The challenge has been placed on the table: to close the year with a 3.4
percent of the Gross Domestic Product, which was fundamental to comply
with the plans of a more efficient production and services, the rational
use of the resources, replace imports, increase exports and hike
productivity in a sustainable manner.

With such challenges, the Cuban Parliament approved last December the Law
for the State Budget and Economic Plan for 2012, drafted in correspondence
with the Guidelines of the 6th Congress of the Cuban Communist Party on
April of 2011.

The correct execution of both will depend mostly in that each citizen and
group analyze the importance of an adequate planning and rationalization
of the limited resources on the island.

That is why all work centers in the country will begin analyzing their
economic plans during the months of January and February where the workers
will carry out a profound and objective discussion of the most important
issues in their entity.

Salvador Valdez Mesa, General Secretary of the Cuban Workers
Confederation, CTC, stressed that the plan and budget assigned to each
entity are sacred and must be complied with positive results.

In recent statements to the press, Mesa pointed out that these meetings
will allow major clarity among the workers regarding the level of
productivity that they must achieve and how to obtain them.

Difficult issues will be analyzed like contracts, accumulation of
inventories of each firm and the unpaid invoices, deficiencies that create
the conditions for illegalities and corruption.

Among the other important issues to be discussed without a doubt, will be
wages that awakes everyone’s attention and above all before the need to
accelerate system of payments according to the outcome of production.

With these debates, said the General Secretary of the CTC, we want to
promote the participation of the workers, listen to proposals and above
all, commit them to improving the national economy.

As highlighted by Cuban President Raul Castro during the closing of the
recent session of the National Assembly of the People’s Power it is
necessary to make the agreements approved during the Congress a reality,
slowly but surely, with the integrity and gradual requirements, without
any rush or improvising