Analysis: The short- and mid-term economic outlook
In the short term, what can we expect? Here are some of the most important factors:1. A more…
Analysis: More economic tinkering
At the 9th session of Cuba’s National Assembly, held at the end of July, 75 measures were announced…
Fire shuts down key fuel storage facility in Matanzas
CUBA STANDARD — Adding to Cuba’s energy woes, a crude oil storage tank at the tanker base in…
Cuba to send doctors to Mexico
CUBA STANDARD — Scoring a breakthrough for Cuba’s medical exports in difficult times, the health ministry of Mexico…
A little history of agricultural dysfunction
Juan Triana Cordoví is appreciated as one of the best economic analysts in Cuba — and for his…
Cuba fills widening electric gap with more powerships
CUBA STANDARD — During a visit to the shipyard of a floating power plant operator in Turkey, Cuba’s…
Analysis: Why 4% GDP growth this year is unlikely
Reaching 4% GDP growth this year is unlikely. When in December Minister of Economy and Planning Alejandro Gil…
Q&A: An outlook on inflation
Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva is a professor in the Department of Economics and a researcher at the Center…
Cuba nudges WHO over slow vaccine endorsement process
CUBA STANDARD — Cuba will present a dossier of its COVID-19 vaccines to the World Health Organization (WHO),…
South Korea approves Cuban medicine
CUBA STANDARD — In a rare breakthrough into a developed market, the South Korean pharmaceutical regulatory agency approved…
Analysis: Cuba’s external stress
By Domingo Amuchastegui Cuba is highly dependent on imports, limited exports, and on investments and loans that do…
Cuba officially joins Belt and Road energy initiative
CUBA STANDARD — Cuba was introduced as a new member of the Belt and Road Initiative Energy Partnership…
France funds Cuban vaccine production with €45m
CUBA STANDARD — French development agency AFD is funding production and export of Cuban vaccines with €45 million,…
Central Bank limits phone minutes’ role as alternative currency
CUBA STANDARD — Phone minutes, which have emerged as a sort of alternative currency for remittances since the…
Electric utility announces rolling blackouts
CUBA STANDARD — After weeks of sometimes repeated breakdowns at the country’s crumbling thermoelectric power plants, state utility…