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Urban cooperatives
By Elsa Claro
HAVANA – Multidisciplinary teams in various research centers, institutes and universities nationwide are working in the design of what eventually will be an experiment…
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Changes in the agro sector
By Elsa Claro
HAVANA – Amid a hot and somewhat hopeless summer, a lot of transformations were announced to the Cuban citizenry.
A large package that expands and develops measures…
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Eladio Secades’ point of view
Water in a basket (blog under construction)
By Dalia Céspedes
HAVANA – Some months ago, on my way to a friend’s house, I found in a second-hand book stall a second edition (1958) of…
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Cardinal Ortega: ‘Oswaldo had a clear political vocation’
From the staff of Progreso Semanal/RPA
HAVANA – “Oswaldo lived the soul-wrenching role of a Christian layman with a political option. He was totally faithful to his ideas, which didn’t…
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The new life of Cuban oppositionists in Spain
By Salim Lamrani
From the blog La pupila insomne (The sleepless eye)
At the petition of the Vatican and the Spanish government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Cuban Catholic…
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Customs officials explain new measures
By Lisandra Romeo Matos
From AIN (National Information Agency)
HAVANA – The new Customs standards that regulate the payment of duty for noncommercial items sent to natural persons…
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Cuba gets first maritime shipment from Miami in 50 years
From Reuters
HAVANA - A small cargo ship sailed into Havana Bay on Friday with the first maritime shipment from Miami to Cuba in 50 years.
The Ana Cecilia carried just one container…
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Raúl Castro’s trip: business, credit, cooperation
“Shipping and machinery construction, Russian Glonass GPS and hydrocarbon production” at the center of conversations with Russia. Photo from Russia Today.
By Elsa Claro
Havana, July!-->>!-->>!-->>…
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Russia to invest $3 billion in Cuban petroleum
HAVANA (RPA/Progreso Semanal-Weekly) – The Russian state company Zarubehzneft will spend nearly $3 billion until 2025 in the hydrocarbon sector, according to Russia Today. The Russian…
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China and Vietnam no longer so far away
By Aurelio Pedroso
HAVANA – Nobody told me about it. I read it in Granma and, in my carelessness, I lost the copy of the newspaper where I had underlined the statement in red. It was…
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