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Continente supermarket at Colombo Shopping Center, Lisbon. The supermarket chain operates three main store formats; regular Continente stores, Continente Bom Dia (convenience stores and smaller supermarkets in urban locations, designed for more frequent purchases of everyday life, 800 m 2 (8,600 sq ft)) and Continente Modelo stores (hypermarkets of proximity, with an area of about 2,000 m 2 ...
El Paquete Semanal ("The Weekly Package") or El Paquete is a one terabyte collection of digital material distributed since around 2008 [1] on the underground market in Cuba as a substitute for broadband Internet. [2]
Telephone numbers in Cuba all have the same format, consisting of the country code (53), followed by an area code. Phone numbers in Cuba have up to eight digits. The first one to two are the area code, the remaining digits are the subscriber number. Calls between different area codes are prefixed with the trunk prefix 0, followed by the area code.
Corporación CIMEX S.A. (from Spanish: Comercio Interior, Mercado External for "Domestic Business, External Market") is a state-owned conglomerate in Cuba involved in the import and export of goods, as well as tourism and banking. It has been called Cuba's largest commercial operation, and is headed by Colonel Héctor Oroza Busutil. [2]
Cuba has been listed as an "Internet Enemy" by Reporters Without Borders since the list was created in 2006. [9] The level of Internet filtering in Cuba is not categorized by the OpenNet Initiative due to lack of data. [37] All material intended for publication on the Internet must first be approved by the National Registry of Serial Publications.
Cuba is listed as "not free" in the Freedom on the Net 2018 report from Freedom House, with an overall score of 79 out of 100 where 100 is the least free. [3] This is the fifth highest score out of the 65 countries ranked, below China, Iran, Syria, and Ethiopia. Cuba has been listed as "not free" each year since the reports started in 2009.
The economy of Cuba is a planned economy dominated by state-run enterprises. In the 1990s, the ruling Communist Party of Cuba encouraged the formation of worker co-operatives and self-employment. In the late 2010s, private property and free-market rights along with foreign direct investment were granted by the 2018 Cuban constitution.
In May 2019, Cuba imposed rationing of staples such as chicken, eggs, rice, beans, soap and other basics (Some two-thirds of food in the country is imported). A spokesperson blamed the increased U.S. trade embargo although economists believe that an equally important problem is the massive decline of aid from Venezuela and the failure of Cuba's ...