Posted : Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:44:15 GMT
By : dpa
Havana - Cuba's parliament, the National Assembly, met Sunday to discuss
the country's current economic situation and possible reforms, in the
presence of President Raul Castro.
Although he has made eight public appearances in the past two weeks,
former leader Fidel Castro, 83, was not at the meeting of 600 deputies.
The assembly discussed progress on a variety of current economic woes,
from poor productivity, bureaucracy to corruption, with some of the
blame put on the global economic recession and natural weather disasters.
Sugar and coffee production, two of the mainstays of Cuba's export
economy, are both dramatically down.
When Raul Castro took over rule of the Caribbean communist island from
his brother two years ago, a raft of reforms and initiatives were
promised, but a proposed experiment to allow hairdressers and taxi
drivers to earn money privately appears to have been culled, after
Vice-President José Ramón Machado said he would not allow such
"improvisations."
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