State economy

Socialist economy, nationalizations, and structural crisis in Cuba

An economist compares Cuba to a bankrupt company: "Whoever has the resources must take power."

From 35 billion to a new Cuban business class: The exile's plan to rebuild Cuba

This is the roadmap of 13 pillars for rebuilding Cuba after the end of Castroism

Economist Pedro Monreal warns: The 176 measures of the regime lack a macroeconomic anchor

Capitalism may enter Cuba through the economy, but not through the ballots

Cuba cuts 92,000 positions in the ministerial administration, announces Marrero

The Cuban state economy is collapsing: Sales have fallen by 29% and profits by 31%, according to ONEI

The state economy is sinking: Nearly 400 Cuban companies are operating at a loss

Elías Amor warns about risks for SMEs that pay pensions in Cuba

Are all state workers now "vulnerable"? What the new salary scale of the regime reveals

Even Cimex is struggling with its own business: it is bidding on 12 establishments in Sancti Spíritus

"The Invisible Hand of the State": Monreal dismantles the regime's rhetoric regarding its model of financial planning

Díaz-Canel advocates for greater autonomy for state enterprises amid new economic reforms

Cuban regime will allow inheritance of land granted in usufruct

State-owned companies will be able to set salaries, prices, and create subsidiaries as part of the 176 economic measures

ONAT activates the automatic collection of tax debts: Here's how it will work

Díaz-Canel calls to “create wealth”: the regime in Cuba embraces market discourse amid the economic collapse

Díaz-Canel is trying to bolster a CTC that is increasingly questioned by the workers

Cuban economist: the government lost years by halting reforms it labeled as “capitalist” and now considers essential

The Cuban regime seeks more revenue and investments through a comprehensive tax reform

Foreigners will be able to invest directly in private Cuban companies

The food crisis forces the Cuban regime to change the rules of agriculture

Cuban regime acknowledges for the first time the legitimate growth of private wealth

The regime admits that the market must play a larger role in the Cuban economy

Fewer ministries and bureaucracy: the regime's plan to streamline the State

Almost half of the working-age people in Sancti Spíritus are unemployed

Ulises Toirac on measures announced by Díaz-Canel: "Is any flag of socialism being lowered?"

Many promises, few details: The unanswered questions left by Díaz-Canel's new economic package

Díaz-Canel asks for ideas to save Cuba, and the Cubans respond: "We can give ideas, but you won't like them."

"Being prosperous is the only way to be good": Ulises Aquino advocates for economic freedom against the state's model of the regime in Cuba

Amid deficits and budgetary mismanagement, the PCC in Havana calls for correcting “negative trends” in the economy

"Return the resources to the Cuban people": How can the fortunes of dictatorships be recovered?

Marco Rubio's advisor on GAESA: "The regime must return the resources to the Cuban people."

Economist Pedro Monreal: "Cuba has missed the train of the reforms of China and Vietnam."

Cuba worse than Haiti and worse than the Special Period: the economy has fallen by 26% since 2020

Díaz-Canel insists on his strategy to confront the pressure from the Trump administration

Optimizing the state sector in Cuba? The impossible mission has new decrees

Marco Rubio insists: There will be no economic improvement in Cuba without a change of system

Bruno Rodríguez states that the socialist system in Cuba is "viable" and that the U.S. is aware of it

Millions in "renewable energy" for Cuba... and the country remains in the dark

Cuban regime opens the door for emigrants to invest and do business in Cuba

Regime announces "painful reorganization process for the population": What is the government of Díaz-Canel planning?

Havana offers dialogue, but without ceding power: The regime's red lines before Washington

The Constitution, the economy, and the socialist system: The topics that the Cuban regime is unwilling to discuss with the U.S.

Cuba, two currencies and a lie: The "floating rate" of the Central Bank sinks in the face of the real market

Cuban regime authorizes the purchase of foreign currency for small and medium-sized enterprises (Mipymes) and other non-state actors under strict state control

Nephew-great-nephew of the Castros announces "direct hiring" of Cubans by foreign companies

The Hydra of Distortions: The regime "has decided to plan more distortions," according to a Cuban economist

Cuban economist denounces that the new official rate is designed to benefit GAESA

What Díaz-Canel said: Promises of efficiency in a paralyzed and unfree country

The Cuban regime is studying "Xi Jinping's thought" to refine its socialist surrealism

Three ideas about the Cuban economic collapse

Informal market rate in the regime's crosshairs: El Toque reveals the poverty and inequality of "dollarized Cuba"

María Victoria Gil explains why her brother was not qualified to be Minister of Economy

Cuban economist contradicts the regime's chancellor: The informal market is a result of poor internal economic design

With the dollar declining, Mipymes are ceasing to accept payments in that currency

Eight economists explain what Cuba can do in response to the crisis

Cuba relaunches its campaign against the embargo at the UN while the U.S. shifts its strategy to isolate it

"Correcting distortions and revitalizing the economy": The official discourse that clashes with daily life in Cuba