Is it time to invest in Cuba?

With Fidel Castro finally bowing out, Cuba has once again appeared on investors' radar screens. But don't count on rapid liberalisation.

With Fidel Castro finally bowing out, Cuba has once again appeared on investors' radar screens. But don't count on rapid liberalisation. Fidel's brother Raul opened the country to tourism in the 1990s and now plans to tackle government waste.

But Fidel is still likely to exercise veto power behind the scenes, says The Economist, while Raul has has made it clear that Communist rule will endure and, as Thomas Herzfeld of America's Cuba fund notes, free elections and restoring human rights are preconditions for lifting the US trade embargo, which is vital to boosting regional trade in the area.

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