For the next 5 years, Cuba will receive about 151.7 million dollars from the United Nations to implement programs that improve the quality of life of the Cuban people.
The money would be administered by different institutions of the Cuban state, many of which are directly tied to Raúl Castro’s family.
Among the favored organizations are the National Center for Sexual Education (CENESEX ) directed by Raul's daughter, Mariela Castro and the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) who was presided over by Raul’s late wife. His daughter Debora Castro, currently exerts substantial power within the FMC.
Others include the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) where Fidel 's son, Antonio Castro Soto del Valle is Vice President of the Cuban Baseball Federation and is very influential, and BIOCUBAFARMA whose president, Jose Antonio Fraga Castro, is the Cuban president’s nephew.
There is also the Ministry of Public Health, consisting of health centers among which are two clinics equipped with the latest technology and supervised by Fidel Castro's wife, Dalia Soto.
Only CENESEX and another small set of government institutions would benefit from investment amounts of nearly 34 million dollars of the total UN has granted to the island.
The UN document details the programs and phases of how this budget would be spent, as well as specific areas of development and the organizations responsible for administering them.
In terms of economic performance, the main actions are directed towards more stable growth and aims to reverse the structural challenges of the economy. Others include the promotion of the efficient use of available resources, improve management mechanisms, and articulate the different actors in the economy, generating a sustainable basis to ensure the quality of life of the population.
Among the institutions that are contributing the most money are the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP) with $ 91.4 million, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with $ 13.2 million, the Program World Food Program (WFP) and UNICEF 10 million with $9.4 million.
Among the risks associated with the implementation of some of the projects covered under this agreement include limited access to international markets for raw materials due to the "economic, commercial and financial blockade of the USA," is repeatedly mentioned.
But it makes no mention of the fact that the United States is Cuba’s fifth largest trading partner as far as the sale of food products are concerned sale. In 2012 for example, the U.S. exported nearly $ 465 million in agricultural products, medical instruments, medicine and humanitarian goods to Cuba.
Another risk is that the United Nations cites is the "incorporation of new suppliers , processors and retailers of food, mainly non-state who do not know or meet the quality standards of food hygiene," referring directly to the self-employed, which have become an extra source of income for the country.
Among the so-called "implementation partners," there are "civil society organizations,” as the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC ), the Union of Journalists of Cuba (UPEC ) and among government organizations is the MININT ( Ministry of Interior), that curiously does not appear in the list of acronyms located at the end of the document.
The document was signed by Rodrigo Malmierca, Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment and Barbara Pesce-Monteiro, Resident UN Coordinator in Cuba.
The money would be administered by different institutions of the Cuban state, many of which are directly tied to Raúl Castro’s family.
Among the favored organizations are the National Center for Sexual Education (CENESEX ) directed by Raul's daughter, Mariela Castro and the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) who was presided over by Raul’s late wife. His daughter Debora Castro, currently exerts substantial power within the FMC.
Others include the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) where Fidel 's son, Antonio Castro Soto del Valle is Vice President of the Cuban Baseball Federation and is very influential, and BIOCUBAFARMA whose president, Jose Antonio Fraga Castro, is the Cuban president’s nephew.
There is also the Ministry of Public Health, consisting of health centers among which are two clinics equipped with the latest technology and supervised by Fidel Castro's wife, Dalia Soto.
Only CENESEX and another small set of government institutions would benefit from investment amounts of nearly 34 million dollars of the total UN has granted to the island.
The UN document details the programs and phases of how this budget would be spent, as well as specific areas of development and the organizations responsible for administering them.
In terms of economic performance, the main actions are directed towards more stable growth and aims to reverse the structural challenges of the economy. Others include the promotion of the efficient use of available resources, improve management mechanisms, and articulate the different actors in the economy, generating a sustainable basis to ensure the quality of life of the population.
Among the institutions that are contributing the most money are the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP) with $ 91.4 million, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with $ 13.2 million, the Program World Food Program (WFP) and UNICEF 10 million with $9.4 million.
Among the risks associated with the implementation of some of the projects covered under this agreement include limited access to international markets for raw materials due to the "economic, commercial and financial blockade of the USA," is repeatedly mentioned.
But it makes no mention of the fact that the United States is Cuba’s fifth largest trading partner as far as the sale of food products are concerned sale. In 2012 for example, the U.S. exported nearly $ 465 million in agricultural products, medical instruments, medicine and humanitarian goods to Cuba.
Another risk is that the United Nations cites is the "incorporation of new suppliers , processors and retailers of food, mainly non-state who do not know or meet the quality standards of food hygiene," referring directly to the self-employed, which have become an extra source of income for the country.
Among the so-called "implementation partners," there are "civil society organizations,” as the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC ), the Union of Journalists of Cuba (UPEC ) and among government organizations is the MININT ( Ministry of Interior), that curiously does not appear in the list of acronyms located at the end of the document.
The document was signed by Rodrigo Malmierca, Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment and Barbara Pesce-Monteiro, Resident UN Coordinator in Cuba.