City Cleta

City Cleta is Yaser Gonzalez Cabrera’s Havana bike-tour company in Dark times for Cuba’s economic experiment. The Planet Money episode uses the business as a small private-enterprise case created by Cuba’s Constrained Market Reform and the Obama-era tourism opening.

The company becomes a stress indicator because its demand collapses when the external conditions around Cuba change. The source says City Cleta once handled about 400 tourists a month, but later saw roughly 25 customers in a year and no paying customers in the year covered by the episode. That makes the company a concrete instance of Tourism-Dependent Small Economy and Cuban Dual Economic Strategy failure.

Connections

• Yaser Gonzalez Cabrera - founder/operator in the episode.
• Havana and Cuba - operating context.
• Constrained Market Reform - policy opening that made the business possible.
• Tourism-Dependent Small Economy and Oil Dependency Blackout Risk - vulnerabilities exposed by the crisis.