US businesses positioning to capitalize on thaw in Havana/Washington relations

Cuba is transforming; and there is no clearer sign of this than the presence at this year’s Havana International Fair of hundreds of western business houses including several major US firms seeking to secure places as close as possible to the top of the cue to seek to do business with a resilient communist regime which, for over more than half a century, Washington had gone to all sorts of extremes to topple.

The transformation in the fair is expected to be characterized by far fewer business houses from middle income mostly Spanish-speaking