The shortage of bread and rice, liquefied gas and gasoline, basic medicines and public transport, including daily blackouts. Many symptoms of Cuban polysis have their origin in a common problem: the lack of currency of a state that monopolizes vast sectors of the economy. The liquefied gas company reported on Monday that it had no […]
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Trump threatens tariffs on governments that impose digital rates on US companies.
The president of the USA, Donald Trumpsigned on Friday an executive order that threatens to impose tariffs on foreign governments that apply digital rates to US companies, including Spain, the United Kingdom and France. The order indicates that “Foreign governments have exercised increasing extraterritorial authority over US companies, particularly in the technology sector”and directly quotes […]
Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, on the US list of countries with the most human trafficking
Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua are among the countries with the greatest existence of human trafficking according to the list prepared by the United States, since they do not meet the minimum standards for elimination and do not make significant efforts to do so. This is clear from the 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP Report) […]
Cuba delays the completion of the population census until 2025: the reasons
Cuba It will delay at least until 2025 the population census that it had planned to carry out two years ago due to lack of resources, a consequence of the serious economic crisis that the country is suffering. This is what the vice head of the National Statistics and Information Office (ONEI), Juan Carlos Alfonso, […]
Cuba describes the new US measures for entrepreneurs on the island as “limited”
Cuba rated as “limited measure” the permission granted by Washington for island entrepreneurs to open US bank accounts through the internet to carry out financial transactions from the island. For the Cuban Government, the new provisions of the Administration of President Joe Biden “exclude most of the population”, in addition to the fact that “they […]
The US launches measures to support Cuba’s private sector
USA announced on Tuesday several measures aimed at promoting the development of the private sector in Cubaincluding conditional access to the US banking system. “Today we are taking an important step to support the expansion of free enterprise and the corporate sector in Cuba” a senior US official told reporters on condition of anonymity. These […]
Remittances in cash or food?: the dilemma of emigrants in a Cuba in crisis
In 48 hours, María Páez receives “relieved” in Havana the food that his children bought him in Miami by Internet. Forced by the crisis, Cubans choose to send food to their relatives instead of the vital cash remittances that the island needs. “Receiving this type of products is a relief for us” and, “In terms […]
The peso and El Toque: controversy over the reference (informal) exchange rate in Cuba
The collapse of Cuban peso in the informal market and its recent ups and downs have unleashed doubts in the population and a campaign in official media against the independent digital newspaper El Toque, which publishes the exchange rate that has become a reference on the street. The media campaign intensified as the dollar rapidly […]
Comptroller’s Office of Cuba, on the Gil corruption case: “One feels it like a betrayal”
For Gladys Bejerano, general comptroller of Cubathe most notorious corruption case in the country in decades, that of former deputy prime minister and former Minister of Economy Alejandro Gil, felt like a “betrayal.” The top auditor of ministries and state companies in the socialist country highlights in an interview with EFE the “connotations” of the […]
Cuba with blackouts in 30% of its territory
Cuba It foresees blackouts in 30% of its territory for this Sunday during the time of highest consumption, that of the afternoon and evening, due to breakdowns in several plants and the lack of imported fuel, according to the daily report of the state-owned Unión Eléctrica (UNE ). The country has registered up to 38% […]