Powdered milk’s rising tendency on the world market forced a price hike in Cuba’s shops, covered every year with imports of around half of that product for national consumption.
The apparent distancing between the course of the Cuban retail market and the world market trends again was blown to pieces a few days ago: the local authorities agreed to raise the price for powdered milk starting April 4 in view of the continuous price rise in its import.
The presence of the Vietnamese prime minister in Cuba confirmed the intention of expanding bilateral trade.
Cuba is looking toward the Far East though without haste. A visit to Havana by Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in late March confirmed the excellent state of political relations between both countries and the official will to expand bilateral economic links. The statements come after several years of a reduction in common trade ties.
Untimely rains and industrial mistakes are threatening to moderate the 10-year record planned for that agribusiness in the current harvest.
Though some of Cuba’s agricultural regions are starting to send out signs of concern because of the advance of the drought, isolated but intense precipitations in February and March spoiled the march for sugar production in two key months for the harvest. After a first irregular stage, setbacks blamed just on the weather put at risk the growth announced for the 2013-2014 harvest.
Fiction and reality in Chicago: a meeting with Orestes Miñoso.
Chicago can be one of the most attractive and inhospitable cities of the United States. The first capital of U.S. skyscrapers, on the south-western banks of Lake Michigan, it is a mixed-race city, where people of all ethnics and countries coexist, including the Latinos. It is, at the same time, one of the places with the most rigorous winters, since it is also called “Windy City,” the thermal sensation caused by the cold air coming from the great lake can be around 15 degrees Centigrade below what the thermometers mark.
