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JetBlue plans to lead the charge of U.S. Airlines into Cuba
Once U.S.–Cuba relations warm up, the airline “will put as much supply as possible into the market and the most seats into the market,” an executive told BuzzFeed News. The company…
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Shipping giant CMA CGM signs deal for Cuba logistics hub
French shipping giant CMA CGM SA announced that it had entered an agreement with the government of Cuba and Cuban company Almacenes Universales SA to build a logistics hub at the Cuban…
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3 views from Russia on Lourdes and the U.S.
Experts on defense issues and Latin America react to Russian legislator Dmitri Gorovtsov's statement last week that the Duma would not rule out the reopening of an…
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Cuba has a lung Cancer vaccine—and America wants it
Cuba has for several years had a promising therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer. The 55-year trade embargo led by the US made sure that Cuba was mostly where it stayed.…
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White Sox Cuban stars Jose Abreu, Alexei Ramirez thinking about home
World affairs might be far-off talking points for most players, but the news of U.S.-Cuba diplomacy couldn’t be more personal for Abreu, Ramirez and their countrymen.
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Minnesota Orchestra poised to be first in Cuba
When classical music rises this week from the annual Cubadisco festival, the most important gathering of the Cuban music industry, it will be the Minnesota Orchestra that first graces…
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Chinese firm to build golf resort in Cuba as U.S. tourism interest grows
A Chinese company and the Cuban government have signed a letter of intent to build a golf course and resort, official media said on Friday, with an apparent eye to the eventual lifting…
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Raúl Castro meets with Pope Francis at Vatican
Francis and Mr. Castro met privately for nearly an hour on Sunday morning, speaking in Spanish, before the Cuban leader left the Vatican to meet with the Italian prime minister, Matteo…
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Hats off to the patron saint and the ‘ferry’ godfather of normalization
The Vatican has offered little explanation for this Sunday's meeting between President Raul Castro and Pope Francis, apart from Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi's comment that it was…
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Cuba and the United States: Beyond the hype, a long road
With the bulk of the embargo still codified by U.S. law, and with several other complex issues (property claims, the status of Guantánamo Bay, claims for damages caused by the embargo)…
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