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Cuba’s Democratic Left on State Socialism
Cuba’s Democratic Left on State Socialism May 9, 2013 | | Print Print | 0 5 11 32 HAVANA TIMES — A couple weeks ago we published a summary of an essay by Pedro Campos and Armando Chaguaceda on the inability of the State Socialist system that reigns in Cuba to carry out the changes [...] Continue reading
Watchdog group Cuba cheated on its UN human rights review
Posted on Friday, 05.03.13 Watchdog group: Cuba cheated on its UN human rights review From the summary of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR): • More than 30 NGOs reported “that there is a separation of powers in Cuba, which ensures that the judiciary can perform its duties without interference from the other branches of government.” [...] Continue reading
Fraud: Cuba Uses 454 Front Groups to Subvert Today’s UN Review of its Human Rights Record
Fraud: Cuba Uses 454 Front Groups to Subvert Today’s UN Review of its Human Rights Record By UN Watch (Bio and Archives) Wednesday, May 1, 2013 Also: Syria, Iran, North Korea took the floor today to sing Havana’s praises GENEVA, – Today’s UN review of Cuba’s rights record was tainted by “massive fraud” committed by [...] Continue reading
Herencia
Herencia Miércoles, 01 de Mayo de 2013 00:31 Escrito por Hildebrando Chaviano Montes Cuba actualidad, El Vedado, La Habana, (PD) Los que defienden la herencia dejada por nuestros próceres independentistas no tienen en cuenta que ninguno de ellos era socialista, todo lo contrario, eran capitalistas en ciernes que defendían su derecho a ser más prósperos, [...] Continue reading
EEUU acusa a Venezuela de intimidar opositores y denuncia autoritarismo en Cuba
19 de abril de 2013 • 23:19 EEUU acusa a Venezuela de intimidar opositores y denuncia autoritarismo en Cuba Estados Unidos denunció este viernes en su informe anual sobre Derechos Humanos que Venezuela siguió “politizando el sistema judicial e impidiendo la libertad de expresión” en 2012, mientras que acusó a Cuba de seguir bajo un [...] Continue reading
Venezuela y Cuba en “lista negra” de DDHH
Venezuela y Cuba en “lista negra” de DDHH Por Efe – Agencia – 20/04/2013 Washington El “récord” de detenciones temporales de disidentes en Cuba, la concentración de poder en Venezuela y la “corrupción de justicia” en Honduras son los tres casos más emblemáticos de Latinoamérica en materia de violaciones a derechos humanos, según informe anual [...] Continue reading
Can Cuba survive the loss of Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez?
Can Cuba survive the loss of Venezuela's Hugo Chávez? Many in and out of Cuba wonder if the loss of Chávez is the death knell of the Castros' Revolution, or if it could inject urgent momentum into Raul Castro's reform agenda, just in the nick of time. By Anya Landau French, Guest blogger / March [...] Continue reading
Salary in Kilowatts
Salary in Kilowatts / Rosa Maria Rodriguez Torrado Rosa Maria Rodriguez Torrado, Translator: mlk He works driving a truck for the electric company. He is married, has three kids, and his wife is a nurse at the 10th of October Mother and Child Hospital, better known by its previous name of Daughters of Galicia. The [...] Continue reading
Algo de corrupción y de poder absoluto
Algo de corrupción y de poder absoluto Lunes, 19 de Noviembre de 2012 00:40 Cuba actualidad, Managua, La Habana, (PD) El Partido Comunista de China tuvo entre los temas de su XVIII Congreso la corrupción dentro de sus filas. El asunto, al parecer, ha alcanzado niveles demasiado escandalosos entre los altos funcionarios de esa agrupación [...] Continue reading
Russian oil company to invest $126m in offshore exploration
Russian oil company to invest $126m in offshore exploration Russian state oil company Zarubezhneft will spend close to $126 million on near-shore exploration off north-central Cuba that will begin in December, a Russian official said during a visit to the island. The Songa Mercur, a Soviet-built and Norwegian-owned semi-submersible, arrived Nov. 15 in Cuban waters, [...] Continue reading
The ‘Outraged’ of Cuba
The 'Outraged' of Cuba November 8, 2012 Fernando Ravsberg* HAVANA TIMES — Lourdes Machado is a Cuban from Santa Clara who spent $20 USD — the equivalent of her monthly salary — on a pair of shoes that fell apart after only 30 days. She went back to the store for a refund but the [...] Continue reading
Forward Flight
Forward Flight / Rafael Leon Rodriguez Rafael Leon Rodriguez, Translator: @hachhe In recent days Havana has stood out as venue of countless events, most of them of an international nature and assorted disciplines. International Labiofam Congress 2012; International Law Congress 2012; VII Course on Tools of Control and Prevention Against Administrative Corruption; Orthopedics Congress 2012; [...] Continue reading
Socialismo y corrupción
Socialismo y corrupción Martes, Septiembre 25, 2012 | Por Jorge Olivera Castillo LA HABANA, Cuba, septiembre, www.cubanet.org -En las celebraciones del 90 aniversario del Partido Comunista de China (PCCH), el presidente Hu Jintao volvió a dar la voz de alarma sobre el avance de la corrupción a todos los niveles de la sociedad y el [...] Continue reading
Juicios por corrupción en Cuba
Corrupción Juicios por corrupción en Cuba Pasado más de un año del congreso del Partido Comunista, la aplicación de los Lineamientos para la "actualización del modelo económico" no evidencia efectividad, sino que se aprecia retroceso en esferas productivas fundamentales Miriam Leiva, La Habana | 28/08/2012 11:01 am Tres ex viceministros del Ministerio de la Industria [...] Continue reading
Cuba’s Changing Government Examines Asia Model
Cuba's Changing Government Examines Asia Model by Nick Miroff August 21, 2012 Cuba is one of the world's last remaining communist states. Cuba's allies in China and Vietnam also maintain firm one-party rule, but have prospered by introducing market principles to their economic models. With Cuban President Raul Castro easing government controls on property rights [...] Continue reading
Cuba still searching for economic model that works
Posted on Thursday, 08.02.12 Cuba still searching for economic model that works At annual conference on Cuba's economy, experts discuss current state of reforms, future prospects and look for similarities in other countries. One possibility: Vietnam. By Juan O. Tamayo And Mimi Whitefield jtamayo@elnuevoherald.com Cuba faces a difficult economic situation despite Raúl Castro's reforms, and [...] Continue reading
El peligroso pragmatismo economicista
El peligroso pragmatismo economicista julio 28, 2012 Por Pedro Campos HAVANA TIMES — He vuelto a escuchar en voz de representantes de una tendencia pragmática-economicista, que “lo importante era que la economía funcionara, no la forma de propiedad o producción en que se lograra”. No importa su nombre, el lugar, o el momento en que [...] Continue reading
Arrests show Cuba not yet ready for reform
Arrests show Cuba not yet ready for reform by Staff Writers Havana (UPI) Jul 25, 2012 Cuba’s wide-scale crackdown on dissent that led to arrests at a funeral shows the Central American country isn’t ready for credible political reform despite its ambition to embrace a market economy. For more than two years Cuba has been [...] Continue reading
Corrupción e inversión en Cuba
Publicado el lunes, 07.09.12 Corrupción e inversión en Cuba Alejandro Armengol El gobierno cubano cambiará la ley que regula las inversiones extranjeras en la isla. Yamila Fernández, directora de Finanzas del Ministerio de Comercio Exterior e Inversión Extranjera (MINCEX), dijo que se trabaja en la modificación, de acuerdo con un informe de la Agencia de [...] Continue reading
Risky Business: Investing in Cuba Is More Than Just a Financial Gamble
Risky Business: Investing in Cuba Is More Than Just a Financial Gamble By Justin Rohrlich Jun 20, 2012 1:45 pm "It's hard to argue against weeding out corruption. Sometimes, in the process, you break a couple of eggs." MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL Investment risk can mean a number of different things. This past fall, British businessman Amado [...] Continue reading
Property Liberalization and Recovery of Idle Lands and Dilapidated Properties: A Necessary Step for Initiating a Recovery Process
Property Liberalization and Recovery of Idle Lands and Dilapidated Properties: A Necessary Step for Initiating a Recovery Process / Estado de Sats Antonio Rodiles, Estado de Sats / State of Sats, Julio Alega, Manuel Cuesta, Wilfredo Vallin Almeida By Antonio G. Rodiles, Julio Alega, Manuel Cuesta, Wilfredo Vallín Introduction The centralized and planned economy is [...] Continue reading
Economic Transformations, Property Rights, and Cuba’s Current Constitution
Economic Transformations, Property Rights, and Cuba's Current Constitution / Estado de Sats, Antonio Rodiles Antonio Rodiles, Estado de Sats / State of Sats, Translator: Unstated By Antonio Rodiles Introduction The Sixth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party just concluded, leaving a trail of questions to be clarified. Most of the televised debates turned into semantic [...] Continue reading
The Government Guidelines for the Economy and the new Cuban Economic and Social Structure / Estado de Sats / State of Sats
http://translatingcuba.com/?p=18483 The Government Guidelines for the Economy and the new Cuban Economic and Social Structure / Estado de Sats / State of Sats Estado de Sats / State of Sats, Translator: Unstated By Antonio Rodiles The government document regarding guidelines for economic and social policy seeks to outline a new design for Cuban society. This [...] Continue reading
Cuba sees the writing on the wall
Cuba sees the writing on the wallMartin HutchinsonReuters BreakingviewsLast updated Tuesday, Apr. 24, 2012 8:15PM EDT Cuba has unveiled a Hugo Chavez hedge: economic reform. A senior Communist Party official says the island nation plans to shift nearly 50 per cent of output to the "non-state" sector. As its last rich patron, the Venezuelan President, [...] Continue reading
‘Spring’ delayed as Cuba follows China’s model
'Spring' delayed as Cuba follows China's modelPope Benedict XVI's call for 'authentic freedom' during his recent visit to Cuba is unlikely to spur democracy. But other factors suggest economic changes are under way, patterned after the Chinese example, namely creating a market economy under an authoritarian, communist political system.Christian Science MonitorBy John Hughes | Christian [...] Continue reading
Beset by online surveillance and content filtering, netizens fight on
Beset by online surveillance and content filtering, netizens fight onPublished on Monday 12 March 2012. This report, which presents the 2012 list of countries that are "Enemies of the Internet" and "under surveillance," updates the report published on 12 March 2011. The last report, released in March 2011 at the climax of the Arab Spring, [...] Continue reading