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Cuba’s struggling entrepreneurs look to Biden with hope
Thousands of new private businesses were booming in Cuba s socialist economy before the Trump administration closed the tap on tourism
By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZAssociated Press
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Idania Del Río, left, and Leire Fernández, owners of Clandestina, pose last month outside their store in Havana with a mannequin dressed in clothes they created. Tourists poured through their shop until the Trump administration turned off the taps that had been opened just a few years before by then-President Barack Obama. Today, the doors swing open less often, with tourism choked both by U.S. sanctions meant to punish Cuba’s government and a pandemic that has squashed tourism almost everywhere.
In Cuba hopes are rising that US President Joe Biden will bring back the prosperity that the private tourism industry was beginning to see during the Obama administration.
Cuba s struggling entrepreneurs look to Biden with hope
ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ, Associated Press
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1of17Idania Del Río, left, and Leire Fernández, owners of Clandestina, pose with a mannequin dressed in clothes they created, outside their store in Havana, Cuba, Feb. 18, 2021. Tourists poured through their shop until the Trump administration turned off the taps that had been opened just a few years before by then-President Barack Obama. Today, the doors swing open less often, with tourism choked both by U.S. sanctions meant to punish Cuba s government and a pandemic that has squashed tourism almost everywhere.Ramon Espinosa/APShow MoreShow Less
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