Havana.– The Cuban government will officially lift restrictions on the retail sale to the general public of computers, television sets, video players and other electronic home appliances startingApril 1, when a "gradual" introduction of "retail" sales is to begin.
An Internal Trade Ministry resolution dated March 21 states that Cubans will be able to buy "computers and their accessories, video-playing equipment of all kinds, television sets in all screen sizes, electric pressure cookers, electric rice cookers, electric bicycles and car alarms."
The officials cited improvements in electricity supply as justification for the move, which represents the first visible change under the new leadership of President Raul Castro, who took over from his ailing brother, longtime revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, in February.
Restrictions currently make computers and appliances available only to certain people in Cuba, but not ordinary citizens.
The decision revoked an edict of June 2003, which forbad the commercialization of these products.
"The country has had an improvement in the generation and distribution of electric power," the document said.
The availability will be "gradual," subject to availability of the recently-allowed goods.
The new Panamanian Ambassador in Cuba, Luis Gomez, said Monday that Cuban teams have been stocking up on home appliances in Panama.
"There are two shipping companies that are bringing products from Panama and travel to Panama twice a week. Before they used to bring eight or 10 containers, now they are bringing 25, 30 or 40 containers," Gomez told reporters in Havana.
Raul Castro encouraged expectations of change in his inaugural speech on February 24, when he said he would move to end an "excess in prohibitions and rules" within the "coming weeks."
These reforms include the sale of some tools for farmers, which has already started in some provinces after only a passing mention on state radio.
Vague comments in the official media have indicated the direction of other possible changes - including more flexible migration rules or forbidding access to the island's luxury resorts by Cubans.
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
well this really is the begining of the end.....freedom to watch seditous movies....O my god the internet what will they do when they find out they are prisoners....and they were lying all that time....I can here the statues falling down....like I said before this is the final year...VIVA CUBA LIBRE
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
of course there is better electric current now...very believable
Written by: josean, 29 Mar 2008 12:16 PM
From: United States
At this rate even backward Cuba will provide electricity and computers to its people before Lie-onel Fernandez and the secret payroll PLD.
Utterly amazing!
At least the commies could blame the "embargo" what is Lie-onel's excuse?
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
they could blame the embargo ....but that was a lie
Written by: Belial, 29 Mar 2008 3:18 PM
From: United States, Texas
The Cuban government will officially lift restrictions on the retail sale to the general public of computers, television sets, video players and other electronic home appliances startingApril 1, when a "gradual" introduction of "retail" sales is to begin.
An Internal Trade Ministry resolution dated March 21 states that Cubans will be able to buy "computers and their accessories, video-playing equipment of all kinds, television sets in all screen sizes, electric pressure cookers, electric bicycles and car alarms."
oooo
Every Cuban home has, at least, one color TV.
The Cuban state provided the entire Cuban people about a 300,000 Chinese electric rice cookers and about 300,000 Chinese refrigerators in the 3-year old Energy Revolution.
Now that Venezuela manufactures and exports laptops, it makes sense to import them as well as Chinese versions without demanding hard currency or convertible pesos for payment.
Victory in the Energy Revolution explains the changes.
Written by: Belial, 29 Mar 2008 3:30 PM
From: United States, Texas
Another measure in the Energy Revolution is the substituting about 20,000,000 energy guzzling light bulbs in Cuba with energy-saving light bulbs.
The financial savings have been enormous.
Lying bourgeois reactionaries contend that this major and historic victory in the Energy Revolution shows that Cuba is going capitalist. This is the kind of thing that one expects from slime and filth like bourgeois reactionaries.
Alone with the victorious Energy Revolution, we should acknowledge a big jump in remittances from Cuban patriots living abroud, and the fact that Cuba now has important trade partners in Venezuela, China, and Brazil which wipe their behinds with the US imperialist blockade of Cuba and Venezuela, China, and Brazil have attained high levels of technological develpment in their manufacturing sectors.
Plus, there is some progress in the trade negotiations between Cuba and Argentina.
Written by: Belial, 29 Mar 2008 3:46 PM
From: United States, Texas
The two-faced US imperialists and their dog-like Canadian toilet-paper carriers, like GC, conspire for decades to deny Cuba the benefits of international trade by the infamous blockage, creating unnecessary shortages of consumer and capital goods in Cuba.
Now, that discernible evidence that Cuba is breaking out of the blockade with its growing and diversified trade relations with Venezuela, China, and Brazil, the US imperialists and their Canadian rear-kissers say the Cuban breakout of the US imperialist blockade means that capitalism is making a comeback in Cuba.
If breaking out of the blockade restores capitalism in Cuba, why have the US imperialists and their rear-lickers supported the blockade so long and so fanatically?
Only Yukon scum believe that the consumers goods increasingly available to the Cuban workers come for the USA, not Venezuela, China, and Brazil.
Written by: Belial, 29 Mar 2008 3:58 PM
From: United States, Texas
Both Haiti and the Dominican Republic have asked for and received Cuban cooperation in the energy field, due largely to the outstanding and exemplary success of the Energy Revolution in Cuba and, of course, the enormous financial savings that result from this success. Given the high price of oil today, these savings can be passed on to the workers, strengthening socialism or, at least, lifting the standard of living of the working class.
DR uses Cuban engineers to explore for oil on land and off its coasts.
Haiti uses Cuban social workers to change millions of energy inefficient light bulbs in the shortest period of time.
We hope that in Haiti and DR, the benefits will be passed on to the working class.
Written by: Belial, 29 Mar 2008 4:11 PM
From: United States, Texas
There are more signs of a collapse by US capitalism than by Cuban socialism.
If US capitalism falls, Canadian capitalism will quickly follow.
Written by: Belial, 29 Mar 2008 4:14 PM
From: United States, Texas
I understand that Canadian banks -- commercial, investement, and central -- poured trillions of dollars into the US mortgage-backed securities.
How do you like them now?
Thanks, for the money, suckers.
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
maybe you can take raul in he may enjoy Houston and afterall it would be just one more loser
Written by: Belial, 29 Mar 2008 4:26 PM
From: United States, Texas
"It adds that the investment [ in the expanded Cuban telecommincation services] is to be based on credits and technology forthcoming from friendly countries [Venezuela, China, and Brazil]."
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/marzo/vier28/Cuba.html0000
Suddenly, the US imperialists and slime balls who love the US imperialists are delighted that the imperialist blockade of Cuba is falling apart.
That is, that countries friendly to Cuba are wiping the behinds with the long-standing blockade.
As Cuba's trade with its principal partners grows, the imperialists and slime balls are due for more "delight."
Written by: Belial, 29 Mar 2008 5:24 PM
From: United States, Texas
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
Tick Tick TIck the clock is ticking the nightmare is coming to an end..The castro brothers are circling the drain...the statues will be coming down soon....the party stooges will all get amnesia...I can hear it now ............" I was only following orders "......................................VIVA CUBA LIBRE
Written by: Escott, 29 Mar 2008 5:35 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Sosua/Cabrera
After reading Belial and needing to throw up I felt bad that he wasn't in Cuba where he wouldnt have had the freedom to be on the internet. What a dope.
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
we will deal with the collaborators.....50 lashes with a wet noodle for comrade belial
Written by: Belial, 29 Mar 2008 5:50 PM
From: United States, Texas
http://www.plenglish.com/"Havana, Mar 29 (Prensa Latina) Cuban doctors will travel to 81 nations to work as physicians in 2008, the director of the Central Unity of Cooperation of the Ministry of Public Health of the island Alberto Gonzalez emphasized. "
"At the moment, 36,578 Cuban doctors and other workers of health services work in 73 nations, Gonzalez emphasized, according to a report from National Agency of Information."
oooo
Meanwhile, the US imperialists are denying the poor of the world access to US patented medications under the "intellectual property rights" doctrine and closing hospitals for the poor through pressure exerted by the IMF and World Bank on the regimes of developing countries.
Reactionaries also argue that Cuban citizens don't have the right or opportunity to travel because Cubans can't frequent the USA and Canadian whorehouses, ignoring the massive worldwide presence of Cuban workers, scientists, and engineers in dozens of countries.
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
more rubbish
Written by: Jander, 30 Mar 2008 4:37 AM
From: Dominican Republic
I belive the bridge between Key West and Havan is already inthr planning stage.
Cuba Key
"Doctors in Cuba aren't slaves to profit so they can do so much more. They were so good that they amputated four of my fingers to ensure that infection would not spread, that was of course after they used the leaches and blood letting to get out the poison that was in the splinter. Only Socialism cares that much."
Heres a Forum for you Belial, you sure don't nelong on this one.
http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=1050Written by: Jander, 30 Mar 2008 4:38 AM
From: Dominican Republic
sorry for typos (beero's"
Written by: Belial, 30 Mar 2008 10:51 AM
From: United States, Texas
"Heres a Forum for you Belial, you sure don't nelong on this one."
0000
That one is decidedly not my cup of tea.
These misdirection sites which tell lies and spread slanders on Cuba for US Information Service, NED, and CIA are intended for the consumption of US reactionaries, about a third of the US people, who are pathologically addicted to lies and slander.
Even the mainstream of the US cappie or capitalist media possesses too much decency to rehash the kind of lies and slander that the site you recommends favors.
I hope you understand the category of people to whom I refer when I say "reactionary." These animals prefer to call themselves "conservatives" in the USA, and, again, they are about a third of the US people. They are grossly misnamed as "conservatives" because these savages are the most compulsively destructive people who have ever walked the face of the earth.
The site you recommend caters to their foul, animal, low, and degenerate appetites.
Written by: Frank176, 31 Mar 2008 10:34 AM
From: United States
Here we go again josean why do you hate leonel so much we have had a problem with the electrical situation for as long as I can remember so leonel is required to fix them overnite give me a break hes doing the best that he can and I think it is getting better you are always complaining josean lets here some of your ways on how you would fix it at least we are hearing about diffrent projects going up around the country
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
Frank pay no attention to him,we all know its the same old thing every time.....same as comrade belial
From: United States
Frank176: josean might have an aversion to Leonel, as his postings suggest. but what is this talk about not being able to fix electricity delivery OVERNIGHT? what do you consider OVERNIGHT? it is not as though he has been in power 3 months! Leonel has been the head of state for almost 8 years, might i remind you. what is so intractible about the electricity delivery problem which causes it to be insoluble in 8 years? they built the metro in less than 4! stop with this 'GIVE THE GUY A CHANCE" exhortation. at least lets see some signs that we are headed the right way. a press release just came out that nicaragua and ourselves are the only two nations in dr-cafta which are not eligible for millenium challenge funds. we know why nicaragua is not: Daniel Ortega. what is our excuse?
From: United States
Jander, i am sorry to hear of your misfortune at the hands of cuban doctors. however, what is the point you aim to make? that cuban doctors are incompetent? that medical malpractice only happens in cuba? maybe doctors in the united states can rest easy. due to the fact that there is no malpractice there, malpractice insurance premiums will become a thing of the past. now they do not have that onerous annual burden to disturb their quietude!
From: United States
"they built the metro in less than 4! stop with this 'GIVE THE GUY A CHANCE" exhortation. "
You must be roaming around in my brain somewhere dread...I made practically the same statement in conversation just a few days ago..
Written by: caonabo1, 2 Apr 2008 7:47 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Miami,FL
I listen to a cuvan radio station everyday when im in work, and believe me a lot of peopple dont know the reallyti thats going on overthere. about the doctor thing only tourist get good doctor service for a cheaper price than other countrys cuvan residents have to make lines of up to 3 days to be able to see a doctor. The electricity there is as bad as the DR, people are withou electricity up to 8 hours par day and getting worst by the time. Another thing that a heard anout a lot off these new stuff that are getting sell now allready was getting sell on the street by the black market(illegal dealing) and all these stuff i hear it a lot off time in 1180 am radio mambi. Im not making these stuff.
From: United States
cibaeno, your brain is a good place to roam. as to caonabo1, where is this radio station transmitting from? i see you are posting either from the DR or from Miami. might you be listening to the cuban version of FOX? might it be owned by cuban exiles in miami? if it is, did you expect praises for cuba?
Written by: caonabo1, 3 Apr 2008 6:16 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Miami,FL
From Miami, the radio station name is RADIO MARTI 1180 AM, and now that you mention it could be owne by the exiles because they focus very well in whats going on there, and about my location i was just trying to show that im a Dominican living in miami.
From: United States
hope you at least enjoyed spring break on south beach, caonabo1!
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
dred what he says is true cuba sux.....for cubans...you going to tell these people who are connected to that country how it really is ......it sux.....and its over.....your wishful thinking will not make it different...it is a gulag.....they are going to wonder in cuba why they were lied to for all those years
From: United States
as Mayor Ed Koch was always at pains to note: depends on whose ox is being gored!!
From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
I will personally move to old Havana when private property is reestablished .....and the way things are going the old guys cant hold on once the changes start to wash them away.....VIVA CUBA LIBRE....even belial will be selling time share to make a buck
Written by: Belial, 10 Apr 2008 10:31 PM
From: United States, Texas
p.1
HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Canadian tourists fleeing a harsh winter and buoyed by their strong dollar are flocking to Cuban beaches in record numbers and helping Cuba's tourist trade end a two-year slump.
Cuban hotel managers said a surge in Canadian "snowbirds" led to unprecedented tourism during the winter months of January through March.
Having Cuba in the news has spurred interest in visiting the communist-run country, travel agents said.
The tourist trade, a major source of hard currency for Cuba, peaked in 2005 with the arrival of 2.3 million visitors, but dropped to 2.1 million last year, of which some 600,00 were Canadians.
But in January this year Cuba received more tourists than in any high season since it opened up to foreign investment and tourism in the mid-1990s: 247,386 visitors. Almost half were Canadians, a 30 percent increase over January last year.
About 50 flights land each week from Canada.
Con't
Written by: Belial, 10 Apr 2008 10:33 PM
From: United States, Texas
p.2
Cuba's ministry of tourism has actively sought new business offering tour operators better-priced deals compared to rival Mexican and Dominican destinations, the manager said.
Last year Cuba also cut the price it charges for aviation fuel, lowering charter company costs, he said.
American tourists are barred by [repressive] US laws from traveling the Caribbean island nation.
But Spanish tourism is picking up after a drop due to the purchase by American companies of two travel businesses, Iberoworld and Pullmantur, which under [repressive and extraterritorial] US laws eliminated much of Spanish tourism to Cuba.
"The statistics are looking very rosy through 2010," said a British travel agency representative with strong bookings through the summer. Britain is the second source of tourists for Cuba after Canada, with about 25 charter flights a week.
Con't
Written by: Belial, 10 Apr 2008 10:34 PM
From: United States, Texas
p.3
Cuba expanded its hotel capacity to 44,000 rooms in 2006, about half administered by foreign companies such as Spanish chain Sol Melia and France's Accor.
[In 2007, the Dominican Republic was number one in Caribbean as a tourism destination with about 3,000,000 visits or about 900,000 more than Cuba in 2007.]
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From: United States Virgin Islands, St Thomas C' Amalie hotel 1829 at the Bar
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Utterly amazing!
At least the commies could blame the "embargo" what is Lie-onel's excuse?
An Internal Trade Ministry resolution dated March 21 states that Cubans will be able to buy "computers and their accessories, video-playing equipment of all kinds, television sets in all screen sizes, electric pressure cookers, electric bicycles and car alarms."
oooo
Every Cuban home has, at least, one color TV.
The Cuban state provided the entire Cuban people about a 300,000 Chinese electric rice cookers and about 300,000 Chinese refrigerators in the 3-year old Energy Revolution.
Now that Venezuela manufactures and exports laptops, it makes sense to import them as well as Chinese versions without demanding hard currency or convertible pesos for payment.
Victory in the Energy Revolution explains the changes.
The financial savings have been enormous.
Lying bourgeois reactionaries contend that this major and historic victory in the Energy Revolution shows that Cuba is going capitalist. This is the kind of thing that one expects from slime and filth like bourgeois reactionaries.
Alone with the victorious Energy Revolution, we should acknowledge a big jump in remittances from Cuban patriots living abroud, and the fact that Cuba now has important trade partners in Venezuela, China, and Brazil which wipe their behinds with the US imperialist blockade of Cuba and Venezuela, China, and Brazil have attained high levels of technological develpment in their manufacturing sectors.
Plus, there is some progress in the trade negotiations between Cuba and Argentina.
Now, that discernible evidence that Cuba is breaking out of the blockade with its growing and diversified trade relations with Venezuela, China, and Brazil, the US imperialists and their Canadian rear-kissers say the Cuban breakout of the US imperialist blockade means that capitalism is making a comeback in Cuba.
If breaking out of the blockade restores capitalism in Cuba, why have the US imperialists and their rear-lickers supported the blockade so long and so fanatically?
Only Yukon scum believe that the consumers goods increasingly available to the Cuban workers come for the USA, not Venezuela, China, and Brazil.
DR uses Cuban engineers to explore for oil on land and off its coasts.
Haiti uses Cuban social workers to change millions of energy inefficient light bulbs in the shortest period of time.
We hope that in Haiti and DR, the benefits will be passed on to the working class.
If US capitalism falls, Canadian capitalism will quickly follow.
How do you like them now?
Thanks, for the money, suckers.
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/marzo/vier28/Cuba.html
0000
Suddenly, the US imperialists and slime balls who love the US imperialists are delighted that the imperialist blockade of Cuba is falling apart.
That is, that countries friendly to Cuba are wiping the behinds with the long-standing blockade.
As Cuba's trade with its principal partners grows, the imperialists and slime balls are due for more "delight."
Take heed and follow or, at least, consider this example.
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/marzo/vier28/trasvase1.html
"Havana, Mar 29 (Prensa Latina) Cuban doctors will travel to 81 nations to work as physicians in 2008, the director of the Central Unity of Cooperation of the Ministry of Public Health of the island Alberto Gonzalez emphasized. "
"At the moment, 36,578 Cuban doctors and other workers of health services work in 73 nations, Gonzalez emphasized, according to a report from National Agency of Information."
oooo
Meanwhile, the US imperialists are denying the poor of the world access to US patented medications under the "intellectual property rights" doctrine and closing hospitals for the poor through pressure exerted by the IMF and World Bank on the regimes of developing countries.
Reactionaries also argue that Cuban citizens don't have the right or opportunity to travel because Cubans can't frequent the USA and Canadian whorehouses, ignoring the massive worldwide presence of Cuban workers, scientists, and engineers in dozens of countries.
Cuba Key
"Doctors in Cuba aren't slaves to profit so they can do so much more. They were so good that they amputated four of my fingers to ensure that infection would not spread, that was of course after they used the leaches and blood letting to get out the poison that was in the splinter. Only Socialism cares that much."
Heres a Forum for you Belial, you sure don't nelong on this one.
http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=1050
0000
That one is decidedly not my cup of tea.
These misdirection sites which tell lies and spread slanders on Cuba for US Information Service, NED, and CIA are intended for the consumption of US reactionaries, about a third of the US people, who are pathologically addicted to lies and slander.
Even the mainstream of the US cappie or capitalist media possesses too much decency to rehash the kind of lies and slander that the site you recommends favors.
I hope you understand the category of people to whom I refer when I say "reactionary." These animals prefer to call themselves "conservatives" in the USA, and, again, they are about a third of the US people. They are grossly misnamed as "conservatives" because these savages are the most compulsively destructive people who have ever walked the face of the earth.
The site you recommend caters to their foul, animal, low, and degenerate appetites.
You must be roaming around in my brain somewhere dread...I made practically the same statement in conversation just a few days ago..
HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Canadian tourists fleeing a harsh winter and buoyed by their strong dollar are flocking to Cuban beaches in record numbers and helping Cuba's tourist trade end a two-year slump.
Cuban hotel managers said a surge in Canadian "snowbirds" led to unprecedented tourism during the winter months of January through March.
Having Cuba in the news has spurred interest in visiting the communist-run country, travel agents said.
The tourist trade, a major source of hard currency for Cuba, peaked in 2005 with the arrival of 2.3 million visitors, but dropped to 2.1 million last year, of which some 600,00 were Canadians.
But in January this year Cuba received more tourists than in any high season since it opened up to foreign investment and tourism in the mid-1990s: 247,386 visitors. Almost half were Canadians, a 30 percent increase over January last year.
About 50 flights land each week from Canada.
Con't
Cuba's ministry of tourism has actively sought new business offering tour operators better-priced deals compared to rival Mexican and Dominican destinations, the manager said.
Last year Cuba also cut the price it charges for aviation fuel, lowering charter company costs, he said.
American tourists are barred by [repressive] US laws from traveling the Caribbean island nation.
But Spanish tourism is picking up after a drop due to the purchase by American companies of two travel businesses, Iberoworld and Pullmantur, which under [repressive and extraterritorial] US laws eliminated much of Spanish tourism to Cuba.
"The statistics are looking very rosy through 2010," said a British travel agency representative with strong bookings through the summer. Britain is the second source of tourists for Cuba after Canada, with about 25 charter flights a week.
Con't
Cuba expanded its hotel capacity to 44,000 rooms in 2006, about half administered by foreign companies such as Spanish chain Sol Melia and France's Accor.
[In 2007, the Dominican Republic was number one in Caribbean as a tourism destination with about 3,000,000 visits or about 900,000 more than Cuba in 2007.]
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