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Cuba behind the curtain
Spending time in Cuba in the context of a ‘people to people’ educational tour provided an invaluable opportunity to peel back a few layers of this mystery, however, and to shed some of…
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U.S. spends $24 million on ‘Propaganda Plane’ nobody can see or hear
"It's hard to believe we are still wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on beaming a jammed TV signal – that fewer than 1 percent of Cubans can see..." says Sen. Jeff Flake.
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Validity of U.S. tourist visas for Cuban nationals extended to 5 years
Effective August 1, the Department of State is changing the validity of tourist visas from six months, single entry to five-years, multiple entries for qualified Cuban nationals.
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Cuba reports highest outflow of citizens since 1994
The number of Cubans leaving their country has increased steadily in recent years, the government reported on Wednesday, reaching levels not seen since 1994.
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Alvarez Guedes dies in Miami
Guillermo Alvarez Guedes, the Cuban comic who reduced a common expletive used often by Cubans to a simple ño!!, died in Miami at the age of 86.
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U.S. and Cuba, valuable meteorological partners
When a storm is approaching, “we call the National Prognostic Center or they call us, whoever gets to the phone first,” said Lixion Avila, of the U.S. government’s National Hurricane…
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Cuba and the sources of energy
Official projects now in the works seek to install, before 2020, eight new wind power farms that would generate 280 megawatts. That's an ambitious undertaking, inasmuch as at present…
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For Cuba, a harsh self-assessment
There was little to argue with this month when President Raúl Castro unleashed his fiercest and lengthiest public lecture to date on the demise of Cuban culture.
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Migratory Agreements Revised
HAVANA, /07/17/2013. Radio Progreso Alternativa (RPA)/Progreso
Semanal. Delegates from the US and Cuban governments met today in
Washington to revise the state of “existing…
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Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The authorities of the Republic of Panama have informed of the detention, in the Panamanian port of Colón, of the merchant vessel Chong Chon Gang, inscribed in the Democratic People’s…
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