Miami-Eliten, die vom Wiederaufbau Kubas träumen, befürchten, dass es zu weit fortgeschritten ist

*The regime is so entrenched that the playbook the US used in Venezuela isn’t likely to work on the island.*

*Jim Wyss for Bloomberg News*

Miami’s Cuban business elites have time and time again planned for this moment.

After the fall of the Soviet Union and during a brief Washington-Havana détente a decade ago, they hired analysts and economists to draft plans to rebuild their island in the event of regime change. Now that an emboldened US president has pushed Cuba to the brink, it seems tantalizingly close again.

But “the business case that might have been made in the 1990s, or even 2015 — that just doesn’t exist anymore,” said Carlos Saladrigas, the 77-year-old founder of human resources giant Regis HR Group and chairman of the Cuba Study Group, a Washington-based advocacy organization.

That’s the dilemma facing the Trump administration and the private sector it would rely on to fund a turnaround. Cuba’s needs are now so staggering and its politics so entrenched that it’s hard to see how it could attract the investment required to recover from the worst economic crisis in the island’s modern history.

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