Max Marambio

Doing business with the Cuban government

November 3, 2010

Chilean businessman Marcel Luis Marambio is being sought for capture by the Cuban government for bribery, forgery and fraud, reports El Mercurio. Marambio is the brother of Chilean impresario Max Marambio, who is also accused in Cuba of bribery, embezzlement, forgery and bank fraud, among other crimes. Raúl Castro’s government opened an investigation earlier this [...]

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Cuban gov’t asks Interpol to detain Marambio

October 7, 2010

The Cuban government has asked Interpol to detain Chilean businessman Max Marambio after learning that he is suing Cuba in the International Chamber of Commerce’s International Court, La Tercera is reporting. Marambio decided to formulate a judicial offensive against the Cuban Attorney General, who brought charges against him for bribing Cuban government officials. Marambio, owner of the [...]

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Business and politics

August 26, 2010

The Economist on Max Marambio, Fidel Castro’s Chilean business crony fall from grace, coupled with uncertain economic times on the island.

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Castroism prepares against the masses

July 22, 2010

La Verdad Obrera (LVO), a publication of the Argentine Socialist Workers Party, has an interesting critical piece on the recent political developments in Cuba from a Trotskyist perspective. The following incisive paragraphs were transcribed from the story: Bureaucracy and corruption Accompanying the announcement of prisoners being released and an economic adjustment is the corruption scandal at [...]

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Settling of scores

April 20, 2010

Former Chilean leftist Senator Carlos Ominami (whose adoptive son is Marco Enríquez-Ominami, a Socialist who ran as an independent in the recent Chilean presidential election supported by Max Marambio) said the distancing of the Cuban regime with businessman Max Marambio (background here and here) is due to a “settling of scores” after the departure of Fidel [...]

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Chilean businessman’s death in Havana is a deeper morass (Updated)

April 15, 2010

15APR2010 @ 1128: Roberto Baudrand was sitting beside a bed with his head on the nightstand and at his side were several open remedies boxes when his body was found by a company official, Chilean consul and Cuban police, La Tercera reported this morning. His family rejected the suicide theory, claiming he had a heart attack [...]

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