Rare—Republica De Cuba Orden Nacional Anos De Trabajo En LA Industria Azucarera

Description: RARE FIND This listing is for a maual type formatted book: Republics De Cuba Orden Nacional Anos De Trabajo En LA Industria Azucarera Memorias 1969. This book is written in Spanish. The size is 11 x14 x 1.5 inches. The weight of the book is 5 lbs 7 ozs. The book is reflective of age and use. Comes with fast shipping. .. The English translatio is "Republics of Cuba, National Order, Years of Work in the Sugar Industry, Memories 1969." The book consist of what appears to be a couple hundred pages. Each page has an average of 3 pictures of individuals along with what appears as their history/biography in the sugar industry. All the content is written in Spanish. The book was stored in a hot space for a while and shows browning and brown spots. Also some large brown spots on a few of the pages. Appears to be a cherished historical document of people who worked in the sugar industry in Cuba up to 1969. Appears to be a rare fnd. I was not able to find any specific information about the book but the following New York Times article about the Cuban sugar from 1970 tells about how sugar helped out the Cuban economy. MIAMI-The sugar‐domi nated Cuban economy, fol lowing what was perhaps its poorest annual performance since the 1959 revolution, tnay stage a moderate ad vance this year.“Economically, Cuba hit the bottom in 1969 and there is no place for her to go but up,” said a United States economist who specializes in Cuban affairs.The country's agricultural and industrial production de clined last year. According to United States analysts, Cuba's 1969 gross national product was about $2.8‐bil lion, $200‐million less than in 1968. It was believed to have equaled that of 1958, when the country's population was 6.6 million against 8.4 mil lion today.The shortage of food and consumer goods was greater than in 1968. As a result the ever‐present lines in front of Government stores and serv ice establishments were long er than before. Only Half ProducedEven sugar was placed on the rationed list, as about 4.5 million tons, half the planned output, was re corded.Premier Fidel Castro de scribed the 1969 sugar har vest as an “agony for the country.” He attributed the “bad” production to wide spread labor inefficiency, work dodging, governmental disorganization and transpor tation and equipment break downs.Despite efforts to diversify the rigidly controlled econo my, sugar continued to ac count for 85 per cent of all Cuban exports, which also declined last year. One bright spot was the growing output of nickel, the sale of which gained Cuba $55‐million. The 1970 rice crop is also ex pected to be higher.The Soviet Union, which virtually keeps the Cuban economy afloat, reportedly gave the Castro Government last year a loan of more than $400‐million to cover its an nual trade imbalance.The loan is believed to have brought the total of Cuba's debt to the Russians to more than $3‐billion, ex clusive of military aid and the premium price of 6.11 cents a pound paid for the sugar. Psychological AspectsThe 1970 upsweep, if it materializes, might be meas ured more in political and psychological terms than in economic or social gains. As Havana sees it, the key to economic advance is in creased sugar production. The Government, which has suffered a series of economic setbacks, is making a capac ity effort to produce 10 mil lion tons this year.To reach this high produc tion target, which would top Cuba's record harvest of 7.2 million tons in 1952, the Gov ernment has converted the country into a model of “war economy,” directing most re sources into the sugar sector.Since November, about half a million workers, main ly from the cities, have been cutting cane and will do so uninterruptedly until next July.On weekends and during special working periods, hun dreds of thousands of other industrial employes, school children, housewives and Government officials are joining the “permanent vol unteers” in the fields.Government leaders, head ed by Mr. Castro, are said to be cutting cane daily, and hundreds of foreign visitors, including Russians and a “brigade” of Americans are also wielding machetes. The cutting is done largely by hand, as Mr. Castro's plan to build 1,000 cane com bines for the present harvest was apparently abandoned last year.In December he declared that “without the slightest doubt” the 10 million tons would be produced by July 15. He described the 1970 harvest as a “great victory for the Cuban revolution and socialism.”At the same time he is sued a timetable for the har vest's progress, specifying the 10 dates on which each of the 10 million tons should be attained.Serious Strains PossibleAccording to sugar output data released by Havana, Mr. Castro's schedule has been kept so far.But some Western econo mists, among them sympa thizers of the Cuban revolu tion, believe that Mr. Castro, by trying for prestige reasons to fulfill his sugar goal, could be making an economic mis take comparable with that of the Communist Chinese “great leap forward.” Given the country's man power and technological limi tations, they contend, its optimum level of sugar pro duction is about 7 million tons in four months. An attemp to exceed that out put, they say, will subject the country to serious economic and social strains.Because the 1970 harvest is scheduled to last almost 10 months, the economists say, the cost of production and the wear and tear of equipment will be much high er than normal and the loss of output in other economic sectors may be incalculable.The world price of sugar might also be affected by a high Cuban output of sugar, which is regarded by some economists as an obsolescent agricultural product. With a production of 10 million tons, the country might find itself with 2 million tons of unsold sugar by the end of this year.Under the Geneva Interna tional Sugar Agreement, Cuba's 1970 export quota was reduced to 1,950,000 tons. Her domestic consump tion is about 400,000 and 5.5 million are earmarked for the Communist bloc, most for the Soviet Union.Ironically the Soviet Union, which in the last several years received less Cuban sugar than it was supposed to, this year does not really need the 5 million tons pledged by Havana.The Soviet Union, already the world's largest sugar pro ducer, is rapidly becoming a big exporter of that product. This book comes with fast shipping. Please write if you have any questions. Thanks.

Price: 70 USD

Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida

End Time: 2025-01-01T09:18:49.000Z

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