HAVANA – Cuban President Raul Castro has admitted that plans to lay off 500,000 state workers by March are behind schedule and that the process will be delayed to help soften the impact of the cuts, state-run television said on Monday. The layoffs are a centerpiece of his reforms to modernize Cuba’s Soviet-style economy, but the report said Castro told the government’s Council of Ministers that a project “of this magnitude,…
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