Today in ongoing programs and until Dec. 31, 2007 at least 773,000 Cubans in the 5 Eastern provinces of Cuba need WFP food aid.
That means 1 in 5 (20%) of the population of these provinces and 7% of the Cuban population needs WFP food aid.
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| 05/21/2012 02:08 PM |
| Cuba’s +/- Spaghetti |
| Cuba's +/- Spaghetti May 19, 2012 Dmitri Prieto HAVANA TIMES — Every day I'm more and more surprised by the dilemma posed by the various approaches to product distribution in Cuba. The rationing book refuses to disappear since no alternative has yet been developed to protect those who are the most disadvantaged. In the state-run [...] |
| 05/20/2012 11:53 AM |
| Cuba, DR on very different paths |
| Cuba, DR on very different paths By Roland Alum May 20, 2012 On May 20, 1902 the Cuban Republic was born, following the Spanish-American War, or Spanish(Cuban)American War, that ended Spain's colonial rule. Coincidentally, this May 20, the Dominican Republic is holding its 14th presidential election since the downfall of Rafael Trujillo in 1961. It [...] |
| 05/16/2012 01:59 PM |
| Foreign Policy: Preparing for Life after Castro |
| Posted on Tuesday, 05.15.12 Foreign Policy: Preparing for Life after Castro Early this month, a senior Cuban official raised the possibility of loosening travel restrictions, potentially making it far easier for Cuban citizens to travel abroad as tourists. So far, little is known about the details of the policy Havana has in mind. But the [...] |
| 04/15/2012 11:11 PM |
| In Cuba, baby steps on the long road to economic reform |
| Posted on Sunday, 04.15.12 In Cuba, baby steps on the long road to economic reformBy Kevin G. HallMcClatchy Newspapers HOLGUIN, Cuba_ Sergio Luis Suarez, 24, is among the new faces ofCuba's budding business class. He used to cut hair for profit beforeit was legal, but now he's licensed by the government and hastransformed the front [...] |
| 03/14/2012 07:07 PM |
| The Cuban Ration Book Turns 50 |
| http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=64286 The Cuban Ration Book Turns 50March 13, 2012Fernando Ravsberg* HAVANA TIMES, March 13 — Half a century ago, the nascent Cuban Revolution created the Libreta de Abastecimientos (the ration book), which was the basic element of a system of food subsidies and rationing aimed at ensuring that basic staples were affordable for everyone. This [...] |
| 03/10/2012 05:34 PM |
| Cuba foreign investment risk assessment |
| Cuba foreign investment risk assessment French CoFace credit risk and investment company has released a risk assessment for the country of Cuba.http://www.coface.fr/CofacePortal/FR_fr_FR/pages/home/os/risks_home/risques_pays/fiche/Cuba?extraUid=571838 Coface country assessment reports analyze and forecast country risk using macroeconomic, financial and political data. The company reviews the financial history and the risks to the business environment of the country. CoFace assigns [...] |
| 01/01/2012 11:36 AM |
| Cuba’s culture of poverty persists: Op-ed |
| Cuba's culture of poverty persists: Op-edPublished: Saturday, December 31, 2011, 12:08 PMThe Jersey Journal By The Jersey JournalBy ROLAND A. ALUM / SPECIAL TO THE JERSEY JOURNAL The Fidel-&-Raul Castro regime marks 53 years this Jan. 1. The brothers unquestionably enjoyed extraordinary popularity in 1959, but the enthusiasm soon vanished as they turned Cuba into [...] |
| 10/31/2011 06:41 PM |
| Will Offshore Oil Lubricate US-Cuba Relations? |
| Will Offshore Oil Lubricate US-Cuba Relations?Editor's Desk | Casey Research | October 28, 2011 2:02 pm Courtesy of Casey Research One of Spain's largest oil companies, Repsol, is gearing up to spud a deep, offshore well in Cuban waters, just 60 miles from the Florida Keys. A huge rig is still en route to the [...] |
| 07/29/2011 03:27 PM |
| Food imports put Cuban reforms at risk |
| Food imports put Cuban reforms at riskPublished: July 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM HAVANA, July 28 (UPI) — High food imports are putting Cuban economic reforms at risk because of the drain they pose on foreign exchange resources. The government sounded warnings about rising food commodities import bills after it emerged that while Vietnam, the [...] |
| 07/15/2011 07:20 PM |
| Cuban Wretch "Escapes" Castro’s Paradise |
| Cuban Wretch "Escapes" Castro's ParadiseWritten by Bruce WalkerFriday, 15 July 2011 10:31 On Thursday, July 14, 2011, a young Cuban who tried to stowaway inside the landing gear of a Spanish airliner died during the nine-hour flight from Havana to Madrid. It was, ironically, Lenin who invented the term "voting with their feet" during the [...] |
| 07/15/2011 11:13 AM |
| The Cuban Way: More Government, Less Food |
| The Cuban Way: More Government, Less FoodOlivia SnowJuly 14, 2011 at 5:30 pm When was the last time you wondered if you would be able to feed your family? Fortunately, for the majority of Americans, that thought never occurs, or is rarely a problem. If mom can't cook the meal, there is always the local [...] |
| 06/30/2011 04:30 AM |
| White Meat Crumbs / Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado |
| White Meat Crumbs / Rosa María Rodríguez TorradoRosa María Rodríguez Torrado, Translator: Unstated I turned the corner located half a block from my house and I heard somebody yelling to another neighbor, " Mercedes, they are giving out chicken instead of fish." The piece of chicken that the Cuban State sells us at subsidize price [...] |
| 06/23/2011 07:18 PM |
| Revolutionary Racism in Cuba |
| Revolutionary Racism in CubaJune 21, 2011 This analysis was prepared by COHA Research Associate Naomi Glassman Revolutionary Racism: Afro‑Cubans in an Era of Economic Change Fidel Castro's regime enacted anti-discrimination legislation and redistributive reforms benefiting Afro-Cubans Afro-Cubans are disproportionately affected by Cuba's economic struggles and change U.S. dollars from remittances, tourism and paladares contribute to [...] |
| 04/20/2011 07:14 PM |
| Will More Political Prisoners Be Released? |
| Cuba: Will More Political Prisoners Be Released?Church Says There Is Still More to Do HAVANA, Cuba, APRIL 19, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Cuban President Raúl Castro is stating that the process of releasing "prisoners of conscience" has ended, though the archbishopric of Havana noted that there is still work to be done. On April 8, 37 former [...] |
| 04/18/2011 01:20 AM |
| Curbs on property continue: Raul |
| Curbs on property continue: RaulAP Cuban President Raul Castro drew a line in the Caribbean sand across which Cuba's economic reforms must never go, telling delegates to a key Communist Party summit on Saturday he has rejected dozens of suggested reforms that would have allowed the concentration of property in private hands. But he also [...] |
| 04/16/2011 11:53 PM |
| A last hurrah for Cuba’s communist rulers |
| 16 April 2011 Last updated at 09:58 GMT A last hurrah for Cuba's communist rulersBy Michael Voss BBC News, Havana Cuba's Communist Party is holding its first Congress in 14 years, and for the country's ageing leaders it could be one of their last opportunities to bask in the victories of days gone by. The [...] |
| 04/16/2011 09:41 PM |
| Cuba admits food imports bill is up 25% and "miracles are running out" |
| Saturday, April 16th 2011 – 09:41 UTC Cuba admits food imports bill is up 25% and "miracles are running out" Cuba announced Friday that it will have to spend 25% more than its original estimates to pay the cost of food imports due to the international surge in commodity prices. The Castro ruled island must [...] |
| 04/15/2011 11:17 PM |
| Commodities price surge boosts Cuba’s food-import bill |
| Commodities price surge boosts Cuba's food-import billPublished April 15, 2011EFE Havana – Cuba announced Friday that it will have to spend 25 percent more than its original estimates to pay the cost of food imports due to the international surge in commodity prices. In a statement published Friday in the Communist Party daily Granma, the [...] |
| 03/31/2011 12:08 AM |
| Cuba’s Remnant Rediscovers Religion |
| Cuba's Remnant Rediscovers ReligionLetter from HavanaBy Michael OrbachPublished March 30, 2011. The hubbub surrounding Cuba's small Jewish community these days does not faze Yakob Berezniak Hernandez. Sitting behind a desk crowded with a typewriter, several cans of Lieber's tomato paste and piles of loose foreign change, Hernandez, of Havana's Adath Israel synagogue, waved away inquiries [...] |
| 03/22/2011 08:57 PM |
| Cuba’s booming private restaurants cause "bread crisis" |
| Cuba's booming private restaurants cause "bread crisis"English.news.cn 2011-03-22 14:17:48 HAVANA, March 21 (Xinhua) — Cuba's rapidly growing number of small private restaurants has forced the government to reorganize private bread production, a state-run daily necessity in Cuba, Cuban daily Granma said Monday. "The discrepancy between bread supply and demand in the country is exacerbated by [...] |
| 02/15/2011 09:28 PM |
| Cuba, Now: The Two-Tier Society of Standing in Line |
| Cuba, Now: The Two-Tier Society of Standing in LineWhere: CubaFebruary 15, 2011 at 10:56 AM With President Obama working to lessen Cuba Travel restrictions, the focus on future trips to the country is growing wildly. A Jaunted special secret correspondent just returned from a period in Cuba, and she'll be sharing her impressions of the [...] |
| 02/04/2011 07:11 PM |
| Digital Rations |
| Digital Rations Internet Policy in Castro's CubaBy Ellery Roberts BiddleFebruary 3, 2011 Fidel Castro has an acute understanding of the power of communication. It fueled his force as a ruler for over half a century, and was freshly evident last summer when the 82-year-old leader of the Cuban revolution reappeared in public for the first [...] |
| 12/14/2010 07:40 PM |
| Cuba to import in 2011 twice the rice it produces |
| Cuba to import in 2011 twice the rice it producesPublished December 13, 2010EFE Havana – The Cuban government will have to import in 2011 double the amount of rice it produces in order to meet domestic demand, the official weekly Trabajadores said Monday, citing the island's deputy minister of agriculture. "Again in 2011 the country [...] |
| 11/10/2010 12:47 PM |
| Havana frees up markets — with a caveat |
| Posted on Tuesday, 11.09.1Havana frees up markets — with a caveatBY JUAN O. TAMAYOjtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com The Cuban Communist Party's guidelines for its next congress say central planning, not market forces, will rule the economy. Cuban guidelines These are key points in a document published Tuesday to frame the debate leading up to the VI Congress of [...] |
| 10/24/2010 11:06 PM |
| A review of Yoani Sánchez’s ‘Cuba Libre’ |
| Politics and the Spanish Language:A review of Yoani Sánchez's 'Cuba Libre'By Antonio Sosa 8:49 AM 10/24/2010 In his famous essay describing the character of the Enlightenment, Kant adopted Horace's exhortation, "Sapere aude," as the unofficial motto for the age. Today, we may find a modest and beleaguered exemplar of this 18th century precept –which means, [...] |
| 10/18/2010 06:54 PM |
| Cuba prepares for another bitter sugar harvest |
| Cuba prepares for another bitter sugar harvestMon Oct 18, 2010 2:23pm GMTBy Marc Frank HAVANA, Oct 18 (Reuters) – Cuba's once proud sugar industry is gearing up for the 2011 cane harvest with fewer mills scheduled to open and hopes to merely equal this year's dismal output of 1.1 million tonnes of raw sugar, the [...] |
| 10/03/2010 03:39 PM |
| Cuba is no island paradise for its citizens |
| Cuba is no island paradise for its citizensBy Mark Milke, Calgary Herald October 3, 2010 2:09 AM For some unexplained reason, a coterie of Canadian apologists exist who are ever eager to defend Cuba's 51-year old Marxist dictatorship. In recent weeks, one letter writer to the Herald argued Cuban children benefit from the island autocracy [...] |
| 09/29/2010 05:11 PM |
| Cuba mulls economic freedom -at last |
| Cuba mulls economic freedom -at last Mark Milke, Financial Post · Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010 In Fidel Castro’s recent interview with Atlantic magazine columnist Jeffrey Goldberg and in response to the question, “Is the Cuban economic model still worth exporting?”, the retired dictator made this admission: “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us any [...] |
| 09/24/2010 01:41 PM |
| Alina Fernandez Talks Growing Up in Cuba Under Castro |
| Alina Fernandez Talks Growing Up in Cuba Under CastroSeptember 24, 2010 at 4:45 AM by Steven McDole DUBOIS – Alina Fernandez, daughter of Fidel Castro, spoke in the Hiller Auditorium Thursday night at the Penn State DuBois campus about her life. Fernandez spoke of being just old enough to remember life prior the fall of [...] |
| 09/21/2010 01:14 PM |
| Castro’s daughter says Cuban ecomony ‘nonexistent’ |
| Castro's daughter says Cuban ecomony 'nonexistent'By Steve McConnell (Staff Writer)Published: September 21, 2010 DUNMORE – Engineers and doctors paid $10 a month. Government-run barber and shoe shops. Widespread poverty and unemployment. Communism has left the Cuban economy in shambles, about the same half a century ago as it is today, the daughter of former Cuban [...] |
| 09/06/2010 01:22 PM |
| Survivors remember bloody battle on 50th anniversary |
| Posted on Sunday, 09.05.10BATTLE AT ESCAMBRAYSurvivors remember bloody battle on 50th anniversaryThe battle became known as the last armed internal combat against the Cuban dictator.BY JUAN O. TAMAYOjtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Shot in both legs and right arm, and ringed by Fidel Castro's troops, Agapito Rivera sat in a sugar cane field, pulled out his pistol, lit a [...] |
| 09/04/2010 08:07 PM |
| Venezuela introduces Cuba-like food card |
| Posted on Friday, 09.03.10Venezuela introduces Cuba-like food cardBY ANTONIO MARIA DELGADOadelgado@ElNuevoHerald.com Presented by President Hugo Chávez as an instrument to make shopping for groceries easier, the “Good Life Card'' is making various segments of the population wary because they see it as a furtive attempt to introduce a rationing card similar to the one in [...] |
| 08/13/2010 11:59 AM |
| Thousands of hectares of forest destroyed by fire in Cuba. |
| Thousands of hectares of forest destroyed by fire in Cuba.Thursday, August 12, 2010 10:12 PM HAVANA, Aug. 12, 2010 (Xinhua News Agency) — All together 5,711 hectares of forest in Cuba have been burnt down by fires from January to May, said official sources here on Thursday. Economic losses inflicted by these forest fires are [...] |
| 07/26/2010 05:15 PM |
| Fidel absent, Raul silent at Cuba’s Revolution Day |
| Posted on Sunday, 07.25.10Fidel absent, Raul silent at Cuba's Revolution DayBy PAUL HAVENAssociated Press Writer SANTA CLARA, Cuba — A B-team of socialist speakers spent Cuba's Revolution Day bashing the United States for everything from its drug consumption to the war in Iraq to its military support for Colombia, portraying Washington as the great villain [...] |
| 07/14/2010 06:29 PM |
| No free lunch in belt-tightening Cuba |
| No free lunch in belt-tightening CubaHAVANAJuly 14, 2010 CUBA is preparing to abolish ration books and free lunches for workers in a shift away from the communist policies that have shaped the country for more than half a century. President Raul Castro, 79, is ushering in market changes designed to help Cuba through an economic [...] |
| 05/24/2010 08:04 PM |
| Cuban embargo turns 50 but must live a little longer |
| Cuban embargo turns 50 but must live a little longer Last Updated: May 23. 2010 7:29PM UAE / May 23. 2010 3:29PM GMT The world’s longest running and least successful trade embargo will this year “celebrate” its 50th anniversary. Washington’s restrictions on trade with Cuba, which were first imposed in 1960, have not only failed [...] |
| 05/23/2010 09:37 PM |
| My mother’s Mariel Odyssey |
| Posted on Saturday, 05.22.10 PERSONAL STORIES My mother’s Mariel Odyssey By VIRGINIA GIL A small, dirty, white boat. It’s rusted and smells of fish. Aboard: a collection of Cubans. Sixty in all. Among them was my mother, Luisa Alonso, a single, 25-year-old woman, who would reluctantly assume the moniker la marielita. My mother had always [...] |
| 02/04/2010 10:30 PM |
| Venezuela opposition decries appointment of Cuban official |
| Ally of Fidel Castro to help Chávez on electricityVenezuela opposition decries appointment of Cuban official President Hugo Chávez's naming of a heavyweight Cuban official to help fix Venezuela's electricity crisis has fired up his opponents at a politically volatile time for the South American nation. After days of protests last week in which two male [...] |
| 01/21/2010 09:35 PM |
| Blame Cuban starvation on Castro |
| Letter: Blame Cuban starvation on CastroPosted: January 21, 2010 – 12:11amBy Pete Montes de Oca Editor: I am writing in response to the letter published recently, "Cubans suffer many forms of starvation," written by Kristy Weeks, a member of an organization that travels often to Cuba for humanitarian and educational purposes. I haven't been to [...] |
| 12/13/2009 11:22 AM |
| Even Saying Goodbye to the Dead Is Hard In Cuba |
| With this guest column I would like to introduce a new blogger from Havana, Laritza Diversent. Laritza is an attorney. She graduated from the University of Havana in 2007, and the same year also took up the profession of independent journalist. Her Blog, The Laws of Laritza, is now being translated into English, so I [...] |
| 11/17/2009 05:11 AM |
| Court won’t get involved in book banning case |
| Posted on Monday, 11.16.09Court won't get involved in book banning caseBy LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ and JESSE J. HOLLANDAssociated Press Writers MIAMI — The Supreme Court is staying out of a dispute in Miami between school officials and civil libertarians over a book about Cuba that depicts smiling children in communist uniforms but avoids mention of problems [...] |
| 11/12/2009 11:42 AM |
| Cuba’s potato revolution |
| Cuba's potato revolutionJessica Leeder From Thursday's Globe and Mail Published on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 8:14PM EST Last updated on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 3:06AM EST The humble potato has become the symbol of a new revolution sweeping Cuba. The vegetable has been eliminated from the thick brown ration books that Cuban nationals relied on [...] |
| 11/12/2009 11:41 AM |
| Cubans Worry as Economy Suffers |
| Cubans Worry as Economy SuffersNovember 11, 2009 9:17 PMPosted by Portia Siegelbaum Ever since Raul Castro became Cuba's President in February 2008, people—at home and abroad—have been waiting for changes that would improve living conditions on the island. But the changes have been slow coming and there are indications that when they do take place [...] |
| 11/06/2009 05:36 PM |
| La Lucha: The Human Cost Of Economic Repression In Cuba |
| La Lucha: The Human Cost Of Economic Repression In Cubaby Patricia Linderman for the Foundation For Economic Education As I opened the gate of the high security fence around my yard inHavana, a black woman in her 30s glanced left and right and quicklywheeled her rusty Chinese bicycle inside. Her name was Marta, and shewas [...] |
| 10/27/2009 02:08 AM |
| Alina Fernandez, Fidel Castro’s daughter talks of life in Cuba |
| Alina Fernandez, Fidel Castro's daughter talks of life in CubaBy: Sam KemererPosted: 10/26/09 "I think that freedom is very important and that it has a price," explained Alina Fernandez. Fernandez, Fidel Castro's daughter, spoke to a very large crowed in the Barben rooms on Tuesday, October 20. Her speech touched upon many subjects but revolved [...] |
| 10/23/2009 04:36 PM |
| Cuba Ends Food Guarantees, Steps Back from Socialist Ideal |
| Cuba Ends Food Guarantees, Steps Back from Socialist IdealNew America Media, News Analysis, Louis E.V. Nevaer, Posted: Oct 23, 2009 Review it on NewsTrust MERIDA, Mexico – Cuba, in an abrupt about face, is set to abandon the food rationing program that has been the cornerstone of its Socialist revolution since 1962, when the United [...] |
| 10/22/2009 02:49 PM |
| Cubans balk at ending of food rations |
| Cubans balk at ending of food rationsBy Marc Frank in HavanaPublished: October 21 2009 04:11 "He's paternalistic, you're paternalistic, I'm paternalistic," screechedthe Communist party newspaper Granma in a column by its editor, LàzaroBarredo Medina, after a month of public debate on ending gratuities andmodernising the Cuban economy. The tone caught the frustration felt by officials [...] |
| 10/20/2009 03:02 PM |
| Cuba’s sour economy a threat to rations |
| Cuba's sour economy a threat to rationsPaul Haven ASSOCIATED PRESSHAVANA Cuba may soon be saying adios to ration books. The system that allows islanders to buy food at deeply subsidized prices each month has long been one of the central building blocks of the country's socialist system, providing everyone from surgeons to street-sweepers the same [...] |
| 10/20/2009 01:47 AM |
| Hurricane Fidel Has Been Cuba’s Worst Disaster |
| Hurricane Fidel Has Been Cuba's Worst Disaster While New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is in Cuba this week learning about natural-disaster preparedness from the Castro regime, he should use the opportunity to hold the government's feet to the fire for the manmade disaster it has imposed on the Cuban people for five decades. In Cuba, [...] |
| 10/18/2009 12:47 AM |
| Economic difficulties to distribute food |
| Cuba: Economic difficulties to distribute foodPosted on17 October 2009 at 10:07.Tags: Cuba, distribution, economy, food cuba hambre-picIn Cuba, more than 70% of its population lives under the rationing system since birth. The ration card, which is in effect since 1962, guarantees monthly to each of the 11 million people the consumption of 3.5 kilos of [...] |