Showing posts with label Castro. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

CUBA WINS VOTE IN UNITED NATIONS


U.S Embassy in Havana Cuba

U.N, VOTES LIFT U.S. EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA
UNITED NATIONS (New York) — The United Nations General Assembly Voted 21 years in a row to condemn the  50 year old American embargo against the Latin Caribbean island of Cuba.

The vote was 188 for, with only 3 against with Israel and Palau joining the United States and three countries abstaining.

Last year the vote was almost the same with 186-2, and 3 countries abstentions.

 This brings the Cuba-American embargo to teh forefront  of one of the worlds most useless political actions against any country in modern history.

All the countires of the modern world are clearly telling telling U.S President Barack Obama to put an end to this ridiculous blockade against the people of Cuba.

As always the poor people of Cuba are the only ones that are suffering under the inhuman American Embargo.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

CUBA BREAKS RECORD IN HAVANA VARADERO

Bikini Tourist Girl on Holiday on Varadero Beach  1 hour east of Havana Cuba

 Cuba Breaks Tourist Record

Cuban Tourist arrivals in Havana broke the Caribbean record in the first four months of 2012 stated the Cuban Ministry of Tourism and Statistic Bureau.

Holiday vacationers to Cuba, Varadero, Matanzas, Cayo Coco, Trinidad and this Caribbean island beach paradise reached 1.24 million since April this year, up over 5.2 percent over the same period in 2011, the Cuban tourism and Insurance bureau said, adding that the previous Cuban Health, Travel & Insurance record produced a ten percent increase in revenue.

Since April, 2012, Cuba, Havana, Trinidad, Cayo Largo & Varadero beaches received 300,000 tourists, over 15,000 more tourist than in 2011. Cuba's top tourism partner is still Canada the most valuable source of Cuban tourists, followed by France, Argentina, Germany, Russia and Mexico.

The United States American tourist are the fastest  growing tourist sector with over 100,000 Cuban Americans travel to Cuba in the past year with millions more Americans expected to vacation in Cuba as soon as U.S. President Obama lifts the American travel restrictions.
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cuba (Photo credit: citronate)

Cuba is banking on health insurance and medical tourism to serve as a the financial engine of growth to help the future development of other social, medical and economic projects, the Cuban government aims at receiving over 3 million tourists in 2012.

Cuban Investments in Tourism up significantly

Havana Cuban tourism hotel imports and exports were up 20 percent during the first quarter of 2012, compared with the same period in 2011, due mainly to the visit of the Pope to Cuba which resulted in increased income from tourism, Cuban travel, Health Insurance and health care services reported the Ministry of Cuban Banking and Finance.

This financial profit follows a 20 percent rise in exports according to experts at the Foreign Trade Ministry. Increasing Cuba tourist is good news for Cuban President Raul Castro and his efforts to boost Cuba's debt-ridden economy by increasing export income and decreasing imports.

In 2010 Cuba's exports totaled $14.2 billion according to preliminary figures with Cuba's exports rose 10 percent compared to 2011, 15 percent of which was tourism, Cuban hotels and the remainder health and travel insurance services. The financial profits earned from tourism insurance services are accounted for by tourism and health care assistance. In Varadero tourist grew over 10 percent in April according to the Cuban National Statistics Office.

As a bonus for protecting the health care of foreign tourist in Cuba some 40,000 Cuban professionals, most from the health care sector, are working in the tourist sector in Varadero, Cayo Coco, Trinidad, Matanzas, Havana and also in oil-rich Venezuela and the bulk of earnings go to the Cuban government.

Cuba health care sector exports similar Insurance and surgery laser technical services to some 30 other countries with service category income that also includes communications and revenues from hospitals and  joint ventures.

After 10 years of investing in Cuban tourism hotel sector Castro's investment funds appears to have paid off in order to boost exports and reduce imports which have resulted in annual trade surpluses averaging $2 billion since the first Cuban Investment back in 1990.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

TRAVEL & MONEY IN CUBA

 
Big Money in Cuba Travel
 CUBA TRAVEL INVESTMENT FUNDS

Cuba is where the smart money is traveling especially now that Cuba is open to American Vacations and American businessmen. Miami Florida is only 90 miles away and the Pope is traveling to Cuba next month for discussion with Fidel Raul Castro and President Obama regarding the opening up of Cuba to American Travel.

Let take a closer look at the potential for Money and investment in Cuba resorts.

CUBA INVESTMENT
Cuba is located between many other popular tourist destinations in the Caribbean region, has great deals for the leisure industry, backed millions of Canadian, European and even American tourists to the largest of the Antilles. Cuba is abundant in pristine nature perfect for Eco tourism, old traditional fortresses, millionaire mansions and historic castles all come together in an area over 110 sq. km with over 5800 km of coastline with stunning white sand beaches many of them discovered only on Cuban shores.

These natural advantages combined with Cuba's tropical climate, fine soft  white sand, clear warm waters, provide a vacation experience that is impossible for Holiday vacationers to ignore. Plus the fact that the price of a Cuba Vacation has fallen to record Cheap Cuba Hotel prices. The island of Cuba has a year round average temperature of 24.6 degrees Celsius with a soft cool breeze that  blows across the excellent Cuban beaches of white sands and clear waters that act as a  unique attraction for All inclusive tourist and sophisticated Investors as well.

HAVANA INVESTMENT
In Havana the magnificent Playa del Este beaches of La Habana, are located on the Blue Circuit, or Costa Azul,  with over 15 kilometers of beaches and coastline, with the most popular being the place known as Santa Maria del Mar.

Another place for Cuban investment is Jibacoa which captures the attention of visitors, thanks to the unique calm waters, flanked by hills up to 100 meters parallel to the coast, with a nice sense of privacy. This investment property is under a Canadian Joint Venture with Leisure Canada to build a luxury golf resort with views of the beach on one side and hotel resort with Golf on the other.

VARADERO INVESTMENT
The next investment resort area in Cuba is the legendary millionaire Vacation hideaway, Varadero beach with the first investment hotels in Cuba by Melia Varadero Beach & Golf resorts. Varadero Cuba is considered by many sophisticated hotel investors as the best beach in Cuba to place their investment money, however all the first line beach properties are all full of 4 & 5 Star resorts. Varadero accounts for 22 of the miles of Cuban beaches full of baby blue clear waters and white sands. Definitely one of the best places in Cuba to invest in hotels and golf resorts.

Cuban beaches areas in the Isle of Youth are laced with  black sand, like the striking Bibijagua Beach or brown beaches in Marea del Portillo, in the eastern Cuban province of Granma.

Trinidad Hotels is in the central Cuban island just south near Ancon Peninsula holds the merit of having the best of Cuban beaches of the South Coast, with steep seabed topography and abundant presence of priceless black coral which is prefect for Gold and high priced luxury Jewelry.

On the northern coast of Cuba we have the Keys or Cayo's of Villa Clara, precious beaches of Cayo Santa Maria with 13 km, wide stretches of sand and sea virtually untouched by human eyes, ready to delight the most demanding tourist and sophisticated Cuban hotel investor.

Beach on Cayo Coco island, Cuba
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CUBA BEACH INVESTMENT
For some fantasy vacation lawyers and beach investors, Santa Lucia Beach in Camaguey province qualifies as paradise found as a hidden Eden and one of the best beaches of Cuba and the world, with cream-colored sands and facilities to practice all water sports, surrounded by Hundreds of bright Pink Flamingos.  Santa Lucia has huge coral reefs-rated by many scuba diving investors and tourist alike as the second largest coral reef in the world-that protects the area and extends over 400 km parallel to Cayo Sabinal, Guajaba, Romano and Cruz.

American Resort Developers will marvel at the fabulous beaches of Jardines del Rey, one of the main tourist resorts in the country, 30 miles of unspoiled Cuban beaches await vacationers on Cayo Coco and Cayo Guillermo considered by many as Cuba & the worlds best Beach island resort.

In Eastern Cuba Holguín has a key position as hotel and travel money have been pouring into new resorts as tourist book hotels to the limit.  Holguin Beach's  Bariay point  is where Christopher Columbus landing back in 1492, , accompanied by well-known Spanish conquistadors in the world of Cuban beaches extraordinaire such as Guardalavaca, Playa Esmeralda and Pesquero.

 It seems the Spanish Conquistadors were in Fact the very first tourism investors of Cuba over 500 years ago. Today's money seems to need a place to achieve higher rates of return on our investment giving Cuba a natural place in our travel category for investors with a high risk investment portfolio.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011

CUBA FREE'S PRISONERS

Map of Cuba, showing the Bay of Pigs
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Cuba Pardons 3,000  Political Prisoners
The Council of State agreed to release 2,900 prisoners, among them inmates who are more than 60 years old or are ailing, women and young people who don't have long criminal records, the island's Prensa Latina news agency reported Friday.

Cuba said those convicted of serious crimes such as murder, espionage or drug trafficking would not be part of the amnesty, though it added that some people convicted of political crimes were on the release list. No details on when the releases will occur were given.

"Some people condemned for crimes against state security will be freed," read an official government communique cited by Prensa Latina. "All of them have completed an important portion of their sentence and shown good behavior."


No mention was made of Alan Gross, American government subcontractor arrested in 2009 and sentenced to 15 years in jail for crimes against the state. That case has frozen already icy relations between Washington and Havana.

Cuba this year freed the last of some 75 political prisoners arrested in a notorious 2003 sweep. While others remain jailed for politically motivated crimes, most of those were involved in acts of violence such as hijacking.

Rights group Amnesty International no longer includes any Cuban prisoners among its list of "prisoners of conscience" around the world.

In another development, President Raul Castro put on ice highly anticipated plans to ease travel restrictions on Cubans, telling lawmakers the nation would not be pressured into moving too fast and citing continued aggression from the United States as the reason for his cautious approach.

Free-market reforms

Cuba has been awash in speculation the much-hated regulations, which prevent most Cubans from leaving the island, might be lifted during Friday's session of the National Assembly. But Castro said the time still wasn't right, despite a year of free-market reforms that has seen the Communist government legalize a real estate market and increase private business ownership.

"Some have been pressuring us to take the step ... as if we were talking about something insignificant, and not the destiny of the revolution," Castro said, adding that those calling for an end to the travel restrictions "are forgetting the exceptional circumstances under which Cuba lives, encircled by the hostile policy … of the U.S. government."

Castro criticized U.S. President Barack Obama, saying he was the 11th American president since the 1959 revolution led by his brother Fidel, and appeared "not to understand" the sacrifices Cuba had made in its struggle for independence and sovereignty, including the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, as well as Washington's 49-year trade and travel embargo.

"Sometimes, he [Obama] gives the impression he has not even been informed of this reality," Castro said, repeating his willingness to normalize relations with the U.S. under the right conditions.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

CUBA ARRESTS CUBA GOLF HOTEL INVESTOR

Havana, CubaImage via WikipediaCUBA CRACKS DOWN ON HOTEL CORRUPTION.
Cuban Government stops Cuba’s ambitious golf development for corruption. Hotel and golf plans and a major port expansion for the top executive of a Cuban investment group was thrown in jail
 in Havana Cuba during a sweep of investigations of alleged corruption among Cuban companies and foreign investors in Cuba.

The Cuban secret security police arrested Amado Fakhre, of Coral Capital Group Ltd.CEO & president of Coral Capital Group, one of the biggest investors in Cuba owners of the Havana Saratoga Hotel. No news about the wherabouts of Amado were released. Could be that Cuba is cleaning up the deep coruption that is a regular part of doing business with Cuba or its just another way of getting rid of foreign investors and parting them of their millions of dollars in Investment. Whatever Cuba's reasoning the only thing certain is that this is only the begining. As they say in Cuba if the Castro brothers really want to clean up corruption in Cuba they are going to have to put everyone in jail. Yes Corruption really runs that deep in Cuba. In fact its part of the daily air that the Cuban breathe every day. Just ask anyone that has done business in Cuba or better still ask any Cuban.


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Money & Travel in Cuba