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* By Jesús R. Mercader Uguina All Member States of the International Labor Organization (ILO), including Cuba, are committed to the respect of the principles and fundamental rights established by international labor law, and in particular to those included in the Declaration of the ILO with regards to labor principles and basic rights. The Declaration […]

* Jaime Suchlicki Myth # 1: Fidel Castro was a naive, Robin Hood revolutionary when he reached power. Realities:• Fidel Castro was a seasoned revolutionary by the time he reached power in 1959.• He had received military training during preparations in Cuba in 1947 for an expedition against Dominican Republic’s dictator Rafael Trujillo.• He participated in

* Jaime Suchlicki U.S. investors hoping to do business in Cuba face numerous problems/issues which include the resolution of U.S. properties confiscated by the Cuban government in the early 1960s; an arbitrary legal system controlled by Gen. Raul Castro and the military; widespread corruption; a value system that includes stealing from enterprises and working as

* By Jaime Suchlicki Faithful to Lenin’s ideas that the school should “educate and prepare members of the Communist society,” the Castro revolution used education as the instrument to build the new society – to develop the socialist man. Speaking of the educational aims of the revolutionary regime, party Organization Secretary Armando Hart explained that the