Cuba

Yoani Sánchez's Italian-language translator for the past six years, Gordiano Lupi, on Friday (May 9) published an article blasting the Cuban blogger for being arrogant, mercenary, and…
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Cuba will need as much as $2.5 billion in direct foreign investment to boost its economy, said Cuba's top economist, Marino Murillo Jorge, Thursday (May 8) in Havana.
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The "experimental" opening to cooperatives in Cuba begins to show signs that it needs corrections. Although the opening was defined by the authorities as "a test" so far 452 permits…
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The press secretary of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Aleksandr K. Lukashevic, said, "We consider decision by Washington to be groundless. It is another sign of unwillingness by the…
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These days Havana has welcomed visitors who, in the words of German existentialist philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), are in that group of humans who, because they don't fear…
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On 26 April, forces of the Ministry of the Interior detained four U.S. citizens and Miami residents of Cuban origin, says a press release issued by the Ministry of the Interior, while…
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Cuba's ambassador to Russia, Emilio Lozada García, arrived Tuesday (May 6) in Omsk for a meeting with the governor of that region, Viktor Nazarov.
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Four U.S. House members have met with Alan Gross, an American government subcontractor who is serving a 15-year prison sentence in Cuba.
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"After many trips there," says the author, "I've come to realize that Cuba's way of life and adjustments to the realities of Peak Oil and climate change describe the path that the rest…
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The return of property from the churches seized by the Cuban government after the triumph of the Revolution in 1959 is more and more a fact. Msgr. José Félix Pérez calls it a "'process'…
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