Cuba

  • Jan 30, 2012
  • 1 min read

Cuban reform reality will lag rhetoric

In a speech at the Communist Party's first national conference, President Raul Castro yesterday...

Cuba
  • Jan 20, 2012
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Cuban oil exploration will bring US pressure

The large Chinese-built Scarabeo oil rig yesterday arrived off the Cuban coast, travelling...

Cuba
  • Nov 17, 2011
  • 6 min read

Housing liberalisation draws Cuban emigrant capital

In the biggest economic reform step yet a new housing law has partially liberalised Cuba's real...

Cuba
  • Nov 4, 2011
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Cuban property market to be liberalised

Effective from November 10, Cuban citizens and permanent residents will be allowed to buy and...

Cuba
  • Oct 4, 2011
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Cuban reforms will not bring transparency

The government is dissolving the Sugar Ministry and passing production to holding companies....

Cuba
  • Aug 2, 2011
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Cuban reform approval will not bring implementation

The National Assembly yesterday endorsed government plans to reform the economy, giving the...

Cuba
  • Jun 15, 2011
  • 6 min read

Chinese engagement will not speed up Cuban reform

Two months after the Communist Party congress, liberalising reforms advance slowly. Nonetheless,...

Cuba
  • May 6, 2011
  • 2 min read

Cuban government continues corruption crackdown

Former Food Industry Minister Alejandro Roca Iglesias, who was dismissed in 2009, yesterday was...

Cuba