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• Battle at Escambray

  6 September 2010 at 1644 in Armed Forces, Fidel Castro, Opposition, Paramilitary, Population, Violence

  Juan Tamayo of El Nuevo Herald has a piece on the 50th anniversary of the Battle at Escambray (the last armed internal combat against the Castro dictatorship.) Fifty years ago, Rivera was one of up to 4,000 Cubans battling Castro’s brand new government in a little-known, but nasty guerrilla war that raged in parts of [...]

• Gov’t seeks to eliminate excess personnel

  6 September 2010 at 1126 in Council of State, Government, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, Nomenklatura

  The Cuban government has launched a campaign seeking ways to cut excess personnel in its state sector. José Ramón Machado Ventura, First Vice-President of the Council of State, visited several eastern provinces in the last week to assess efficiency in state entities by reducing personnel.

• GDP to increase in 2011

  5 September 2010 at 1409 in Commentary, Economy, Government

  The Economist Intelligence Unit forecasts for Cuba, “fiscal retrenchment will limit growth to only 2% in 2010. In 2011 policy relaxation will allow growth to pick up to 3.7%.” Key indicators 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Real GDP growth (%) 1.4 2.0 3.7 4.2 4.4 4.2 Consumer price inflation (av; %) -0.5 0.7 5.4 [...]