s Electricity Sector
Tirso Celedon, president of Agronegocios Comerciales, is the Ortega-Murillo family’s main figurehead in energy and real estate businesses.
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Cuban Leadership Met to Discuss Their “War Economy”
Maximum profit limits for private sector sales to State companies took effect on Monday July 1st throughout Cuba.
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In Cuba, the Dead Own Livestock to Avoid State Controls
In Pinar del Río, inspectors detect 1,900 “illegalities” in livestock. Meanwhile, controls increase and production continues to decline.
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Corruption Network Destroys a Company in Guantanamo, Cuba
The case affects a large “number of people who have been charged,” as well as state companies and entities that took part in it.
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Cuba: New Communication and Migration Laws, Nothing New
Although they have raised many comments, the new Communication and Migration Laws do not bring much novelty to what is routinely practiced.
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A Balcony Falls on a Cafe in Vedado, Havana
The incident, part of a wave of collapses that is now impacting even one of the capital’s most solidly-built neighborhoods…
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The Odyssey of Restoring a Tooth in Cuba
In Cuba, it is increasingly difficult to reconstruct a dental piece, get a dental cleaning, or get an implant due to the high costs.
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Ortega Boots His Longtime Finance Minister Ivan Acosta
Police raid his office & home, but fail to capture him; under investigation for alleged corruption. Acosta was Minister of Finance since 2012
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