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Trial is set in Finland for 6 Cuban athletes charged with rape (Update)
An oral trial closed to the press will be held next week in Finland in the case of six Cuban athletes detained there in early July. The six Cubans have been charged with aggravated…
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Granma: Cuban athletes in Rio performed below unfounded expectations
Granma paid subdued tribute to the Cuban athletes who participated in the just-ended Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, saying that, despite their efforts, they performed "below their…
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Rio 2016: Medals for Cuban émigrés
Present at the just-ended Olympic Games were at least 10 athletes of Cuban origin, some who garnered medals under other flags, who, in most cases, had made a name for themselves on the…
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Are ex-Cubans Cuban?
I hope the “ex-Cuban” comment was a harmless mistake. In the spur of the moment, and on television, I know how your mind can shorten and convolute a thought. At least I hope that’s what…
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Renewable-energy conference to bring investors to Cuba
A renewable-energy conference is set to bring industry players from the United States and elsewhere to Havana in early September, reports Cuba Standard. Focusing on remittances, the…
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U.S. tour operators on Cuba: Demand is the least of the problems
American tour operators who specialize in Cuba described the future of their business as promising. They said that much remains to be done on the subject of infrastructure and the…
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Australian oil sleuths are still evaluating Cuba’s Block 9
Peter Stickland is the executive director of MEO Australia, a company that holds 100 percent of the rights of exploration for hydrocarbons in Cuba's Block 9 and recently announced the…
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Motembo, oil and Nazi submarines
In 1881, the Motembo mines began to produce petroleum and asphalt, so much asphalt that, according to urban legends in Cuba and New York, many of the streets in the Big Apple were…
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Once again, the hour of the Mameys
The people's criticism thermometer has risen a lot higher than at other times in the revolutionary process and the time has come to impose the rules and standards necessary for…
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Sugar harvest looks for the perfect double play
Producing sugar has a lot in common with executing a good double play in baseball. During the 2015-2016 sugar harvest, only two Cuban provinces, Sancti Spíritus and Ciego de Ávila,…
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