Cuba

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov's first stop during his four country visit to Latin America was Cuba. He spoke about an "important" agreement involving Cuba's debt to…
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An official statement issued Wednesday (April 30) by the Russian Foreign Ministry says that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held an "informal" meeting with Fidel Castro. The Ministry has…
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The Paris Club traveled discreetly to Havana. Both parties have shown interest in renegotiating the Cuban debt. Cuba and the EU will hold negotiations soon that should reduce the 1996…
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A current is emerging in the U.S. attitude toward Cuba that appears more favorable to improved relations. In November, Obama told the Cuban American lobby that U.S. strategy ought to…
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In the U.S., between 70,000 and 80,000 people undergo amputation of diabetic foot every year and Cuba has developed a medication that helps in the healing of diabetic-foot ulcers and…
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One way or another I’ll be back with my family in Maryland in less than a year, Alan Gross told his lawyer during a recent prison visit in Cuba.
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Cuba and the Paris Club of wealthy creditor nations are working to resume talks over billions of dollars of official debt in a new sign the communist government is interested in…
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Cuban President Raúl Castro met Sunday (April 20) in Havana with China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, in an encounter described by state-run television as an expression of "the excellent…
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A delegation of Russian senators, members of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly, was scheduled to arrive in Havana Saturday (April 19) for a week of meetings with top Cuban…
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The first time Gabriel García Márquez heard the name of Fidel Castro was in 1955. Then in 1959 he helped found the Prensa Latina agency. Since then, his relationship with Cuba and Fidel…
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