{"id":98606,"date":"2017-07-20T06:04:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T10:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oncubamagazine.com\/?p=98606"},"modified":"2017-07-19T21:09:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T01:09:42","slug":"raul-castro-autonomous-work-will-not-back-down-or-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/economy\/cuban-economy\/raul-castro-autonomous-work-will-not-back-down-or-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Ra\u00fal Castro: autonomous work will not back down or stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Ra\u00fal Castro affirmed last Friday that \u201cstigmas or prejudices\u201d will not be allowed regarding self-employment on the island and asked the incipient private sector to respect the laws and comply with its tax-paying obligations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The Cuban president pointed out in his speech of the first of the two annual plenary meetings of the National Assembly of People\u2019s Power (Parliament) that the functioning of self-employment and the non-agricultural cooperative will not back down or stop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">In Cuba, where for decades the State had the absolute control over the workforce, today there are more than half a million private workers and 400 cooperatives whose flourishing forms part of the reforms promoted by the Cuban president to update the economic model.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Although the president, according to what the state-run media reported, recognized the \u201cvalidity\u201d of those forms as sources of employment and their \u201cacceptable quality levels,\u201d he also deplored \u201cthe occurrence of deviations and illegalities in the exercise of the new forms of work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">He cited among those illegalities the use of raw materials and equipment of illegal origin, tax evasion and the inadequacies in state control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The Cuban government recently announced the approval of new control measures to regulate self-employment and keep in check those problems, but they still haven\u2019t been made public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">In addition, Parliament approved in an extraordinary session last June the latest version of the \u201cRa\u00falista\u201d reforms, which recognize the existence of private enterprise within the new socialist model although they ratify that the accumulation of wealth or property will not be allowed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The Cuban president admitted that when applying those reforms there has been \u201can excess of enthusiasm and wishes to advance at a faster pace than we are actually capable of.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The president also confirmed that the Cuban GDP grew 1.1 percent in the first semester of the year, an \u201cencouraging\u201d data after 2016 registered a negative result of 0.9 percent, the country\u2019s first recession in 23 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">However, he recognized the existence in this period of financial tensions and problems with the availability of fuel. He was referring to the repercussion on Cuba of the crisis in Venezuela, a country that according to foreign estimates has reduced by half its shipments of subsidized oil to the island, which last April led to restrictions in the sale of premium gasoline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">He highlighted, on the other hand, positive aspects like the improvement of the domestic currency balance and maintaining free education and healthcare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">He also underlined the \u201crigorous carrying out\u201d of the financial commitments with the principal creditors, one of the country\u2019s priorities after the agreement to reorganize the debt achieved in December 2015 with the Paris Club member countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">According to what Minister of the Economy Ricardo Cabrisas announced on Friday to Parliament, between January and June the island paid 2.306 billion dollars to its creditors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">However, there are still delays in the payment to suppliers, recognized Castro, who insisted on the will to settle those debts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>NO LESSONS ON HUMAN RIGHTS FROM THE U.S, OR ANYBODY<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The Cuban president affirmed that on human rights Cuba has many achievements about which it feels proud and \u201cdoesn\u2019t have to receive lessons from the United States or anybody else,\u201d in what was his first public mention of the change of policy of the Donald Trump administration toward the island, announced in June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">In his address to the Cuban Parliament\u2019s plenary meeting Ra\u00fal Castro considered those measures an \u201cintensification of the unilateral siege\u201d and warned that any strategy to \u201cdestroy the Revolution through coercion or other subtle measures\u201d will fail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The Cuban president, according to the state-run media\u2019s reports, described the new measures announced by Trump last June 16 in Miami, which subordinate the ties with the island to respect for human rights, the holding of free elections and the release of political prisoners, as a \u201crollback\u201d in bilateral relations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The Trump Republican administration has intensified some of the regulations of the economic embargo on Cuba that his predecessor, Barack Obama, relaxed as part of the diplomatic thaw between Cuba and the United States initiated in December 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">The changes approved by Trump include banning Americans from doing business with companies linked to the GAESA state conglomerate, considered the economic arm of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and with commercial interests in many sectors, especially tourism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Trump also announced his intention of imposing new restrictions for Americans\u2019 travel to Cuba, who although they still can\u2019t travel to the island as tourists have already become the second issuing market of visitors thanks to the facilities that Obama gave to \u201cpeople-to-people\u201d contacts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">For Ra\u00fal Castro, those measures \u2013 which will be officially announced by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) next September 15 \u2013 imply \u201cthe return to an old and hostile rhetoric, proper of the cold war.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a> <span lang=\"en-US\">The Cuban president insisted that Trump\u2019s decisions have no knowledge of the support of extensive U.S. sectors and of the majority of the Cuban diaspora in that country for the \u201clifting of the economic, commercial and financial blockade and the normalization of relations, while they satisfy a small Florida group.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">However, Ra\u00fal Castro, who will leave the Cuban presidency in February 2018, reaffirmed the island\u2019s will to continue the dialogue and cooperation with the United States and the negotiation of pending matters \u201cbased on equality and respect for Cuban sovereignty and independence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span lang=\"en-US\">Cuba and the United States can cooperate and coexist respecting the differences and promoting all that which benefits our peoples,\u201d specified 86-year-old Castro, who presided last Friday over the regular session of the National Assembly of Cuba in which laws were approved about the management of water and climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">OnCuba \/ EFE<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ra\u00fal Castro affirmed last Friday that \u201cstigmas or prejudices\u201d will not be allowed regarding self-employment on the island and asked the incipient private sector to respect the laws and comply with its tax-paying obligations. 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