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A cigar maker in Tampa
Bernardino Villa Campo. Black, medium height. He wore a straw hat, boots and light-colored shirts, always long-sleeved. Spoke English well, played the clarinet. "Villita," was how his…
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Raúl Castro on U.S.-Cuba relations
Excerpts from the speech delivered Wednesday (Jan. 28) at the CELAC Summit in Costa Rica by Cuban President Raúl Castro Ruz, as translated by Progreso Weekly.
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CELAC’s third round
After a dull first Summit in 2013 in Chile, under neoliberal President Sebastián Piñera, and a second Summit in Havana, justly described as brilliant and transcendental, CELAC…
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Raul Castro says US relations won’t improve until blockade ends
President Castro made the remarks in the opening session of the two-day Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit in Costa Rica.
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Latin American leaders discuss unity and poverty reduction
CELAC holds its third presidential summit since its founding in 2011.
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As Cuba–U.S. relations thaw, medical researchers still struggle to connect
The economic embargo is still in place, so warming connections between the countries can only take biomedicine so far, scientists say.
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American businesses preparing to flood Cuba
American diplomats completed their first high-level meetings with their Cuban counterparts in Havana last week. Now come the suits
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Fidel’s letter is hot topic at State Dept. briefing
Psaki ended the questioning on Cuba by repeating that the date for the next bilateral meeting "isn't quite set yet" and that her office "will have more on that in the coming days or…
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Miami Herald sees U.S.-Cuba talks through a glass darkly
In Miami, it seems the success or failure of the talks is being judged by the extent to which engagement will produce regime change by new means. Coverage and opinions in the Spanish…
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Fidel mistrusts U.S. but favors ‘negotiated solution’ to problems
Without going into specifics and without even mentioning the recent talks in Havana between Cuban and U.S. diplomats, Fidel Castro went on record that he does not reject "a peaceful…
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