Cuba

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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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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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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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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“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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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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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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There is still ‘no date’ for approval of immigration reform From Europa Press MADRID – The president of Cuba’s Parliament, Ricardo Alarcón, has revealed that there…
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By Andrea Rodriguez From Associated Press/Huffington Post RAMON GORDO, Cuba - The sleepy country setting that farmer Juan Alonso calls home hasn't changed much since he was born 74…
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By José Alejandro Rodríguez HAVANA – The most visible and colorful facet of the so-called “updating of the Cuban economic model” (though not the decisive one) continues…
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