{"id":295256,"date":"2024-01-24T17:50:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T22:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=295256"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:59:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:59:22","slug":"cuban-private-entrepreneurs-assure-msmes-are-not-linked-to-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/economy\/cuban-private-entrepreneurs-assure-msmes-are-not-linked-to-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban private entrepreneurs assure MSMEs are not linked to government"},"content":{"rendered":"

A group of Cuban private businessmen assured this Monday that <\/span>MSMEs (micro, small and medium-sized enterprises)<\/b><\/a> are not linked to the government, as has been claimed in anti-government sectors.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, they asked the United States for the same facilities that the private sector of other countries that are also sanctioned by the State Department have.<\/span><\/p>\n

The appearance, which took place at the headquarters of a food production and import company in Havana, took place days after a hearing at the Western Hemisphere subcommittee of the U.S. Congress on new private firms in Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n

In it, the Republican congresswoman of Cuban origin Mar\u00eda Elvira Salazar assured that many owners of these new businesses \u2015 <\/span>more than 10,000<\/b><\/a>, according to the Ministry of Economy \u2015 are actually people linked to the Cuban government, which she defined as \u201cthe Hamas of the continent.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this regard, Oniel D\u00edaz Castellanos, co-founder of the firm AUGE, affirmed that Salazar\u2019s hearing was an \u201cattempt to try to tie the hands of the administration\u201d of Democratic President Joe Biden in his policy towards the island.<\/span><\/p>\n

He also stated that private enterprise in Cuba \u201cis real\u201d and that \u201cit is impossible for a sector where 1.6 million people are employed\u201d to be completely linked to the government or the leaders of the Communist Party.<\/span><\/p>\n