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Close but no cigar: US-Cuba wrangle on embassies 6 months after shock announcement on warming
Advocates of normalization face powerful brakes on progress in both countries. In Washington, anti-Castro lawmakers have attached riders to appropriations bills that would roll back…
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Cuba-U.S. thaw attracts Spain’s economics minister
Spain's minister of the Economy and Competitiveness, Luis de Guindos Jurado, will travel to Cuba in the second week of July to meet with high-ranking government officials.
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An American ‘lost’ in Havana
Cuba is in fashion. Behind us are the years of solitude on an empty and dark stage. After Dec. 17, 2014, all the lights went on and focused on our country. The Americans want to come.
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Lavrov praises Castro brothers as he launches biography of Raúl
A book about President Raúl Castro's life was released today (June 15) in Moscow and none other than the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, launched it.
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Republican senator sees U.S. embassy in Havana coming soon
The opening of a U.S. embassy in Cuba for the first time in 54 years is "imminent," a U.S. senator said Saturday as he and two other Republicans finished a short visit to Cuba.
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What has happened to Cuban baseball?
The crisis in Cuban baseball resembles a Harry Potter novel. The difference is that the work has an unknown author, something that has become a mystery to solve.
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Contrary to erroneous reports, petroleum deliveries to Cuba from Venezuela still flowing
PDVSA has reduced the volume of Mesa 28 crude oil exported from Venezuela to Cuba; but it has been replaced by a similar volume of crude oil and petroleum products from its Caribbean…
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Google testing the waters in Cuba
The Google executive, Brett Perlmutter, is a New York-based member of the company’s Google Ideas unit aimed at helping to solve the world’s biggest tech problems.
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Is the Supreme Court passport decision a threat to Helms-Burton? We think so.
The Supreme Court’s decision this week in what is called the Jerusalem Passport Case poses a clear danger to the Helms-Burton law, and it will help to accelerate the unraveling of what…
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U.S.-Cuba deal expected in early July to restore ties, reopen embassies
The Obama administration is expected to announce an agreement with Cuba in early July to reopen embassies and restore diplomatic relations severed more than five decades ago.
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