Tag: Raúl Castro

• 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.

• 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, 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Thursday, October 20th 2011 - 06:51 UTC

  Cuba to lease larger plots to private farmers hoping to increase food production

  

  Cuba will greatly expand the amount of land granted to private farmers, an agriculture official said on Wednesday, as the country struggles to boost food production.

• Thursday, September 29th 2011 - 00:48 UTC

  Raul Castro drops 50-year ban: Cubans allowed buying and selling cars

  

  Cuba authorized auto sales among individuals Wednesday, easing a 50-year-old ban that has helped make the Castro brothers-ruled island a living museum of vintage cars.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 22:08 UTC

  Cuban regime warns “corrupt and corruptors”; close friend of Raul Castro family arrested

  

  Cuba’s official press blasted the “corrupt and corruptors” more specifically “those scoundrels dressed in civil servant responsibilities” because they put at risk the island’s long struggle to make Socialism successful.

• Wednesday, August 24th 2011 - 07:26 UTC

  Impatient Raul Castro calls on Cubans “to clear our heads of ideological rigidity”

  

  Cuban President Raul Castro is increasingly impatient with the slow implementation of his economic reforms, which he publicly blames mostly on bureaucratic sloth and resistance to change.

• Monday, July 4th 2011 - 04:54 UTC

  Government promises Cubans will be allowed to buy and sell their cars and homes

  

  The authorities in Cuba have released more details of their plans to allow people to buy and sell their cars and homes for the first time in 50 years. The new laws will open up a private property market and enable Cubans to buy any car they can afford.