HAVANA -- Cuba announced Monday it will cast off at least half a million state employees by mid-2011 and reduce restrictions on private enterprise to help them find new jobs -- the most dramatic step yet in President Raul Castro's push to radically remake employment on the communist-run island.
Castro suggested during a nationally televised address on Easter Sunday that as many 1 million Cuban workers -- about one in five -- may be redundant. But the government had not previously laid out specific plans to reduce the work force.
The layoffs will start immediately and continue through the first half of next year, according to the nearly 3 million-strong Cuban Workers Confederation -- the only labor union allowed by the government.
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I swear - what a despicable, sleazy, disgusting man. I can hardly wait to see him go like Mr. Creosote, after eating just one more little thin mint.
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And all Ramadamadingdong churchgoers MUST wear big stag antlers on your heads, foam ones will do, because our great Dear Lord commandeth thus.
The Dear Lord also commandeth that the congregation introduce their day of worship on a Sunday morning at 5am with one full hour of tooting vuvuzelas and car horns at top volume.
At Michael Moore's house.
Or it's not America.
Because that's how we worship our Dear Lord. And you can't tell us the Dear Lord is not true because that is blasphemy and we will be so offended we might kill you.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
