July 29, 2010 |

Cuba weighs expanding small private businesses

Agence France-Presse
July 29, 2010

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) — Cuba’s lawmakers on Wednesday mulled legalizing more small private businesses, perhaps expanding a limited program to include farm and food industries in the economically struggling communist nation, state media said.

Committees in the National Assembly were reviewing potential measures ahead of a keenly awaited address on Sunday by President Raul Castro.

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