Cell phone activation cheaper by half

As announced in Granma, the cost to activate a cellphone has dropped from $120 to $65.

With phone in hand, one can purchase prepaid cards that deplete by minute used.

Since the cost of a call is about $0.30/minute, most Cubans that own cellphones use them as pagers--noting the incoming number and calling back on a land line.

Most cellphone owners are city dwellers--predominantly in Havana.

It still can take years to have a land line installed in one's home--and one's place in the waiting list is secured through one's workplace.

Apparently, this slashing of activation rates--which will grow clientele--is prospectively good for business.

Signs of Revolution

“And just when they seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves and things, in creating something that has never yet existed, precisely in such periods of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service and borrow from them names, battle cries and costumes in order to present the new scene of world history in this time-honored disguise and this borrowed language.” --Karl Marx, "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte", 1852.

Billboards

Citizens in Concert

To commemorate the 50th anniverary of the Cuban Revolution, top musical groups will play free open air concerts and there will be other music and dance opportunities across the capitol and the wider island. This is common for holidays such as 1 January or 26 July--but this year will probably be more spectacular than usual--if the state budget allows.

Chéoreographic!

Now showing in Cuban theaters.

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The X-Man met Castro.
Which caused Republicans to exit from the Hispanic Caucus.
Which may have contributed to the vast Democratic gains among Hispanics (after the immigration issue, of course).
Now Obama has chosen the X-Man as lead trade negotiator.
Just saying.

Buff Dude + State Loans + Abandoned Land --> Feed Capitol's Development

"Estoy pegado a la tierra desde niño y aquí seguiré, con mi modesto aporte, para que La Habana pueda responder a los programas de desarrollo que tiene en marcha".

To experienced and capable farmers, the Cuban state is providing the use of forsaken land as well as credits for tools, fertilizer, and seed. The goal is to make efficient use of those willing and talented enough to raise a multitude of crops; to attain economies of scale instead of limiting productive agriculturalists to their original small plot, Soviet tractors, and grunting oxen.

The epigraphic farmer's quote reveals that the rural folks shall grow the crops that feed Havana, as it develops its industrial, medical, scientific, and human capital.

The metropolitan dwellers will have an outstanding debt to their rural compatriots for the foreseeable future.

Generation Why...would I get married if I cant own stuff?

The mainstream global establishment, in search of a courageous hero that does not challenge its core values, continues to heap praise on a Cuban blogger who constantly bemoans and decries the society she finds herself in. She is the perfect cyber-underdog--a dissident who celebrates capitalism. Where else could you find such a combination?

In one of this material girl's latest entries, she says its no use getting married anymore because there is little to no private property for which to enter into the contract.

Capitalist agitators say the damnedest things.