Tag: Cuban Economy

Cuban Vice President Salvador Valdés Mesa, flanked by several ministers, announced on the Cuban Mesa Redonda TV program that the ...

Through more than half a century of studying and publishing about Cuba’s economy I have endeavored to disseminate and comment ...

There is an important debate in Cuba about whether the current problems, such as fuel and food shortages, are the ...

Economists propose ideas based on what has been learned, policymakers also propose ideas, politicians propose and implement. They rarely coincide, ...

The memories of the “Special Period” in Cuba have been engraved in cast iron for those of us who lived ...

Cuban researchers are developing a technique that maintains the green color in dried tobacco leaves and provides greater sweetness to ...

The lack of control in accounts, breaches of payments and corruption caused damages amounting to about two billion pesos to ...

Cuba will approve 22 new measures to improve the efficiency of its state enterprises, many of them deficient, and in ...

Authorities from Cuba and Japan signed this Tuesday in Havana two agreements for the granting of Japanese donations, aimed at ...

Homo sapiens had achieved it. After much observation, and maybe some luck, they had not only managed to produce fire: ...

There isn’t enough bread. Nor potatoes. Not even cooking oil or eggs (nor the ones laid by hens). Nor chicken. ...

An old recourse to express the strangeness in a contradictory situation is the phrase: "The list and the money don’t ...

Before an audience of specialists, students and analysts during the second day of sessions of the 12th Conference on Cuban ...

The government of Russia approved and signed a credit of 38 million euros to be granted to Cuba for the ...

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel promised peace, "eternal sunshine" and the "truth of the facts" to Canadian tourists traveling to the ...

President Miguel Díaz-Canel considered foreign investment in Cuban tourism as a "good example" of the impact of foreign capital on ...

Despite U.S. President Donald Trump's restrictions toward Cuba, hundreds of millions of dollars from citizens from that country continue flowing ...

Cuban Minister of Domestic Trade Betsy Díaz explained that "all customers" can take pictures of prices and items in commercial ...

A batch of seven locomotives and the first diesel railcar experimental prototype (ultralight train) arrived this Thursday at the port ...

As expected, 2019 will be a very tense year in terms of the economy and will also be difficult in ...

"Súper fácil" (Super easy) is the name of the new digital commercial center available to Cubans, according to the island’s ...

The Italian T.O.MA. Group signed in Havana a contract worth 80 million dollars with which it was awarded the construction ...

Cuba "is working at a fast pace" to conclude a design for the monetary and exchange unification, affirmed this Sunday ...

I’m writing these lines sitting on the floor of the boarding room of José Martí International Airport, Havana, Cuba. There ...

Spanish corporations have established themselves as preferential candidates to restore the short route railroad network and to manage four airports ...