- Hadn’t seen this before – Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart is quoted in this El Nuevo Herald column saying that while he supports maintaining sanctions against Cuba, “this does not mean that one cannot talk about the utility of certain measures taken by the Bush Administration in 2004.” (My translation.)
- Talk about Stuck on the Palmetto!
- BBC has a good description of the Cuban real estate market.
- AP reports on a Spain-based e-commerce website that allows you to buy gifts for people in
- Eduardo Arocena was not included in the list of pardons and commutations issued by President Bush last November. The campaign for commutation of his sentence is here; a judge’s description of his acts is here.
the new website from spain, shows how silly is an embargo in which only one country participates.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip.
The new housing reform is a big one. The ability of Cubans to build and own their own homes can almost be seen as an admission of defeat on the housing front. The hurricanes obviously played a role in diverting labor and materials from the housing program but the plan proved ambitious.
ReplyDeleteThis reform will test what I have always considered the biggest barrier to many economic reforms in Cuba - the ability of people in (or with connections to) Miami to take over. It is not hard to forsee a huge shadow housing market, with foreign money footing the bill (this is common many place). We will see how Cuba deals with that side-effect. If Cubans will be able to buy building materials with pesos that will be an important distinction.