Investment
ZED Mariel: the deep-water port and the long bet west of Havana.
A reading of Cuba's special development zone — scope, incentives, current tenants and strategic role in Caribbean logistics.
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The Market Journal
Dispatches on Cuba — sourced, dated and read against the documents themselves.
Habana Gateway publishes long-form readings of Cuba's economy, its investment framework, the restoration of Havana and the cultural terrain that surrounds them. Every published piece cites its sources. We do not paraphrase rumours.
Forthcoming dispatches
In preparation
The pieces we are currently writing.
Heritage
Restoration economics in Habana Vieja: what the Oficina del Historiador actually does.
How the historic centre is funded, how Habaguanex reinvests, and what foreign capital can — and cannot — touch.
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Private sector
Diaspora capital and the new private sector: who is quietly re-entering the Cuban economy.
Remittance flows, the MIPYMES decree of 2021, and the patterns we are observing among Cuban-Americans and Europeans returning with capital.
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Field Notes
I · Glossary
A glossary for reading Cuba.
The laws, institutions, currencies and places that recur in any serious reading. Defined, sourced, dated.
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II · Timeline
Cuban property, investment & reform.
From the foundation of Havana in 1519 to the 176 measures of June 2026 — a chronology, not a narrative.
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