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US-Cuba exports decline 03:20. MIAMI - Periodic protests continue throughout Cuba punctuated with cries for freedom,"libertad.". But the underlying issues are far more basic. It is about food, as ...
Cuba’s economic woes go beyond U.S. policy. The island, with one of the world’s last communist governments, has been caught in a perfect storm. Its economy has been stagnant for years ...
Raul Castro, who took over for his late brother, Fidel, in the mid-2000s, told Cuba's National Assembly that the country's economy shrunk 0.9% in 2016. That decline came in tandem with Venezuela's ...
Amidst a worsening economic crisis and growing public dissatisfaction, the Cuban leadership has officially acknowledged that ...
Cuba's imports from China tumbled to $483 million last year versus $791 million in 2019, according to data from the Chinese Customs Office, extending a steep five-year decline as the island's ...
As a result of the oil price decline, Venezuela’s economy is nearly in free-fall, with inflation estimated at over 1 million percent and prices on many goods doubling or tripling every few ...
Cuba's economy shrank 11% last year and continued its decline through April, local economists said, as a COVID-19 surge gutted tourism and combined with shortages of even the most basic goods to ...
Cuba's tourism industry is grappling with one of its worst crises in recent history, and the sharp decline in Russian ...
Cuba’s minister of the economy, Alejandro Gil, recently said the economy grew 1.8% last year, which Mesa Lago said “is very difficult to believe.” Private sector is “another world” ...
Hopes in Cuba that sugar exports would soften an economic slowdown and plug an exchangeable currency gap appear in vain, with state media reports of output at least 200,000 metric tons short of ...
On the occasion of the commemoration of World Population Day on July 11, Cuba reaffirms the strong political will it places ...