Observatorio de Derechos Económicos

27/06/2019
http://www.granma.cu/cuba/2019-06-27/aprueba-gobierno-cubano-medidas-para-impulsar-la-economia-27-06-2019-19-06-20

«Al respecto, el ministro de Economía y Planificación precisó que para el sector presupuestado el salario mínimo se incrementa a 400 pesos y el salario medio mensual por trabajador se eleva entonces a 1 067. Dicha medida comprende a un millón 470 mil 736 trabajadores de los organismos de la Administración Central del Estado, los órganos locales del Poder Popular, las organizaciones y asociaciones, y tiene un costo estimado anual de 7 mil 50 millones de pesos.»

It isn’t just Trump who has put the country’s small businesses under pressure. Díaz-Canel is after them, too.

etween 2014 and 2017, just as then-U.S. President Barack Obama was working to thaw over 50 years of frozen relations between Cuba and the United States, the Havana lawyer Alfonso Larrea Barroso and his two business partners were busy making a fortune. In a span of three years, the annual revenue from Scenius, their financial services cooperative, multiplied by a factor of 10,000, skyrocketing from $280 to $2.8 million in total revenues. Cuban ministries and state-owned firms hired it to balance top-secret budget ledgers, U.S. Congress members and State Department officials courted them in Washington.