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Revision as of 18:47, 16 May 2007 by Jakeburrows09 (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)| year = 2001 | month =December 6 | url =http://www.fas.usda.gov/htp/highlights/2001/IATR/cubaiatr.pdf | title =Cuba’s Sugar Industry and the Impact of Hurricane Michele | publisher =International Agricultural Trade Report | accessdate =2006-07-09 }}</ref> Cuba holds 6.4% of the global market for nickel which constitutes about 25% of total Cuban exports. Recently, large reserves of oil were found in the North Cuba Basin leading US Congress members Jeff Flake and Larry Craig to call for a repeal of the US embargo of Cuba.
Military
Main article: Military of CubaUnder Fidel Castro, Cuba became a highly militarized society. From 1975 until the late 1980s, massive Soviet military assistance enabled Cuba to upgrade its military capabilities. Since the loss of Soviet subsidies Cuba has dramatically scaled down the numbers of military personnel, from 235,000 in 1994 to about 60,000 in 2003. The government now spends roughly 1.7% of GDP on military expenditures. The present Minister for the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) is Raúl Castro, Fidel Castro's brother, who had played a major part as a leader in the Cuban Revolution. In April and May of 2007 a series of reports "La Nueva Cuba" (a significant Cuban-exile news source) documents at least three attempts of Cuban army recruits to flee and suggests that that there is conflict between Raul and the Cuban Communist Party .
See also
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Notes
- "Global Nickel Mine Production 2002". 2002. Retrieved 2006-08-23.
- Frank, Marc (2002). "Cuba's 2002 nickel exports top 70,000 tonnes". Center for International Policy. Retrieved 2006-07-09.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - Smith-Spark, Laura (2006). "Cuba oil prospects cloud US horizon". BBC. Retrieved 2006-12-09.
- Cuban army called key in any post-Castro scenario Anthony Boadle Reuters 2006
External links
- Official
- Template:En icon Granma — International edition of Communist Party of Cuba Newspaper
- Template:En icon Government of Cuba
- List of members of the Council of State
- Template:En icon Cuban News Agency — Cuban News
- Template:Es icon http://www.cu/ — Cuban Portal
- General
- CUBANET — An anti-Castro site including news articles from Cuba's independent journalists and a digest of Cuban news by international newspapers
- Cuba Solidarity — British campaign "for the defence of Cuba and its peoples' right to self-determination and national sovereignty." - favors current government
- Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports regarding Cuba
- Cuba Inside Out — History, currents, commentary, resources
- Cuba Photos — Cuba travel pictures made by Dutch photographer Rado Vleugel
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