While Cuba builds stronger tourism base, Castro keeps private enterprise in check

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While actively pursuing foreign investment in his country, particularly for much-needed infrastructure like highways and sea ports, Cuba’s hard-line Communist President Fidel Castro appears to be even more stubborn at age 74 in his reluctance to let private enterprise take hold in this island country.

“The economy is still recovering in the last three or four years, but it is not yet visible to the people,” says Ismael Sene Alegret, a Cuban who for years was with the KGB in Eastern Europe and later was president of business of Cuban Radio and Television.

Today, Alegret, who’s also one of Cuba’s leading experts…