Cuba to Legalize Private Business

[El Presidente]

It breaks your heart to know how far the eightball Cubans are. If they were serious, they would permit the opening up of small business to foreighners (without the JV limitations).  Not that those foreighners would make a profit. 

So much catching up to do 

http://www.toledoblade.com/Economy/2016/05/31/Cuba-to-legalize-private-businesses.html

[Ryan]

I've seen this reported during the week. Comments from Cubans I've seen on various outlets suggests they aren't holding their breath.

It looks likes a necessary step so that more private businesses can be opened by or hire more laid-off state workers, while being made too look like voluntary ecomonic reform by the state. Looking at the mess in Venezuela, that source of funds must be shrinking even more.

Also, as the article states, there is still a lot of grey area. While more "small to medium private businesses" may be allowed now, I can't see any new small to medium sized private cigar factories or cigar exportation businesses opening under these reforms.

[PapaDisco]

Man it would be awesome to see more independent, estate grown and produced cigars.

[El Presidente]

4 minutes ago, PapaDisco said:

Man it would be awesome to see more independent, estate grown and produced cigars.

That would indeed be "Heaven on Earth" to myself 

....I am not planning on it anytime soon

[PapaDisco]

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Buy a little island, plant quality leaf on one side, coffee and cacao on the other, maybe experiment with growing the shade leaf under the coffee canopy, then grape vines somewhere (and if this doesn't work we'll just switch to whiskey  ), import lovely lasses as rollers.  Should be easy no?