Cuba

Cuban President Raúl Castro had planned to visit Kiev later this year. With the recent upheaval and unrest in the Ukraine, and President Yanukovyich's exit from that country, Progreso…
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Inviting Cubans to talk about finance almost always leads them to sidestep macrostructural explanations. What's important is what reaches the dining-room table and people's wallets.
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During the first week in February, the debate over U.S.-Cuba relations was rekindled for a number of reasons. One was the recent inauguration of the deep-water megaport, container…
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The Yale University Glee Club will perform 2 concerts in Cuba next month. In Havana they will share the stage with the Entrevoces Choir, led by Digna Guerra.
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The demand clashes with the lack of an ample supply -- sufficient, at least -- that satisfies the basic needs of the consumer, the entrepreneurs and the population at large.
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Out of 159,000 self-employed workers who registered with the Cuban government in 2013, only 16,000 had filed their income tax return by Jan. 24. Returns must be filed between Jan. 8 and…
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The permanent ambassadors from the 28 European Union nations on Wednesday (Feb. 5) approved a mandate to negotiate a bilateral agreement with Cuba, EU sources said.
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The whole of Latin America considers unjust and inefficient the isolation and siege to which Cuba has been subjected for decades by the United States' successive administrations.
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Beginning this Monday (Feb. 3), Cuba will launch a national campaign -- both educational and diagnostic -- to raise awareness of and treat cancer of the skin, a condition that mostly…
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76-year-old Alfonso Fanjul has begun to reassess old grievances and tentatively eye Cuba as a place for him and other U.S. businessmen to expand their enterprises. He has started…
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