USA PRESIDENT HISTORIC TRIP TO CUBA FOR INVESTORS

American President Obama & Cuban President Castro in Old Havana

USA PRESIDENT OPEN CUBA FOR AMERICAN BUSINESS

HAVANA CUBA: USA President Barack Obama arrived in Hanana Cuba on Sunday on a historic 88 year old visit that begins a new chapter in U.S.-Cuba Business Investment with the island's Communist government after five long decades of animosity between the two American neighbors. President Obama landed at Havana's Jose Marti International Airport aboard Air Force One, the presidential jet with "United States of America" across the side which is a sight almost a miracle not long ago.  Obama & his family stepped onto the red carpet in the Havana rain. Obama and his family, smiling broadly and with umbrellas in hand, were greeted by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez who is the first Cuban to welcome a USA president in over 88 years. They then stepped into a black armored limousine that was flow in from Washington, with U.S. and Cuban flags on the hood, and headed out in their Cuba-USA motorcade.

Th is is the first trip to Cuba by a U.S. president to Cuba in 88 years, after 18 months of diplomatic openings announced by Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro in December 2014, ending a Cold War-era estrangement that began when the Cuban revolution ousted a pro-American government in 1959.  Obama, who abandoned a longtime U.S. policy of trying to isolate Cuba, wants to make this US-Cuba shift irreversible. But major obstacles remain to full normalization of ties, and the Democratic president's critics at home say the visit is premature.

Traveling with first lady Michelle Obama, her mother and their daughters, Sasha and Malia, the president was to visit the newly reopened U.S. Embassy and then play tourist on his first night on the Caribbean island, taking in the sights of Old Havana. He will hold talks with Raul Castro – but not his brother Fidel, the revolutionary leader - and speak to entrepreneurs on Monday. He meets privately with dissidents, addresses Cubans live on state-run media and attends an exhibition baseball game on Tuesday.  With over five decades of hostility between Washington and Havana president Obama is making World History as the first sitting American president to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge arrived on a battleship in 1928.

US BUSINESS OPENS IN CUBA

It is also another major step in chipping away at remaining barriers to U.S.-Cuba trade and travel and developing more normal relations between Washington and Havana.  Obama and his family will have a tour of Havana followed by a
State Dinner and a Cuban All Star baseball game followed by his First TV address directly to teh people of Cuba on Cuban TV tonight at 10pm.

Since last year the two sides have restored diplomatic ties and signed commercial deals on telecommunications and over 100 flights with regular airline service.  CUBA has also announced that it has signed business Joint Ventures with Starwood hotels & Resorts as well as expanded Private room bookings with Air BnB of USA. Soon many other American companies will be opening Cuban investments with the blessing of the American and Cuban governments




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CUBA SEEKS ANOTHER $8.2BILLION CUBAN INVESTMENTS

HAVANA CUBA INVESTMENT IN TOURISM TOPS $2 BILLION

CUBA INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES TODAY!

Havana Cuba- The Cuban government is once again asking Investors for over $8.2 billion in foreign investment in 326 pre-approved projects ranging from the production of Cuban rum to an entirely new venture creating high definition, pay-per-view television.

Cuba's Foreign Trade Minister Rodrigo Malmierca opened the ready-made investment opportunities, officially called the "Cuban Investment Portfolio", at the 33rd annual Havana International Fair (FIHAV).

Forty of the 246 projects advertised on last year's Cuban wish list are in "advanced negotiations" and have been removed from this year's portfolio, Malmierca said.

This year's catalog has 80 more defined Cuban Investment projects than last year's, but the total value is $500 million less.

CUBAN TOURISM $2BILLION IN CASH

The projects form part of Cuba's attempt to bring in another $2 billion in foreign direct investment a year. The Cuban Investment Minister reported Cuba has signed 36 deals since a new foreign investment law was approved last year, including six at the special development zone around the port of Mariel, but did not say how much they were worth.

While most of the newly signed projects are joint ventures with the Cuban state, an unspecified number were financed with 100 percent foreign capital, Malmierca also promoted Communist Cuba's small but growing private sector in an effort to show the country was modernizing.

"We realize, I repeat, that the private sector, cooperatives, and other forms of property and management, have a space within our future development model,"  The portfolio includes new opportunities in healthcare, tourism, transportation, construction, agriculture and renewable energy.

Also added to the list were two projects to make and distribute rum, one of Cuba's signature products.

One is a $27 million joint venture for the obscure Perla del Norte brand for export and national consumption. The other is a similar $44 million joint venture for the more common Cuban brand.

There's also a $6 million project for installing high-definition paid television channels on the national broadcaster.

Five high-end Cuban Travel hotels and Cuban Beach villa construction joint ventures and 59 lodging management contracts are available, as well as the construction or expansion of seven marinas.

Cuba once relied heavily on trade with the Soviet bloc, which later collapsed. Even though Cuba trades with 75 countries and trade has tripled in the last decade, it relies heavily on socialist ally Venezuela, which is struggling with an economic crisis.
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CUBA INVESTMENTS-THE REAL TRUTH

Cuba Investment Nightmare

CUBA INVESTMENTS THE DARK SIDE

Open Letter CUBA INVESTMENTS from Coral Capital Steven Purvis warning investors about his experience as to the nightmare in investing in the Cuba The REAL STORY!

DEAR CUBAN INVESTMENTS

 I enjoyed reading about my misfortunes in the Economist, albeit many months after publication and in the company of fellow inmates in the Cuban high security prison, La Condesa. I would ask you to correct the impression that you give in the May 9th 2012 edition and subsequent articles that I was accused and detained for corruption.

During my 8 month interrogation in the Vila Marista I was accused of many things, starting with revelations of state secrets, but never of corruption. After a further 7 months held with a host of convicted serious criminals and a handful of confused businessmen, most of whom were in a parallel predicament to mine, I was finally charged and sentenced for participating in various supposed breaches of financial regulations. The fact that the Central bank had specifically approved the transactions in question for 12 years, and that by their sentencing the court has in effect potentially criminalized every foreign business investing or trading in Cuba was considered irrelevant by the judges. I am thankful however that the judges finally determined that my sentence should not only have with a conditional release date a few days before the trail thus conveniently justifying my 15 months in prison, but, bizarrely was to be non-custodial. So my Kafkaesque experience at the sharp end of Cuban justice ended as abruptly as it began.

I spent time with a number of foreign businessmen arrested during 2011 and 2012 from a variety of countries, although representatives from Brazil, Venezuela and China were conspicuous in the absence. Very few of my fellow sufferers have been reported in the press and there are many more in the system than is widely known. As they are all still either waiting for charges, trial or sentencing they will certainly not be talking to the press. Whilst a few of them are being charged with corruption many are not and the accusations range from sabotage, damage to the economy, tax avoidance and illegal economic activity. It is absolutely clear that the war against corruption may be a convenient political banner to hide behind and one that foreign governments and press will support. But the reasons for actively and aggressively pursuing foreign business are far more complicated.  Why for example is the representative of Ericsson in jail for exactly the same activities as their Chinese competitor who is not? Why for example was one senior European engineer invited back to discuss a potential new project only to be arrested for paying technical workers five years ago when he was a temporary resident in Cuba?

You interpret the economic liberalization evident at street level as an indication of a desire for fundamental change. It is true that these reforms are welcomed, especially the dramatic increase in remittance flows that have injected fresh hard currency into the bottom strata of a perennially cash strapped economy. But until the law relating to foreign investment and commerce is revised and the security service changes its modus operandi for enforcing these laws, Cuba will remain extremely risky for non-bilateral foreign business and foreign executives should be under no illusion about the great personal risks they run if they chose to do business there.  As businessmen emerge from their awful experience and tell their individual stories perhaps the real reasons for this concerted attack against business’s and individuals that have historically been friends of Cuba will become a bit clearer. In the meantime your intrepid reporters could usefully investigate the individuals and cliques who are benefiting from the market reorganization and newly nationalized assets resulting from this “ war on corruption”.

Yours faithfully,

Stephen Purvis

CUBA REAL ESTATE INVESTOR 

INVEST IN CUBA INVESTMENTS?

Investment in Cuba Investments

  INVEST IN CUBA YES OR NO?

Many Cuban Health Resorts and international business executives in the Luxury Hotel Investment, Insurance, Mortgage, Lending and financing sector released a Cuba Investment statement outlining their recommendation to increasing investment and business ties with Cuba. The Cuban American investment group had concerns about Calling Cuba and investing in Cuba while the financial controls were not yet in place. They suggested that before American Mutual funds, Pension and Insurance funds start to place American investment dollars in Cuba they want the U.s. and Cuban governments to put in place Investment Guarantees and investing guidelines to ensure that Cuba offers investment security to all foreign investors.

The Cuban American Investment group said it was concerned regarding Fidel & Raul Castro deceptive campaign targeted at securing international financial mutual fund resources to extend its control over the Cuban people.  This Cuba investment group of executives is made up of some of the biggest names in U.S. business, including PepsiCo, Dow Chemical, Bristol-Myers Squibb, American Express, General Mills along with luxury hotel brands Marriott, Holiday Inn, Radisson Resorts and Four Seasons Resorts to name a few.

Cuba Mutual fund investors want true economic reforms that will truly open up Cuba to international stock markets and many Insurance and pension funds. Fidel and Raul Castro have introduced non-systemic, heavily-taxed, revocable reforms with no financial and legal protection or investment return which has the Cuba Investment group concerned.

American Investors in Cuba. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Invest in Cuba Mutual Funds Goals

 • U.S. to lift or further weaken the embargo to funnel Millions of American tourist dollars and pension mutual fund bank investment credits to the people of Cuba.

• Allow Investment from the Cuban-American community businessmen by allowing investment protection and reforms with more liberty and democracy for the people of Cuba.

Many investor from the top industries are interested in Investing in Cuba once the conditions improve.  

Cuba Investment Companies List

• Manuel Jorge Cutillas, former chairman and CEO, Bacardi

• Sergio Masvidal, former vice chairman, American Express Bank (NYSE: AXP)

• Enrique Falla, former executive vice president and CFO, Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW)

• Eduardo Crews, former president, Latin America, Bristol-Meyers Squibb (NYSE: BMY)

• Emilio Alvarez-Recio, former VP, worldwide advertising, Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE: CL)

• Néstor Carbonell, former VP, international government affairs, PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP)

• Alberto Mestre, former president, Venezuela, General Mills (NYSE: GIS)

• Rafael de la Sierra, former VP, international coordination, Warner Communications (now Time Warner), (NYSE: TWX)

• Eugenio Desvernine, former senior executive VP, Reynolds Metals

• José R. Bou, former VP primary products operation, Martin Marietta Aluminum (NYSE: MLM)

• Alberto Luzárraga, former chairman, Continental Bank International

• Remedios Diaz-Oliver, former director of U.S. West and Barnett Bank

• Leopoldo Fernández-Pujals, chairman of Jazztel, founder of Telepizza

• Jorge Blanco, former president and CEO, Amex Nickel Corp.

• Carlos Gutierrez, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce

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