Shalom Cuba Issue 10

Issue 10 | June, 2017

A publication of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS)

NEWS Electricity consumption figures are bad news  By Elias Amor  In a single year, of deep recession, and which some of us estimate places us on the verge of something resembling the Special Period, the consumption of electricity in Cuba plummeted 25.2%, a quarter of that consumed the previous year...  Read story » Cuban parliament approves Communist Party roadmap  By Marc Frank and Sarah Marsh  Cuba's parliament approved documents confirming the Communist Party as the country's guiding force and banning the concentration of private property and wealth. The national assembly was summoned for an extraordinary session to approve Communist Party documents reaffirming the one-party political system and state domination of the socialist economy... Read story » Reparto Eléctrico: causeways, mounds of garbage, spillage, and zero cultural life  By Jorge Enrique Rodriguez  The Consejo Popular Eléctrico, in the Havana municipality of Arroyo Naranjo, is another example of a "marginalized neighborhood" stemming from the Government’s erroneous practices with regards to socio-cultural and economic issues, complain residents... Read story » SPOTLIGHT Trump and his new Cuba policy  By Carlos Alberto Montaner  President Donald Trump aims to amend and harden Barack Obama’s policy regarding Cuba. Obama, who did right in some social aspects of his domestic policy, erred totally in his strategy toward Cuba...  Read story » How Fidel Castro Supported Terrorism in America  By Zach Dorfman  FALN was started in the mid-1960’s with a nucleus that received advanced training in Cuba... Read story » They Deceived Us With Tourism  By Marta Requeiro  But the years go by and as part of a macabre plan the areas where ordinary Cubans live are deteriorating, and in contrast every day the are more tourist centers supplied with amenities, luxuries and the latest technology to better serve the foreign visitor. They put make up on facades so that people who come to visit don’t see how the rest is falling down little by little... Read story »

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