Rob Sequin | Havana Journal The Bildner Center at CUNY in New York City is hosting a seminar titled “Economic Transformation in Cuba” on Monday May 21, 2012. Since Raul Castro took over as President of Cuba, he has launched several initiatives to revamp and change the highly centralized form… Read More

French CoFace credit risk and investment company has released a risk assessment for the country of Cuba. Coface country assessment reports analyze and forecast country risk using macroeconomic, financial and political data. The company reviews the financial history and the risks to the business environment… Read More

Rob Sequin | Havana Journal The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund has released its Semi-Annual Report dated December 31, 2011. While I am not a financial analyst, I thought it would be interesting to highlight some of the investments and language from the Report for our Havana Journal readers. This is a… Read More

Excerpts from the Cuba update (pdf) from Canada’s Export Development Canada agency that offers financing, insurance and risk management solutions that assists Canadian exporters and investors expand their international business. The “capitalist” influence of foreign investment has been… Read More

Rob Sequin | Havana Journal This may not be interesting to some readers of the Havana Journal but the registration of a domain name means that someone or some company has an idea or business model planned for their new domain name. Since I am a Cuba domain name buyer, broker and developer, I monitor… Read More

By Larry Moonze in Havana | PostZambia.com Cuba has informed businessmen attending the Havana International Trade Fair it has restructured its external debt and gradually regaining its international credit worthiness. Opening the 29th FIHAV attended by some 1,500 companies from 57 countries across the… Read More

By Marc Frank | Reuters (See comments by Havana Journal publisher in bold below) A British investment fund has become the latest company swept up in an investigation by Cuban authorities of corrupt practices among the Communist island’s state businesses and their foreign partners. Police closed… Read More

Rob Sequin | Havana Journal (All links out from this article are websites owned and operated by Havana Journal Inc., a Massachusetts based media network.) As regular readers of the Havana Journal know, I am an active buyer of Cuba domain names. We have developed almost 40 Cuba related websites and have… Read More

-By .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | Dow Jones Newswires Russian oil producer OAO Gazprom Neft, which is controlled by state gas company OAO Gazprom, said Monday it has signed a product-sharing contract on four blocks in the Gulf of Mexico off-shore Cuba ALSO KNOWN… Read More

Mariel Cuba is about 28 miles west of Havana and is the largest port on the northern coast of Cuba, second only to the Port of Havana. Currently the port is undergoing a massive expansion in association with the International Economic Association and the Brazilian company Odebrecht. Brazil is financing… Read More