It looks as if China is aiming to play a major role in the future exploitation of cheap Cuban labor and of the island’s strategic location.
Forget about the new port of Mariel, which is supposed to help Castrogonia attract more business. A new super-port is also being built in eastern Cuba, in Santiago.
And guess who is funding the project?
As any idiot knows, a port is a port: it doesn’t discriminate between cargo ships and military vessels.
So, get ready for the new Chinese equivalent of Guantanamo Naval Base.
Good luck finding this news item in the American or European press.
From Global Post, via Granma East (Xinhua News Agency: the official press agency of the People’s Republic of China. Xinhua describes itself as the “information organ of the central government.” )
Cuban port terminal in transformation with Chinese assistance
Santiago de Cuba’s Guillermon Maoncada port is undergoing a dramatic transformation into a modern multipurpose terminal with involvement of a Chinese company.
China Communications Construction Company Limited (CCCC) is in charge of the port’s rehabilitation and modernization project which is slated to be completed in three years.
Santiago de Cuba’s port, 890 km southeast of Havana, is the second most important on the Caribbean island after Mariel port, Cuban official daily Granma reported.
Valued at 120 million U.S. dollars, the future multipurpose terminal will facilitate the arrival of ships weighing up to 40,000 tons and will have high-tech port equipment which will possess better control ability.The transformation will enable the port to handle around 565,000 tons of goods per year, local authority said. Currently the port attracts ships with a general load of 20,000 tons….
…The geographical location of this port, in southeast central Cuba, will make it into a privileged enclave due to its close proximity to important maritime routes.
Read the whole story HERE.
Good Lord, we have completely lost Cuba. The country is being divided amongst all of the major world players, the US, China and the European Union. Cuba is not unlike the countries of Africa and Asia that were colonized by the European powers of the time back in the 16th through 19th centuries. What makes Cuba different is that since the castro dynasty [that doesn’t love or feel Cuban] is facilitating the takeover, it’s acceptable in the eyes of the mainstream media and socialist loving academia. What a sorry state of affairs.