The Cuban Triangle: Odds and ends

Monday, October 29, 2007

Odds and ends

Fix your bookmarks: In a new format and with a new design, the indispensable Penultimos Dias re-launched yesterday. Url: http://www.penultimosdias.com/

Cuban oil and gas production: growing, according to Carlos Lage, but still short of what’s needed for self-sufficiency.

What Granma printed, and what it omitted from the Bush speech: the Herald did the comparison (pdf).

Thinking of going to Cuba for medical care? I ran across this press release from this company in Canada; seems a lot less cheesy than this U.S. site, with the photo of the coco-taxis.

1 comment:

leftsideOctober 31, 2007 at 3:48 AM
The omitions from the Granma translation of Bush's speach might be more interesting if Cuban TV didn't also air an uninterupted 15 minute portion of the speech. But I don't see any kind of pattern - to cover up certain things or not - in the deletions. It seems like an honest attempt to make a long speach digestable, while not avoiding the main points.
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