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| 05/21/2012 12:57 PM |
| Iconic Cuban cigar goes un-smoked at home |
| Posted on Sunday, 05.20.12 Iconic Cuban cigar goes un-smoked at home By MARIA RECIO McClatchy Newspapers PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba — The elderly cigar maker sits at a rustic table next to a tobacco field and a barn filled with hanging rows of aging tobacco and meticulously selects the brown leaves, rolling the most tender [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 05/15/2012 12:17 PM |
| Cuban raw sugar output up 11.7 percent |
| Cuban raw sugar output up 11.7 percent May 15, 2012 Business Recorder Logo Cuban raw sugar production rose 11.7 percent, or an estimated 140,000 tonnes, this year over 2011's 1.2 million tonnes, with 29 of 46 mills still grinding, the state-run Trabajadores newspaper said on Monday. According to the paper, the mills will continue grinding [...] |
| 05/12/2012 07:47 PM |
| Remittances and the Silence of Their Beneficiaries on the Island / Iván García |
| Remittances and the Silence of Their Beneficiaries on the Island / Iván García Iván García, Translator: AnonyGY To ask for money from relatives who live in the United States of America is a constant in Cuba. Whether it is done through one of most expensive international collect calls from the island, an e-mail, or through [...] |
| 05/03/2012 02:06 PM |
| Cuba: A Little Hunger and Lot of Poor Eating |
| Cuba: A Little Hunger and Lot of Poor Eating May 2, 2012 Alfredo Fernandez HAVANA TIMES, May 2 — As a Cuban, I'm always surprised with the way my fellow citizens refer to hunger as a "thing of the past," since we felt it sharply back in the 1990s. The fact is, however, that this [...] |
| 04/29/2012 09:01 PM |
| Why Vietnam and Not Cuba? / Dimas Castellano |
| Why Vietnam and Not Cuba? / Dimas Castellano Dimas Castellanos, Translator: Unstated In an article entitled Vietnam, a Country in Constant Doi Moi, published in the newspaper Juventud Rebelde on Sunday April 8, Niliam Vazquez Garcia stated that "the people feel it in the streets, in the prosperity of the family business, perhaps even in [...] |
| 04/25/2012 02:06 PM |
| Cuba sees the writing on the wall |
| Cuba sees the writing on the wallMartin HutchinsonReuters BreakingviewsLast updated Tuesday, Apr. 24, 2012 8:15PM EDT Cuba has unveiled a Hugo Chavez hedge: economic reform. A senior Communist Party official says the island nation plans to shift nearly 50 per cent of output to the "non-state" sector. As its last rich patron, the Venezuelan President, [...] |
| 04/24/2012 03:04 PM |
| The Paranoia of the State / Lilianne Ruíz |
| The Paranoia of the State / Lilianne RuízLilianne Ruíz, Translator: Unstated My name has been printed in a filthy little "Incident Book" at the Muelle dock for the Regla ferry. While still at home I felt this strange hyper-attentiveness to some details, which always ends in finding out it was intuition, and meanwhile in my [...] |
| 04/18/2012 04:21 PM |
| For an American, Havana is filled with contradictions |
| Posted on Tuesday, 04.17.12 For an American, Havana is filled with contradictionsBy Franco OrdonezMcClatchy Newspapers HAVANA — The green 1951 Dodge Coronet clattering along this city'sfamed Malecon coastal seawall looks like the car built more than ahalf-century ago, but lift the hood and things are not as expected. The car's bulging headlights give the classic [...] |
| 04/18/2012 01:32 PM |
| Cuba says exports of goods, services $9B in 2011 |
| Posted on Tuesday, 04.17.12 Cuba says exports of goods, services $9B in 2011The Associated Press HAVANA — Cuban exports of goods and services generated about $9 billion in income in 2011, a senior government official said, as the island is diversifying and relying less on established sectors such as nickel and sugar. Antonio Luis Carricarte [...] |
| 04/16/2012 01:24 PM |
| Cuba: The second revolution? |
| Cuba: The second revolution? For the first time since the 1959 coup, Cubans are able to buy and sell property, set up businesses and farm their own land. Could these new liberties signal a move towards a free-market economy? Don't count on it, says Margareta Pagano.Margereta PaganoSunday 15 April 2012 It's the sort of glitz [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 04/14/2012 11:45 PM |
| Corruption and the Morality of Survival / Dimas Castellano |
| Corruption and the Morality of Survival / Dimas CastellanoDimas Castellanos, Translator: Unstated Corruption — the action of corrupting — is the result of many causes, that range from personal conduct to the political-economic system of each country. It is an ancient social phenomenon to that occurs to a greater or lesser extent in all societies [...] |
| 04/13/2012 12:16 PM |
| Communist Cuba’s Collapse (Really, Are You Surprised?) |
| Michel Kelly-GagnonPresident, Montreal Economic Institute (iedm.org). The views reflected in this column are his own. Communist Cuba's Collapse (Really, Are You Surprised?)Posted: 04/12/2012 3:27 pm The weeks surrounding spring break see floods of Canadian tourists flocking to Cuba, one of our most popular vacation destinations. Each year more than a million of us visit its [...] |
| 04/12/2012 12:17 PM |
| Beloved Cuban Auxiliary Bishop Agustín Román dies in Miami at 83 |
| Posted on Thursday, 04.12.12 Beloved Cuban Auxiliary Bishop Agustín Román dies in Miami at 83 The auxiliary bishop, an advocate for Cubans and all refugees, died of a heart attack Wednesday night.By Miami Herald StaffMiami Herald Staff Report Agustín Román, the beloved emeritus auxiliary bishop of Miami who was considered the spiritual leader of South [...] |
| 04/09/2012 04:25 PM |
| Santiago bustles with the work of Cuba’s new self-employed |
| Posted on Sunday, 04.08.12 EMPLOYMENT Santiago bustles with the work of Cuba's new self-employed As the communist government seeks to move massive numbers of people off state payrolls, Cubans are embracing self-employment — like it or notBy MIMI WHITEFIELDmwhitefield@MiamiHerald.com SANTIAGO, Cuba — SANTIAGO , Cuba As Denia Ojeda Oliva combs a sable tint into a [...] |
| 04/04/2012 08:32 PM |
| They Kidnapped Me Again / El Sexto |
| They Kidnapped Me Again / El Sexto – Danilo Maldonado MachadoEl Sexto – Danilo Maldonado Machado, Translator: Unstated In these days of waiting for the Pope, everything around me is tense. I start to leave my phone at home. They followed me from before the presentation of Voices Magazine Number 14. But it is only [...] |
| 04/04/2012 06:17 PM |
| Cuba could be key to Caribbean basin |
| April 4, 2012, 12:01 a.m. EDT Cuba could be key to Caribbean basinBy Patrick Burnson SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — With the Panama Canal expansion on schedule for completion in 2014, supply chain specialists are anticipating a logistical hub to surface in the Caribbean Basin. For those investors and traders eyeing opportunities in Cuba, the timing [...] |
| 03/23/2012 10:37 PM |
| Cuba creates pharmaceutical holding |
| Cuba creates pharmaceutical holding Following the creation of state sugar enterprise Azcuba, the Cuban government is setting up a similarly-styled holding company that will be in charge of the pharmaceutical industry. In a side note to the official announcement of a cabinet reshuffle, the Cuban Council of State said the government is in the process [...] |
| 03/19/2012 06:46 PM |
| CUBA: One step forward |
| http://www.emergingmarkets.org/Article/2996974/Economics-and-Policy/CUBA-One-step-forward.html CUBA: One step forward19/03/2012 | Andrea Armeni Recent reforms have offered some hope for the island nation. But without US engagement, its propects will remain dim After several tough years, the Cuban economy in 2011 started to show signs of recovery. Following a wave of reforms seeking a mild opening of the economy, and [...] |
| 03/16/2012 09:28 PM |
| Cuba says sugar exports meet plan despite shortfall |
| Cuba says sugar exports meet plan despite shortfallFriday, 16 March 2012 18:17 HAVANA: Cuba met its raw sugar export commitments through February and expects to do so this month despite a 106,000 tonne shortfall in production since the harvest began, official media said on Friday. The Communist party daily, Granma, said plans to produce 1.45 [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 03/14/2012 04:57 PM |
| New Florida law prohibits Miami-Dade, other governments from hiring companies tied to Cuba |
| Posted on Tuesday, 03.13.12 Miami-Dade CountyNew Florida law prohibits Miami-Dade, other governments from hiring companies tied to Cuba Florida legislators have voted to restrict state and local governments from inking contracts with companies tied to Cuba or Syria. The measure appeared directed at one of Miami-Dade County government's largest contractors, Odebrecht USA.By Patricia Mazzei and [...] |
| 03/13/2012 07:27 PM |
| A Leader Anonymous But Real / Jorge Luis García Pérez Antunez |
| A Leader Anonymous But Real / Jorge Luis García Pérez AntunezAntunez, Translator: Unstated Julio Columbié Batista is a young peasant from Batey Grúa Nueva in the town of Violeta, Ciego de Avila. This co-chairman of the Central Opposition Coalition in that province, director and founder of the Orlando Zapata Tamayo National Civic Resistance and Civil [...] |
| 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 [...] |
| 03/09/2012 07:52 PM |
| A Chinese beachhead? |
| The Caribbean A Chinese beachhead?New investors on America's doorstep Mar 10th 2012 | PORT OF SPAIN | from the print edition A CROWD of 17,000, almost 5% of the population of the Bahamas, turned up to watch the firework display when a new national stadium opened in Nassau, the capital, on February 25th. A celebration [...] |
| 03/07/2012 04:58 PM |
| Away from the desk: The not-so-fast train across Cuba |
| http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/centralamericaandcaribbean/cuba/9123095/Away-from-the-desk-The-not-so-fast-train-across-Cuba.html Away from the desk: The not-so-fast train across CubaContinuing our series on memorable journeys made by Telegraph writers, Michael Kerr recalls taking an comfort-free 'tren especial' from Havana to Santiago.By Michael Kerr10:53AM GMT 05 Mar 2012 When it comes to trains, the Spanish and the Cubans don't quite speak a common language. For the [...] |
| 03/02/2012 07:45 PM |
| Looking for Cuba’s lost agriculture |
| Looking for Cuba's lost agricultureMarch 2, 2012David Canela HAVANA TIMES, March 2 — On January 18, the Granma newspaper published a surprising fact, which made me question if Cuba could still be considered an agricultural country. It said that according to the National Livestock Control Center in the country "there is a deficit of over [...] |
| 03/01/2012 07:01 PM |
| Cubans accept, adapt to their iron-hard lives |
| Feb. 29, 2012, 12:13 p.m. EST Cubans accept, adapt to their iron-hard livesBy Frank Barnako HAVANA, Cuba — It's as if this city has been preserved in amber. Little appears to have changed in Cuba's capital since Fidel Castro took power in January 1959. The city's gorgeous but decaying Spanish-influenced colonial architecture casts shade on [...] |
| 02/28/2012 09:33 PM |
| Paupers / Miguel Iturria Savón |
| Paupers / Miguel Iturria SavónMiguel Iturria Savón, Translator: Unstated At dawn last Monday, across 23rd street, between 10 and 12, Vedado, a lady very thin, poorly dressed, half blind and with a cane, begged me to lead her to the next block, that is to the corner of 12 and 21, where she had coffee [...] |
| 02/22/2012 11:01 PM |
| Cuban corruption video warns of Canadian company’s ‘cancer’ |
| Cuban corruption video warns of Canadian company's 'cancer'Tight security at screenings of 'Metastasis'By Marc Frank, Reuters February 22, 2012 Cuban President Raul Castro delivers a speech in this July 11, 2008, file photo. Cuba has created videos portraying a Canadian businessman as a cancer cell in a bid to fight bribery. Cuban President Raul Castro [...] |
| 02/22/2012 12:55 AM |
| Cuban Unionism, a Shameful Pain / Luis Felipe Rojas |
| Cuban Unionism, a Shameful Pain / Luis Felipe RojasLuis Felipe Rojas, Translator: Raul G. The current Cuban sugarcane harvest, which has been well underway, has set off an alarming buzzer. The workers have been on shift for periods of 12 hours or more, without voicing considerable protests, except in some cases when the administrations have [...] |
| 02/20/2012 11:29 PM |
| Havana Residents with Empty Pockets / Iván García |
| Havana Residents with Empty Pockets / Iván GarcíaIván García, Translator: Unstated When summer starts to say goodbye, Havana is a chain of stalls selling schlocky goods, private cafes, more or less expensive private restaurants, shelves of books and religious objects, and worn or rough wood shelves where people hang fifty pirated DVDs. You can choose [...] |
| 02/19/2012 11:08 AM |
| As pope visit nears, spotlight on Cuba’s cardinal |
| Posted on Saturday, 02.18.12 As pope visit nears, spotlight on Cuba's cardinalBy PAUL HAVENAssociated Press HAVANA — When a young parish priest named Jaime Ortega stepped out of a Cuban detention camp in the spring of 1967, at the height of the Communist revolution's attempt to stamp out religion, his father handed him a one-way [...] |
| 02/15/2012 11:14 PM |
| Global Insider: Brazil’s Rousseff is Positioned to Push for Change in Cuba |
| Global Insider: Brazil's Rousseff is Positioned to Push for Change in CubaBy The Editors | 15 Feb 2012 Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff made her first official visit to Cuba last month. In an email interview, David Herrero, a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, discussed Brazil-Cuba relations. WPR: How did Brazil-Cuba relations evolve [...] |
| 02/11/2012 10:51 PM |
| More Words’ Less Words / Fernando Dámaso |
| More Words' Less Words / Fernando DámasoFernando Dámaso, Translator: Unstated In the arsenal of leftist parties and governments, there are certain words that constitute grounds for worship. One of them, here, is the word cuadro — or cadre in its English form. I do not know where it was first used in the sense that [...] |
| 02/11/2012 08:16 PM |
| Support Cuba’s dissidents, commissioners |
| Posted on Friday, 02.10.12The readers' forum Support Cuba's dissidents, commissioners Among Cubans and Cuban Americans, a number of foreign companies have earned a place in the "hall of infamy" for their outright complicity with the Castro dictatorship. These include Spain's Sol-Melia hotel chain and Canada's Sherritt mining company for profiting from long years of the [...] |
| 02/06/2012 09:04 PM |
| Texas agricultural exports to Cuba continue growth |
| Texas agricultural exports to Cuba continue growthFebruary 6, 2012 By: Blair Fannin COLLEGE STATION – Though tightly controlled, there are opportunities for Texas agricultural producers and businesses to capitalize on potential exports of food products to Cuba, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension Service economist. Dr. Parr Rosson, AgriLife Extension economist and director of the [...] |
| 02/06/2012 09:03 PM |
| Cuba producing sugar with new technology |
| Cuba producing sugar with new technologyLast Updated: Monday, February 06, 2012, 11:21 Cuba producing sugar with new technology Havana: Cuba has begun to employ a new technology to produce white sugar, a measure that improves its quality, avoids the refining process and reduces the cost of manufacture, a media report said Sunday. The technology, which [...] |
| 02/05/2012 07:36 PM |
| Key political risks to watch in Cuba – 02-2012 |
| Key political risks to watch in CubaBy Jeff Franks HAVANA | Fri Feb 3, 2012 10:57am EST Feb 3 (Reuters) – Cuba is opening the door to private management of some state-run cafes and food service outlets in an apparent test of further reforms aimed at keeping the island one of the world's last communist [...] |
| 01/13/2012 05:11 AM |
| The Manipulative Dossier / Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado |
| The Manipulative Dossier / Rosa María Rodríguez TorradoRosa María Rodríguez Torrado, Translator: Adam Cooper In Cuba we have six television channels, but at 8 p.m. our options narrow, because the national news (the primetime program) is broadcast repeatedly on three of them (channels 4, 6, and 27), we are treated to sports news on channel [...] |
| 01/07/2012 03:50 AM |
| Who Will Kill the Commander? / Luis Felipe Rojas |
| Who Will Kill the Commander? / Luis Felipe RojasLuis Felipe Rojas, Translator: Raul G. The socialist labyrinth consists of so much injustice that even the functionaries joke about being trapped in it. The beauracratic skeins of the tropical Cuban creature have been designed to hinder citizens, to make their daily lives harder, but it is [...] |
| 01/07/2012 01:59 AM |
| The Castros and the Kims: Historic Parallels / Iván García |
| The Castros and the Kims: Historic Parallels / Iván GarcíaIván García, Translator: Unstated Autocrats are clones of the same litter. They're not separated by ideologies, what joins them is an unhealthy ambition for power. Each and every one of modern dictators consider themselves enlightened. Types essential on the national map. Founding Fathers. Irreplaceable. They could [...] |
| 01/05/2012 02:51 AM |
| Cuban Intellectuals: When Fear Seeps Into the Bones / Angel Santiesteban |
| Cuban Intellectuals: When Fear Seeps Into the Bones / Angel SantiestebanAngel Santiesteban, Translator: Unstated Miguel Barnet, Raúl Castro and Abel Prieto How is it possible that intellectuals who were humiliated and punished by the same people who now govern the country, stay next to the boots that kicked them into submission, that harassed them until [...] |
| 01/04/2012 11:47 PM |
| Suriname barter deals with Cuba pending |
| Suriname barter deals with Cuba pendingBy Stabroek editorWednesday, January 4, 2012 PARAMARIBO – Suriname's exports to Cuba might get another dimension in the times ahead. Preparations are underway to strengthen trade ties with the island nation and Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Lackin hopes the first transactions will take place in the first half of this [...] |
| 01/03/2012 11:16 PM |
| Bright future ahead? Cuba’s economic changes create new entrepreneurs |
| 'Bright future' ahead? Cuba's economic changes create new entrepreneursBy The Associated Press HAVANA – Where some might see a rotten window frame pocked by termites, Julio Cesar Hidalgo envisions a polished takeout counter, the rich smell of garlic and oregano wafting out onto a warm Havana street. In his mind's eye, the coarsely-laid concrete covering [...] |
| 01/01/2012 10:18 AM |
| Repression still the rule, but Cuba sees year of change |
| Posted on Saturday, 12.31.11CUBA Repression still the rule, but Cuba sees year of change Now you can get a loan, buy a house and — maybe soon — travel abroad more easily. But the Castro government has no desire to ease its authoritarian ways.By Juan O. Tamayojtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Joe Garcia, a former executive director of the [...] |
| 12/29/2011 09:20 PM |
| Cuba’s Justice System Mustn’t Be Blind |
| Cuba's Justice System Mustn't Be BlindDecember 29, 2011Fernando Ravsberg HAVANA TIMES, Dec 29 — Upon hearing the news of the pardon of 2,900 prisoners, a friend who's a "revolutionary" warned me that "the streets are going to turn bad"; while a dissident complained to me that "the Cuban government's decision was too limited." The controversy [...] |
| 12/29/2011 05:24 AM |
| A Little Report about Governmental Fraud / Ángel Santiesteban |
| A Little Report about Governmental Fraud / Ángel SantiestebanAngel Santiesteban, Translator: Regina Anavy The last thing able to survive from our Cuban heritage is housing, owing to the totalitarian will of Fidel Castro, who dictated for more than 50 years that everything was his property and only he would decide what was whose and when [...] |
| 12/23/2011 04:35 PM |
| Cuba to use sugar cane in new electricity plant |
| Cuba to use sugar cane in new electricity plant(AFP) HAVANA — Cuba will open its first electricity plant using sugar cane as a biofuel hoping eventually to meet 30 percent of its energy needs from the fuel source, the official Granma daily said Thursday. The plant, being built in Ciego de Avila province, some 400 [...] |