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Cuban Pork Production Fell by More than 50 Percent in 2021, Confirming the Failure of the 63 Measures

14ymedio, Madrid, 10 May 2022 — Pork production in Cuba fell by 53.5% in 2021 compared to the previous year, to just 132.9 tons. The collapse is not a surprise, but the publication this Monday of the food production data for the previous year has left a trail of bad news for the Government, since … Continue reading “Cuban Pork Production Fell by More than 50 Percent in 2021, Confirming the Failure of the 63 Measures”

The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution Celebrate 63 years With a Deficit of ‘Cadres’

14ymedio, Havana, 28 September 2023 — While his Ministers of Economy and Energy arranged their faces to confirm the tough savings measures in the face of the umpteenth fuel crisis in Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel was going to a party, although his face was more like it was a funeral. The photographs published in the official … Continue reading “The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution Celebrate 63 years With a Deficit of ‘Cadres’”

New “Economic Measures”: Another Trap to Catch the Gullible / Cubanet, Miriam Celaya

Cubanet, Miriam Celaya, WEST PALM BEACH, United States. – The highly announced Roundtable TV show on Tuesday, 15 October 2019, where the “new economic measures” of the Cuban government were revealed, has just deflated any expectations that those who were waiting for some opening in the internal economy of Cuba might have had. This time … Continue reading “New “Economic Measures”: Another Trap to Catch the Gullible / Cubanet, Miriam Celaya”

Survey on Government Economic Measures / Eugenio Leal

The group Veritas of Psychosocial Investigations received a request from the Center of Socio-Economic and Democratic Studies (CESED) to carry out a public opinion poll about the economic measures implemented by the government. They developed the following questionnaire: Veritas Group of Psychosocial Investigations Volunteers carried out the survey, face to face, between January and March. … Continue reading “Survey on Government Economic Measures / Eugenio Leal”

The Official Press Blames the Cuban Leaders for the Shortage of Milk in Sancti Spiritus

14ymedio, Havana, 29 January 2024 — For months, the dairy industry of Sancti Spíritus has not been able to cover the more than 5,280 gallons per day needed by those who require a special diet. This, added to the deficit of 2,900 million gallons with which they closed 2023, affects thousands of patients, pregnant women … Continue reading “The Official Press Blames the Cuban Leaders for the Shortage of Milk in Sancti Spiritus”

The Foundations of the Unproductivity of Cuban Agriculture

14ymedio, Elías Amor Bravo, Economist, 28 October 2023 — We’re back to where we started. Talking for the sake of talking. Now the regime wants to tell us how to bring agricultural products from the field to the table. And the talking has been done by none other than the Minister of Agriculture, Ydael Pérez … Continue reading “The Foundations of the Unproductivity of Cuban Agriculture”

The Minister of Agriculture’s Magical Recipes to Put Food on Cuban Tables

14ymedio, Madrid, 27 October 2023 —  The Minister of Agriculture, Ydael Jesús Pérez Brito, gave a new recital of magical thinking on national television this Thursday, where he insisted on the power of Cubans to achieve the impossible without offering a single proposal. “We ourselves have to be able to produce and satisfy food demands. We … Continue reading “The Minister of Agriculture’s Magical Recipes to Put Food on Cuban Tables”

‘We Give Priority to the Basic Basket,’ Says a Cuban Minister With Black Humor

14ymedio, Madrid, October 18, 2023 — Everything is bad in Cuba, but it could be worse. This is basically what Manuel Sobrino Martínez, Minister of Food Industry, said this Tuesday in a brilliant appearance on State TV’s Roundtable program, where he reviewed in detail the systematic sinking of the forecasts for this year and ended … Continue reading “‘We Give Priority to the Basic Basket,’ Says a Cuban Minister With Black Humor”

The Castro Regime’s Fear of Private Land Ownership in Cuba

14ymedio, Elías Amor Bravo, Economist, 2 September 2023 — Communists don’t want a private sector in Cuba like the one that exists in the rest of the world. On numerous occasions, the Castro revolution has been interpreted as a process that extends the poverty of the population by depriving it of one of the main … Continue reading “The Castro Regime’s Fear of Private Land Ownership in Cuba”

Cuba’s 64 Years of Agrarian Reform: Nothing to Celebrate

14ymedio, Elías Amor Bravo, Economist, 21 May 2023 — Fidel Castro activated a plan, not deviating one millimeter from its content, for seizing power in Cuba following the fall of the Batista regime. And in that plan, one of the first actions — when the execution machinery was in full swing at La Cabaña fortress … Continue reading “Cuba’s 64 Years of Agrarian Reform: Nothing to Celebrate”

Cuban Prime Minister Marrero Attributes the Terrible Results of Cuban Agriculture to the ‘Non-State Sector’

14ymedio, Madrid, 14 April 2023 — Barely two days had passed after learning that the authorities had invested 12 times less in the  agricultural sector than in business and real estate services, when the country’s top authorities urged farmers to look for “alternative solutions” due to the lack of “money to import all the resources … Continue reading “Cuban Prime Minister Marrero Attributes the Terrible Results of Cuban Agriculture to the ‘Non-State Sector’”

In Cuba, Plans are Imposed Upon Cattle Farmers from an Office and That is Why There is Neither Meat nor Milk

14ymedio, Madrid, January 30, 2023 — Pedro Rubio Tristá is one of the most successful cattle farmers in Las Tunas, he provides many fattening bulls to the government and exceeds the planned meat and milk production. Furthermore, he says he receives payment in hard currency and sells sweet potato to the government at a good … Continue reading “In Cuba, Plans are Imposed Upon Cattle Farmers from an Office and That is Why There is Neither Meat nor Milk”

The Reform of Land Ownership in Cuba is no Longer Expected

14ymedio, Elías Amor Bravo, Economist, 19 January 2023 — Without a doubt, the sector of the Cuban economy worst managed by communist leaders is agriculture. Communist recipes, applied from the first moments of the revolution, with the so-called “agricultural reform,” or the creation of the harmful INRA (National Institute of Agrarian Reform), caused the collapse … Continue reading “The Reform of Land Ownership in Cuba is no Longer Expected”

Cuba’s Economy: Less Control, More Freedom

14ymedio, Elias Amor Bravo, Economist, October 22, 2022 — There is not a single country in the world whose leaders spend as much time, or consume as much energy, revising and perfecting systems for monitoring and controlling the economy as Cuba. If one were to add up all the hours dedicated to this task, they … Continue reading “Cuba’s Economy: Less Control, More Freedom”

The Argument of the Embargo and the Ridiculousness of the Cuban Communist Regime

14ymedio, Elías Amor Bravo, Economist, October 16, 2022 — When a government ignores economic problems, it does so for two reasons. Either because of incompetence, or because there are substantive reasons that prevent the adoption of appropriate measures to meet social demands. Or it can happen as in communist Cuba, where the two converge. For … Continue reading “The Argument of the Embargo and the Ridiculousness of the Cuban Communist Regime”