Cuba

Russia's Federal Security Service and Cuba's Commission on National Security and Defense on Wednesday (May 14) signed a memorandum of cooperation in Moscow and agreed to create a joint…
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Alan Gross has been serving a fifteen-year prison sentence in Cuba for providing material support to the Cuban opposition. In the meanwhile, three Cuban agents have been incarcerated in…
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Assistant Secretary of State Roberta Jacobson met Thursday in Washington with the director of the North American department of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, Josefina Vidal, according to…
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About 300 clients show up daily at the "Bormey House of Peanuts," where Orelvis Bormey Torres sells 21 types of turrones , five varieties of panetelas and about 10 varieties of snacks…
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It is difficult to think of an individual whose life’s work represents more on the modern Cuban cultural landscape than composer, bassist, arranger and Los Van Van director Juan…
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Officials of the U.S. Interests Section met Thursday (May 8) in Havana with functionaries of the Interior Ministry to discuss the case of four South Florida Cubans arrested April 26 on…
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My criticism of the Cuban system remains what it always was, but not by the side of someone who thinks that the only value in life is a bank account! So says Yoani Sanchez's Italian…
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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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