opens a crack at the state television monopoly where the Cuban government invited abroad to invest capital for the first time. The new portfolio of opportunities presented to foreign investors during the just-ended International Fair of Havana (FIHAV 2015) include several projects in the audiovisual area and in health, both sectors fully booked so far the state.
The document, which 14ymedio has had access, particularly emphasizes the tourism (94 projects), energy (86) and agriculture ( 40), and a special section to the Special Development Zone Mariel (ZEDM). Compared with the version released last year, there are 80 additional projects, but the total investment is somewhat lower (last year accumulated 8,700 million).
Havana hopes to raise 49 8 million dollars in the audiovisual area for various projects, including the establishment of a system of pay channels on national television, with a service package of thematic channels “available to the population, in high definition at an affordable price “.
Havana also aims to create an international clinic” foreign athletes, sports officials, both active and retired “, in the municipality Boyeros
The other novelty is to invite foreign capital to participate in the provision of health tourism and health-related sports. The document proposes, for example, the creation of two centers “hemodialysis on holiday”, aimed at “patients with chronic renal failure who wish to enjoy their holiday in Cuba.” The structures, which is expected to be installed in tourist areas such as Varadero and Havana, we need an investment of 1.5 million dollars. The Government expects to serve about 2,400 patients a year at each site, with sales of approximately $ 480.00 per year.
Havana also aims to create an international clinic “foreign athletes, officials sport, active and retired, “in Boyeros municipality in the province of Havana, representing an investment of 11 million.
” We are at a time of takeoff, generating confidence to foreign investors. The regulatory framework, business opportunities and economic and political context of the country have aroused great interest, “he said last week the Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment Rodrigo Malmierca.
During the fair, was presented at the fairgrounds in PABEXPO also the Business Directory of the Republic of Cuba . The document was distributed among potential foreign investors and some assistants, but so far has not been published by the official media. A source within organizers FIHAV shared with this newspaper a digital copy of the directory, published Monday.
In over 900 pages, the directory contains a relationship 933 Cuban companies separated by sectors, although it is not a comprehensive or detailed inventory of all existing in the country. The purpose appears to be a foreign investor oriented and international collaboration relationship.
Highlights in the list a hefty number linked to the military sector, compared to other sectors under-represented companies, as the health, education, water management and newspaper services. The latter mentioned in the introduction, but not listed as specified in the document body.
Among the details is obvious in this Cuban business directory is little online presence with these entities. Most organizations lack a self-described digital page and how they should contact a phone number and email is limited. Something that undoubtedly limits communication from outside the island.
Highlights in the list a hefty number of companies linked to the military sector, compared with other underrepresented sectors such as health, education, water management and newspaper services
Giant Seagull, managed by the Ministry of the Armed Forces (Minfar) appears presented with “twenty-seven years and a professional hospitality excellence offering designed To experience the natural “. The description includes hotels “categories 3, 4 and 5-star beachfront and in major cities,” continues the text.
It is evident also in office recycling several companies in the military sector that have been devoted to productions for anything related to the military sphere. This is the case of the Military Industrial Company Granma, located in Havana and which is defined as an “industrial complex for naval repairs, production of floating docks, processing of wood, manufacture of metal doors, services related to the conservation of surfaces besides textiles “.
In the dossier given to investors, a document entitled also included Profile of Cuba and developed by the Center for the Promotion of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (ProCuba). The text contains general information about the country (climate, population, hydrology, natural resources, etc.) as well as information about the legal frame in general and the new investment law.
In the dossier given to investors, it is also included a document entitled ‘Profile of Cuba’ and prepared by the Centre for the Promotion of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (ProCuba)
Although the document highlights “high indicators in the areas of social security, population health, safety climate for foreign staff, qualification of labor , political, social and legal stability “and the presence of” natural and mineral resources, the great development and government promotion of research activity and technological innovation “and” developed infrastructure, “also makes clear that” the economic system continuous based on prevailing socialist property of the entire people of the basic means of production, where the principle of socialist distribution of “each according to his ability to each according to his work ‘”. The report says, however: “Investors enjoy full protection and security and investments may not be expropriated except for reasons of public utility or partner interest
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