Reforms are moving faster in Cuba than those who criticise realise, President Raúl Castro argued this week. His remarks coincided with the creation of the first non-farm cooperatives in Cuba; more than 100 state-run produce markets became private cooperatives on 1 July. They followed the airing on state television a day earlier of the first US Major League Baseball game in Cuba for 52 years (albeit of a match that took place on 2 May and featured no Cuban-born players). In late June the state-run telecom company Etecsa also mooted the possibility of offering in-home Internet connections by late 2014.
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