Capital Building in Central Havana, Cuba
However, this was 3.4 percent lower than planned, Adel Yzquierdo, Minister of Economy and Planning reported during the last session of the Seventh Legislature of the Cuban Parliament. More…
Capital Building in Central Havana, Cuba
MIAMI — The stories of past Cuban migrations to the United States are filled with harrowing tales at sea.
The 1980 Mariel Boatlift saw U.S. watercraft packed with more than 100,000 Cubans fleeing the island. The rafter crisis of 1994 saw tens of thousands more braving the 90-mile voyage across the Florida Straits on inner tubes, Styrofoam vessels and cars converted into floating barges. More…
Market in Havana, Cuba
HAVANA – Cuba enacted this Jan. 1 a new Tax Law to continue the government’s “modernization” of socialism with economic reforms that revamp the tax culture of a country where taxes have been virtually non-existent since the 1959 Cuban Revolution. More…
Havana, Cuba
Although the Internet is limited and mostly dial-up slow, there are 1.5 million cellphones. Just a few years ago, ordinary citizens were barred from owning them.
Church-state relations
Under Castro, the government is also allowing more space for criticism — although not dissent. One of the main beneficiaries of that change is the Catholic Church, which is providing community outreach programs, offering the kinds of services — breakfast for the elderly, free pharmacies and computer, business and English classes — that were once the sole responsibility of the state. More…
