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Czech member of Parliament to Cuba: Add cigars to shipment of rum
In a novel way to settle a foreign debt, Cuba has offered to pay the Czech Republic with 276 million dollars worth of rum and pharmaceutical drugs, Czech deputy finance minister Lenka…
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Economist’s advice to Czechs: Take the Cuban rum and sell it
PROBLEM: What should the Czech government do with the 23 million bottles of rum that Cuba is offering as payment for its $276-million debt? There's an easy answer...
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After the emotion, reflection
Fidel's physical disappearance should not be a pretext for Cuba to cling to stale formulas that have proved to be ineffective. The challenges are huge and the future looms like an…
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Cuba, North Korea pledge to intensify relations
Cuba and North Korea last week announced their intention to develop relations "in all spheres," according to the North Korean Central News Agency, and cited by the Russian news agency…
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Foreign investment in Cuba: Hurry up and wait
More than two years ago, Cuba doubled the bet to attract a greater flow of foreign capital. It no longer conceives it as "a necessary evil" or "a complement" but as an essential factor…
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An Asian cautionary tale for Cuba and the United States
As Cuba increasingly welcomes foreign investment, some worry whether the nation’s relatively sophisticated system of environmental laws and regulations and its natural land and marine…
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Saying goodbye to Fidel
Cuban photographer Carlos Ernesto Escalona Martí (Kako) offers us a view of the people in Havana saying their last goodbyes to “El Comandante” at the Plaza of the Revolution on Tuesday.…
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Revolution means unity; it is independence, it is fighting for our dreams of justice…
The official English translation of the text of Fidel Castro’s revolutionary oath that people are signing in honor of the deceased leader at Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution.
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Fidel Castro and history
Although he himself predicted it in his final public appearance, Fidel Castro's death has not failed to affect the Cuban people and the rest of the world. Fidel was an invincible…
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Fidel: A man with the courage to try to change the world
Fidel Castro has staked his place in Cuban history. One hundred years, two hundred years forward, his name will hold a special and lofty place. Fidel’s name will go down as one of the…
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