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2009-06-17 / Latin American Herald Tribune

Cuba in Deep Crisis, Country’s Foremost Economist Says

HAVANA – Cuba is going through a “very deep and difficult” crisis due to the inefficiency of its management system, the low productivity of its workers, high unemployment among young people and the effects of global recession, economist Alfredo Jam said.

“We’re at a truly complex moment in our history,” the recipient of Cuba’s National Economics Prize said at the International Accounting, Auditing and Finance Conference that began Monday in Havana with some 400 specialists from 12 countries in attendance.

He said that a high proportion of Cuba’s potential workforce is not working because young people reject “jobs that give them income but no satisfaction.”

Jam believes that the communist-ruled island has a reserve of workers for vital sectors like agriculture and construction, but added that “people don’t get moving.”

He added that “wages have to stimulate efficiency.” ...more

2013-04-22 / The Miami Herald

U.S.: Short-term detentions in Cuba reach record levels

Cuba saw a record number of “politically motivated and at times violent short-term detentions” during 2012, according to the U.S. State Department’s “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” which was released Friday...more

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/19/3354333/us-short-term-detentions-in-cuba.html#storylink=cpy

2013-04-18 / The Washington Post

Cuba’s Ladies in White due in Brussels to receive 2005 Sakharov human rights award

Members of Cuba’s Ladies in White opposition group will finally pick up Europe’s top human rights prize from 2005 in person next week in Belgium, the European Union and the daughter of the group’s former leader said Wednesday...more

2013-04-16 / The Washington Post

Cuba avoids oil cutoff for now as Chavez ally narrowly wins Venezuela presidential election

Cubans were relieved Monday by the announcement that the late leader Hugo Chavez’s hand-picked successor had been elected Venezuela’s new president, apparently allowing their country to dodge a threatened cutoff of billions of dollars in subsidized oil...more

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