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Chinese Businesses Upper Hand vs Nicaraguan Merchants

Merchants search for the best merchandise they can resell and are making plans to import directly from China—if Customs allows it

Of the eight floating power plants Cuba once had, only one remains in Regla, and it’s suffering from a lack of fuel.

Famine is advancing in the Gaza Strip, and children & adults, including aid workers, are suffering from hunger, just like the Israeli hostages.

Their market is dollarized stores, tourist hotels, and warehouses controlled by the Cuban military conglomerate GAESA.

Petals that resemble brushstrokes of oil paint, textures you feel with your eyes, colors that tell the story of an exuberant land. (16 photos)

Economist Pedro Monreal believes the government doesn’t care about hotels, but rather about the real estate business of leasing them.

This deceptive narrative, common in official Cuban discourse and echoed by state media, omits key internal causes and distorts reality.

The Baracoa Agroforestry Company sold tons of product stored for years to small businesses at double the price paid by the state company.

“The always-antagonistic relationship between wages and inflation has taken on dramatic tones in daily life in Cuba.”

The price increase reduces online activity to the essentials and makes video calls an unreachable luxury for many Cubans.