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Weekly Report - 24 August 2017 (WR-17-33)
CUBA: Cuba still pushing to get fallow lands to work
Cuba still has 300,000 hectares of idle land that it is prepared to grant in usufruct, state media reported this week. The land in question is covered in Marabú scrub bush and is rather remotely located, away from the island’s main urban markets; however, the government is offering incentives for its development, the reports stressed.
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- COLOMBIA: Farc facing the challenge of political campaigning
- VENEZUELA: Ortega goes for the jugular
- PERU: Kuczynski admits his “biggest failure” to date
- ECUADOR: Oil industry ignites Moreno-Correa tension
- ARGENTINA: Macri untroubled by labour protest
- BRAZIL: Eletrobras privatisation moves the markets
- BRAZIL-PARAGUAY: Cartes touches down in Brazil
- CUBA: Cuba still pushing to get fallow lands to work
- NICARAGUA: Gearing up for November municipals
- GUATEMALA: Renewed calls for anti-gang legislation
- Chile leaves rapidly diminishing club
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