Raul Castro government

Quote of the day

July 26, 2011

“The consolidating of Raúl Castro in his position as successor to his brother Fidel confirms that his Cuba will give the military hegemony on a national scale, which makes seemingly impossible any serious political or economic opening in the near future.” Carlos Pérez Llana, former Argentine ambassador to France, in his op-ed “El ejército en Cuba arma nuevo orden,” published [...]

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Rubber stamp legislature meets next month

November 21, 2010

The Cuban National Assembly of the People’s Power (Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular) will meet December 15 amidst ”economic reforms” pushed by Raul Castro’s government while the Assembly’s president Ricardo Alarcón is in China meeting with authorities from the central government, Chinese Communist Party and his Chinese counterpart.

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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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Havana split into two provinces

June 8, 2010

Via Reuters: Cuba has plans to split the province of Havana into two provinces in a move to make local government more efficient, state-run media said. The division would cut travel distances for provincial employees, make services more accessible and add local political clout by giving each province its own capital. The idea, hatched by [...]

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U.S. president is blacklisted

January 9, 2010

The government of Raúl Castro has blacklisted U.S. President Barack Obama. It’s no tasteless joke. Havana considers that after a year in the White House the first African-American president of the United States has demonstrated to be an “enemy” of the revolution just as his predecessors and that rapprochement with Washington has ended. Yesterday, the Cuban government [...]

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Honeymoon is over

January 3, 2010

The Obama honeymoon with Cuba is over. The tenor in Havana has changed considerably, and Mr. Obama, whose election was broadly celebrated by Cuba’s racially diverse population, is now being portrayed by the Raúl Castro government as an imperialistic, warmongering Cuba hater, reports the New York Times.

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