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The U.S. and the speck in a neighbor’s eye
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Cuban-American representative from Florida, surprised many when she questioned the justice system in the U.S., saying that it was "extremely disappointing" that…
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Cuba-EuroUnion: A long road toward dialogue
In February, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs invited Cuba to negotiate a "political dialogue" that might put an end to the virtual freeze in relations between the…
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Museum art theft set at 70 paintings or more, worth nearly $1.5M
At least 70 works of art worth almost $1.5 million were stolen from Cuba's National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, CNN disclosed Tuesday. Other than confirming the theft, the Cuban…
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Vidal: The CUC will vanish ‘quite swiftly’
One day -- so far unknown but probably closer than imagined -- will be "Day Zero" for the start of the process of monetary unification foretold in 2011 by the Guidelines for the…
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Melba Hernandez, a ‘heroine of the Cuban Revolution,’ dies at 92
Melba Hernandez, one of two women who helped Fidel Castro launch his revolution with a failed 1953 attack on a military barracks, and who was later named a “heroine of the Cuban…
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Internet in Cuba: Discourse and reality
The willingness of the Cuban government to provide "social" access to the Internet returns to the public eye after the costs of navigating through cell phones are established. "It is…
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Cuba says it’s proud of its human rights record
Vice Foreign Minister Abelardo Moreno said that Cuba's reelection last November as member of the United Nations' Human Rights Council is proof of the Revolution's prestige in that…
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Cuban culture minister removed after 2 years in job
The Cuban Council of State has decided to release from the post of minister of Culture Rafael Bernal Alemany and in his place promote Julián González Toledo.
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Cuba backs Venezuela, states position bluntly on big issues
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla denounced what he called a plot by the Venezuelan right wing and the U.S. to overthrow the government of President Maduro adding that…
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The prospects for improving U.S.-Cuban relations
After more than 50 years of trying to bring Cuba’s revolutionary government to heel, the U.S. finds itself isolated internationally by a policy of hostility toward Havana that is…
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