Having Cuba in the name of your company can be a financial risk and there is no solution

By Paul Guzzo

Published: April 23, 2018 in Tampa Bay Times

With the third largest Cuban American population, Cuba’s culture is celebrated throughout the Tampa Bay area and in a diversity of ways.

Flags hang in homes, fashion is worn, music performed, food served.

But be wary of honoring that heritage by putting Cuba in the name of a company unless you want to deal with Cuban Embargo issues.

Even if the business has no links to the socialist nation, just the word Cuba can cause wire transfers to be frozen for an unknown length of time.

Cuban native and Tampa resident Vicente Amor learned that hard way after funds for his home flipping company named the Tampa-Cuba Network were in banking limbo for almost three weeks, nearly costing him the deal.

From the Castros to Cuba’s new president Miguel Díaz-Canel: continuity or change?

Cuando se escribe con repeto sobre la realidad de un país, vale la pena entonces compartir artículos sobre Cuba, publicados en la redes sociales. Tal es el caso de lo escrito por dos académicas británicas: Emily J. Kirk (Dalhousie University) and Isabel Story (University of Nottingham) a raíz de la elección de Miguel Díaz-Canel como nuevo Presidente de Cuba y  publicado en el blog: The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)