According to El País today, the Cuban government has authorised the creation and operation of 32 private companies. Half a century after the nationalisation of all private businesses by Fidel Castro, micro, small and medium-sized private companies are once again operating in Cuba.On Wednesday, ten days after the law came into force and the first applications were submitted, the government approved the first 35 MSMEs, 32 of them private and…

According to the prime minister, Marrero, despite the economic opening, “the state enterprise is the main subject of the economy”, and the expansion of activities to non-state forms of management does not lead to a process of privatisation. “There are limits that cannot be exceeded,” he said.