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CUBA: Reforms will not drive 'market socialism'
The government will lay off 500,000 state employees over the next six months, who an expanding...
CubaCUBA: Public sector employment will shrink
The official labour federation yesterday announced that some 500,000 public sector jobs would be...
CubaCUBA: Fidel speech does not signal comeback
For the first time in four years, Fidel Castro on Saturday made a brief speech to the National...
CubaCUBA: Fidel will slow liberalisation
State media yesterday reported that the National Assembly would hold a special session on...
CubaCUBA: Liberalisation does not mean reform
Speaking at the opening of a biannual session of Parliament, President Raul Castro yesterday...
CubaCUBA: Castro absence will provoke speculation
For the first time since the 1959 revolution, neither President Raul Castro, nor his brother,...
CubaCUBA: Government removes health minister
The government yesterday announced that President Raul Castro had ordered the removal of Health...
CubaCUBA/SPAIN: Dissidents back EU common position
Cuban dissidents released to Spain last week yesterday urged the EU not to change the common...
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