FIDEL CASTRO LOWERS CALLS TO CUBA

Fidel Castro Calling Miami from Havana Cuba

 CASTRO LOWERS CALLS TO CUBA

Havana Cuba;  Calling Cuba just got cheaper thanks to the collaboration between Fidel Castro Cuban government and Obhama American Government. International calls between Cuba and the United States has been lowered by  10% due to the removal of a decree signed by ex-President Fidel Castro in Havana in 1999 that taxed all land line and Cell phone calls between Cuba, Miami and the entire U.S.A.

"All Types of calls between America and Cuba including cell phone call s, computer calls and land line calls will be lowered by removal of the "American Calling to Cuba Tax," stated the Cuban Minister of Communications at the International Press Center, a Cuban News agency.

 The goal was to increase the level of communications between Cuban families that have been separated by the political blockade of Cuba and the U.S. goal to foster better relations between Cuba Americans and their family back in Cuba. The removal of the 10% Call Cuba Tax will definitely benefit communications between the Cuban population and Cuban American emigrants."

The Cuban Call America Tax law that was established by Fidel Castro placed a surcharge tax of 10% on all calls to America from Cuba. The tax per-minute rate for all international telephone call between the United States and Cuba also effected all calls made or connected via third countries like Canada, Europe, Brazil & China but ended up in the USA..

Havana's Call Cuba Tax was in response to an actions of the U.S. Congress that froze Cuban funds in the U.S. to be used to compensate the Cuban American families of anti-Fidel Castro pilots who were killed in 1996 by Cuban jet pilots on orders from Fidel.

The "Llama a Cuba" law stated that the extra taxes on calls to American destinations would remain in effect until the equivalent amount of Cuban money illegally frozen in the United States is returned to Cuba with compounded interest.

Now the Cuban government of Raul Castro seems to be making efforts by trying to normalize the relationship between Havana & Miami that has historically been strained for over 50 years and effected the huge Cuban Latino population from Miami, the largest Cuban community in the world outside of Cuba.

The news was met with great enthusiasm by Cubans all over the world and especially in Florida where the highest number of calls are placed. The Cuban community will now have an extra 10% more cash to talk longer, buy a car in Cuba or send more remittances to Cuba. Either way its a win-win situation for all Cuban American Families that have been separated for many years due to Cuban embargo.

If this trend continues it will appear that Cuba will finally have a normal political and economical relationship with America the gigantic neighbor just 90 miles away.

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CUBAN FREE TO TRAVEL ABROAD AFTER 50 YEARS

Cubans Free To Travel After 50 Years

HAVANA - Cuba will scrap much-reviled travel restrictions starting in January, making it easier for its citizens to leave the communist-ruled island in the first major reform to its migration policies in half a century.
The changes reverse tough restrictions imposed in 1961 when the government tried to put the brakes on a mass migration of people fleeing after the 1959 revolution that put Fidel Castro in power.
The government said on Tuesday it will lift requirements to obtain an exit visa permitting departure from Cuba and a letter of invitation from someone in the destination country, putting an end to a process that was too time consuming and expensive for Cubans, with no guarantee of final approval.
Now, most Cubans will only have to show their passport, national identity card and, if needed, a visa from the country they will visit to go abroad, deputy immigration chief Colonel Lamberto Fraga told reporters.
In theory, the changes should make it easier for Cubans to not only travel but to work abroad and return home when they want.
But Cubans will still have to obtain visas from most countries, which may not be easy because of fears that those who were granted tourist visas might not want to return to the island.
“For most, the key bottleneck will now be getting an entry visa from the target country,” said Bert Hoffmann, a Cuba expert at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg.
The changes, which Fraga called “profound,” are the latest reforms under President Raul Castro, who has modestly liberalized Cuba’s Soviet-style economy.
An editorial in the Communist Party newspaper Granma said the travel reforms were enacted as part of an “irreversible process of normalization with its emigrants (abroad)” and to facilitate travel for “practical matters” and orderly, safe immigration.
It put the blame for its previous policy on the United States, which it said has long tried to sabotage Cuba in various ways, including the enticement of doctors and other professionals away from the island.
Over the last half century, thousands of Cubans have died trying to cross the treacherous Florida Straits in flimsy boats and homemade rafts, while hundreds of thousands more have completed the journey, many of them in mass migrations in 1965, 1980 and 1994.
The United States now accepts up to 20,000 Cubans annually via legal immigration - mostly for the purpose of family reunification - and also takes in those who manage to reach U.S. shores without being intercepted.
Under the so-called “wet foot, dry foot” policy, however, it turns back Cubans picked up at sea. Almost 1,300 Cubans were repatriated to Cuba in the last 12 months after failing to make it to U.S. shores.
The new measures, set to take effect on Jan. 14, extend to 24 months, from the current 11, the amount of time Cubans can be out of the country without losing rights and property, and they can seek an extension, the government said.

Cuban American people. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

’BIG STEP FORWARD’
Cubans welcomed the changes, which Castro promised last year but then delayed because he said there were issues and details to be worked out.
“There have been many expectations for many years about a new travel law. It’s a big step forward that will save us money and simplify the process,” said Rafael Pena, an office worker, as he headed to his job in Havana.
“At last, our government is not going to treat us like children,” said Israel Gutierrez, a college student, while waiting to board a bus.
One woman said she hoped to finally take her daughter to Disney World in Florida.
Another, Margarita Nunez, praised the changes and said she had only one desire: “I hope I can go visit my family,” in the United States.
Prominent dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez, who complains that she has been denied travel permits by the authorities 20 times, said on Twitter she would test the lifting of restrictions as soon as they took effect.
“My friends tell me not to get my hopes up about the new immigration law,” Sanchez said. “They say I’m on the ’black list’ but I’m still going to give it a try.”
Fraga said restrictions would still be in place for certain groups that Cuba does not want to lose, including doctors, members of the military and athletes, and for reasons of national defense or security.
Cuba experts praised the changes as a big step forward.
“Like earlier decisions legalizing the personal sales of homes and cars, this is another step in the direction of loosening restrictions and opening up Cuban society,” said Sarah Stephens, executive director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas, a Washington group opposed to the U.S. embargo on Cuba.
It “responds to the Cuban population’s highest priority wish to be able to leave and return to the island freely,” she said.
The changes also mean that “Cuba now gives its citizens more freedom to travel to the U.S. than the U.S. gives its citizens to travel to Cuba,” said John McAuliff of the Fund for Reconciliation and Development, which advocates for better U.S.-Cuba relations.
Under its longstanding trade embargo against Cuba, the United States allows Cuban Americans free travel to their homeland but requires most other Americans to get a license from the U.S. government to visit the island.
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HOW TO CALL CUBA FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD

Call Cuba From Any Cell Phone

HOW TO CALL CUBA

To Call Cuba from anywhere in the world you must first dial your internatioanl code.
In the USA and Canada Cuba access code begins with 011

Steps To Call Cuba:

1.     011 - US exit code; must be dialed first for all international calls made from the USA or Canada
2.     Cuba country code is 53 - country code for Cuba
3.     Cuban Province area code - 1 - 4 digits
4.     Cuban Cell or home phone number - 6 - 7 digits

CUBA  AREA CODES BY PROVINCE

• Bayamo     23     
• Guantanamo Bay   99 
• Matanzas     45
• Camaguey     322     
• Havana     7     
• Pinar del Rio     82
• Ciego de Avila     33     
• Holguin     24     
• Santa Clara     42
• Cienfuegos     432     
• Las Tunas - province     31     
• Santiago de Cuba     226
• Guantanamo     21     
• Manzanillo     23     
• Sancti Spiritus     41

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