Tag: Raúl Castro

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 11:48 UTC

  Cuban reforms on the move: soap and toothpaste eliminated from monthly ration

  

  Cuba’s government, trying to save money and eliminate subsidies announced this week it will remove soap, toothpaste and detergent from the monthly ration of food and consumer products it has handed out since the early days of the Cuban revolution.

• Monday, December 20th 2010 - 05:45 UTC

  “Too much secrecy, too many lies” have taken the revolution to a critical situation

  

  In a dramatic speech to the National Assembly Cuba’s Raul Castro said he wasn’t elected to restore capitalism nor to surrender Socialism but admitted that “too much secrecy and too many lies” had taken the revolution to a critical situation: “either we rectify or we will plunge from the cliff and the efforts of entire generations would be lost”.

• Friday, December 3rd 2010 - 06:21 UTC

  Havana launches debate on neo-capitalism and “the future of the Cuban Nation”

  

  Cuba began this week a public debate over landmark plans to lift the island's struggling economy and “preserve the revolution’s victories” by liberalizing some private enterprise, admitting small farmers private property, streamlining the vast state bureaucracy by leaving redundant a half-million workers.

• Thursday, November 18th 2010 - 21:16 UTC

  Full blown campaign to garner support for Raúl’s Cuban model reforms

  

  The Cuban government has launched an aggressive campaign on its proposed economic reforms as it tries to whip up public opinion enthusiasm and in its own ranks ahead of a Communist Party congress to approve them in April.

• Wednesday, November 10th 2010 - 06:14 UTC

  Cuba prepares for the “orderly” elimination of ration cards effective since 1962

  

  The Cuban government is proposing the orderly elimination of the rations’ card according to a document prepared for the ruling party Communist Congress scheduled for April 2011.

• Wednesday, November 3rd 2010 - 00:26 UTC

  Accept reforms or “we will fall off the cliff” warns Raúl Castro

  

  Cuban President Raul Castro told unionists to accept layoffs and reforms that open the way for private enterprise as necessary for the survival of socialism.

• Sunday, October 24th 2010 - 02:12 UTC

  Cuba outlines taxes to be paid by the growing number of self-employed workers

  

  Cuban government has outlined the taxes that will have to be paid by the country's growing number of self-employed workers. It is the latest stage of President Raul Castro's reforms to move Cuba away from a solely state-run economy.

• Tuesday, September 14th 2010 - 00:46 UTC

  Cuba with unions support announces elimination of 500.000 jobs to boost economy

  

  The Cuban government will cut more than 500,000 state jobs by March as part of a plan to reduce inefficiencies, the country’s largest union said in a statement. The reductions are part of President Raúl Castro’s goal of eliminating 1 million state jobs by 2015, according to the statement.

• Friday, August 27th 2010 - 08:13 UTC

  Cuba promotes luxury golf courses by giving state-land for 99 years

  

  The cash-strapped Cuban government will allow foreign investors to use state-owned land for up to 99 years in a change that is likely to bring developments of luxury golf courses to the communist island.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2010 - 05:02 UTC

  Raul Castro wants “an opening” with Washington to help with the economy

  

  Cardinal Jaime Ortega, Roman Catholic archbishop of Havana, told The Washington Post that Cuban President Raul Castro wants “an opening” with the United States.