Cuba will start applying Nasalferon to travelers and live-in family members
http://www.cubanews.acn.cu/science/12063-cuba-will-start-applying-nasalferon-to-travelers-and-live-in-family-members
LOL this is so much Soviet style of reporting - 90% of the article boasting about an invention and then at the very end a single paragraph on, surprise:
> At the daily meeting of the CDP, the causes of the failures to deliver Havana's agricultural products to the farmers' markets and the penalties imposed on those responsible were also analyzed.
here's the info about the clinical trials of this drug from the Health Authority (surprisingly easy to find, although the full results aren't (yet) shared online (more likely due to resourcing issues than trying to hide anything, as Cuba is working with the EU on this as well)
I still remember when news in 80's Poland were worded in exactly this way - 10 paragraphs about, say, a new model of locomotive being produced for export and then at the very end a tiny mention of "temporary difficulties in food distribution", really meaning thousands people on the streets due to massive food shortages.
@kravietz Ah. I know a couple who left Poland long before it was legal. They have no love for soviet either.
Another classic trick of these times was a long report on price changes mentioning prices dropping on locomotives, concrete and dozen of other totally irrelevant items and 20% price increase for meat mentioned somewhere in between.
Note that prices for all goods in these times were set by the government and to sell them at any other price or manufacture them privately for sale was a criminal offense.
Of course, a huge black market existed in parallel to the official economy.
@kravietz To be fair, it's not as odd as your post makes it appear.
The opening paragraph of the article reveals that this medically related announcement happened during the daily meeting of the CDP, so ending the article with what else was discussed in that same session is reasonable.
The big news of the meeting wasn't farmers' markets, but the application of nasalferon.
I'm sure there's plenty of propaganda to be found elsewhere though, same as my own govt. :-(