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  • Sep 20, 2010
  • 7 min read

CUBA: Reforms will not drive 'market socialism'

The government will lay off 500,000 state employees over the next six months, who an expanding...

Cuba
  • Sep 14, 2010
  • 2 min read

CUBA: Public sector employment will shrink

The official labour federation yesterday announced that some 500,000 public sector jobs would be...

Cuba
  • Aug 9, 2010
  • 2 min read

CUBA: Fidel speech does not signal comeback

For the first time in four years, Fidel Castro on Saturday made a brief speech to the National...

Cuba
  • Aug 5, 2010
  • 2 min read

CUBA: Fidel will slow liberalisation

State media yesterday reported that the National Assembly would hold a special session on...

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  • Aug 2, 2010
  • 2 min read

CUBA: Liberalisation does not mean reform

Speaking at the opening of a biannual session of Parliament, President Raul Castro yesterday...

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  • Jul 27, 2010
  • 2 min read

CUBA: Castro absence will provoke speculation

For the first time since the 1959 revolution, neither President Raul Castro, nor his brother,...

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  • Jul 23, 2010
  • 2 min read

CUBA: Government removes health minister

The government yesterday announced that President Raul Castro had ordered the removal of Health...

Cuba
  • Jul 20, 2010
  • 2 min read

CUBA/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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