HOUSE OVERSIGHT 025096 3. The sugar industry, which before the revolution was the backbone of the economy, with an annual average production of six million tons, has dropped to two. 4. Tourism is a very promising field. The Island, very beautiful and with dozens of beaches, has at least 14 points on both coasts that are potentially transformable into ideal sites for building tourism poles similar to Puerto Banils in Spain or Casa de Campo in La Romana, Dominican Republic. 5. Considering the number of researchers in the field of medicine, totally under-utilized, the country would potentially be the perfect partner of large international pharmaceutical industries, to both develop new medications and produce them. 6. Given the prestige (today somewhat reduced) of its health system, Cuba is potentially an excellent site for medical tourism and a place to establish links with the North American insurance systems. Havana is much closer to Key West than Miami is to Orlando in Florida. 7. Whenever relations are really normalized and travel is facilitated and multiplies, Cuba will become an ideal place to retire for tens of thousands of Cuban Americans and North Americans who perceive an average of US$1,800 a month. 8. Cuba receives some three million tourists every year, and has eleven million inhabitants. In a few years it could receive eleven million tourists and reach the classification of paradise. A few daring and intelligent developers could transform the Isle of Pines, in Cuba's south, into the Mallorca of the Caribbean. In the United States there are 300,000 luxury yachts that could visit Cuba and dock in already existing as well as future marinas. 9. If relations between the United States and Cuba continue to deepen, it's possible to foresee a Free Trade Agreement that would allow the Island unlimited exports to the richest market in the world. 10. Because of its geographical position, Cuba is an ideal hub for the distribution of ocean- goi