Tag: Cuba

• Thursday, December 29th 2011 - 22:54 UTC

  Havana preparing grand ‘brainwashing’ to change the mentality of Cubans

  

  The Cuban regime and the ruling Communist Party are preparing a grand-national conference to try and change the “mentality” of Cubans so that the capitalist-oriented economic reforms and timid political changes sponsored by President Raul Castro are better understood and accepted, according to party sources.

• Thursday, December 29th 2011 - 21:44 UTC

  Iran’s Ahmadinejad will visit four Latinamerican countries next January

  

  The Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad will be travelling to Latinamerica in the second week of January 2012 to visit Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador, announced the Teheran presidential office, according to a report from the official news agency FNA.

• Tuesday, December 27th 2011 - 13:52 UTC

  Cuba advances with capitalist reforms to install efficient market economy

  

  Cuba will open up more of the country's retail services to the private sector next year, allowing Cubans to operate various services such as appliance and watch repair, and locksmith and carpentry shops, official media reported on Monday.

• Tuesday, December 6th 2011 - 04:19 UTC

  Vietnamese teaching Cubans how to grow rice efficiently

  

  Cuba plans to enlarge to 40,000 hectares a Vietnamese-aided test farm to expand production of rice, official media said on Monday.

• Monday, December 5th 2011 - 04:01 UTC

  Cuba’s Revolution square admits the growing presence of the Catholic Church

  

  Hundreds of Cubans paid homage on Saturday to the patron of the country, the Virgin of Copper Charity, at the Plaza de la Revolución (Revolution Square) the political heart of the island and at the precise point where Pope John Paul II in 1998 held a mass to hundreds of thousands.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2011 - 05:56 UTC

  Private sector will gradually replace Cuban government services beginning 2012

  

  The Cuban government will begin contracting out some services to the private sector next year in a break from the state-dominated past aimed at helping small business develop, government insiders said on Monday.

• Saturday, November 26th 2011 - 03:15 UTC

  Cuba opens bank loans for small businesses, private farmers and house repair

  

  Cuba has authorised banks to loan money to small businesses, private farmers and people who want to repair or build homes - a revolutionary step for the island's government.

• Wednesday, November 9th 2011 - 06:19 UTC

  Twitter ‘shouting match’ between Raul Castro’s daughter and dissident blogger

  

  Social media moved into a new realm in technologically backward Cuba Tuesday when Cuban President Raúl Castro's controversial daughter Mariela began tweeting and quickly got into the Twitter equivalent of a shouting match with dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez.

• Monday, November 7th 2011 - 05:49 UTC

  Cuba opens in Washington a bar in honour of Ernest Hemingway

  

  The Cuban Interests Section in the US capital has opened an invite-only bar in honour of the US writer Ernest Hemingway, who spent considerable time in Cuba during the 1940s and 1950s.

• Friday, November 4th 2011 - 00:40 UTC

  After fifty years Cubans can buy and sell houses

  

  Cubans will be able to buy and sell houses for the first time in more than five decades in a long-awaited reform that legalizes what many have done for years but also restricts how much property they can own, state-run press said on Thursday.