Mariel

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff and Cuban leader Raul Castro cut the ribbon of Cuba's new $957 million port, billed as the most modern in Latin America.

Cuba opens a gleaming new port and bets that the US will lift its trade embargo

January 30, 2014Business, Economics and Jobs

Brazil is investing nearly a billion dollars in Cuba’s new state-of-the art deep sea port and free trade zone. The BBC’s Sarah Rainsford in Havana says both nations are planning for a time when Washington has lifted trade sanctions on the socialist nation.