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Virginia students discover Cuba
A group of thirty students from the University of Virginia were among the first Americans to visit Cuba after President Obama announced plans to normalize relations with the island…
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Agrotourism and more: An idea worth exploring
Practically lost in the map of Cuba's geography there is a rural community that, thanks to many people, is betting on a decorous and prosperous future, due basically to the effort of…
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U.S.-Cuba human rights dialogue to begin Tuesday: What to expect?
The human rights dialogue between the United States and Cuba that will begin with a meeting in Washington this Tuesday, March 31, will be under attack before it begins.
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Cuba’s León excels in European volleyball finals
Cuban volleyball player Wilfredo León was outstanding last night when his Russian team, Zenit-Kazan, won the Champions League crown, defeating the Polish team Resovia-Rzeszow, 3-0.
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Google Ideas is not Google
In order to approach from different directions the possible implications of the visits to Cuba of some Google executives in the past several weeks, Progreso Weekly interviewed engineer…
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How Mies van der Rohe’s Design for a Bacardi HQ in Cuba Became Berlin’s Iconic Neue…
The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, long considered to be Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's final masterpiece, opened in 1968 on a barren stretch of land not far from the border checkpoints of…
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‘I think it stinks’ – still, it works
Last December, when President Obama announced the agreement he reached with President Raúl Castro to restore diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba, you'd have thought…
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Fidel Jr. seeks closer ties with major Russian city
Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart met Friday in Novosibirsk with the city's mayor, Anatoly Lokot, and the region's governor, Vladimir Gorodetsky, to discuss closer relations between Cuba and the…
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Cuba specialists optimistic U.S. trade embargo will end
Phil Peters, president of Cuba Research Center, a nonprofit organization in Alexandria, Virginia, says the U.S. and Cuba have been making progress in normalizing their diplomatic and…
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Hot issues: Human rights and telecoms
Representatives from Cuba and the United States will meet in Washington next Tuesday (March 31) to discuss the human rights situation in both countries, a Foreign Ministry official said…
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