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Why is Minnesota’s congressional delegation so focused on Cuba?
Broadly speaking, there are three reasons why Minnesota legislators have been so active on Cuba politics, according to Eric Schwartz, dean of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at…
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Spain will open a $45.37 million credit line for its companies in Cuba
The Spanish Development Finance Institution (COFIDES) will open a 40-million-euro line of credit for Spanish firms doing businesses in Cuba. The line will be known as the Cuba Funding…
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Cardinal Ortega challenges critics to prove their assertions
Cardinal Jaime Ortega, Archbishop of Havana, has voiced surprise at the criticism he has received from anti-Castro groups outside and inside Cuba for a statement he made June 5 on…
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The Cuban Military not so transparent act
Legislation introduced earlier this month by Senator Marco Rubio (FL) – the Cuban Military Transparency Act – isn’t transparent at all.
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Chinese Vice Premier, an advocate of reform, will visit Cuba
Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang will arrive in Cuba on June 25. From Havana, Wang will go on to Brasília, to attend a China-Brazil Coordination Committee meeting.
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State Dept.: Cuba has ‘distanced itself’ from terrorism
The full text of the section on Cuba of the "Country Reports on Terrorism 2014 / State Sponsors of Terrorism Overview," was released Friday (June 19) by the U.S. State Department.
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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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