LatinNews Daily - 12 February 2019

* In an interview with Cuban newspaper Juventud Rebelde, Cuba’s deputy labour & social security minister, Marta Elena Feitó, announced that at the end of 2018 the country had registered 580,828 self-employed workers. Feitó noted that the most represented activities were food services (9%), transport of cargo and passengers (8%), hospitality (6%), telecommunications (5%), and hired workers (26%). In comparison, in 2010, the year the Cuban government began to open the economy to self-employment, there were only 157,000 registered self-employed workers.

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