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Our entrepreneurial world of today is surprisingly diverse, in the types as well as the size of the enterprises and...

The Cuban entrepreneurial world has experienced a significant diversification in recent years. For some that diversification is the logical way...

Cuba has no water problems. That affirmation, just like that, in such a categorical way, is by someone some time...

A few days ago baseball player Alfredo Despaigne batted a homerun that allowed Cuba to classify for the second round...

There are few things that arouse so many emotions in a Cuban living outside Cuba as seeing a photo, hearing...

It is true that several U.S. companies have signed agreements with Cuban state enterprises. Some of them are in the...

Time is very important, perhaps the most important of all the magnitudes. Even for the economy. Moreover, we Cubans have...

It was Goyo who called my attention about a very interesting daily event when he said to me: “Have you...

Just some days ago the Emily Morris Academy published an article sustaining that Cuba is not facing a failure, but...

President Raúl Castro said so himself on December 2015, and later during the second session of the National Assembly in...

We economists once again had the luck and the privilege of having in Cuba U.S. economist, professor in diverse universities...

Is Donald Trump good or bad for Cuba? This is the question of the moment, for which it seems no...

He actually didn’t know what all that meant. The uniform, the beret, the lantern, all that seemed as big as...

“They work. They resemble fine silversmiths in everything they do, in wood, in mother-of-pearl, as gunsmiths, in textiles, in painting,...

Just a few weeks ago I met the ambassador of Japan to Cuba, Masaru Watanabe. We wanted to talk to...

Three apparently indirectly related news items motivated these lines. Not too long ago the magazine Nature, one of the most...

Some historians say that sugar entered Cuba by Puerto Güincho, in Nuevitas, Camagüey, coming from the neighbor island Hispaniola. It...

The news that the intricate village of Motembo, in Villa Clara, could rise up out of anonymity and play a...

Lately our mailboxes are receiving messages of support, concern and suggestions sent by readers and followers of OnCuba from all...

Having a development plan that runs until 2030 does not mean that in 2030 Cuba will be a developed country....

If we could calculate how much, in terms of lost revenue, services no longer lent, and interrupted labour, we would...

Antuan is a very good friend, a successful and well-known man in business and politics, he seems to have it...

Cuba did not arrive at Obama’s presidential visit with its head bowed and hands supplicating. It arrived, that’s correct, with...

Today I’d like to do one of those ‘close your eyes and imagine’ exercises. I’d like to think of some...

After growing 4{bb302c39ef77509544c7d3ea992cb94710211e0fa5985a4a3940706d9b0380de} in 2015, after 1{bb302c39ef77509544c7d3ea992cb94710211e0fa5985a4a3940706d9b0380de} in 2014, the Cuban economy is projected to grow 2{bb302c39ef77509544c7d3ea992cb94710211e0fa5985a4a3940706d9b0380de} in 2016. Reverting...