{"id":499890,"date":"2026-02-11T09:55:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/the-cuban-peso-falls-in-the-informal-market-to-500-per-dollar-a-historical-low\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T13:55:27","slug":"the-cuban-peso-falls-in-the-informal-market-to-500-per-dollar-a-historical-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/economy\/the-cuban-peso-falls-in-the-informal-market-to-500-per-dollar-a-historical-low\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cuban peso falls in the informal market to 500 per dollar, a historical low"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Havana,.<\/strong>&#8211; The Cuban peso marked a historic low in the informal market this Tuesday, depreciating to 500 units per US dollar, amid growing pressure from <strong>Washington<\/strong> on the island.\n\nThe benchmark indicator of the informal market, published daily by the independent media outlet <strong>El Toque,<\/strong> reached this mark after a 15% decrease in the relative value of the Cuban currency against the greenback so far this year.\n\nThe oil siege that <strong>Washington has established over Cuba<\/strong> has generated intense uncertainty on the island, which was already in a deep economic crisis for six years with shortages of basic goods, high inflation, collapse of production and prolonged daily blackouts.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/aumento-de-detenciones-en-cuba\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"608236\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amnesty International denounces increase in arbitrary detentions and harassment in Cuba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Havana,.&#8211; The Cuban peso marked a historic low in the informal market this Tuesday, depreciating to 500 units per US dollar, amid growing pressure\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_dum_aida_pretitle":"","_dum_aida_subtitle":"","_dum_aida_city":"","_dum_aida_author":"","_dum_aida_caption":"","_dum_aida_captionauthor":"","_dum_aida_quote":"","_dum_aida_breakdowntitle":"","_dum_aida_breakdowntext":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[662,40660],"class_list":["post-499890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-cuba","tag-dollar"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-262K","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Economy"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}