Food crisis

Preconditions for political violence in Cuba

November 17, 2011

Three months ago, the Canadian government’s Economic & Political Intelligence Centre at Export Development Canada—EDC (Canada’s export credit agency, which helps Canadian exporters and investors expand their international business) issued its political outlook on Cuba: Raúl Castro’s pragmatism has resulted in investment and cooperation agreements with a variety of countries. Companies from several countries are also building [...]

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Sugar ministry dissolved

September 30, 2011

The Council of Ministers, in a meeting held last Saturday, Sept. 24, decided to dissolve the Cuban Ministry of Sugar (MINAZ), replacing it with the Sugar Industry Business Group (Grupo Empresarial de la Agroindustria Azucarera). Orlando Celso García Ramírez, the current Sugar Minister, was appointed in May 2010, when he was then deputy minister replacing [...]

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Possibility of revolt?

April 29, 2011

The Economist Intelligence Unit gauges at the possibilty of a revolt in Cuba: Indeed, there is no sign yet that events on the other side of the world are inspiring a rise in anti-government sentiment in Cuba. And it may well be that the government’s decision to modestly liberalise economic policy to allow the emergence of [...]

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Failure of communism

May 16, 2010

Frank Norton, a Florida real estate executive, writes in the Gainsville Times about what he and his wife experienced in their recent trip to Cuba: Today, the Cuban people have lost all personal freedom, lost all personal property and now occupy government-owned, rotting, worn-out buildings that are crumbling around them. There is no pride of [...]

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$1.5B spent on food imports

April 13, 2010

Cuban Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura during the sessions of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) of the provinces of Matanzas, Ciego de Avila and Sancti Spiritus on Sunday announced that the country invests more than $1.5 Billion dollars annually buying food, part of which can be substituted by national products if the areas [...]

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Cuba’s food shortages

March 25, 2010

Today’s The Economist addresses the Cuban government’s failed agricultural reform: TWO years ago last month Raúl Castro formally took over as Cuba’s president from his convalescent elder brother, Fidel. The switch raised hopes of reforms, especially of the communist country’s long dysfunctional agriculture. But change has been glacial. Official figures show that in the first [...]

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