We have instructed all Cuban firms to start using the euro as of the first of June of this year in transactions with the 11 nations of the European Union as well as several others.

We are going to be here to accompany in solidarity the families who have waited for years for justice.

To the extent that we do not achieve a steady improvement in people's standard of living and sustainable development we risk that these formidable personalities [Fidel and Raul Castro] become the only pillar which our system rests.

In the Soviet Union, errors led to popular discontent among other reasons due to the bad performance of the economy.