Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Odds and ends

  • A BBC Spanish roundup of the “thousands of debates” taking place in workplaces across Cuba. Foreign reporters have not witnessed them directly, but a hospital worker and communist youth official told BBC that workers complained about pay, work conditions, the dual-currency system, and “bad conditions” in hospitals. He wondered how it is possible that the health sector earns hard currency by providing medical services abroad, but has not raised the pay of its personnel in Cuba.

1 comment:

Fantomas said...

Raul said to the people start talking and complain if you must

He will never be able to silence them again if they ever start talking more freely