After being extended to the non-agricultural sector, the new forms of non-state work find obstacles for wholesale supply and in other areas.
The cooperative business forms are gaining a space in the Cuban economy despite the obstacles they find in a sphere that is still not very favourable for their development. A recent Business Fair analysed this experience, one of the novelties introduced by the economic reform undertaken by Cuba a bit over five years ago.
Just as during the more than 50-year tragic conflict, Cuban civil society continues representing an apple of discord between Cuba and the United States in the times of the thaw, which was sealed with the opening of the respective embassies in Havana and Washington.
The miracle took place, it’s already history: The Rolling Stones gave a concert in Havana before hundreds of thousands of persons gathered in a wide space of the Ciudad Deportiva. Who would have predicted this some years ago? Not even Nostradamus would have dared predict this.
Among the characters of a new type who have moved to the Cuban social centre stage in recent years, the intermediary (or go-between) holds a visible, noted place in any of the service spaces. Their performance is never protagonist but rather it is secondary, but their role always calls attention. But how is this manifested? What is their field of action? What do they control (or put out of control)?
The Dictionary of the Spanish Language characterises the intermediary thus: (From to intermediate): Said of a supplier, shopkeeper, etc.: Who mediates between two or more persons, and especially between the producer and the consumer of goods or merchandise”; while the go-between is someone who “acts by brokering relations between two or more persons or entities.”
