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Central government acts to stop spread of dengue fever in Holguín
The Cuban government has sent its vice minister of Health and the head of the Water Resources Institute from Havana to the province of Holguín to supervise the battle against an…
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Cuba and the international financial institutions: Has the time come?
In recent years, the issue of Cuba's incorporation into international financial institutions has slipped into the debate over the island's economic outlook.
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Housing — that damned word
In early 2012 the Cuban government eased the grip that for decades it had held on practically all aspects related to housing construction. It opened the doors to one of the greatest…
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What if Cuba returns to the IMF and the World Bank?
Former Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutiérrez said the U.S. should help Cuba enter the world's main multilateral economic institutions: the World Bank (WB), the International Monetary…
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200 Spanish business leaders hear Cuban minister’s invitation to invest
Cuba's minister of Foreign Trade told 200 business executives in Madrid last week that Cuba needs $2.5 billion a year in foreign investment to boost its economic development and also…
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Havana Club at the gates of the U.S. market
Jérôme Cottin-Bizonne, the French director general of Havana Club International, producer of Cuban rum, has "great hopes now that there's a new situation between the two countries."
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MINREX: Human trafficking report presents ‘tendentious and manipulated elements’
The State Department has removed Cuba from its list of countries that do nothing to deal with human trafficking, upgrading the island from Tier 3 in its 2015 Trafficking in Persons…
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A Guantanamero in the papal Mass
It is not everyday that a musician has the opportunity to arrange a Mass for the figure of someone as influential as the Pope.
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Marriott International is ‘ready’ to open hotels in Cuba (Video)
The Marriott International chain, a giant in the hotel industry, is eager and ready to do business in Cuba, its president and chief executive officer writes this week.
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Cuba: From surpluses to shortages
The insufficient production of materials and the hoarding and resale by the middlemen are some of the obstacles that today bedevil Cubans who are engaged in the difficult industry of…
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