Tag: Cuban Economy

The question that gives the title to this note has been worrying Cubans inside and outside the island for months, ...

Four days ago, during the sixth regular session of the National Assembly of People’s Power, in its ninth legislature, Deputy ...

Starting next January 1, confirmed this Thursday by President Miguel Díaz-Canel as “day zero” of the monetary and exchange rate ...

The wage scale is divided into 32 complexity groups, determined by the number of hours worked and the category of ...

In an unusually fast message to the nation, after the prime-time national TV newscast, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced the ...

Private entrepreneurs and cooperatives in Cuba have only managed to sign 25 export contracts, despite the growing interest of these ...

In Cuba, the 2020-2021 winter harvest has been marked by limitations in the purchase of fertilizers and by the loss ...

Cuba is giving way to majority foreign participation in investments in key sectors such as tourism, biotechnology and wholesale trade, ...

Cuba paid more than 1.4 billion dollars in soy components between 2014 and 2018, which represents the largest expense in ...

The government of Havana established price caps on a group of agricultural products and “flour derivatives” that are marketed in ...

I came to the Isla de la Juventud for the first time on a plane, with my mother. We were ...

Eleven principles, sixteen key areas and more than 370 measures is, without a doubt, an enormous effort in favor of ...

The Cuban Council of State approved a new Decree Law that establishes a new social security regime for workers in ...

The past week has been one of the most interesting in recent times, for everyone, but especially for economists. The ...

The Russian authorities announced this Wednesday the resumption of flights to Cuba starting next November 1, while Condor, the most ...

Cuba changed its strategy this Monday to face the new coronavirus through a “new normal” that includes open public offices ...

The production, distribution, marketing and sale of agricultural products monopolizes the attention of almost everyone in our country. Of course ...

Russia will deliver seven locomotives to Cuba at the end of this year, as part of an action plan to ...

The Cuban Council of Ministers approved a group of new measures to “continue advancing in the improvement of state-owned enterprises,” ...

I first visited Muñoz Tapas in Trinidad in July 2019 several weeks after its initial launch. As a long-time friend ...

A good friend sent me a few weeks ago a speech that has circulated mainly on social networks and is ...

Let’s imagine for a moment that there were three parties in Cuba, named the Renewed Socialism Party, the Cuban Revolutionary ...

The arrival of the famous “day zero,” the day when one of the two Cuban currencies currently in circulation is ...

Cuba approved a package of tax benefits to encourage exportable productions from both state and private Cuban and foreign enterprises ...

In recent weeks, multiple reports have appeared on television, articles in the press, and statements that suggest that the long-announced ...