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Yesterday, United Airlines submitted an application to the U.S. Department of Transportation for authority to provide service from four of its largest U.S. gateway cities – Newark/New York, Houston, Washington, D.C. and Chicago – to Havana’s José Martí International Airport. Scheduled commercial flight service between Cuba and the US has been suspended for decades. Charter … Read more
Major League Baseball and the MLBPA officially announced an exhibition game in Cuba in a release on Tuesday. U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to be in attendance during his upcoming visit to Cuba. Obama will be the first sitting American president to visit Cuba in 88 years. “Americans and Cubans share a love of … Read more
Few countries have shared a history as colorful as the one between the US and Cuba. The marriage has experienced joy, scandal and debauchery – and today, normalization resembles as couple attempting to annul a divorce. Nuclear Annihilation Fearing a US retaliation after the 1959 revolution, Castro struck a deal with the Soviet Union to … Read more
Few things symbolizes Cuba’s special place in the world more than rum. It all started nearly 200 years ago when Facundo Bacardí Massó came to Cuba from Spain in 1830 and began to experiment with ways to refine rum. Today, Bacardi is no longer in Cuba, and a trademark dispute makes Bacardi’s future in Cuba … Read more
This article was updated October 2016. Traveling to Cuba from the United States has gotten a lot easier in the last year, but staying connected while you are there requires some planning. Last year, Sprint and Verizon started offering roaming services for their customers traveling to Cuba. It’s not cheap but it offers access if … Read more
In a world gripped by deflation, it is an amazing paradox that Cuba’s communist isolation could give birth to such sought after qualities in capitalism: growth and visibility. And I don’t mean the mundane above trend growth that is frequently described in CAGR terms (cumulative average growth rate). I’m referring to the face peeling, dorm … Read more
Every year Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment prepares a tome of investment opportunities available to foreign investors. The recently published 2015 Portfolio of Opportunities for Foreign Investment offers insights into the priorities and limitations for foreign investment from Cuba’s point of view. Some historical context may be helpful in understanding the purpose of … Read more
Starr Companies (Starr) has announced the availability of travel insurance and assistance services for travel to Cuba. The service provides trip cancellation and trip interruption insurance as well as accident and sickness benefits. In addition, the plans provide the coordination of medical and assistance services for travelers during their travel and visit to Cuba. “With … Read more
It is likely the first American manufacturer to open shop in Cuba since the 1959 revolution. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) approved co-owners Horace Clemmons and Cuban-born Saul Berenthal to build a factory at the port of Mariel (a tree trade zone west of Havana). The factory is intended to … Read more
A delegation of US pediatricians co-led by Dr. Stephen Berman of Children’s Hospital Colorado (Children’s Colorado) and the Colorado School of Public Health, travelled to Havana to establish relationships with local physicians and collaborate on ways to improve child health in both countries. The delegation was co-led by Dr. James Perrin of Harvard University and … Read more
