Posted on 07/08/2002 5:57:24 AM PDT by kattracks
CNSNews.com) - Cuba's Castro government has announced it will reduce petroleum imports for the last half of the year, as the communist-run nation continues to experience financial difficulties.
"For June through October it is necessary to have better control and a decrease in the import of combustibles for the generation of electricity," the government said in a statement carried by the official Cuban Communist Party newspaper, Granma.
But the article did not give details of how the imports would be reduced.
Granma also said the Castro government is now lowering prices on flashlights and what it called "other emergency lighting" so Cubans could save on using electricity at home.
But while the Castro government plans to cut its petroleum imports, it also expects to increase food imports from the United States.
The government announced last week that American food companies will have the opportunity to exhibit their products at a Cuban trade fair in Havana on September 26-30.
PWN Exhibicon International LLC of Westport, Conn., in conjunction with the Castro government, announced the trade show last week.
The U.S. Treasury Department granted PWN a license to organize the "U.S. Food and Agribusiness Exhibition," something that is required by law, given the U.S. embargo against Cuba.
About 150 U.S. companies and agricultural agencies and organizations are expected to participate, according to officials.
Cuba, according to government officials, continues to make new deals to buy apples, dried lentils and peas directly from the U.S.
A shipment of apples and other agricultural products from companies in Washington state was delivered to Cuba last month.
Leni
Jimmie Karter, that's the ex-prez schmuck who builds tarpaper slums, no doubt imparted this gem of economic marxist theory to the bearded imbecile who rules Cuber. When will the USA wake up, stop policing areas of the world in which we have no definable interest, and stop tolerating this nation that's only 90 miles off our coast?????
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