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Through January 7, more than 75,000 Cubans have received licenses to start entrepreneurial businesses, joining about 143,000 from Cuba's last bout with capitalism.
Eventually, the government hopes a quarter of a million new entrepreneurs will sign up after a sweeping fiscal overhaul was announced in 2010 by President Raul Castro.
But if this experiment fails, hundreds of thousands will have left or been forced from their government jobs and into an insecure future.
Haven provides an overview and profiles several of these new ambitious small business people and the challenges they face.
