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Cuba will begin to issue sovereign bonds to pay for the debt generated by the budget deficit, reported the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina.
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What are the things that spring to mind when the country Cuba is mentioned? Communism, Fidel Castro or perhaps Cuban cigars. Few think about the economic opportunities that the…
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The Cuban website revolico.com is already filling with offers of vintage cars for sale. Progreso Weekly brings you a sample of what is being offered.
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The Cuban government plans to liberalize the importation of motor vehicles by private individuals, the newspaper Granma reported Thursday.
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Michelle Bachelet, Chile's President-elect, this week rebuffed center-right politicians who cautioned her against appointing a Communist to her cabinet and spoke disparagingly about the…
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Listen! That sound you hear is the shredding of the social contract. The Columbia Journalism Review adds: “The line between democracy and a darker social order is thinner than you…
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U.S. companies hire from the island because Puerto Ricans speak Spanish and can work legally in the U.S. If immigration reform passes, low-wage Puerto Rican workers could lose that…
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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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