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Johanna Pérez

Johanna Pérez

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I’ll take you: a Cuban startup takes off

It is the second time I’ve see Martin Proenza. This August 5 he had returned to Havana from his native Bayamo willing to participate, as he did last year, in what is considered to be the biggest technology event that has been held in Cuba: the Startup Weekend Havana, this time in its second edition. At about six pm Martin was waiting outside the Hotel Four Points by Sheraton (the former Fifth Avenue) an event that never happened before. Startup, for reasons that facilitators were not particularly clear on, had been completely suspended a few minutes before the start. For reasons beyond our control @swhavana & @monadlibre have been cancelled. Months of hard work down the drain pic.twitter.com/9oQUyYL1Yn — Merchise Startups (@merchise) August 5, 2016 "I'll something similar to what I said to you last year. In Bayamo I don’t see what I see here. This is one of the biggest and best technology events that we can enjoy in Cuba. It has practice and theory, it enables networking, socialisation. I come here eager to quench the thirst to speak to all who come here, you’ll never have anything like this in Bayamo, or in any other province," Martin tells...