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Minnesota Orchestra going to Cuba
This initiative will demonstrate the power of music to offer extraordinary opportunities for cultural exchange
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Letter from Ernest Hemingway’s widow could solve Cuban farmhouse mystery
Letter from Mary Hemingway, written in year of novelist’s death, appears to show willingness to bequeath Finca Vigía to the ‘people of Cuba’.
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Russian minister stops in Managua on his way to Cuba
After arriving in Managua from Caracas Wednesday night (Feb. 12), the Russian defense minister, Army Gen. Sergei K. Shoigu, spent several hours meeting with Nicaraguan Army and Defense…
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Cuba, busboys and poets, Takoma Park. Any questions?
“Politics change when cultural exchanges start to take shape,” said Shallal, who is planning a “Cuba week” of films, discussions, music and partying at his restaurants Feb. 28 to March…
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Urban cooperatives in Cuba: A little, not too much
The cooperatives are also a space of confrontation between the new, which wants to grow, and the old, which refuses to die. A struggle in which others, like Luis, who wants to go from…
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MinRex officials counsel Obama on talks with Cuba
An article in Granma today outlines what Obama can do to modify the blockade. It is unusual, in that it is signed by two persons identified as ‘functionaries’, but without mention of…
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Russian defense chief will tour 3 Latin American nations
Russia's defense minister, Army Gen. Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu, will arrive in Caracas on Wednesday (Feb. 11), on the first stop of a four-day tour that will also take him to…
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‘Bienvenida Cuba! Netflix is now available’
The presence of Netflix on the island, as well as the liberation of Chrome and the access to the services of Play and Google Analytics last November, widens the gap between the…
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Cuba expands trade relations with South Korea
South Korea's government-run trade insurer said Tuesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding to set up a formal credit line and payment guarantee arrangement with Cuba.
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In Rome, Cuban cardinal hails U.S.-Cuba thaw
The ambassadors of Cuba and the U.S. to the Holy See attended a Mass in Rome on Sunday officiated by Cardinal Jaime Ortega at which the Cuban prelate hailed the budding dialogue between…
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