Cuba News articles from October 2000

Cuba News archives from October 2000

International trademark treaty becomes enmeshed in rum war.(Cuba, liquor industry)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... WASHINGTON -- The rum war between Bacardi and a Cuban-French joint venture has dashed hopes that the Senate will improve an international trademark treaty this year and threatens to provoke new trans-Atlantic frictions. The Senate Foreign...

Congress agrees to limited trade with Cuba.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Measure is broadest opening to island in decades WASHINGTON -- After months of bitter debate, the US Congress has approved a plan that would allow largely unrestricted commercial sales of food sales to Cuba - the first since 1962. However,...

Politics govern decisions of agency with control over Cuban food imports.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... When all the activities associated with foreign trade were nationalized by the Cuban government as part of an effort to establish a state monopoly on foreign trade in 1960, 26 enterprises were founded to deal with all operations involving...

Key provisions of the legislation allowing US trade with Cuba.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... WASHINGTON -- The anti-sanctions package approved by Congress in October includes the following provisions: * It allows, for the first time in 38 years, commercial sales of agricultural products to Cuban state companies, including Alimport,...

US businesses say Cuba will buy despite protests over embargo deal.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... WASHINGTON -- Georgia agriculture representatives who've just made a trip to Cuba are confident they'll be able to trade with the island's government, despite protests from Havana that a new congressional deal that allows the food and medical...

Cuba postpones chamber of commerce trip.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... WASHINGTON -- The Cuban Chamber of Commerce, a government entity, has postponed a trip to the United States by more than 30 Cuban farmers and restaurant owners that had been planned for this month. When he visited Havana last year, US...

Clinton Administration strikes deal on Brothers to the Rescue judgment.(Bill Clinton, President, United States)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... WASHINGTON -- After years of failed efforts to collect money from the Cuban government, the families of slain Brothers to the Rescue pilots have reached a deal with the US government that means they may soon receive about half of their $187.6...

US marina industry eyes expanding Cuban boating sector.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... US boating industry executives say they are anxious for the United States to lift the trade embargo against Cuba. If one were to look for a place to build the ideal boating facility, Cuba would be it. Draped across the northern edge of the...

Cayo Largo del Sur grows as tourist destination.(Cuba)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Even with the expected opening in November of the Sol Club Cayo Largo hotel on the Cayo Largo island, this hub will have 1,023 rooms, well behind Havana, Varadero or even the Key Coco-Guillermo hubs. However, the latest four-star, 304-room...

High oil prices, lagging tourism sector hit economy.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Cuba's announced 7.7% economic growth in the first half of the year spurred official confidence that the economy may beat projections for a 4.5% increase in gross domestic product this year. The optimistic mood however, may be undermined by...

Commercial Consolidators to sell Sony in Cuban market.(television sets on sale)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Canada's Commercial Consolidators Corp. and partner S.J. Electronica del Caribe have reached an agreement with Sony Panama to distribute mono and stereo model televisions in Cuba. Sony will provide the components, equipment and tools necessary...

Venezuelan oil plan to include Cuba.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... CARACAS -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said his government will sign an agreement to sell oil under soft terms to a number of countries in Central America and the Caribbean, including Cuba. Mexico and Venezuela already are partners in...

Vice President Carlos Lage seeks Japan's financial help.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... HAVANA -- During a three-day trip to Tokyo in early October, Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage met with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori to push for financial backing from the Asian nation. The signing of a debt rescheduling agreement...

Mexico expels Cuban diplomat on spy charges.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... WASHINGTON -- The government of Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo was criticized by the United States for deporting a Cuban diplomat who wanted to defect. Pedro Anibal Riera Escalante, 49, was arrested in Mexico City Oct. 3 and repatriated the...

U.S.-Cuba migration talks fail.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... WASHINGTON--Havana and Washington finally agreed to meet to discuss migration talks, but long-held grievances, and a stolen crop duster, prevented any progress. Biannual talks between the two nations had stalled since last December,...

Ongoing problems in construction sector delays hotels.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... The construction industry has long been one of the worst performing sectors in the Cuban economy, frequently failing to meet targets for new housing and other buildings. The problems in the sector read like a laundry list of how not to run...

CubaNews Products & Services.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Business Guide to Cuba The Business Guide to Cuba is the most comprehensive and authoritative research report on Cuban business and politics available. With more than 300 pages of exclusive information, data and maps on all of the...

COMMODITY EXPORT MARKETS.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Rising energy prices continue bruising the Cuban economy, offsetting gains stemming from stronger sugar and nickel prices. Crude oil spot prices motored above $32 a barrel in September, marking a 10-year high. Cuba planned to spend $1...

FACTS AND STATISTICS.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Cuban exports to Mexico in 1999 $238 million Cuban exports to Mexico in 1996 $320 million Immigrant visas given by the US government to Cuba nationals in 1999 24,149 Number of direct tourism jobs in 1990 ...

Fidelismo.(Fidel Castro)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... A monthly report on Cuba's maximum leader Fidel's Travel Plans Although the audience at Fidel Castro's Sept. 9 speech at the Riverside Baptist Church in Harlem was not sure how long his talk would last (it ran more than three hours)...

A communist musketeer.(honorary title bestowed on Eumelio Caballero Rodriguez, Cuban ambassador to France)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... Cuba's ambassador to France Eumelio Caballero Rodriguez has been named an honorary musketeer by a descendent of one of the members of the band of sword fighters made famous in the Alexander Dumas novel "The Three Musketeers." The naming of...

RUMOR OF THE DAY.(alleged political training given to Roberto Robaima, former Cuban official)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2000... HAVANA -- Disgraced former Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina is undergoing political reeducation as part of an effort to prepare him for some sort of future role in the Cuban government. Robaina was sacked last year after clashing with Fidel...