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http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2006/12...l/artic01.html
Cuba cerrará el 2006 con un crecimiento del 12,5% en términos del Producto Interno Bruto (PIB), lo que constituye la cifra más elevada de su historia revolucionaria y expresa la tendencia a la consolidación gradual de la economía que se viene observando desde el año 2004, reconoció ayer la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular, presidida por el General de Ejército Raúl Castro Ruz, Primer Vicepresidente de los Consejos de Estado y de Ministros.
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http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1804
Felix’s Miracle and the Convenio Cuba-Venezuela
Felix Jose Espinoza Ledesma is a cab driver in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, and one of the largest and most violent cities in South America. If not for his large print and the way his eyes squint slightly when he reads an address or a phone number, you would never guess that just over a year and a half ago, he was on his deathbed, his vision nearly completely gone, and barely struggling to stay alive.
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His partner decided that something had to be done. She called his former fire department co-workers for help. A phone call that started in motion a process that Felix can only describe as a “miracle.”
One week later, Felix was being wheeled on to the Cubana airliner, too sick to sit up in a wheelchair.
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In Cuba, Felix was moved from Cienfuegos clinic, to Pinar del Rio, to Tarara, to the Pradera International Health Center and elsewhere according to the intensity and type of care needed. He received no less than ten eye operations for his diabetic retinopathy, plus daily rehabilitation, treatment and medicine that, according to Felix, is unavailable in Venezuela. With each step he was slowly rehabilitated back to health.
Once able to walk and well enough to get around, Felix began to give back to the island. He began to sing, and in his words, “did in one year what he hadn’t done in 60 in Venezuela.”
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http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...BA-ECONOMY.xml
Cuba claims fastest economic growth in Americas
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Finance Minister Georgina Barreiro told parliament this year's budget deficit was a bit less than in 2005, coming in at 3.2 percent of GDP despite a jump in spending from 25 billion pesos in 2005 to around 33 billion pesos this year.
Barreiro said spending would rise 9.1 percent in 2007.
Cuba officially pegs the peso at 92 U.S. cents but, at state-run exchange houses, it is valued at less than 5 cents.
The peso budget includes a hidden and often more important foreign exchange budget, according to government sources.
For the first time in many years, no information on Cuba's external finances or trade was provided at the session of the National Assembly, which meets twice a year.
Since the United States began enforcing its decades-old trade embargo on Cuba more strictly in 2004, scarce economic data has become even harder to come by. When provided, it often differs from official to official and report to report.
ECLAC, basing its report on figures provided by the Cuban government, said exports of goods and services were $10.443 billion this year, compared with $7.2 billion in 2005, largely due to a
53 percent rise in service exports.
The report said imports were $10.352 billion, compared with $7.963 billion in 2005.
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There was an increase in international reserves and a slight decrease in the foreign debt," ECLAC said, without providing details.
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http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache...t&ct=clnk&cd=4
Table 2 presents a comparison of the estimated
growth of tourist arrivals to the Caribbean as fore-
casted by the World Tourism Organization versus
ours through the year 2007. Cuba’s share of the visi-
tors to the Caribbean, 7.5% in 1997, will double by
the year 2007 to 15.9%. This suggests that visitors to
Cuba will not only grow in terms of number of
persons—to an estimated four million by the year
2007—but that Cuba will penetrate the market
more intensively than its fair market share.
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...there is no doubt about the fact
that Cuban authorities have made a strong, concert-
ed effort to expand both the supply and the demand
sides of the tourism market.
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Dati e fatti ce ne sono tanti, ma senza questa piccola isola nessuno di noi mai potrebbe sperare di avere il suo piccolo "miracolo" nella vita...
I saccenti tacciano per una volta, e ascoltino.