HAVANA — Cuba is failing to meet its self-imposed foreign investment targets two years after détente with the United States set off the greatest surge of business interest in the country since its 1959 socialist revolution, officials said. Foreign Commerce Minister Rodrigo Malmierca told foreign business people and diplomats at the country’s annual trade fair [...]
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba is a land of architectural splendors, stunning scenery, warm, welcoming people and some of the world’s worst hotels. Communist states aren’t known for their hotel management, and I’ve heard and lived a string of hotel horror stories since I moved here in 2014: inedible food, rude staff, sewage leaks in kitchens, [...]
HAVANA — American hospitality giant Starwood began managing a hotel owned by the Cuban military on this week, opening one of the biggest holes in the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba since Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro declared detente in December 2014. The facade of the 186-room Quinta Avenida hotel in Havana’s upscale Miramar [...]