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Client-User Defenselessness
Client-User Defenselessness / Cuban Law Association, Lic. E. Javier Hernandez H. Cuban Law Association, E. Javier Hernandez H., Translator: Courtney Finkel For years there has been a reality in our country that isn't exposed nor analyzed from all angles as the suffering of citizens deserves to be: it pertains to the defenseless state of Cuban [...] Continue reading
Cuba Vice President Marino Murillo’s daughter defected and is living in Tampa
Posted on Monday, 08.27.12 Cuba Vice President Marino Murillo's daughter defected and is living in Tampa By Juan O. Tamayo jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com The 24-year-old daughter of Cuban Vice President Marino Murillo, sometimes mentioned as a possible successor to ruler Raúl Castro, defected earlier this month and is now living in Tampa, knowledgeable sources said. Glenda Murillo [...] Continue reading
Cuba squeezed by health care costs
Cuba squeezed by health care costs Cuba's health sector has had millions of dollars in budget cuts and tens of thousands of layoffs. The Associated Press HAVANA – Cuba's system of free medical care, long considered a birthright by its citizens and trumpeted as one of the communist government's great successes, is not immune to [...] Continue reading
Cuba campaign takes on ‘free’ health care
Posted on Saturday, 08.25.12 Cuba campaign takes on 'free' health care By PETER ORSI Associated Press HAVANA — Cuba's system of free medical care, long considered a birthright by its citizens and trumpeted as one of the communist government's great successes, is not immune to cutbacks under Raul Castro's drive for efficiency. The health sector [...] 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
Venezuelan state governor: Cuba inefficient at managing ports, food distribution
Posted on Sunday, 08.19.12 VENEZUELA Venezuelan state governor: Cuba inefficient at managing ports, food distribution A Venezuelan state governor says that Cuba's central role in overseeing the Venezuelan food distribution and ports is contributing to shortages. BY ANTONIO MARIA DELGADO adelgado@ElNuevoHerald.com Hugo Chávez's government has granted Cuba key concessions in Venezuela's food distribution system by [...] Continue reading
Anonymous
Anonymous / Yoani Sánchez Translator: Unstated, Yoani Sánchez Someone threw a letter through the window of the principal's office, in a nylon bag with a stone inside. Rows and rows of cramped handwriting, restless, denouncing the diversion of resources in the dining room. There was a meticulous description of the "private" storeroom where the products [...] Continue reading
Cuban doctors treated private patients in public hospitals
Posted on Friday, 07.20.12 Cuban doctors treated private patients in public hospitals They treated private patients in public hospitals, ran post-surgery clinics in private homes By Juan O. Tamayo jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com A number of Havana doctors, nurses and others are under investigation for allegedly treating paying patients in public hospitals and running post-surgery recovery rooms in [...] Continue reading
Cuba’s Customs Office Tightens the Screws
Cuba's Customs Office Tightens the Screws July 18, 2012 Fernando Ravsberg* HAVANA TIMES — The Customs law that goes into effect in September is one that will have the most social impact, since in one way or another it will affect the majority of Cubans, making everyday life a little more difficult and a lot [...] Continue reading
Cosmetic Surgery & Foul Play
Cuba: Cosmetic Surgery & Foul Play July 17, 2012 Erasmo Calzadilla HAVANA TIMES — There's a rumor circulating, outside of the newspapers. The fact is that I heard several different versions the same day. Someone on the bus was talking about how it was discovered that a doctor at the Calixto Garcia Hospital had a [...] Continue reading
Citizen Demand for Another Cuba – 536 Signatures and Counting
Citizen Demand for Another Cuba – 536 Signatures and Counting Translating Cuba Citizen Demand for Another Cuba As Cubans, legitimate children of this land and an essential part of our nation, we feel a deep sorrow at the prolonged crisis that we are experiencing and the demonstrated inability of the current government to make fundamental [...] Continue reading
Competition in the Realm of Incompetence
Competition in the Realm of Incompetence / Miriam Celaya Miriam Celaya, Translator: Norma Whiting Castillo de Jagua State Restaurant, though centrally located on 23rd and G Streets in the capital, remains empty. I heard on good authority that the government is "studying" how to allow state-owned restaurants and other eating establishments to become mini-cooperatives in [...] Continue reading
How Cuba Became a ‘Happy’ Country
June 26, 2012, 6:49 p.m. ET How Cuba Became a ‘Happy’ Country Citizens flee on rafts. But environmentalists know better. By MATTHEW SINCLAIR In what league does Iraq beat Britain, Haiti beat the United States, and Afghanistan beat Denmark? Political corruption? Violent crime? Temperature? No, welcome to the weird and wonderful world of the Happy [...] Continue reading
U.S. tries to expand flow of information to and from Cuba
Posted on Monday, 06.25.12 U.S. tries to expand flow of information to and from Cuba The State Department has increased funding for the technology component of Cuba democracy programs in a bid to get more uncensored information into and out of the island. By Juan O. Tamayo jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com The U.S. State Department is increasing funding [...] 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
For Another Cuba – Citizen Demand for Another Cuba
For Another Cuba – Citizen Demand for Another Cuba Translating Cuba Citizen Demand for Another Cuba As Cubans, legitimate children of this land and an essential part of our nation, we feel a deep sorrow at the prolonged crisis that we are experiencing and the demonstrated inability of the current government to make fundamental changes. [...] Continue reading
From Failure to Failure / Fernando Dámaso
From Failure to Failure / Fernando Dámaso Fernando Dámaso, Translator: Unstated According to the latest official figures, the 2011-2012 sugar harvest (still unfinished) will amount to only 1.4 million tons, similar to that of the year 1895 in the 19th century, when the War of Independence against Spanish rule began. It doesn't seem like 117 [...] Continue reading
The New Man vs. The Honest Man / Yoani Sánchez
The New Man vs. The Honest Man / Yoani Sánchez Translator: Unstated, Yoani Sánchez Villa Marista is the main operations center of the Cuban Ministry of the Interior. Its huge structure was built to house a school run by a religious order, but since 1963 it has been home to the most feared jail cells [...] Continue reading
Murmurs / Rebeca Monzo
Murmurs / Rebeca Monzo Rebeca Monzo, Translator: Maria Montoto For some months now, they have spread like gun powder throughout the city: rumors about embezzlement, theft, deviation of resources, practices of nepotism, etcetera. Old Havana has generated the most commentaries these days. The director of Puerto Carenas, the great construction enterprise dealing with the restoration [...] 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
Resellers Lying in Wait
Resellers Lying in Wait May 24, 2012 Yanelys Nuñez Leyva HAVANA TIMES — The area in Old Havana on and around Monte Street is where the resellers concentrate. Many of them come from the more economically depressed eastern Cuba and have settled in Havana in whatever way they could. In search of a better life, [...] 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
Universities and foreign companies in Cuba are shrinking
Posted on Wednesday, 05.16.12 Universities and foreign companies in Cuba are shrinking Cuban leader Raúl Castro's push to carry out needed economic reforms has led to reduced enrollment at universities and departure of some foreign companies. By Juan O. Tamayo jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com Cuban universities have slashed enrollment by nearly 26 percent, apparently because of deep cuts [...] Continue reading
Remittances and the Silence of Their Beneficiaries on the Island / Iván García
Remittances and the Silence of Their Beneficiaries on the Island / Iván García Iván García, Translator: AnonyGY To ask for money from relatives who live in the United States of America is a constant in Cuba. Whether it is done through one of most expensive international collect calls from the island, an e-mail, or through [...] Continue reading
An Open Letter to Castro and The Cardinal / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
An Open Letter to Castro and The Cardinal / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Translator: Unstated By Luis Eligio D'Omni and Amaury Pacheco D'Omni: (Artists currently on tour in the United States of America) 1- On The 13th of April, Hector Riscart Mustelier (El Ñaño), the leader of Cuban alternativity, musician for [...] Continue reading