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Out of 159,000 self-employed workers who registered with the Cuban government in 2013, only 16,000 had filed their income tax return by Jan. 24. Returns must be filed between Jan. 8 and…
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From the iPhone 5S to corporate globalization, modern life is full of evidence of Marx's foresight, says Sean McElwee in an article written for Rolling Stone. Adding that Marx was wrong…
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Beginning this Monday (Feb. 3), Cuba will launch a national campaign -- both educational and diagnostic -- to raise awareness of and treat cancer of the skin, a condition that mostly…
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The United States has halted all economic aid to Bolivia, because that country expelled representatives of the USAID last May. That aid amounted to about $40 million a year when Evo…
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Russia and Cuba signed an agreement this week in Moscow that brings two major state-owned pharmaceutical companies together in the fight against cancer. It could be a boost for medicine…
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"Development is not only amassing wealth and increasing consumption; it is the struggle for human happiness," said President José Mujica of Uruguay during his recent speech at the CELAC…
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President Obama can deliver a speech. He did not disappoint during his sixth State of the Union address. Pundits called it a center-left speech using center-right language.
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Cuba has expelled a Russian extremist sought for advocating violence against ethnic minorities and leading an organization of gay-bashers.
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Excerpts from the speech by Raúl Castro inaugurating the second Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit held in Havana, Cuba.
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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner shared luncheon with Fidel Castro on Sunday (Jan. 26). Fernández commented only that the visit had gone "Well, very well."
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