Rental of rooms or houses is made easier Renting rooms and homes has been made easier by new legislation that broadens the concept of self-employment, Granma reported Monday.
Resolution 305 of the Housing Institute provides the following guidelines: Living spaces may be rented for various activities, not just dwelling. "For example, the entrance hallway can be turned into a coffee shop, while a room can be used to set up a barber shop, a photo studio, a seamstress shop, etc." Foreigners who live in Cuba permanently may rent a room or house in Cuban pesos (nonconvertible). The ban on renting rooms by the hour has been lifted. The homeowner may hire help. "The lessor may solicit the services of those who hold a license to perform work on their own (gardener, domestic helper, etc.) or hire them to work with him." Hiring help is taxable. Cubans who live abroad or travel abroad for long periods of time may rent their homes to others. Homeowners who rent property in convertible pesos will be taxed in convertible pesos but may pay in Cuban pesos, according to the existing exchange rate. For details and additional guidelines, click here<http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2010/11/29/nacional/artic01.html> . Posted by Renato Perez at 08:45 AM in Economy & Trade<http://miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colada/economy/> Permalink<http://miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colada/2010/11/rental-of-rooms-or-houses-is-made-easier.html>| Comments (0)<http://miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colada/2010/11/rental-of-rooms-or-houses-is-made-easier.html#comments>| TrackBack (0)<http://miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colada/2010/11/rental-of-rooms-or-houses-is-made-easier.html#trackback> Cuba and Venezuela mentioned in WikiLeaks documents (morning roundup) [image: Wikileaks-Julian-Assange]<http://miamiherald.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b26169e20134899612c9970c-pi> *Top News*: The whistleblower organization WikiLeaks released<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/29cables.html?hp>a batch of roughly 250,000 classified and sensitive documents <http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/>pilfered from the U.S. government on Sunday, some of which relate to Latin America and will likely fuel indignation amongst Cuban authorities. One of the most controversial documents was a directive signed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton instructing U.S. diplomats to collect "biographic and biometric information" for diplomats from a number of foreign countries. According to an article posted to Foreign Policy Magazine's Turtle Bay blog, Cuban diplomats were among those targeted<http://turtlebay.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/11/28/wikileaks_reveals_vast_us_information_gathering_operation_at_the_un> . Several news organizations, including The New York Times, El País and The Guardian, received the documents ahead of time and posted reports Sunday. Spanish daily El País' writeup notes that the documents reveal<http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/mayor/filtracion/historia/deja/descubierto/secretos/politica/exterior/EE/UU/elpepuint/20101128elpepuint_25/Tes>"the efforts to woo Latin American countries into isolating Venezuelan Hugo Chávez." State-run Web site CubaDebate reposted<http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2010/11/28/wikileaks-desnuda-politica-exterior-de-eeuu-revelan-esfuerzos-para-aislar-a-chavez-y-vigilar-a-diplomaticos-cubanos/>the report by El País<http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/mayor/filtracion/historia/deja/descubierto/secretos/politica/exterior/EE/UU/elpepuint/20101128elpepuint_25/Tes>announcing the contents of the WikiLeaks documents. The site has followed the story, but has yet to post a statement from the Cuban government on the matter. At the time of writing, the only document that any news agencies had reported on in detail was a cable written by Cuban-American ambassador to Honduras<http://www.elheraldo.hn/Ediciones/2010/11/28/Noticias/Informe-de-Llorens-dice-que-Corte-militares-y-CN-conspiraron-contra-Mel>, Hugo Llorens, following the 2009 coup in that country. Llorens wrote that<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/11/28/104400/all-parties-broke-law-in-honduras.html>"a case could well have been made" that Zelaya had broken the country's laws by attempting to alter the constitution, but that no process had been initiated against him, making the coup against him illegal. "Unfortunately, the President was never tried, or convicted, or was legally removed from office to allow a legal succession," Llorens wrote in the confidential cable. *According to a **difficult-to-read graph on the WikiLeaks Web site*<http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/tags/Country> *, roughly 3,000 of the records released concern Venezuela, while about 2,000 refer to Cuba.* *In Other News*: - Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega plans to meet with freed dissidents<http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2010/11/28/844963/el-cardenal-se-reunira-en-madrid.html>, whose release he helped to broker, in Madrid today (link in Spanish). - The remains of Cuban dissident and hunger striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo will be exhumed today<http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2010/11/27/844346/los-restos-de-orlando-zapata-tamayo.html>from the cemetery of Banes, in Holguín, and taken to Havana for cremation, Zapata's mother Reina Luisa said Friday (link in Spanish). - The Cuban government announced it will spend $130 million to import products and raw materials <http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2010/11/27/844165/cuba-alista-plan-de-inversion.html>to supply the the planned expansion of private enterprise (link in Spanish). *In State Media*: - Fidel Castro posted an unusually short "Reflection" to CubaDebate<http://www.cubadebate.cu/reflexiones-fidel/2010/11/27/siete-dias-sin-muertos-por-colera/>Saturday, in which he said that a week had passed without a cholera death in the medical centers attended by Cuban doctors in Haiti (link in Spanish). - More than 81,000 Cubans have applied for licenses to open small businesses or rent their homes<http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2010/11/27/nacional/artic06.html>, and 31,000 have been granted, according to Communist Party daily Granma (link in Spanish). *In the Blogosphere*: - A Twitter account that appears to belong to Gorki Águila<http://twitter.com/#!/Gorkiaguila>of Cuban punk band Porno para Ricardo said via that a concert planned for Saturday to launch a tour of Havana's Committees for Defense of the Revolution (CDRs) was canceled because of "police harrassment and the real fear that they would confiscate the instruments." A later tweet read "What are these people afraid of? It's just rock and roll!!!" Spoof blog Periódico Guamá posted a press release<http://el-guama.blogspot.com/2010/11/comunicado-de-prensa-porno-para-ricardo.html>from the group. - *In a 7-page .pdf file breaking down the State Department cables released by WikiLeaks, Tracey Eaton at "Along the Malecón" **found that some 507 originate from the U.S. Interests Section in Havana*<http://alongthemalecon.blogspot.com/2010/11/leak-includes-more-than-500-usint.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AlongTheMalecn+%28Along+the+Malec%C3%B3n%29&utm_content=Google+Reader> *. * *What did we miss? 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