Cuba opens up more private enterprise, including wine sales, accountants

<p style="text-align: justify;">01:37 PM. Cuba, which said last month it was firing 500,000 state workers, today announced it is expanding or opening private enterprises in 178 areas including restaurants, wine sales, massages, car repair and even private rentals of rooms and automobiles. Read More

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Cuba to allow first US dollar home rentals in 50 years

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA (AFP) – Cuba is to allow some houses to be rented in US dollars for the first time in 50 years as well as the opening up of small businesses, state media said Friday. Read More

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IRN: Alfa Group's unit signs contract to form nickel JV in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Russia-based Alfa Group, a privately-owned financial-industrial conglomerate,has announced that a unit owned by billionaire Mikhail Fridman has signed a contract to create a joint venture in Cuba. Read More

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Cuba and Viet Nam Sign Cooperation Accords

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Sept 24 (acn) The Protocol of the 28th Meeting of the Cuba-Viet Nam Intergovernmental Mechanism for Scientific, Technical and Economic Cooperation was signed after four days of discussions in Havana on Thursday. Read More

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White House fact sheet mum on Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">MIAMI HERALD. September 23, 2010. A "fact sheet" issued Thursday by the White House to supplement President Obama's speech to the United Nations General Assembly stresses how "the promotion of human rights and democracy is central to [Obama's] vision of the world we are trying to build." Read More

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Continuation of Terrorist Plans from the US

<p style="text-align: justify;">09/24/2010. The statements of Francisco Chávez Abarca and the plans against Venezuela expose the continuation of the terrorist actions against Cuba and raise new questions on the complicity of the CIA, CANF, Posada Carriles and the anti-Cuban members of Congress. Read More

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Russian Billionaire Fridman's Alfa Forms Venture to Produce Nickel in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sep 24, 2010 3:00 AM GMT-0500. Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman’s Alfa Group said it formed a joint venture in Cuba to extract nickel from industrial waste, the Moscow-based company’s A1 unit said in a statement today. Read More

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Cuba details brave new world of private enterprise

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA " Cuba's leaders began laying out the details of their drive to create more free enterprise on the island on Friday, mapping out a brave new world of bosses and employees, personal accountants and a dizzying number of small-time businesses. Read More

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Colombian President Confirms Rebel Leader's Death

<p style="text-align: justify;">Bogota, Sep 23 (Prensa Latina) Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos confirmed Thursday in New York that FARC military chief Victor Julio Suarez Rojas, alias Jorge Briceño or Mono Jojoy, was killed in a bombing. Read More

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U.S. relatives could spur new Cuba businesses

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA | Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:53am EDT. HAVANA (Reuters) - Rolando has very big plans for the little gym he runs informally out of a garage in Havana. First he wants to legalize it, then buy new equipment and - why not? - even build a sauna. But in order to become one of the 250,000 new business owners Cuba has said it will approve, he needs start-up capital and, in a country short on financial services, that usually means turning to relatives in the United States, home to 1.5 million Cuban emigres. Read More

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