Cuba's private businesses navigate a narrow opening
by editors@theworld.org (Joyce Hackel) from The World: Latest Stories on (#740PS)
For decades, Washington has pressured Havana to open its economy to private investment. Those calls grew more urgent in recent weeks as the US oil blockade pushed Cuba's economy into a tailspin. Now, the Trump administration has begun easing certain trade restrictions, while officials on the island are making overtures to the nascent private sector. Ricardo Herrero of the Cuba Study Group discusses the implications with The World's Carolyn Beeler.