11/21/2012

LIST OF CUBA INVESTMENTS

Invest in Havana Cuba and Varadero Hotels, Condos & Resorts

 INVEST IN CUBA INVESTMENTS

Cuba Tourism Hotels & Resorts

Tourism in Cuba is the 1 area of investment for international hotel & Resort companies that want a future presence into the very profitable Cuban tourism industry. Melia Hotel & Resorts, Accor and Publicly traded Sherritt International are the leaders in this hot investment sector of tourism in Cuba. Foreign involvement in Cuban tourism has many smaller travel agencies and tour representatives who have offices in Cuba as well as most major tourism based travel vacation airlines that offer flights to Varadero, Santiago, Cayo Coco & Havana Cuba.

The Cuban tourism ministry is keen to attract further foreign investment for various hotel developments in order to prepare for the eventual changing of the US travel ban which will be lifted in the next year. The lifting of the American Travel Embargo against Cuba would generate millions of American tourist. Cuban tourism authorities are seeking investment from International hotel & resort developers that want to build hotels outside of Havana and Varadero beach.

Real Estate In Cuba

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 HAVANA. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Cuban leader Fidel Castro. . (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Cuba keeps changing the rules in the right direction as many new apartment buildings were opened to foreign investment and ownership in 1995.  There are two primary JV's involved in commercial real estate. These are Inmobiliaria Monte Baretto S. A. and Inmobiliaria Aurea S. A. , both with international investors and foreign shareholders, which have developed the Miramar world Trade centre and La Lonja del Comercio for retail and commercial rental of office space. 

Currently real estate is limited to Cubans but this could change very soon as Cuba continues to open the real estate investment opportunities to foreigners. Opportunities in the residential market have been pursued by Canadian Publicly traded company Lesiure Canada, one of the shareholders in the largest commercial real estate project (Monte Baretto)

Oil & Gas In Cuba

Sherritt International is the main investor in this sector with over $900 Million in investment in Cuba. Cuba is seeking investment in new project for energy alternatives and will give very quick replies to foreign investors that have good ides, New Technology and available financing. Oil and gas service companies have gone bust but they continue to present their services in oil & gas exploration.

Cuban Agriculture

 Sugar and fruit are the main foreign investors with deep investments in citrus fruits with the largest Investor being an Israeli group which has recently reduced its interest.  Ethanol & Biomass energy conversion plants is another priority for the Cuban government with discussions between Brazil and Venezuela.

Banking Financing In Cuba

Cuban President, Raul Castro, has allowed European and Canadian banks in Cuba for many decades participating in trade and financial deals since the early 1990’s.  Even in Travel & health Insurance, Heath Lambert and Lloyds of England have been the leader in Cuban Insurance and  re–insurance of certain higher Cuban insurance risks such as project and infrastructural debt financing which is a strategic area for attracting foreign investment. Cuban bank President under Castro will facilitate meetings from interested investment groups.
 

Cuba Investment Funds

The list of Cuban investment funds and other investment vehicles is short. Currently investing in Cuban fixed income debt as well as equity investments is the only possibility that international investment  Funds have in Cuba investments. The only investment companies that are investing in Cuba are Leisure Canada, Ceiba Finance and Coral Capital (UK registered) which has their two top executives in Jail for corruption charges. European investments has also been reported by a very small German fund called Kuba Investments.

New Cuba investment funds are encouraged to establish good relationships and a physical  presence in Cuba. Many interesting  projects at different stages of development are seeking financing and capital investments long as the investment company has passed the approval process with the Cuban authorities.

Cuban Biotechnology

This is an area where Cuba really can make a difference since Fidel Castor invested over $300 Million to create a world class bio-technology research center on this Cuban island paradise. York Medical and smith Kline and several other biotech firms have invested large sums of money and signed research agreements to develop certain drugs with Cuban biotech entities called CIMAB S. A. and CIGB S.A. Cuba has also several agreements to manufacture international vaccine treatments with Iran, Brazil, China and most recently  with India’s Biocon Bio-pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Cuban President Raul Castro has made this sector a top priority area and has received a great deal of attention since the 1980’s. Biotechnology has the most potential in investment risk returns and is much open to new investors although the investment model developed by the Cuban financial and investment ministry has open to international pharmaceutical companies.

Cuban Technology & Software

Cuba has over 200,000 advanced computer technology programmers in every sector of technology and software development. Technology in Cuba has been compared to silicon island of the Latin world. Many high tech companies will be looking to invest in Cuba as soon as the American embargo is lifted. Presently few foreign companies have elected to invest in this sector however it is agreed that Computer & technology in Cuba will be a huge growth industry in the near future as Cuba continues to develop thousands of Computer PhD's that will be the seeds to the future advancement of this sector of the Cuban investment economy.

Cuba Investments

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11/13/2012

INVEST IN CUBA

Cuba open for Investment in Havana

 Cuba Investments

Cuba has once again opened its doors to foriegn investments due to the new vision of the younger Cuban President Raul Castro who took over command from his brother Fidel Castro just 3 years ago.

Cuba has expressed interest to allow investment in the Oil & Gas sectors in huge tracts of water off the shores of Havana and Varadero just 90 miles from Miami Florida. 

Currently publicly traded Canadian company Sheritt International  (S.TO) has invested over $500 Million in various sectors of the Cuban economy such as oil, beach hotels and tourism in Cuba.

Many foreign oil companies has been exploring offshore oil in Cuban waters but all have come up dry so far.

The current Oil and Energy solution comes to Cuba directly from Venezuela who's President, Hugo Chavez has been supporting Cuba in the same manner as Russia during the cold war years.

Cuba has been offering huge incentives to some of the worlds biggest oil companies such as Repsol from Spain, Petrobras from Brazil, OLV from India, Petronas from Malaysia and Norsk-Hydro from Norway.

Most of the oil drilling has been done by Oil drilling rigs imported and financed from China using non-American technology.

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9/29/2012

INVESTORS JAILED IN CUBA


Invest in Cuba, Havana, Varadero is high risk venture

INVESTORS JAILED IN CUBA

News from Cuba: Cuba Investors Beware! If you invest in Cuba and you may go to jail!

Havana- Cuba has jailed 6 of its biggest investors for alleged corruption of the Cuban economic system. Another 4 long time Cuban investors are all running scared as they have privately stated that in Cuba you can get arrested for anything because the Cuban laws are written so that everything is illegal. The main reason the Cuba government does this is with no concrete laws to protect investors they can easily accuse foreigners at any time for any crime and then proceed to confiscate the entire Cuban joint venture business with all its assets for Free.

 Experienced Cuba investors in Havana & Varadero have seen this happen time and time again. Over the years Cuba has found countless creative ways to basically steal the investments of thousands of foreigners business in Cuba with the same sad ending to every investors story. In the end the foreign investors looses every single penny to Cuba.

English: The Hotel Inglaterra in Havana, Cuba
English: The Hotel Inglaterra in Havana, Cuba (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The list of long time famous investors that have helped Cuba build its economy is long so here is a list of the top investors that after between 10 to 20 years of investing in Cuba have all been given 2 options.  Leave with nothing or get thrown in jail with nothing. Either way the end result has been tragically the same for this list of Cuba Investors:

Cuban Investor in Jail lists:


1. Amado Fahkre- British - Saratoga Hotel- Coral Capital
2. Steven Purvis - British - Coral Capital
3. Sarkis Yacoubain - Canadian - Importing Cuba
4. Cy Tokmakjian - Canadian - Importing Cars and Machinery
5. Max Marambio- Chile-  Río Zaza joint venture
6. Telecom Italia - Italy - Telephone -Internet- Communications
7. Spain Repsol Oil- Spain - Oil & Gas Exploration
8. Pizza Nova- Canada- Pizza Franchises across Cuba
9. BM Group- Israel- Various Investments in Cuba, Havana, Varadero, Trinidad, Cayo Coco

These visionary investors took huge risks and invested in Cuba back in the 1990's when Cuba desperately needed cash and now they have lost everything as Cuba begins to dissolve the partnership and confiscate all the assets of these Joint Ventures in Cuba.



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9/14/2012

INVEST IN HAVANA CUBA

Invest in Havana Cuba

 HAVANA CUBA INVESTMENTS 

Havana, Cuba- International Investments in Havana Cuba and Varadero have failed to encourage more international. European, Canadian and American investment because Cuba red tape and Cuban bureaucracy is crippling Cuba's economic growth and its goal of sustainable development in danger unless massive investment and legal changes are made said international Cuban investors and foreign diplomats living in Havana Cuba. CALL CUBA NOW!

The island of Cuba is trying to rebuild market-oriented reforms from an old Soviet-style system that will potentially make Cuba an investors financial paradise to more Mutual fund investors however potential investors that have already invested in Cuba and been burned in the past by Cuban investment deception, changing legal investing laws and plain outright Cuban fraud say the Cubans have not yet put out much of a welcome incentive and rules to protect foreign investment in Cuba.

Cuba's National Statistics Office said this week that international investment in Cuba, Havana and Varadero by foreign investors and Cuban investment partners was 4.3 billion pesos in 2011, just 100 million pesos increase from the previous year. Cuba investors state that this investment amount is a 20% percent increase in Gross Domestic Product, which is highest in recent years, but far less that what Cuba real estate investment needs.

Cuba's head of the University of Havana's Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy, stated that Cuba's average investment is only 13 percent far below the 25% Cuban investments in recent years, compared with an average of 23 percent in the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean.

INTERNATIONAL INVESTORS IN CUBA

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Hotel Investments in Havana Cuba, Havana, info in  Metadata (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
International Investors point that Cuba economy requires a much higher rate of foreign pension fund and mutual fund investments in hotels, homes, insurance. lawyers and companies that can go public as IPO with an Invest in Cuba focus. Every Cuban know that Cuba needs investment especially foreign investment that  could elevate Cuba out of its longstanding financial difficulties and finally put Cuba on the path to financial freedom.

International investor experience demonstrates that poor economies have achieved significant economic growth and financial improvement of their infrastructure and standard of living due to higher investment rates of more than 30 percent with significant support of direct foreign investment in Cuba.

Cuban real estate and hotel investment economy grew only 2.7 percent last year and 2.4 percent in 2010, lagging well behind the rest of the Caribbean and Mexico. As soon as the American can visit Cuba these investment opportunities will automatically rise as the huge number of U.S. tourist travel to Havana, Varadero, Trinidad and the rest of Cuba. Contact Cuba Investors


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9/07/2012

INVEST IN CUBA IS HIGH RISK!

Invest in Cuba Havana Hotels

  FOREIGN INVESTORS FRUSTRATED BY CUBA INVESTMENTS

Cuba's Foreign investment Strategy announced in 2012 spoke positively of attracting more international investors and Cuba wanted to increase foreign investment from international mutual funds and stock market pension fund investors. The Cuban's did a strategic review of the long Cuban investment approval process and came to the conclusion that special economic free trade and Investment zones like joint venture golf courses, Cuba Insurance, real estate, marinas and new manufacturing investments are being  planned all over Cuba.

Cuba may want more foreign investment dollars but there have been more promises to change rather than actual investment changes that have many barriers to true foreign investment in Cuba.

Many other countries and their international insurance investment and mutual fund companies, America, Europe, China, Russia and Brazil to Singapore and various European Union members, have expressed desire to invest in Cuba despite the silly American U.S. trade embargo against Cuba.

Unfortunately the Cuban government is demanding at least a 51% majority interest in all joint ventures and is dragging its heels or obfuscating in negotiations. The main obstacle is that Cuba wants to maintaining its independence and sovereignty without any risk on their part without consideration to the Investors risk of loss of their investment which Cuba will eventually control.

Cubans have an historical problem with Communism, free enterprise and Cuban nationalism. Cuban investment organizations are simply not interested in minority shares so Cubans can say that no foreign company owns a piece of their island of Cuba. Many foreign investors complain the Cubans insisting on 51 percent ownership of all new Cuban Joint ventures so that Cuba keeps effective control of the entire business.

CUBA INVESTMENT RISK

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CUBA HAVANA INVESTMENTS With President Castro of the Council of State and Council of Ministers of Cuba Raul Castro. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Cuban investments have been signed in important agreements many years ago with poor results blaming the Mutual fund investment delay on critical issues such as Cuba's two parallel currency exchange rates.

 When international investors drill down into the fine details the Cuban investment funds become cloudier and hazier the deeper you dig. In the end one investor said it clearly " the Cubans are very nice people but when it comes to foreign investment, Mutual funds, Insurance, home mortgages and financial investments in Cuba the control of 100% of your money is in their hands with absolutely no possibility of recouping even one penny if your Cuban business investment runs into problems. The risk of Investing in Cuba is 100% against you from the start because the Cubans make some of the rules in your favor today only to change all the rules against you in the future when its time to start making a profit on your initial high risk Cuban investment.

Another Investor from America stated the slow Cuban government is decades away from turning its Cuban Investment plans into reality.  Cubans have been trying to invest in new businesses in the promised special economic zones, only to be told to come back next year after the Cuban Investment law that was introduced by the best Cuban Lawyers was approved.

In short if you want high risk low reward investments then Cuba is your best bet today. However everything can change in an instant as soon as American president lifts the economic sanctions against Cuba. This would send Cuba investments in Home mortgages, Health care, Insurance, and real estate into the hottest investment market on the planet.  Investing in Cuba should be done with a long term capital appreciation horizon like an retirement pension fund.

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