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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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Why Cuba’s best cigar is still hot (Despite a 52-year embargo)
The full-flavored story of H. Upmann, JFK's favorite smoke
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Analyst: Beware of Google bearing gifts
The intentions -- more than the actions -- of Google executives visiting Cuba are questioned in an article in a popular Cuban blog. Examples of Google's past ties to government agencies…
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EU and Cuba to quicken push for deal, says Mogherini in Havana
The European Union and Cuba have agreed to speed up negotiations to normalise relations between Brussels and Havana, with the aim of reaching a framework agreement by the end of the…
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Playoffs will be a baseball showcase
None of the four major teams in the history of Cuban baseball will go to the post-season of the 54th National Series. Instead, Matanzas, Ciego de Ávila, Granma and Isle of Youth will be…
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U.S. cruise ships hear the call of Cuba
Now that the U.S. has begun steps to normalize relations with Cuba, a lot of American industries have been working on their plans to enter -- or reenter -- that market. And one sector…
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Google Ideas: We’re neither naïve nor paranoid
The mindset of confrontation could make us think that it's all a plan concocted by the USAID (maybe, maybe not) and could put us on the defensive in a process that really requires…
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Plan B: College grads in the private sector
"There is a 'silent generation' that doesn't appear in the statistics, whose opinions we cannot share. It's the young people who emigrate"...
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