Cuban entrepreneurs expressed their concern over the possible impact of the policy announced by Donald Trump last Friday in Miami.<\/p>\n
\u201cEighty-five percent of the tourism [in my restaurant] is from the United States, that is to say, for me this is devastating,\u201d Niuris Higueras, owner of the Atelier paladar, affirmed to EFE.<\/p>\n
In her opinion, strengthening the blockade will bring a \u201cshortage of products, of alternatives and of clients\u201d: she does not see the support Trump has insisted he gives to Cuban entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n
The president aims to ban commerce with companies controlled by the Cuban army and eliminate individual trips by U.S. citizens to Cuba, changes approved by the Obama administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cCuba is one country\u201d and a measure like this one \u201csomehow affects everybody,\u201d explained Higueras referring to Trump\u2019s intention of preventing business with Cuban state entities, among them several hotel groups.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not that we work separately, the idea is that we have to work together to economically advance. How do you control one thing and the other? It depends on controlling the level of tourism and if you affect the level of tourism you affect all of us,\u201d she insisted in her statements to EFE.<\/p>\n
This Cuban entrepreneur invited Trump\u2019s advisers defining the U.S. policy toward Cuba to \u201cnot place on the table things and situations in such a cold way, but rather to seek a warmer way of negotiating as the Obama administration did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marta, who rents rooms in her Old Havana home, fears that \u201cthe visits by U.S. citizens will decrease and with it the health of her business,\u201d which greatly depends on \u201cyoung people who come to get to know the Cuba that was forbidden,\u201d she said to EFE.<\/p>\n
In the case of the leaders of the Clandestina project and design shop, Spaniard Leire Fern\u00e1ndez and Cuban Idania del R\u00edo, they thanked U.S. actress Jamie Lee Curtis for her support and those who like she \u201care betting on ties between both peoples.\u201d The popular actress wrote a message to the president on her Facebook page.<\/p>\n
For others like Esteban Vega, who works with the vintage cars known as \u201calmendrones,\u201d the president\u2019s statements will not affect the country because \u201cif the Americans don\u2019t come, the Costa Ricans, the Mexicans will come\u2026. The United States is not the world,\u201d he affirmed to EFE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cuban entrepreneurs expressed their concern over the possible impact of the policy announced by Donald Trump last Friday in Miami. \u201cEighty-five percent of the tourism [in my restaurant] is from the United States, that is to say, for me this is devastating,\u201d Niuris Higueras, owner of the Atelier paladar, affirmed to EFE. In her opinion, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3134,"featured_media":96234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13944],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[33546,8689],"class_list":["post-96207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuba-usa"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n