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Weekly Report - 09 June 2016 (WR-16-22)
CUBA: Optimism as government legalises small businesses
The sense of disappointment on the ground in Cuba following the rather dour and uneventful seventh Communist Party congress in mid-April has given way to some optimism following publication of a new 32-page document on economic development plans which, among other things, legalises the thousands of small and medium-sized business that have sprung up in recent years, many of them serving the thriving tourism market in places like the capital Havana.
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