corruption

Corruption probe in military-run business

December 13, 2011

Reuters reports: Cuba has detained top executives of the powerful military-run Tecnotex company, broadening a corruption investigation that has already shuttered three foreign firms, according to foreign business sources. Tecnotex’s director Fernando Noy was among those arrested, according to a foreign businessman who deals with the company. “They went right into the Tecnotex office and [...]

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Sociolismo

September 15, 2011

Corruption in socialist Cuba sometimes takes the form of a generalized “I’ll scratch your back if you’ll scratch mine” system that rewards friends and family of government officials; this is known as sociolismo, a take-off on socio (buddy) and socialismo. —Sergio Díaz-Briquets and Jorge F. Pérez-López. 2006. Corruption in Cuba: Castro and Beyond. University of [...]

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Miscellanea

May 8, 2011

Juan Wilfredo Soto Garcia, a Cuban dissident, died after he was beaten by police following a protest last week in the city of Santa Clara. [Reuters] Corruption in Cuba: Army General Raúl Castro is replacing corrupt government officials with trusted ones as the cleanup continues. [The Economist] The Office of Cuba Broadcasting has added several “ghost” [...]

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State of corruption

January 23, 2011

WikiLeaks continues to disseminate U.S. diplomatic cables and one of yesterday’s batch of releases comes from the US Interests Section Havana, dated 20060426, which reports on the state of corruption in Cuba. Some highlights from the cable: Because most Cubans work for the state, the entire system – from petty officials to Castro’s closest advisors – [...]

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Commerce point man defects

January 6, 2011

Spanish daily, El Mundo, is reporting Pedro Álvarez (once president of Alimport – Cuba’s principal food import corp. and the Cuban government’s top negotiator with American agriculture) defected  at the end of last December and is in the U.S.  Álvarez was under investigation by the Cuban government for corruption. Apparently, there are more Cuban Communists [...]

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Cuban intelligence freely operates in Venezuela

November 30, 2010

The deployment of the Cuban Intelligence Services (CuIS) in Venezuela is so deep that they enjoy “direct access” to President Hugo Chávez and often provide information not shared with the local intelligence services, as indicated by cables sent from the U.S. Embassy in Caracas to the State Department, reports El País, in its review of Sunday’s Wikileaks [...]

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