A reduction of around 20 per cent for a group of basic food products in the Cuban diet.
The discount in food prices on the network of Cuba’s retail commercial establishments caught Cubans by surprise a few days after the conclusion of the 7th Congress of the Communist Party, held April 16-19.
Specialists consider that information about the artist’s work is insufficient and incomplete in Cuba.
If it weren’t for the Hemingway Museum, the municipality of San Miguel delPadrón would not appear in the capital’s tourist routes due to its peripheral location and the archetypes that don’t see beyond Old Havana, Centro Habana, El Vedado, Miramar and the beaches to the east of Havana. But it is precisely there, in an intricate place of Havana, where one of the most genuine and transcendental figures of Cuban art lived: Antonia Eiriz.
Highly sensitive definitions and long-term programmes discussed at the 7th Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba outline the route for the changes of the nation’s economic model.
The most important Cuban political meeting, the Congress of the Communist Party, agreed to continue with the programme of economic transformations approved five years ago in the country. The principal documents and decisions even propose expanding or making in-depth changes that imply the consolidation, modification or emergence of new actors and structures on the national scene.
Cuban society is demanding in-depth changes so that distributive justice in the economic, social equity and quality of life prosper in it based on the exercise of development opportunities for all, with guarantee for citizens’ exercise of their rights with respect to national sovereignty and the leading and decision-making participation of the population organised territorially in social movements and thinking groups, among other important questions
Paradoxes and questions
Our society is moving toward goals charted in the guidelines for the updating of the economic and social model. While new economic channels were opened in them, the quota of uncertainties, imprecisions and confusion of final objectives, under a clear vision of what type of society would be hoped for, mark their framework and their current practical route.
