The Week in Cuba and Haiti: 9/06

CUBA: Despite government assurances, Cubans are nervous after hearing the state plans to cut more than one million public jobs / Cuban Catholics commemorate the Virgin of Regla, goddess of sea and maternity / Thousands of Cubans clad in yellow line the streets of Havana to watch the religious procession / Fidel Castro told a American journalist and a U.S.-Cuba policy expert that the islands’ state-dominated system needs a change / Fidel Castro says comment apparently criticizing Cuban economic model misunderstood / Cuba’s Catholic Church is taking on an increasingly significant role as a mediator with the Cuban government / HAITI: The rubble from the earthquake is still evident everywhere, some reports say only 2 percent of the debris has been cleared the reasons lack of equipment to abysmal property records.