Mass Requests for Self-Employment in Cuba

HAVANA TIMES, Nov. 28 – The Cuban authorities have received more than 80,000 applications for self-employment since the start of the reform begun by the government last October to expand the private sector on the island, announced the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. This opening hopes to absorb part of the 500,000 persons who will be jobless up to March 2011, reported IPS.

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