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Panel on laws and policies of the United States and the Cuban private sector, led by the law firm Akerman LLP. At the table, from left to right, lawyers Odette Ponce, Pedro Freyre and Augusto Maxwell. Photo: Courtesy of 23yflager.

Cuban private businesspeople’s expedition in Miami: paths that open

This week, the city of Miami hosted an unprecedented, hopeful and historic meeting. At least this is the case for those who seek to open viable paths to the growing economic interests between business actors in Cuba and the United States. Despite the difficult context of bilateral relations marked by the embargo/blockade and the extensive repertoire of sanctions against Cuba that remain in force, these businesspeople from both shores met to identify the existing alternatives and their points of contact. More than 70 private businesspeople from the island traveled to Miami this week and were received by Cuban-American and U.S. colleagues, to establish contacts and forge alliances with their peers, waiting for new flexibilities to be announced from Washington that favor expansion and strengthening of the Cuban private sector. In their welcoming remarks of each of the two work days, the former mayors of Hialeah, Raúl L. Martínez, and of Coral Gables, Raúl Valdés-Fauli, highlighted the significance of this meeting and praised the value of entrepreneurship to promote the economic development of a community, as evidenced by many Cuban emigrants in Miami and the new private entrepreneurs in Cuba are trying to do today. Photo: OC. Study the regulations Legal...

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