Ramiro Valdes

Cuba in 2012

November 30, 2011

I received today The Economist‘s The World in 2012 issue, whereby it forecasts the following for Cuba: Market forces and private enterprise will take on a greater role in the economy, under the strict guidance of Cuba’s Communist Party. It aims to shift 1m workers off state payrolls over the coming years, phase out rationing [...]

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Raul’s son as next defense minister?

September 5, 2011

Yoani Sanchez tweeted today: A friend fears that the next Cuban defense minister will be Alejandro Castro Espin; in January he’ll go to the Politburo and the dynastic succession guaranteed. Alejandro Castro Espín is a colonel in the Interior Ministry and along with Senen ‘Senénsito’ Casas Regueiro (son of the late Division General Senén Casas [...]

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Nomenklatura remains entrenched (Updated)

April 19, 2011

2009 hrs Secretariat — Cuban Communist Party Encabezado por José Ramón Machado Ventura Esteban Lazo Hernández Abelardo Álvarez Gil Víctor Gaute López Olga Lidia Tapia Iglesias José Ramón Balaguer Misael Enamorado Dager Central Committee — Cuban Communist Party (There are 20 generals in the CC.) Misleydy Abad Modey Gral de Div. Onelio Aguilera Bermúdez Liudmila Álamo Dueñas Ricardo [...]

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Term limits for high ranking gov’t officials

April 16, 2011

Army General Raúl Castro has proposed limiting the term of high ranking officials of the regime to ten years in a central report he delivered before the opening session of the VI Cuban Communist Party Congress. Notable comments  from his speech: Rejected concentration of property in private hands Eventual elimination of the ration book and [...]

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VI PCC congress opens

April 16, 2011

         

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Party congress begins today

April 16, 2011

Cuba’s Sixth Communist Party Congress will begin this afternoon at 4 P.M., lasting four days.  The prior was held fourteen years ago. This congress coincides with the 50th Anniversary of the Bay of Pigs. A thousand delegates will “debate” the Political, Social, and Economic Guidelines Project. Congressional sessions will “analyze” and “approve” economic and social [...]

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