{"id":190644,"date":"2026-03-13T20:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190644\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T20:23:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:23:16","slug":"miamis-calle-ocho-entrepreneurs-prepare-for-u-s-cuba-talks-to-maybe-open-island-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190644\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami\u2019s Calle Ocho entrepreneurs prepare for U.S.-Cuba talks to maybe open island for business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 With U.S.-Cuba talks ongoing, Calle Ocho entrepreneurs, who cater to tourists in Miami\u2019s Little Havana, said they are preparing for new opportunities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">President Donald Trump and State Secretary Marco Rubio may get the communist regime to open the island for business with some protections. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At Florida International University, <a href=\"https:\/\/cri.fiu.edu\/faculty\/arcos-sebastian\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/cri.fiu.edu\/faculty\/arcos-sebastian\/\">Sebasti\u00e1n A. Arcos<\/a>, who has been following updates on the talks, said the communist leaders may make a deal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey are more interested, obviously, in making money than in the freedom of the Cuban people,\u201d said Arcos, who heads<a href=\"https:\/\/cri.fiu.edu\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/cri.fiu.edu\/\"> FIU\u2019s Cuban Research Institute<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cuba\u2019s small private sector has been struggling in a state-controlled economy with U.S. sanctions and a new devastating energy crisis. Arcos said business there would be too risky. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThere cannot be an economic recovery if there is no political reform first,\u201d said Arcos, who was born in Havana and has experience monitoring human rights violations in Cuba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Trump and Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel have both confirmed the talks, and have both agreed that Cuba is in trouble if nothing changes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Friday, D\u00edaz-Canel said FBI agents were going to be allowed on the island to investigate the fatal shooting at sea related to a Florida-registered boat, and Cuba was going to release 51 prisoners who had demonstrated good behavior. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt is a sovereign practice, no one imposes it on us,\u201d D\u00edaz-Canel said in Spanish. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Trump didn\u2019t rule out a U.S. military intervention, which prompted Democrats in Washington to fight for a war powers resolution. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt may be a friendly takeover, \u2060it may not be a friendly takeover,\u201d Trump recently said about Cuba, adding that his priority was the conflict with Iran. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More on U.S.-Cuba talks<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Interactive graphic for history buffs<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 With U.S.-Cuba talks ongoing, Calle Ocho entrepreneurs, who cater to tourists in Miami\u2019s Little Havana, said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-190644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}