Recent press and financial institutions reports indicate that Venezuela has substantially cut back petroleum deliveries to Cuba under the terms and conditions of the October 2000 Convenio Integral de Cooperación Venezuela-Cuba CIC barter agreement.
Read MoreThe production of cow’s milk in Cuba fell once again (by 10.5 million liters) in the early months of the year, keeping the downward trend since 2013. The production decline in the first quarter of 2015 (around 12%) compared to the same period of the previous year seems to be influenced by an elementary factor: 19.000 fewer milking cows.
Read MoreLast February, when 83-year-old veteran military leader Ramiro Valdés Menéndez visited the urban cooperative La Esperanza [The Hope] in the city of Fomento, the 11 partners had great expectations.
Read MoreToday, Cuba’s sugar industry has the same production levels it did at the beginning of the twentieth century and, during the last harvest, even produced less than planned. That said, it is also true that after reaching rock-bottom, over the past five years it has experienced an average growth of 13%.
Read MoreThe announcement that the Paris Club and Cuba have set the island’s foreign debt with those countries at US $15 billion is a positive contribution to the strategy traced by the Raul Castro government, aimed at inserting the country into the world economy.
Read MoreIn the USA, politicians, business leaders and organizations are pressing intensely to bring together the two shores of the Straits of Florida.
Read MoreFor the first seven years of Cuba’s “reform process,” the focus of attention has been on the liberalization and restrictions of the country’s economy and politics. The social repercussions of these changes have been studied far less.
Read MoreSmokers in Cuba’s province of Sancti Spiritus continuously face cigarette and cigar shortages, but authorities insist it is not a manufacturing issue.
Read MoreIn Cuba, you can run into a talented athlete who’s just traded kicks with New York’s Cosmos and fraternized with soccer legends Pele and Raul and who, after wiping off the sweat worked up by the match, returns to his native city to continue roughing it with his private “business.”
Read MoreAt least 147 Cuban medical doctors working on contracts in remote rural areas of Guatemala are suffering the consequences of corruption within the health system, which has pushed hospitals throughout the country to the brink of collapse.
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