Granma’s recently redesigned website
is including comments on articles. Here
are comments from various readers today on two stories: on the foreign
investment law, and on a series
of discussions of it by members of the National Assembly. (Each paragraph is a separate reader commment.) Update 3/31: Granma collected reader questions and criticisms,
noted them in this
article, and says it has arranged for officials to respond to them today
from 9:00 a.m. until noon.
I would only like to
know if there will be some possibility for we Cubans who live in Miami to open
a business on the island and help generate employment for family and friends.
Legislators, please eliminate the
employment agencies.
It would be very useful
for the new legislation to eliminate the excessive bureaucracy around starting
an investment in Cuba. Many foreign businessmen
change their minds when they run up against so many cumbersome requirements.
The efficiency of the
private sector depends basically on a sense of property and ownership. The management of human resources should be
in the hands of the management that the investor puts in place.
It is very important
that there not be discrimination against investors based on any factors that
are not purely economic.
My God, what a way of
saying nothing, the reporter went out in the weeds and gives us zero information
and analysis, it seems he doesn’t want to put forth his opinions and he has
left us readers as uninformed as we were before reading his article.
This law is very
necessary, but from what has been disclosed and comparing it with what exists
internationally, I believe that the taxes are too benign and on the other hand
they keep anachronisms such as prohibiting investment on the part of individual
Cubans residing in Cuba and the employment agency that only serves to create
bureaucracy and corruption.
It would have been nice
to have had access to this draft bill, maybe we could have added something, I
understand that not all of us understand [this subject matter] – but since the
enactment of the law will affect us all, it would have been good to have been
able to give immediate feedback.
I have read lots of news about the
draft bill – that they are meeting, discussing, analyzing, and many more things
– but the main thing, the changes being proposed and the provisions that are
being left unchanged, in the end I’m not able to read one single thing about
what they are talking about.
Will Cubans, in Cuba and outside, be able to invest
in businesses in Cuba, or will only foreigners be permitted to do so?