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Cuban passport. Photo: Archive/OnCuba.

Cubans can continue entering the island with an expired passport and debate the Family Code from abroad

Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, MINREX general director of consular affairs and attention to Cubans residing abroad, reported that a group of measures adopted since 2020 due to the pandemic remain in force, and explained that participation from outside Cuba in the popular consultation on the new Family Code may be done “through an interface enabled on The Nation and Emigration website”

Pork stall in a market in Havana, during Christmas time. Photo: Otmaro Rodríguez.

Cuba: MSME projected for raising pigs on Havana rooftops

In the midst of the scarcity and high cost of pork in Cuba, where a pound of the appreciated food has even exceeded 200 pesos — more than 8 dollars, at the official exchange rate —, two Havana entrepreneurs are working on the creation of a MSME for the breeding of what is considered by many to be the island’s national mammal. Up to there, the news does not seem at all extraordinary, beyond its socioeconomic context, which it is. However, in addition to its — undoubtedly — appreciated objective, the project has attracted the attention of Cuban specialists and authorities for its community conception and, above all, for the setting in which it plans to take place: the typical Havana rooftops. Azocerdo is the name of the alleged MSME, whose file is already in the hands of the island’s Ministry of Economy and Planning (MEP) and is currently in the evaluation phase for authorization, according to OnCuba. Its two main partners, the brothers Pedro and Cecilio Mantecón, with previous experience in the business of breeding and marketing Cuban pigs and their derivatives, claim to feel “optimistic” with an imminent approval of their enterprise and everything that could result from...

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