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*Cuba Reforms Text to Hit Newsstands* Posted By *Circles Robinson* On May 7, 2011 @ 7:48 am In *Business & Economy,Recent Posts,Updates* | *No Comments<http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=43081&print=1#comments_controls> * - Tweet <http://twitter.com/share> [1] - Share <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php> [2] - Tweet <http://twitter.com/share> [1] - Share <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php> [2] HAVANA TIMES, May 7 The final draft of the economic reforms approved by the VI Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba will hit the newsstands in tabloid form as of Monday May 9th, reported the official press on Saturday. Besides the text of the reforms themselves, another 48-page document to be sold includes the reasoning behind the changes made in the initial guidelines document, presented to the 1,000 congress delegates and the population in general. The tabloid with the reforms text has a price of one Cuban peso (US 0.04) while the document with the justifications costs two Cuban pesos. ------------------------------ Article printed from Havana Times.org: *http://www.havanatimes.org* URL to article: *http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=43081* URLs in this post: [1] Tweet: *http://twitter.com/share* [2] Share: *http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php* [3] Image: *http://www.linkwithin.com/* *- Havana Times.org - http://www.havanatimes.org -* *What Does It Have to Do with the Chinese?* Posted By *Jorge Milanes* On May 5, 2011 @ 10:33 am In *Jorge Milanes's Diary* | *No Comments<http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=42977&print=1#comments_controls> * - Tweet <http://twitter.com/share> [1] - Share <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php> [2] - Tweet <http://twitter.com/share> [1] - Share <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php> [2] *Jorge Milanes Despaigne * Photo from Havana Chinatown by Caridad. The newspaper Tribuna used to be very much in demand in the 1990s by the Cuban public. Inside it you could find the breakdown on how the rationed food would be distributed in each municipality of the capital city. Although today that section of the paper is threatened with disappearing, since the the basic family food basket (the ration book) is coming to its end, people still look to that newspaper when interested in finding out what will be coming this week to the corner bodega store. On Sunday my mother picked up a copy of the Tribuna, and after reading it for barely a couple minutes, she closed the paper slowly. At the same instant her face reflected concern. It doesnt say anything about coffee! I heard her say. Could it be that theyre going to sell it at market prices? I asked her. Probably, she answered. For Cubans, coffee is like the gasoline that cars need. Without this java they behave like zombies, and when they begin to miss it, they can react extremely violently. If they dont get it, well, it´s like what my mother said On Monday the news across the island was that the coffee ration for May would be sold in the second half of the month and that the quota for children under six years of age would be eliminated. But the most worrisome news was that it would be sold for four pesos per packet (previously these cost 5 pesos each), because 50 percent of its content was going to be blended once again with chicharos (dried and milled peas). At noon I went by the La Escorial café in Old Havana. If previously a kilogram of my favorite brew was expensive there, now they had doubled the price. When I found this out, I recalled my mothers earlier scream: I feel like damning a whole generation of Chinese! she yelled. What happened, mom? What does that have to do with the Chinese? I asked, though not really expecting to understand. I dont know with exact science if she was telling the truth, but with good reason my eyes opened wide: Yeah sonny, the Chinese are to blame for that mixture, because they were the first ones to teach it to us Cubans. You might also like: Eulogy for Rev. 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