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Iranian president visits Havana, urges enhanced Iran-Cuba trade ties
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrived in Havana on Monday and was officially welcomed by President Raul Castro at Havana's Palace of the Revolution. He stressed the need for the…
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Five of six Cuban volleyball players found guilty of rape in Finland
Five of six members of Cuba’s national volleyball team, who were arrested in July under a charge of rape, were found guilty and sentenced Tuesday to terms of up to five years in prison.
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A crucial moment for Cuba’s tourism industry
Two very different roads lie when forecasting the future of the tourism industry on the island. One will take Cuba to little more than expanding the scale of the last 25 years. The…
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U.S.-Cuba negotiating historic oil-spill treaty
The U.S. is working towards creating a joint clean-up agreement with Cuba in the case of an oil spill in the Gulf. Earlier this year it presented the Cuban government with a joint…
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Released volleyball player will return to Cuba
Dariel Albo Miranda (#15, far right in photo) will return to Cuba "in the next few hours," the Cuban Volleyball Federation announced Saturday. Albo is one of six members of the island's…
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Amid secrecy, one Cuban defendant in rape trial in Finland is freed (Updated)
Cuban volleyball player Dariel Albo Miranda was released from detention in Tampere, Finland, on Wednesday during a trial for him and five colleagues for the alleged rape of a Finnish…
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The end of the charters?
On Wednesday, JetBlue passenger planes will fly from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Santa Clara in central Cuba, symbolically cutting the ribbon that re-starts the scheduled flights between…
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News blackout shrouds trial in Finland for 6 Cuban athletes
The trial of six Cuban athletes accused of raping a Finnish woman began Monday in the Pirkanmaa District Court, in the city of Tampere, northwest of Helsinki. The men are all members of…
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Starwood in Cuba: Behind the façade
Although discreet, businesses between Cuba and the United States flourish without waiting for the bilateral talks to end. In the sector of tourism, for example, a ribbon-cutting…
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The problem of ‘Cubanness’
As the wise Fernando Ortiz said: "He who wants to be Cuban is Cuban." And, for the good of Cuba, we should all encourage the shared pride of being Cuban.
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