Major free-market reforms take effect in Cuba

Jamaica Observer 12 h Jamaica

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Foreigners can now invest in Cuban real estate and domestic companies can import and export without government intermediaries under reforms implemented this week aimed at ending a severe economic crisis. The free-market reforms had been unveiled in June by Cuba's communist leadership as the island teetered on the brink of collapse after five months of a United States

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