Cuba

Progreso Semanal/RPA HAVANA – Brazil is weighing granting the construction company Odebrecht a $150 million credit to remodel airport terminals in Havana and other Cuban cities,…
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By Jorge Morales From the blog La Joven Cuba MATANZAS – Recently, I read a Spanish translation of the letter written by Roberto Zurbano to The New York Times. With some of his…
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The most powerful lobby in Washington isn't the NRA. It's the Castro-hating right wing that has Obama's bureaucrats terrified and inert. By William M. Leogrande From Foreign…
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By Aurelio Pedroso HAVANA – Not long ago, we were visited at home by a 13-year-old boy who had gone through six years of elementary education and was in his first year of junior high…
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Progreso Semanal/RPA HAVANA – The Special Development Zone at Mariel (49 kilometers west of the capital), under construction for the past several years, already contains several…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera HAVANA – The just-ended Third World Classic of Baseball has fueled debate among Cubans regarding the health of the game and that changes needed to improve…
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From Progreso Semanal/RPA HAVANA - They married in Paris and came to spend their fifth anniversary in Havana, Cuba. The famous travelers are none other than Beyonce and rapper…
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By Aurelio Pedroso HAVANA – Some deserve respect, others a hearing, others reproach; others are to laugh at, others to be pitied. The riders on the anti-Castro merry-go-round in Miami…
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By Aurelio Pedroso HAVANA – Although I have no firm proof, Cuba might be one of the few countries where finding the good (or terrible) services of a tradesman requires a great deal…
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Progreso Semanal/RPA HAVANA - Problems as diverse as shortage of raw material (raw cane), industrial accidents, the breakdown of machinery, lack of rigor and exigency, and the…
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