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Cuban economy steers around blockade

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Cuban President Raul Castro (C), Cuban Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura (L) and Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), General Leopoldo Cintra Frias (R) participate in a military parade in honor of recently disappeared Cuban leader Fidel Castro at Revolution Square in Havana, on January 2, 2017. (AFP)

Ramin Mazaheri
Press TV, Havana

In many ways the Cuban economy is still recovering from the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. It has taken years of careful planning, but the country appears primed for major growth in spite of the brutal blockade of the United States.

 


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