{"id":14907,"date":"2016-12-28T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14907"},"modified":"2016-12-28T01:46:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T06:46:53","slug":"cuba-is-trying-to-use-rum-to-pay-off-debts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/cuba-is-trying-to-use-rum-to-pay-off-debts\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Is Trying To Use Rum To Pay Off Debts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/122816_0644_CubaIsTryin1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Venezuela isn&#8217;t the only country <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2016\/venezuela-is-struggling-to-afford-to-print-more-money\/\">struggling to pay off debts<\/a>. Cubans are getting creative too according to the BBC:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cuba and The Czech Republic used to be Communist chums during the Cold War. Back then Cuba took out some loans from the Czechs.<\/li>\n<li>Almost $300 million is now due, and rather than expend precious cash, Cuba offered to pay it back in rum and pharmaceutical drugs.<\/li>\n<li>The Czech Republic is now a member of the European Union, and Cuba&#8217;s medicines aren&#8217;t certified in the EU, making them effectively worthless.<\/li>\n<li>But the rum may cause Czech negotiators to pause for thought. If the entire debt were paid off this way, it&#8217;d be enough to supply the country for more than a century.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-38336922\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela isn&#8217;t the only country struggling to pay off debts. Cubans are getting creative too according to the BBC: Cuba and The Czech Republic used to be Communist chums during the Cold War. Back then Cuba took out some loans from the Czechs. Almost $300 million is now due, and rather than expend precious cash, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/122816_0644_CubaIsTryin1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14910,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14907\/revisions\/14910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}