Cuba

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, 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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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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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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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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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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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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An Iranian parliamentary delegation left Teheran for Havana Monday morning (March 3), according to a brief news item from IRNA the Iranian News Agency. The group is headed by Alaeddin…
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Raúl Castro has asked his ministers for a critical and constructive analysis of the measures being taken to update Cuba's economic model, the daily Granma reported Monday (March 3).
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Six luxury humidors fetched more than $1.1 million on Saturday at the gala closing the 16th annual Cigar Festival in Havana.

 The humidors were packed with Montecristo and other…
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