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Cuba Seeks to Promote Local Development

The economic reforms, originally approved in 2011, but slow in putting into practice, put local development at the heart of government policy.

Former rector Ernesto Medina points out that the legal reforms seek “to consolidate political control in the universities.”

In the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus it took two months to deliver the same amount of pork meat produced in one day in 2018.

Economist Chaves defeated rival Jose Maria Figueres, who received 47.1% of the vote. The turnout was 57.2% of the regiestered voters.

Raising money needed to embark on a migrant route to the United States is the reason why many are being driven into this business.

The Ministry of the Interior can intervene & suspend a civil society organization for up to three years; its directors can also be imprisoned.

You could still hear Russian on Varadero’s streets up until a few weeks back, but the Ukraine war has taken away those tourists…

“The day they gave us the news, we cried,” said Maritza Chavarría, the forced closure of the NGO has had a “big” impact on her community.

“It bothers me that they are brainwashing the children, and you can’t do anything about it, because it’s the school,” says a mother.

The court said Robles had a “marked interest in creating a destabilizing environment for the social system and domestic economic development.”