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Cuba: Sweating or Being Cool, the USD Makes the Difference
10 Jul 2025 02:50 GMT
… or air-conditioned spaces, in Cuba only those who pay in … register will only take foreign currency, and the air conditioning … or in the near-extinct peso shops—and this is true … s overriding priority: attracting hard currency above all else.
First published …
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El Toque: A Digital Platform Influencing Cuba’s Currency Market
09 Jul 2025 03:09 GMT
… dedicated to portraying Cuba’s diverse social … currency rate tracker contributes to the devaluation of the Cuban peso … Independent economists attribute the peso’s depreciation to multiple … , and economic pressures facing Cuba amid ongoing challenges.
Author …
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What’s Going On with My Dollars in Cuba
23 Jun 2025 22:14 GMT
My branch of the Banco Metropolitano.
By Irina Pino
HAVANA TIMES – I don’t recommend that anyone keep their dollars in a Cuban bank. And believe me, I have my reasons. My whole life, ever since I started working, I kept my money in banks. I had an account …
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The Dollarization of Cuba, a Symptom of Structural Collapse
18 Jun 2025 16:47 GMT
… Economists and Accountants (ANEC), Cuba’s Minister of Economy … desperate search for foreign currency, feeding the informal market … steps to “strengthen the national currency.”
His preferred option, the … commitment to making the Cuban peso the sole means of …
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15 Things Nobody Tells You About Visiting Cuba
16 Jun 2025 16:05 GMT
… Cuba can take extra effort.
Currency Confusion Is Common
Credit: flickr
The Cuban Peso … is the official currency, but dollars … Blackouts happen regularly across Cuba. These interruptions affect …
Mobile service in Cuba is inconsistent. SIM …
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Cuba’s students call for resignations and strikes after brutal internet price hike
12 Jun 2025 15:07 GMT
… internet.
Local chapters of Cuba’s Federation of University …
Trouble began when Etecsa, Cuba’s state-owned communications monopoly … are switching away from the peso. There are rumours electricity … the lack of foreign currency and the significant reduction …
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Today’s Culture of Rip Offs in Cuba
08 Jun 2025 17:20 GMT
… SCAM has unleashed between Cuba’s dwindling population and … not provide secure, legal currency exchange options, and prefers … only one currency. Now there are at least five (Cuban peso, USD, … is an extremely burdensome process.
Cuba (sorry, the National Bank …
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Trump & Rubio tighten the noose on Cuba
05 Jun 2025 17:46 GMT
… an announcement from ETECSA, Cuba’s state-owned telecommunications … food and medicine. The Cuban peso plummeted, devaluing already low … pandemic, which decimated tourism, Cuba’s leading industry, further … or generate enough foreign currency reserves, due to the …
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Cuba: The “Fine Print” of the Photovoltaic Solar Parks
17 May 2025 02:48 GMT
… ’s financial capital, where Cuba maintains an active consulate.
… project.
As for “national currency financing”—the bureaucratic term for … receive a one-million-peso budget for land preparation … In fact, officials from Cuba’s consulate in Shanghai have …
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At Havana, Bittersweet Memories of Cuba
01 May 2025 08:11 GMT
… "Everyone is leaving Cuba," Ortega said. … , Cuba ended its dual-currency system, unifying the Cuban peso ( … CUP) as the sole currency … and eliminating the convertible peso …