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CCPCC’s special envoy is in China

August 30, 2011

Jose Ramon Balaguer, a special envoy of Cuban Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee, is in Beijing meeting with Chinese officials, reports Xinhua. Today, Balaguer met with Vice President Xi Jinping, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China and also having  met with Liu Yunshan, a senior official of [...]

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Tropical stratocracy

April 20, 2011

Random House Dictionary (2011) defines stratocracy as government by the military. Key military officers control the state security apparatus that vigilantly guards over the Cuban regime. The government’s economic lifeline pulses through the administration of income generating businesses under the control of a military officers. Cuba’s armed forces, through its active and retired military officers, are well [...]

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Health minister replaced

July 22, 2010

The Cuban Council of State, at the suggestion of its president, agreed to relieve José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera as Public Health Minister and promote in his place, Roberto Morales Ojeda (present Public Health First Vice-Minister). Balaguer Cabrera, in accordance of the Politburo, will be reincorporated in the work of the Cuban Communist Party’s Central Committee. [Radio [...]

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Communist system will not be undone [UPDATED]

August 1, 2009

Via AP: Raul Castro says Cuba will cut spending on education and health care, weakening the building blocks of its communist system to try to revive a floundering economy. But Castro vows that anyone waiting for fundamental political change when he and his brother Fidel are gone is “doomed to failure.” He told parliament Saturday, [...]

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China Cadre in Cuba

November 13, 2007

Prensa Latina is reporting that Wang Zhaoguo, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of China Communist Party, arrived in Havana on an official visit to be run until November 15. Zhaoguo and his accompanying delegation was welcomed at the Havana airport Monday by Cuba’s Communist Party Central Committtee’s International Relations Department [...]

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