Cubadebate les ofrece en versión para descargar el tabloide de ocho páginas distribuido a la población este viernes, que presenta 97 proyectos a tratar en la Primera Conferencia Nacional del Partido Comunista de Cuba, programada para enero de 2012. El Sexto Congreso del PCC, efectuado en abril último, aprobó una resolución con… read more »
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Tag Archives: VI Communist Party Congress
July 12, 2011
Cuba: National Assembly Convened for August 1 in Havana
ACN, Havana – The president of the Cuban National Assembly (Parliament), Ricardo Alarcon, has convened the members of this legislative body for the Seventh Period of Sessions of its Seventh Legislature. According to a note published on Tuesday by Granma newspaper, the Cuban lawmakers will meet on August 1 at… read more »
July 1, 2011
Cuba publishes details on sale of homes, cars; law to take effect by year’s end
Associated Press, Havana – Cuba has announced the first details of a highly anticipated new law meant to loosen rules on the buying and selling of homes and cars, which have been tightly controlled since soon after the 1959 revolution. The law is still being crafted and will take effect… read more »
May 10, 2011
Cuba’s government releases ratified Economic Guidelines
Cuba’s government has released the finalized Guidelines for the Economic and Social Policy of the Party and the Revolution, ratified at the Sixth Communist Party Congress held from April 16-19, 2011. The document outlines the process of “modernizing” the Cuban economic system. The draft guidelines (original Spanish available here), released in November… read more »
May 9, 2011
Cuba publishes awaited details of economic changes
Associated Press, Havana – Cuba made official on Monday what had been rumored for weeks: It is legalizing the sale of real estate and cars and expanding the ranks of private cooperatives that could serve as engines for the sputtering economy, among other major changes. The Communist Party’s newly released… read more »
May 9, 2011
Cuba studying ways to allow residents to travel abroad
Shasta Darlington, CNN, Havana - The Cuban government said Monday that it plans to study ways to allow residents of the island nation to travel abroad as tourists, suggesting it will ease the bureaucratic hurdles and outright restrictions that prevent many residents from leaving. The plan was included in 313 guidelines… read more »
May 9, 2011
PHOTOS: Los cubanos adquieren los Lineamientos
Alejandro Ernesto, Cubadebate – Este lunes se publicaron toda Cuba los folletos de los Lineamientos de la Política Económica y Social aprobados por el VI Congreso del Partido Comunista de Cuba. Desde muy temprano los cubanos compraron en los estanquillos, al precio de 2.00 pesos y 1.00 peso (0.5 centavos… read more »
May 7, 2011
Cuba announces publication of economic guidelines on private enterprise, sale of property
Associated Press, Havana - Cubans will soon get their first look at the details of highly anticipated economic changes that were approved at last month’s Communist Party Congress, official news media said Saturday. An announcement in party newspaper Granma said copies of the document will be available for 1 peso ($0.04)… read more »
April 27, 2011
Boston – The image of Cuba conveyed by the recent Communist Party congress is of a country that history left behind. There was Fidel Castro’s younger brother, 79-year-old President Raul Castro, invoking the need to rejuvenate the party’s leadership — and then announcing that his second-in-command will be an 80-year-old… read more »
April 24, 2011
John Paul Rathbone and Marc Frank, Financial Times - Rummaging round the Communist party’s central committee headquarters building in Havana, Raúl Castro finds an old lamp. Curious, he gives it a rub. A genie emerges and offers two wishes. “Only two?” asks Cuba’s president. “Yes,” replies the genie. “Times are tough. We’ve… read more »
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