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Carlos Muñiz Varela's son has written to President Barack Obama, Justice Secretary Eric Holder, and Puerto Rican Democratic members of Congress to ask that the FBI cooperate with the…
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An official statement issued Wednesday (April 30) by the Russian Foreign Ministry says that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held an "informal" meeting with Fidel Castro. The Ministry has…
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One way or another I’ll be back with my family in Maryland in less than a year, Alan Gross told his lawyer during a recent prison visit in Cuba.
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A delegation of Russian senators, members of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly, was scheduled to arrive in Havana Saturday (April 19) for a week of meetings with top Cuban…
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The Cuban government went on record this week to warn all levels of its import structure that it will not permit mismanagement in Havana's dealings with Moscow.
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Gabriel García Márquez, the famed Colombian novelist who died April 17, 2014, played a fascinating cameo role in the story of the Cuban Five. In the spring of 1998, he carried a secret…
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One of the 'paladares' that survived all the waves that began in 1996, one of the oldest in Santiago de Cuba, is the Salón Tropical. Norges C. Rodríguez Almiñan interviews its owner,…
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Cuba's Law on Foreign Investment -- Law No. 118 -- was published this morning in a special edition of the nation's Official Gazette, the daily Granma reported today (April 16).
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A Russian couple spent tens of thousands of rubles to take home a stray dog they found while vacationing in Cuba. The émigré has made a successful transition from the tropical heat to…
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Last week in Havana, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez addressed the Eighth Congress of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC). Because his words reflected the thinking of…
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