Latin America

Judi Lynn

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1. Outstanding article from Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdes. Gotta keep this link.

Tue Jan 29, 2013, 12:25 PM

Jan 2013

When CNN had a US/Cuba relations message board in 2000, a Canadian poster there told us she had met Cuban "exiles" IN Havana who were running black market businesses there at that time!

She said that one woman told her they do shopping at cheap discount stores in S. Florida, get big loads together, take them to Cuba and sell they at a fantastic profit. That story stuck with me immediately. She said that they employ additional people in Cuba to make this possible.

This reality is wonderfully explained by your article. Thank you, so much.

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U.S.-Cuba Policy: A Boon for Cuban-American Entrepreneurs - Saul Landau [View all] flamingdem Jan 2013 OP

Outstanding article from Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdes. Gotta keep this link. Judi Lynn Jan 2013 #1

This really drives La Loba and Marco Rubio nuts! flamingdem Jan 2013 #2

small market indeed. I assume Cuba has custom officials who check incoming packages and cargo Bacchus4.0 Jan 2013 #4

wow!!!!! Imagine that. People buying goods in the US and selling them in Latin America Bacchus4.0 Jan 2013 #3

The point seems to elude you that this refers to Cuba.The rest of Latin America isn't embargoed. n/t Judi Lynn Jan 2013 #5

commercial merchandise is technically subject to taxes by customs Bacchus4.0 Jan 2013 #6

One wonders naaman fletcher Jan 2013 #7

I can't make heads or tails of the "point" frankly Bacchus4.0 Jan 2013 #8