In a significant step forward for agroindustrial cooperation, the Artemisa Agroforestry Business Group (GEAF) and the Vietnamese company Viet Royal signed a memorandum of understanding to develop export crops on 2,000 hectares of uncultivated land.
According to the newspaper El Artemiseño, the agreement signed by Miguel Sánchez García, president of GEAF, and Nguyen Khac Hoang, director of Viet Royal, will activate land in Alquízar, San Antonio de los Baños, and San Cristóbal with strategic crops: soybeans, green beans, peanuts, sweet potatoes, taro, and potatoes, intercropped with cashews.
The alliance stipulates that Cuba will contribute land, infrastructure, fuel, and labor; while Vietnam will provide machinery, inputs (seeds, fertilizers), technical capital, and initial financing. The products will have different destinations; soybeans and peanuts will be used for vegetable oils for domestic consumption and animal feed; while green beans and cashews will be destined for international markets.
Sánchez García highlighted the commitment to execution deadlines, while Nguyen Khac Hoang underscored the potential of Artemisa's soils and its human capital.
On the other hand, Jorge Luis Oramas Vargas, head of Trade and Investment at Artemisa, contextualized the agreement as part of a broader provincial strategy; 17 international cooperation projects are currently underway—primarily agricultural—including initiatives such as Mi Costa for wetland reforestation.
The note also highlighted a promising new product, the hibiscus flower, with an estimated value of $2,000 per ton in international markets. Its cultivation will expand to all municipalities due to its high profitability and low phytosanitary requirements.
Oramas Vargas emphasized that exports prioritize non-essential products for local consumption, generating foreign currency to purchase critical inputs (fertilizers, machinery) that boost provincial food production.
The partnership with Vietnam includes future collaborations in livestock farming and already active projects such as a pork program and a rice program with China. Despite meeting export targets for the first half of the year, authorities acknowledge challenges: they urge municipalities to identify specific areas that require external financing to boost territorial development.
I still don't understand why the US still continues to embargo Cuba to this day. Is it because they want to maintain "commies poor" narrative? But they still trade with other communist nations (China, Vietnam, etc). Is it because they want to create the condition for color revolution? If so, they should recognize that it didn't work and it will not work. Do they want to make a show of strength, the only thing a bully can think of? This show of strength would also serve as an indicator of weakness, for one day, Cuba will prosper, and the whole world would stop fearing the US. This action of the US will only antagonize the Cuban people and nation. In the grand scheme of things, it looks foolish.
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rainpizza - 4mon
From my perspective and after dealing with plenty of reactionaries and liberals in Latam, this looks more related to your first question. Using the pro imperialist media in Latam, latin american liberals and fascists alike go out of their way to fallaciously equate socialism and poverty. Their sole objective is to license a false sense of superiority and to reduce solidarity in the region.
Just like this other article from Almayadeen eloquently wrote regarding the reporting from pro imperialist news media and their influencers:
A prosperous Cuba, alongside Nicaragua and Venezuela, will certainly be the imperialist worst nightmare for the region and will destroy that false sense of superiority within the population to the point that neoliberalism and the bootlicking rightoids will no longer be desirable.
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deathtoreddit - 4mon
I mean, we could blame it on the Cuban gusano diaspora, who prolly want to return Cuba to a more wretched, reactionary state. Besides, you don't appropriate US corporation assets and simply get away with it, as simple as it seems.
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kredditacc - 4mon
we could blame it on the Cuban gusano diaspora, who prolly want to return Cuba to a more wretched, reactionary state.
Vietnam also have US collaborators who fled to the US. They want the same thing. But the US still trades with Vietnam despite their protests. So I don't think this is the reason.
you don’t appropriate US corporation assets and simply get away with it, as simple as it seems.
I see. Vietnam actually had to pay the US the money the puppet regime owed to the US to have them lift embargoes. Essentially paying our very invaders for killing our people, as unfair as it looks.
Well, when the US finally falls, the happiest people would be the Cubans and North Koreans.
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Cuba and Vietnam have signed a memorandum revitalizing underutilized lands in Artemisa
https://www.granma.cu/cuba/2025-08-18/artemisa-se-consolida-como-polo-de-cooperacion-agroindustrial-18-08-2025-16-08-07In a significant step forward for agroindustrial cooperation, the Artemisa Agroforestry Business Group (GEAF) and the Vietnamese company Viet Royal signed a memorandum of understanding to develop export crops on 2,000 hectares of uncultivated land.
According to the newspaper El Artemiseño, the agreement signed by Miguel Sánchez García, president of GEAF, and Nguyen Khac Hoang, director of Viet Royal, will activate land in Alquízar, San Antonio de los Baños, and San Cristóbal with strategic crops: soybeans, green beans, peanuts, sweet potatoes, taro, and potatoes, intercropped with cashews.
The alliance stipulates that Cuba will contribute land, infrastructure, fuel, and labor; while Vietnam will provide machinery, inputs (seeds, fertilizers), technical capital, and initial financing. The products will have different destinations; soybeans and peanuts will be used for vegetable oils for domestic consumption and animal feed; while green beans and cashews will be destined for international markets.
Sánchez García highlighted the commitment to execution deadlines, while Nguyen Khac Hoang underscored the potential of Artemisa's soils and its human capital.
On the other hand, Jorge Luis Oramas Vargas, head of Trade and Investment at Artemisa, contextualized the agreement as part of a broader provincial strategy; 17 international cooperation projects are currently underway—primarily agricultural—including initiatives such as Mi Costa for wetland reforestation.
The note also highlighted a promising new product, the hibiscus flower, with an estimated value of $2,000 per ton in international markets. Its cultivation will expand to all municipalities due to its high profitability and low phytosanitary requirements.
Oramas Vargas emphasized that exports prioritize non-essential products for local consumption, generating foreign currency to purchase critical inputs (fertilizers, machinery) that boost provincial food production.
The partnership with Vietnam includes future collaborations in livestock farming and already active projects such as a pork program and a rice program with China. Despite meeting export targets for the first half of the year, authorities acknowledge challenges: they urge municipalities to identify specific areas that require external financing to boost territorial development.
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I still don't understand why the US still continues to embargo Cuba to this day. Is it because they want to maintain "commies poor" narrative? But they still trade with other communist nations (China, Vietnam, etc). Is it because they want to create the condition for color revolution? If so, they should recognize that it didn't work and it will not work. Do they want to make a show of strength, the only thing a bully can think of? This show of strength would also serve as an indicator of weakness, for one day, Cuba will prosper, and the whole world would stop fearing the US. This action of the US will only antagonize the Cuban people and nation. In the grand scheme of things, it looks foolish.
From my perspective and after dealing with plenty of reactionaries and liberals in Latam, this looks more related to your first question. Using the pro imperialist media in Latam, latin american liberals and fascists alike go out of their way to fallaciously equate socialism and poverty. Their sole objective is to license a false sense of superiority and to reduce solidarity in the region.
Just like this other article from Almayadeen eloquently wrote regarding the reporting from pro imperialist news media and their influencers:
A prosperous Cuba, alongside Nicaragua and Venezuela, will certainly be the imperialist worst nightmare for the region and will destroy that false sense of superiority within the population to the point that neoliberalism and the bootlicking rightoids will no longer be desirable.
I mean, we could blame it on the Cuban gusano diaspora, who prolly want to return Cuba to a more wretched, reactionary state. Besides, you don't appropriate US corporation assets and simply get away with it, as simple as it seems.
Vietnam also have US collaborators who fled to the US. They want the same thing. But the US still trades with Vietnam despite their protests. So I don't think this is the reason.
I see. Vietnam actually had to pay the US the money the puppet regime owed to the US to have them lift embargoes. Essentially paying our very invaders for killing our people, as unfair as it looks.
Well, when the US finally falls, the happiest people would be the Cubans and North Koreans.