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…
Cuba seeks WHO approval for its vaccines
CUBA STANDARD — The Cuba representative of the World Health Organization held talks with BioCubaFarma executives about emergency-use…
Cuban central bank officially recognizes crypto currencies
CUBA STANDARD — Cuba’s central bank officially recognized the use of crypto currencies. Resolution 215, published Aug. 26…