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The Agricultural Development Development Fund Has Been a Failure

14ymedio, Elías Amor Bravo, Economist, 3 October 2022 — One of the most resounding failures of the 63 measures approved by the Cuban communist regime to increase agricultural production has been the so-called Agricultural Development Fund. One year after its creation, the balance sheet cannot be more demoralizing. The official state newspaper Granma explicitly recognizes … Continue reading “The Agricultural Development Development Fund Has Been a Failure”

Cuban Government Raises Fines for Not Declaring Livestock From 50 to 20,000 Pesos

14ymedio, Havana, 30 August 2022 — Farmers who don’t declare their large livestock face much higher fines than the current ones, since the sanctions rise sharply, increasing from a 50 peso fine for not declaring an animal, to 20,000 pesos. The amount had been stagnant since the approval of the 1997 decree that regulated the … Continue reading “Cuban Government Raises Fines for Not Declaring Livestock From 50 to 20,000 Pesos”

In Desperation: Foreign Investment in Trade, Under the Control of the Cuban State

14ymedio, Elías Amor Bravo, Valencia (Spain), 16 August 2022 — No one was calmed by the appearance on State TV’s Roundtable show of Betsy Díaz Velázquez, Minister of Internal Trade, and Ana Teresita González Fraga, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade. The officials used their appearance to announce alleged changes in the role of foreign … Continue reading “In Desperation: Foreign Investment in Trade, Under the Control of the Cuban State”

Can State-owned Enterprises Change the Ways of Thinking and Redesign Production Processes?

14ymedio, Elías Amor Bravo, Economist, July 7, 2022 — Before the next International Congress of Business Management and Public Administration to be held in Havana until July 8, the Deputy Minister of Economy, Johana Odriozola, has made statements to the official newspaper Granma that have been published under the title “Transformations in the Cuban business … Continue reading “Can State-owned Enterprises Change the Ways of Thinking and Redesign Production Processes?”

Who Rules in Cuba Today?

14ymedio, Reinaldo Escobar, Havana, 15 June 2022 — It has been the reading of El tirano, el oficial y el cuerpo de lobos [The tyrant, the official and the wolf pack] by colleague Carlos Manuel Álvarez, which has motivated me to write this text, which neither argues nor attempts to add anything to his article, but … Continue reading “Who Rules in Cuba Today?”

Freedom, Private Property Rights, Market and Profitability in the Cuban Countryside

14ymedio, Elías Amor Bravo, Economist, 30 May 2022 — Cuban president Díaz-Canel wants to sound like Fidel Castro, but it’s hard. That way of approaching problems, as if he had a magic wand and the solution to everything, is leading him along the path to perdition. Castro did the same thing. Even when a threatening … Continue reading “Freedom, Private Property Rights, Market and Profitability in the Cuban Countryside”

But What Good Practices Are They Going to Substitute in Cuban Agriculture?

14ymedio, Elías Amor Bravo, Economist, 29 May 2022 — Is the agricultural situation in Cuba really going to be substituting “good practices” to increase the production of food, vegetables, grains and fruits? Well, it seems that this is what they did in the National Plenary of Cooperatives and Advanced Producers of the Productive Poles of … Continue reading “But What Good Practices Are They Going to Substitute in Cuban Agriculture?”

No. The Cuban Agricultural Sector is Not Doing Well

14ymedio, Elías Amor Bravo, Economist, 25 May 2022 — The worst thing that can be done to a person is to deceive him or take him for a fool, or both at the same time. This is what can be concluded from the Round Table program in which the Castroite Minister of Agriculture, Ydael Pérez, … Continue reading “No. The Cuban Agricultural Sector is Not Doing Well”

Cuba Must Import More than 500,000 Tons of Rice this Year

14ymedio, Madrid, 22 February 2022 — In the recent donations arriving in Cuba, there is no lack of one product: rice. The most recent shipment of this type was 300 tons purchased in Colombia by the Chinese company Yutong and destined for Havana. A drop in the middle of the ocean, since the island needs … Continue reading “Cuba Must Import More than 500,000 Tons of Rice this Year”

The Problem is Not Hunger, but Cubans’ Excessive Appetite, Opines Frei Betto

14ymedio, Havana, 26 December 2021 — “In Cuba there is no hunger. But the Cubans have a lot of appetite!” affirmed the Brazilian Frei Betto in a recent text published by the State newspaper Granma. In his writing, the theologian and sympathizer of the regime argues that the Government of the Island spends two billion … Continue reading “The Problem is Not Hunger, but Cubans’ Excessive Appetite, Opines Frei Betto”

Government Raises Payments to Cuban Dairy Farmers to Attempt to Increase Production

14ymedio, Havana, 2 November 2021 — Fresh cow’s milk has a new price in Cuba after dozens of farmers complained about the low cost and denounced the incompetence in the collection of the product in various parts of the country. As reported by the Ministries of Food Industry and Agriculture, from this Monday it will have a maximum … Continue reading “Government Raises Payments to Cuban Dairy Farmers to Attempt to Increase Production”

Cuba’s Province With the Most Livestock Yields No More than Eight Liters of Milk per Producer

14ymedio, Havana, 22 September 2021 — The official press celebrates that the Evelio Rodríguez Curbelo cooperative, from the municipality of Jimaguayú, Camagüey, reached an annual production of one million liters of cow’s milk. “It reached this goal for the tenth year in a row,” an article reported this Wednesday. The feat is a mirage. In … Continue reading “Cuba’s Province With the Most Livestock Yields No More than Eight Liters of Milk per Producer”

Cuban Agriculture and Valdes Mesa, Where the Water Enters the Coconut

Elías Amor Bravo, Economist, July 23, 2021 – Valdés Mesa seems to have finally discovered “where the water enters the coconut.” Cuba’s State newspaper Granma took a headline from a phrase he used in a meeting with farmers in the provinces of Sancti Spiritus and Ciego de Ávila: “The first one who has to win … Continue reading “Cuban Agriculture and Valdes Mesa, Where the Water Enters the Coconut”

Cuba: With the Exception of Fines, the Economy of Sancti Spiritus is on the Doldrums

14ymedio, Havana, 18 June 2021 — Some 53% of the people of Sancti Spíritus who go to an employment office reject the offer of work, as revealed by the provincial authorities, who have not explained the arguments offered by more than half the population for not wanting the job proposed to them. Of the more than 8,200 people … Continue reading “Cuba: With the Exception of Fines, the Economy of Sancti Spiritus is on the Doldrums”

‘Killing a Cow is Not News in the Rest of the World,’ But in Cuba, Yes

14ymedio, Havana, 7 June 2021 — Around 6% of Camagüey’s cattle ranchers will be able to eat their cattle and sell them, according to the calculations of the authorities. The province, historically the one with the greatest potential for the sector, celebrated in style over the weekend the first slaughters and sale of meat of the farmers who have … Continue reading “‘Killing a Cow is Not News in the Rest of the World,’ But in Cuba, Yes”