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The Obama administration on Thursday fought to keep secret a CIA account of the 1961 Bay of Pigs debacle, says this report issued by McClatchyDC and written by Michael Doyle.
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Long a political land mine, normalizing U.S. relations with Cuba may be developing momentum, says Tom Hayden in an opinion piece written for the Los Angeles Times. Part of the reason…
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Cuba's criminal laws will have to be updated along with the economy to deal with "new risks associated with these transformations," Cuba's news agency reports.
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The newspaper Granma published an interview with Ramón Sánchez-Parodi Montoto, former director of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington (1977-1989), vice minister of Foreign…
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Excerpts from press "gaggle" aboard U.S. One, as Obama returned from South Africa on Tuesday. Meeting with reporters was Ben Rhodes.
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The Cuban Interests Section in Washington reports that it will restart consular services immediately, temporarily, until February 17, 2014.
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The Spanish government has told critics that it is quite satisfied with its handling of the repatriation from Cuba of politician Ángel Carromero.
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Joint communiqué to the Ninth WTO ministerial conference from the members of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America. Also excerpts from statement by Cuba's Vice Minister…
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Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua had refused to endorse a World Trade Organization trade reform agreement because it did not address the United States' blockade of Cuba.
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To fully grasp the meaning of Nelson Mandela’s death, at the age of 95, imagine for a moment that his life had turned out differently. What if he’d perished as a child, like so many…
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