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Cuba: Notes on a history of best intentions
Even while strenuously working to destroy the Cuban revolution, U.S. presidents like to say that Cubans should decide their own future. But what if the Cuban people decided to choose…
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Culture Ministry tallies cost of U.S. blockade on arts and culture
Cuba's Ministry of Culture has quantified the amount of money Cuban artists have spent unnecessarily because of the U.S. trade blockade. It comes to 24 million dollars a year.
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U.S. Commerce Secretary to travel to Havana next week
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker will be in Havana Oct. 6-7, becoming the second U.S. Cabinet official to visit Cuba since President Obama called for the reestablishment of…
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The Francis effect and Dorothy Day
With incredible elegance and subtlety, Pope Francis left no stone standing on his journey to Washington and New York.
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Raúl Castro in New York City for U.N. summit (Update)
Raúl Castro met for an hour at the Cuban mission with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who in April headed a trade mission to Cuba. He also attended the pope's address at the U.N.…
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Cuba and U.S. will hold talks on air travel
Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Charles H. Rivkin will be in Havana on Monday and Tuesday leading a U.S. government delegation for Civil Aviation…
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U.S. may abstain on Cuba vote at the UN, reports the AP
The Associated Press reported on Monday that the U.S. may abstain from the annual U.N. General Assembly vote on a Cuban-backed resolution demanding that the embargo be lifted.
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Vietnamese president will travel to Cuba
President Truong Tan Sang of Vietnam will travel to Cuba from New York City next week, Sept. 28-30, after participating in the United Nations Summit on Sustainable Development.
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A look at the new measures taken by Obama
It is still too soon to predict the real reach of the new measures, inasmuch as it would require the legal interpretations for their application, but advances are being made in the…
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Francis: A Pope very different from his predecessors
All the manifestations of Pope Francis' behavior in the past two years of his papacy appear fully consistent with the simplicity he has shown from the beginning, a virtue that has…
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