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Article: CUBA: U.S. INVESTORS EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES IN CUBA AT CANCUN CONFERENCE.
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- NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
- Article date:
- June 3, 1999
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Representatives from some 60 US and foreign businesses attended a conference May 19-22 in Cancun, Mexico, on investment possibilities in Cuba. This was the third annual conference organized by the Washington-based Alamar Associates and sponsored by the Financial Times newspaper and Canadian and Israeli firms. Cuban officials attending the conference stressed the guarantees Cuba offers to foreign investors.
Among the investment areas covered in conference panels and one-on-one meetings with Cuban economy officials were pharmaceuticals, real estate, agriculture, construction, mining, and merchant shipping.
Ricardo Alarcon, president of the Cuban parliament, ...