Tag: Raúl Castro

• Monday, January 14th 2013 - 06:58 UTC

  Chavez health ‘improving’; top Venezuelan officials meet in Havana with Raul Castro

  

  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's lung infection has been controlled and his medical state is improving, the government announced on Sunday while four of the most powerful figures gathered in Havana allegedly to report to the cancer-stricken leader and meet with Cuban allies.

• Monday, January 14th 2013 - 03:28 UTC

  Cubans a little bit more free: restrictions on overseas travel relaxed after 50 years

  

  After over half a century, Cuba's new immigration rules that will take effect on January 14 will relax overseas travel restrictions, Havana authorities said. From Tuesday Cubans intending to travel can apply for a passport without the need to present a government permit, known as the White Card, or an invitation letter from abroad, two prior requisites that made travel planning more onerous, according to Cuba's immigration bureau (IND).

• Wednesday, October 17th 2012 - 04:37 UTC

  After half a century Cuba scraps travel restrictions, but they remain for ‘human talent’

  

  Cuba will scrap much reviled travel restrictions starting in January, easing most Cubans' exit and return, state media said on Tuesday, in the Castro brothers’ regime first major immigration reform in half a century.

• Saturday, September 8th 2012 - 06:07 UTC

  Red tape, bureaucracy and ideology limiting foreign investment in Cuba

  

  Cuba's failure to encourage more foreign investment is crippling its economic performance and putting its goal of sustainable growth in danger unless changes are made, local experts and diplomats said this week.

• Wednesday, August 29th 2012 - 03:02 UTC

  Daughter of Cuban economy “reforms tsar” flees to the US and is living in Tampa

  

  The 24-year-old daughter of Cuban Vice President Marino Murillo, sometimes mentioned as a possible successor to ruler Raul Castro, defected earlier this month and is now living in Tampa, Florida, according to Miami’s El Nuevo Heraldo.

• Friday, July 27th 2012 - 05:17 UTC

  Cuba to end Soviet-style economy and will implement market friendly policies

  

  Cuba adopted a new tax code this week and said it would loosen regulations on some state companies while turning others into cooperatives, as one of the world's last Soviet-style economies moves in a more market-friendly direction.

• Wednesday, July 25th 2012 - 07:49 UTC

  Dozens arrested at funeral of Cuban dissident leader at a Havana church

  

  Cuban police arrested dozens of dissidents Tuesday at a funeral for political activist Oswaldo Paya and after his daughter's vow to seek justice over his sudden death in a road accident.

• Thursday, May 17th 2012 - 10:35 UTC

  Raul Castro daughter’s expected at US university for a lecture on sexology

  

  President Raúl Castro's daughter is scheduled to visit California next week to speak at a conference of experts on Latin America during a rare US trip by a member of Cuba's ruling family.

• Tuesday, April 24th 2012 - 20:51 UTC

  Cuba plans private sector to take over 50% of the economy in five years

  

  Cuba will move nearly 50% of the state's economic activity to the “non-state” sector a senior Communist party official said, the latest signal the island is headed toward a mixed economy.

• Saturday, April 7th 2012 - 06:59 UTC

  Churches in Cuba celebrate Easter for the first time in over half a century

  

  Bells rang from Roman Catholic churches throughout Havana on Friday to remember the death of Jesus Christ as Cubans celebrated a holiday on Good Friday for the first time in more than half a century.