“PROVINCE, LAS VILLAS, CENTRAL CUBA. MOST CROVINC TOBACCO WAS DESTROYED, UR REPORTES. ‘ IN ADDITION, IT SAID, MORE THAN 5,030 TOBACCO CURING HOUSES WERE DEMOLISHED Is COFFEE CROP DAMAGE WAS EKTENSIVE, THE REPORT SAID,, WITHOUT MAKING AN OVER-ALL EST IMATE. ■ THE HURR ICANE HIT”
“1 4-00000 .rodin belt Hi , • ** tumtewse ** • 7 4-0 £ nw fyw de it i 1N 0I /4 -/1 6 .2 0 8 33 0 OCT 28 1966 MIAMI, FLA., OCT. 25 CAP) -CUBA’S VITAL, DOLLAR-PRODUC ING SUGAR CROP WAS REDUCED BY SOME 3 00, 030TETR IC TONS BY KURRICANE INE . SAYS A REPORT RELEASED TODAY”
“-6- fected. ■..- 22 dairies were partially affected, and 9 were deg troyed..-.. Several goat-barns were damaged. .. 0 SVaigy IAta * V POD H e Misith 2 poultry yards were duraged. ■ -- - In Buoy Arriba, ‘Regional’ Cauto-Bayamo-Jiguani 30,000 steers wore seriously affected”
“- L- In the Tara region the coffee crop was 5C destroy ed+ the coffee beans had been ready for harvestw and therefore easily shaken off by wind., 1 03 = In Buoy Arriba, ‘Regional’ Cauto-Bayano-Jiguani, 500 women picked up about 10,000 full-cans of cof- fee. . FRUIT Pinar”
“in the vicinity of Santiago de Cuba suf-: .fered serious damage. $) . - - are - y A 26 Near Holguin banana planta were leveled h wind. Hear Yara, banana plants had been broken. * In ‘Regional’ Guantanamo 35 ‘caballerias’ of coco nut were destroyed. VEGETABLES & "VIANDS Pi”
“•34 S 1 N m -, -5- Matanzas Province: Malanga fields were covered with water which will .: rot mostof the plant root. Complete loss of corn . crops wore obsorved—in the Malanga area " ■ +2 • ‘ . . I . Las Villas Province: ■ , : * wee . - PeeAgcm* ‘Viandal crops were de”
“14-00000 Havana Sugar cane in Roque was heavilyd About 506 of the sugar cane was leveled. this will have a yield whileother from root damage. Villas Sugar cane in Valle de Trinidad, crop damaged ‘Regional’ Sancti-Spiritus Serious damages to sugar crop. Tunas de Zaza: ga”
“1 -7- damaged, 3 warehouses were damaged in ‘Regional’ A PR-2. - 6 - Havana Province: - Many houses were completely under water, crops and t farm land were flooded. . .: Matanzas Province: None. |, Las Villas Province: 2 warehouses of fertilizers were damaged in El M6- ”
“4-00000 -3- Matanzas Province None, Las Villas Province: Tobacco production was destroyed.—- Almost total loss of the tobacco crop. '5,000 houses for "curar tabaco" were destroyed in - the following localities: Cabaiguan, Zaza del Mo- < die. Placets, Cara Juani, and Sanc”
“amount to, a sugar loss of 171,000 tons, using the 12.6 saccharose yield figure. The balance of the sugar lobs will come from the damage to the ratoon cane, -. the cane that sprouts again alter having been cut. The ERB estimates a total of 16,400,000 tons, of ratoon in Las Vi”
“‘ “67 -t CA 10 s ■ 0 4086 :* -2 4 (110) 19 L* . MIAMI, FLA., NoV. 19 (AP)-A SHARP DECLINE IN SKIPPING FRCM . Frier., NON-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES TO CURA WAS REPORTED TODAY. .’ -?. ONLY SEVEN VESSELS FROM THESE AREAS TOUCHED CUBAN PORTS LAST. .MONTH, SAID REVOLUTIONARY UNITY (U”
“14-00000 ‘1,58.0-11-828 WESTERN UNION -lenrce _PRESS MESSAGE I w • MARSHALL fint Fikto -1266NCY MIAMI,NOV.22/66 42 PM 3 20 ACENCE FRANCE PRESSE WUx CD FEwYonx DAYLETTER couzzer 31515 reDEN CASTROUTILIZA POCOS ORCARISMOS INTERNACIONALES DOWDS TIENE REPRESENTATION FA”
“the ity in one case, and becoming a total loss in the other. If the area ls !, most tobacco leaves will Pinar del Rio Province: In ‘Julian Alemany’ farm in Consolaeidn del Su and in "Hnos. Saiz" in San Juan y Martines, 10 of the tobacco seeds, were damaged. Havana Province*”
“CATTLE, POULTRY AND D AIRY 5 Pinar del Rio Province: 56 calves dead. c*. Havana Provinces None. 3 ' ****** 633 p momblgtq Font, wjE 5*, S Matanzas Province: U BEI IH Las Villas Province’ Numerous animals were drowned. .• Z IM2 25 In E) Megano, 7 dairies were d”
“Small Farmers)- called all the members of this association to pick. up all the coffee crop that was seriously damaged. Until October 1st., in Buey Arriba and Cuisa, 472,000 full-cans of coffee were collected, that represents a 27k of the actual crop, that was cal- - culated”
“evropeo donde se conks. imiento del contrato pospu so po- «.De acuerdo con mi experientio. • • 3* del comercie mortime de Cuba, Y. cola el cargomento de m.eles, fo junto de 1967. el gobierno cubono confronts dos el producto de la vento de las mis. Le port conrnzur fe’e el EFT”
“ADDITION REUTERS SOURCES STATED THAT SEVERAL HIGHLY PLACED OFFICIALS WOULD SOON FALL IN THE CLEANUP AND THAT "FULL INVESTIGATION OF OFFICIALS’ MORAL AND POLITICAL PRACTICES .ALREADY UNDERWAY IN GOVT MINISTRIES". THE MINISTRIES OF FOREIGN 6 AFFAIRS AND FOREIGN TRADE WILL BE M”
“they are going well, despite the obstacles, de- spite the hurricane.... ft As he has done before, Castro blamed the sloth and ineptitude of the Cuban bourgeousie for the "mismanagement, lack of concern for expenditures, by lack of concern not only for the quantity but also th”
“1 4-00000 1595 (0-11-921 4• o1‘ a VESTERN UNION CRCCA f 200A0 4. 16) . PRESS MESSAGE ifongFrito XACY w P. MARSHALL pars-peer • PM 3 * -Hita MIAII, NOT. 22/66 ACENCE FRANCE PRESSE * • etwireticsuper wor Co sarronk DAYLETTER COLLECT 31520 SEOUNDO ULT VO REGI”
“PATH OF HURRICANE “INEZ" - TRAYECTORIA DEL CICLON INS SOURCE Cuban Official newspaper, Granma, Havana, Oct., s. 19 AQRGLRR 4. A. GOLFO DE MEJICO MA ROI 1.92%. 4 -tire ow. h8-- 310 P 0% 4g9pae-x- : X.X O 197 2227 20 a@ X 4 Ml y X v 9-41 1.9 ant Lg 1E x 78 8 • s *•19”
“14-00000 IN -60597 TOCS -314/15974-66 PAGE 2 OF 2 PAGES S-E-C-R-E-T NO FOREIGN DISSEM (classification) (dissem controls) 2. SUAREZ SAID THAT CUBA WAS TRYING TO INCREASE ITS PRODUCTION OF COFFEE TO OFFSET LOSSES SUFFERED IN RECENT HURRICANES AND GENERALLY TO BUILD UP I”
“SC AHL. */ UEGA 26305 OFFICE: economic intelligence report . 10 S.E. 0 S. MAILING ADDRESS 2080040 FROM THE UR. ECONOMIC RESEARCH BUREAU Miami, Florida MOVIRENTO UNIDAD REVOLUCIONARIA (U.R.) PuowEr 372,0033 : - se Aft. #1 Urca-26348 0 ra. I SPECIAL REPORT ON HURRICA”
“14-00000 - 5 - cion of Ca: tro and the change in Indonesian. Cartro an ‘so have been defeated by the Kremlin. December 11, 1905 t "We Forecast The Failure of the Forthcoming Surer Harvest". We go bick to the subject of the Culan "zafre" on the msis of Castro’s June 8th s”
“las reparaciones y la eliminacidn de seis ingenios - que fueron precisamente des mantelados para utilizar las piezas como repuestos lo cual se ha comprobado ha si do un error mas - la capacidad industrial se ha re ducido a solo seis millones de . toneladas, es decir, cue la ac”
“EN CIERTO MODO, le neredo el entonces neto .po. sei. pan a te cornege5AVIRUS LefAce: %s232, at:Ze:Mt elaya T. CUFLET LEL SuqvE (, v owin we Are-aso le fleto por meses • se ve encunn got erno cul and se la Union Sovie- contrato Esto s’ (5 —or +o • ca. Antes de 1966, lo —o,t p”
“1 4-00000 "HARLA..., UHIDAR REVOLUCTONA IA" (W.R.U.L.) November 15, 19651 "Fidel Castro’s Grave Sugar Problem".- Following Moscow’s promises and instructions, Cac’ro plunged deep into overproduction of sugar in the hope that he s * * C e y a m p * ra tre ,; would be able ”
“ins PURVIS SHIPPING. rescindirio el con de node que vloiG Jirectamente a Lo pudo el gobiemo cubano conseyuir conseyuir britanico) operado por CAYMAN lo cargo poro los buques , lo que ISLANDS LTD de (Jamaica) con al La CIE ARMEMENT MARITIME PUNCIMAN. • 0 GROSS Harano ofin de”
“items (than arms," State has prepared a program to be submitted to this OAS committee in the future. The evidence in that Cuba's economy is suffering. Trade with the Communist Bloc and others has kept it limping along, despite scarcity of U.S. goods, the bad drought limiting agra”
“14-00000 La MATION REPORT 1 19 i n ns ^ Deanaiose t a 82CR27 DATE OF EPO Ca-DDC3 L0 / THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT HAS. RENEWED NEGOT C: PAYMENT CF DEBTS RESULT tNG CM EXPEOPR I WESTERN EUROPEAN BUSINESS INTERESTS. THE CUBAN MINISTRY CF ECRE TRADE IS TRYING TO INTE”
“t % * - 11 - During the last months, the Cuban government has had difficulty in keeping *X*.899-eoumav-serruminevra=sepsenw ec its vessels afloat. The M/V ARACELIO IGLESIAS suffered severe damages after crashing into the Norwegian M/V NIDAREID in the Panama Canal last J”
“depende de " hoy que ham encara la1a industria que hacian falta, pero que no es totalmente la contraria. pendiente de la metropoli ru- cio con los paises comunistas. la Union Sovietica para su azucarera cubana en general, se conseguian . en el bloque En efecto, Cuba depende sa”
“14-00000 A* 20 February, 1963 Subject: Carmen Lozada Statments to 1IRING/3 re trip. 1. LIRING/3 reported to novton at 2130 on 19/2/68 that Carmen Lozada 4 had telephoned his about C930 that morning and that he had seen Her again at her request. Cn this occasion he found”
“14-00000 • - - 2 - 1 2) CARTOON: Headline: S YCOTT OF CUHALTRADING SHIPS TO BE STEPPED UP: Castro faces a sinking vessel named "Maritime Trade With Oaba" and says: "It seems we have sprung a leak!" PAGE THREE* 1) MOROCCO SEEN DRIFTING AWAY FROM CUBA: A brief story on ”
“landing strip cut -------oil it *from ----- fona-s-not. trade:A.As— tree-worldMiaat an- that was In constant use by light @ir- other turn of the screw, Washington craft. “Cubans,” said his guide. Artimen lit week lightened control, on U.S. does not have the kind of support ”
“de alimentos que utilizan el azdear refino. Lo mismo sucede con las indus-: trias de refrescos. (1) No es necesario ensalzar la calidad del azucar cubano que producia antes de Castro, ya que su prestigio en el mercado mundial es un hecho de sobra cono cido. Lo mismo puede dec”
“14-00000 % | Miami, 13 de Junto de 1966 Sr. Jaime Lorane Presidente, Asoclaeion Nacional de Cultivadores de Caila do AzGcar Edificio Suramoricana do Seguros Calle 12, Carrara 5a, 10g piso, Cali, Colombia. ., Estimado Sr. Lozanot Nos dirigimos a Us. en esta oportun”
“14-00000 - "Foliar 30 " Cly " CLAWAIPIC wol ltp SECRET 1 I wh* rules ts) ILO PACO 2 FERTILIZER, RANSF TATION FACILITIS, AND CHEMICAL PRCDUC:3 :N EXCHANGE FOR SUGAR ON A STRAIGHT BARTER DEAL. ME CUBAN GOVERNMENT XPECIS A CUICER CRCP IN :964 WHICH, IF SOLD AT AVE”
“14-00000 1%. CUBA: PRIMER TERRITORIO ECONOMICAMENTE PENETRA... (Viene de la pg. 1) Recados a la Administration UMA) REVOELCIONA- DEPENDIENTE DE LA URSS EN AMERICA RIA, durante un tiempo, ha te- del Central “Ecuador” nido interes en intentar esta- Dicen los comunistas que ”
“4-00000 -2- For example, I was in Havana in July after hurricane Una hit Western: Cuba last June, a number of buildings and houses had to be repaired all over the city of Havana. Debris fromdemolitions and subsequent constructions was piled on the streets. Time passed, but”
“14-00000 v 1 INFORMATION REPORTTElGs CENTRAL CNIVELMGENCE AGENCY 73 metoelat roetaini iiforeatica effecting the tiatinnet Catema cf the Caited Ctatss ueten the messing et th tipia-ses Lees tats is, use test 70 153 €=* yta, tie transmission • sovatetipa cl said i cay aasd”
“BRITISH "FINANCIAL TIMES" WHICH INDICATE COMECON CONSIDERS FURTHER AID TO CUBA BEYOND BLOC CAPABILITIES; (3) CASTRO’S OWN PROBLEMS, E.G. LACK DOLLAR CREDITS AND DEPRESSION IN WORLD SUGAR MARKET WITH PRICE DROPPING FROM DEC 63 PEAK 12.6 TO 2.35 CENTS POUND SECRET”
“- c - h i t - b i k - i u d t , a te 14-00000 { * > ROM: DIRECTOR ONF: INFO: VR . FILE RID COPY enw rathe PAGE FIVE *0 INFO CITE DIR 89022 M . YS the 10. THE UNDERLYING CAUSE FOR THE "SHOWTRIAL" OF CUBELA, THE ARREST OF THE DEPUTY MINISTER OF DEFENSE AND THE OUTL”
“Economica> hospitals e clinicas, o pessoal do mesmo nao podera consumer racoes superior’s is correspondent’s ao resto da populacao, limitando-se as.” No tues.de abril de 1962, Castro condenon formalmentesos frus- bieneficins d alimentacan suplementar nos enfermos neles interna”
“traviesas en las vias ferreas, mas sin embargo silo habfa diponibles ochenta mil. El resultado es el incremento de los descarrilamientos que durante la zafra do 1965 alcanzaron un promedio de tree des carrilamientos diarios, producl^ndose diez accidentes mortales. Muchos me p”
“Cobre lle- gandose a obtener valores de 2 a 3 % de Cobre en el azucar refino. CONCLUSIONES: 1.- Bajo el presente regimen, la calidad del azucar cubano ha sufrido un tremen- do deterioro. 2.» La industria azucarera cubana no ha sido una exce pcion al principio de que * "el ”
“azucar cu- La dependencia economi- Cuba, tambien, ha agota- bloque rojo, Cuba ha perdido bano exportado a la URSS al solo por saber, y sin animo de " que paro la nueva (En ca de un pais con respecto de do sus reservas de divisas, su vigencia comercial con los amparo del conven”
“14-00000 FIELD INFORMATION REPORT • EVALUATION O' SOURCE A Corgietely relishte t. Usually Usually, relasi retiatize C. • enable 0 hot € Not reliable Arphed 10 sources of doubtrul honesty or loyalty, regardless ol their competence). 9 Per-atddt, cann t* iAspbed t untested or”
“del estates de Luques Cubanos go, no puede negarse que el insolonte Volsky dijo uno bloque comunisto que pudie- ran monipolor el volumen comer- verdod en Caracos, ol monos n cuonto se refiere a la cial. Mi tarea no era nada facil, OITETO porte de su aserto. ...•El trafico ma”
“formally to Sha Cu asirtoi 6d*/230d * 3 in La Fas agminst the Cuban support to the winera during the recent crisis. Subs iIago 70269799 **, k*. • •- *9-3- Y Fall a info d: the C t.ll he mood nos fear that u. 2 overmen: of Bolivia onk diplomatic relations v Caha There has, ”
“portuarios del hemisfe- fronte venden faciones; la politico que ho de seguir rio a troves de la ORIT, a cuyo la URSS es quien determina marchan los miembros de la el regimen de Lo Hobeno, y es la URSS quien recibe, con- Federation Portuatia de Venezuela. con sus titeres”