The third video in the KETC Channel 9 series about Cuba was posted today.

The Industrial Park and Enterprise Zone helped turn Cuba around in the 1980s.

The 1980s in Cuba brought economic crisis due to losing the shoe industry and mining at the same time. In the 1980s, the unemployment rate sat a whopping 21%.  How did the leaders of the time change that?

The Channel 9 KETC video relies on Jim Barnett of Peoples Bank and Dennis Roedemeier, the former chairman of the Industrial Development Authority, to chronicle past challenges and tell how things are different for Cuba today.

View the video “Economic Planning in Cuba, MO” and see if you agree with some of the assessments about Cuba’s economy today. Let us know what you think.

To view the previous two Channel 9 videos, go here and here.