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Cuba

May Cuban-Americans invest in the Mariel Development Zone?

Manuel Alberto Ramy Jan 29, 2014
The question was was posed at the right place and to the people qualified to answer it, in a room next to the press center of the Second CELAC Summit after the inauguration of the…
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Cuba

Dual currency and the producer/consumer

Manuel Alberto Ramy Oct 30, 2013
Most important is the official announcement of the existence of a timetable aimed at ending the dual currency. The process will begin with the business system and continue with the cash…
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Cuba

Cuba and her Cubans

Manuel Alberto Ramy Oct 22, 2013
The newly enacted and long-awaited migration law was a great step for those of us who live in Cuba. It restored rights that we had missed, eliminated the exit permit and benefited the…
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Cuba

Stimulate people-to-people contact

Manuel Alberto Ramy Oct 21, 2013
Manuel Ramy interviews Prof. Jesús Arboleya who states, among many other things, that investment by Cuban-Americans in Cuba provides an economic foundation for people-to-people contact.…
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Cuba

The auto-body specialist

Manuel Alberto Ramy Oct 9, 2013
Can moral damage to people and society be repaired? asks Manuel Ramy. But “to repair a car or a truck you need oxygen, acetylene, sheet metal, welders' sticks of various calibers,…
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Cuba

From fig leaves to Cuban seamstresses

Manuel Alberto Ramy Sep 27, 2013
At the same time that new private activities are being authorized, the regulations that govern the manufacture and sale of clothing are being strictly enforced. For the past three…
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Cuba

Underground economy: Job market for the jobless

Manuel Alberto Ramy Aug 28, 2013
Cuba's underground economy, the one that sells you everything, has become the job market of an indefinable portion of the 1 million "idles." Some are street vendors, selling what…
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Cuba

‘Skinny’: From the underground to self-employment

Manuel Alberto Ramy Aug 28, 2013
Changes can be more effective than the police, says the writer while riding in a pedicab in a low-income Havana neighborhood where bedsheets dance a bolero on a clothesline and the odor…
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Cuba

‘Everything, ‘ceptin’ an AKA or a tank’

Manuel Alberto Ramy Aug 18, 2013
The street vendors in Cuba's commercial underworld are experts at reading gestures and faces: "What do you need? We have everything. Just ask," he invited, allowing my friend to state…
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