[lbo-talk] Cuba's painful transition from sugar economy

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Aug 25 09:10:34 PDT 2005


Michael Pugliese wrote:


> What kind of, "blockade, " (like during the Cuban Missile Crisis?)
>w/ close to 2 billion $ foreign investment in Cuba?
> Didn't look at the website I sent, eh?

$2 billion in FDI over 10 years isn't much. US FDI in the Dominican Republic in 2004 was about $200 million. Chile and Argentina got 4-5 times as much, and Mexico, 37 times as much.

Doug



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