Economy

__**Cuba** __ Cuba has a dual economy with two distinct systems operating side by side. The economy that provides Cubans with free education, universal employment, free health care, disability and retirement benefits, unemployment compensation, and the basis necessities of life such as food, housing, job, etc. is the socialist peso economy. The free market dollarized economy sustains the socialist economy. Their free market economy operates in the tourist, international and export sectors.

The economy of Cuban is still getting over and recovering from a decline in a bad domestic product of at least 35% between 1989 and 1993. It was due to the loss of the Soviet subsides.

**Cubans Recoving Announcing Cuba's Independence

__Puerto Rico__ ** Puerto Rico's economy is one of the most dynamic economies in the Caribbean region. Industry is the main source of Puerto Rico's economy more than agriculture now a days. Plantation sugar production took over their economy until the 1940s.

But recently Puerto Rico has suffered budget cuts from the United States. They depended on the tax incentives given to the U.S. mainland companies and on federal transfers. Some economists consider Puerto Rico's economy fictitious. They don't have many natural resources and mainly rely on the U.S. Government for Federal Aid and other things they need. Puerto Rico is part of the United States, so the currency is the U.S. dollar.

U.S. Dollar that Puerto Rico uses**
 * [[image:http://www.solarnavigator.net/solar_cola/cola_images/sugar_cane_saccharum_officinarum.jpg width="272" height="406"]]Sugar Cane Production