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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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