Demographics

Change in political-administrative division

September 17, 2010

Cuba will be divided into 15 provinces and 168 municipalities instead of the existing 14 and 169, according to the Political-Adminstrative Division Modification Law (pdf) published in the Gaceta Oficial on September 2nd. The legislation was approved August 1st by the National Assembly of the People’s Power in its first 2010 ordinary session. Cuba’s population is [...]

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Cuba’s rank in the Global Peace Index

June 9, 2010

The Institute for Economics and Peace has released the results for its Global Peace Index—2010. The GPI gauges ongoing domestic and international conflict, safety and security in society and militarisation in 149 countries. Cuba ranked 72 worldwide, scoring 1.964. Regionally, Cuba ranked 7 and continues to receive the lowest score for violent crime in Latin America. [...]

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Economic and social panorama of Cuba in 2009

January 3, 2010

Cuba’s Office of National Statistics (Oficina Nacional de Estadísticas (ONE) released last month a report entitled: “Economic and Social Panorama, Cuba 2009″, which provides information on the development of demographic, economic and social indicators for 2009.

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Growing concern over social instability

January 19, 2009

A chorus of those sympathetic to the Cuban regime and/or part of the nomenklatura are voicing their opinion about the need to reform Cuba’s system or else social instability caused by a lack of change to the status quo will lead to political destabilization through violence. A member of said chorus is Ignacio Ramonet (penned [...]

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Bloodied, but unbowed

September 18, 2008

Via The Economist:

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Change in Cuba?

September 17, 2008

The New York Sun has an editorial on Freedom House’s study on change in Cuba published this week.

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