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Cuba to embark on deregulation of state companies

August 24, 2021 at 5:54 p.m.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba will begin deregulating state-run companies in 2014 as reform of the Soviet-style command economy moves from retail services and farming into its biggest enterprises, the head...

Cuba’s Raul Castro criticizes U.S., backs allies on Snowden

August 24, 2021 at 5:40 p.m.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro on Sunday backed offers of asylum by Venezuela and other Latin American countries to fugitive U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden and criticized...

Cuba’s non-farm co-ops debut this week amid move toward markets

August 24, 2021 at 5:41 p.m.

HAVANA (Reuters) - One hundred state-run produce markets and 26 other establishments were scheduled to become private cooperatives on Monday as Communist-run Cuba continues to shed secondary economic activity in...

British businessmen await Cuba’s verdict as graft trial ends

August 24, 2021 at 4:10 p.m.

HAVANA (Reuters) - The two-day trial of two top executives of a British investment fund ended in Havana on Friday with a five judge panel expected to deliver its verdict...

Canadian businessman goes on trial in Cuban corruption crackdown

August 24, 2021 at 3:20 p.m.

HAVANA (Reuters) - A Canadian businessman who has confessed to bribing Cuban officials was scheduled to go on trial in Havana on Thursday, almost two years after his arrest in...

Exclusive: Cuba readies corruption trials of Western businessmen

August 24, 2021 at 2:39 p.m.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Canadian and British executives of three foreign businesses shut in 2011 by Cuban authorities, ostensibly for corrupt practices, have been charged after more than a year in...

Analysis: Castro successor lacks charisma but is experienced manager

August 24, 2021 at 4:54 a.m.

HAVANA (Reuters) - When Cuban President Raul Castro named former engineering professor and long-time Communist Party insider Miguel Diaz-Canel as his first vice president and potential successor on Sunday, he...

Cuban leader Raul Castro says he will retire in 2018

August 24, 2021 at 4:51 a.m.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro announced on Sunday he will step down from power after his second term ends in 2018, and the new parliament named a 52-year-old...

Cuban leader Raul Castro says he will retire in 2018

August 22, 2019 at 2:02 p.m.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro announced on Sunday he will step down from power after his second term ends in 2018, and the new parliament named a 52-year-old...

Cuba’s Raul Castro meets with U.S. congressional delegation

June 21, 2019 at 11:29 a.m.

HAVANA (Reuters) - A seven-member U.S. congressional delegation met on Tuesday with Cuban President Raul Castro, official media reported, to improve relations that have been strained since U.S. government contractor...

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