Who Controls Cuba’s Economy? What to Know About GAESA.
Who Controls Cuba’s Economy? What to Know About GAESA.
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Who Controls Cuba’s Economy? What to Know About GAESA.
A shadowy state enterprise run by the military is a focal point of Washington's pressure campaign against Cuba.
Yet GAESA kept building hotels, even as it neglected other parts of the economy. Cuba’s once-famous sugar cane industry — which financed the early days of the Communist revolution — collapsed, as government spending on the sector plummeted. Cuba has had to import sugar in recent years for domestic consumption, and even imports from the United States.