More than 500,000 travelers to Cuba from the US spent more than $1Billion USD in the island

"PGM" <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Sep 2013 18:17:39 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.politics.marxism.analysis
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 What is the average cost of a Cuban family to visit the island from the
United States? Only in passports, tickets and costs of currency exchange to
the CUC -the second national currency which is equated with the dollar- will
be an average of $1,000 USD per person, add what is spent on travel and
gifts to the family: do other $1,000 USD this time? 

Multiply that by 500,000 travelers last year and represents $1 Billion
dollars. 

Who says that it is not important what migrants and those who travel from
the United States do not give the Cuban economy?

Meanwhile the slowness of the bureaucracy in Cuba not allowed to more than
200,000 migrants abroad visit their families on the island, which represents
more than 10% of the 2 million of Cuban émigrés have vetoed its entry to the
island. 

It is not only an economic issue, but important for the country, since each
year - according to Cuban official figures - plus 47,000 Cubans migrate
every year.

These issues have to be considered now, when the national economy worsens
and not continue postponing decisions that are leaving that in the hands of
the bureaucracy.
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