Sanctions Slow Granting of Cuba Business Licenses

Cuba’s foreign trade minister called for an end to the decades-old U.S. embargo Tuesday, saying his country welcomed the return of American business interests.   “The blockade doesn’t allow American companies to come freely to Cuba to make business; that’s a problem,” Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz, Cuba’s minister of foreign trade and investment, said in a news conference at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington.  The visit marked the first time in decades that a...

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