El Pais

Profound political and economic reforms underway?

July 19, 2010

Mauricio Vicent wrote in today’s El País that in the official media of Cuba there is talk of “reforms” that will be launched after August. According to sources consulted by the daily, the Raul Castro government will make ”changes,” which include: expansion of self-employment and above all the cooperativization of some services; continuation of reductions in subsidies and social [...]

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Diplomatic corner

July 9, 2010

The European Union will revise its “Common Position” which conditions the position of the community over links with Cuba about the human rights situation on the island. [Clarín] Past negotiated releases did not bring an end to repression in Cuba. [New York Review of Books Blog] Cuban Catholic Church and the Spanish government set up mechanism [...]

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Beginning of the end?

April 13, 2010

Former Mexican Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Castañeda questions whether this is the beginning of the end of the Castro regime in his El País op-ed, where he formulates three factors precipitating an end: (i) a fierce economic crisis; (ii) the death of Orlando Zapata, Damas de Blanco movement and Guillermo Fariñas hunger strike; and (iii) Fidel [...]

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Venecuba’s mutual dependence

April 12, 2010

Michael Reid, The Economist‘s Latin America editor and author of the book Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America’s Soul, has a piece in El Pais about Cuba and Venezuela’s mutual dependence: That said, the Castro brothers have failed to implement a strategy to ensure the survival of their regime beyond their lives. Raul had a plan: [...]

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Cuba’s own Minority Report (Updated)

November 22, 2009

“Security measures can be ordered to prevent the commission of crimes or as a result of their having been committed. In the first case they are called pre-criminal security measures; and in the second, post-criminal security measures.” Cuba Criminal Code, “Dangerousness” Law, Chap. III, Art. 76, Sec. 1 El País, Spain’s center-left daily, published an editorial [...]

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