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In recession-battered Cuba, tough entry for business outsiders

The world recession has caused more intense screening of business executives seeking Cuban visas and has slowed down decision-making on new business projects on the communist island, a U.S. maritime executive said Thursday. Full Article at Miami Herald

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  1. European Union Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Karel De Gucht, right, is seen along with Cuba's Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez, left, prior to their meeting at the EU Commission headquarter in Brussels, Saturday Nov. 28, 2009.
  2. HAVANA - NOVEMBER 20: Cuban dissident Reinaldo Escobar (C) waits for a Cuban State Security agent to show up, on November 20, 2009, in Havana, Cuba.
  3. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 19: House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA) and ranking member Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) talk before a hearing on the travel ban for U.S. citizens to Cuba on Capitol Hill November 19, 2009 in Washington, DC.
  4. THOMSON, IL - NOVEMBER 15: Main Street is marked on November 15, 2009 in Thomson, Illinois. The Department of Defense is considering using the closed prison facility in Thomson to house suspects from Guantanamo Bay after President Barack Obama ordered the closing of the prison in Cuba.
  5. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 13: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announces that the self-described mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, and four other Guantanamo detainees accused in the plot will be tried in federal court in New York during a news conference at the Department of J...
  6. HAVANA - NOVEMBER 12: Cuban singer Omara Portuondo (R) and jazz pianist Chucho Valdes of Cuba perform the song 'Veinte Anos' at ceremony for Portuondo after she won the 2009 Latin Grammy award, on November 12, 2009, in Havana, Cuba.
  7. GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA - OCTOBER 28: (EDITORS NOTE: Image has been reviewed by U.S. Military prior to transmission) An American guard walks along the exterior of a detainee camp at the U.S. military prison for 'enemy combatants' on October 28, 2009 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
  8. US President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero October 13, 2009 in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. Zapatero arrived at the White House on Tuesday on his first visit since President Barack Obama's election last year.
  9. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 09: Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson addresses the NDN, a think tank, October 9, 2009 in Washington, DC. Richardson spoke on his resent trip to Cuba and U.S.-Latin American relations.

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