Cuba

If you are the U.S. State Department in the age of Trump, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson wants to ramp up the scare meter on Cuba travelers, you continue to hype the secretive…
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Alan Gross, the elderly American who tried to smuggle electronic equipment into Cuba to start an unauthorized Internet system, reacted to the U.S. plan to convene a Cuba Internet Task…
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During the sessions of the National Assembly in December, the Cuban government reprised the discussion about the importance of moving toward a new monetary and exchange system. While a…
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Fidel Castro’s oldest son, 68-year-old Fidel Angel Castro Diaz-Balart, who was being treated by a group of doctors for several months due to a deep depression, committed suicide early…
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When in December 2017 the Cuban government released details of the new rules -- still not approved -- for self-employed labor and non-agricultural cooperatives, many of us remembered…
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The consequences of population aging express themselves in a gradual inversion of the population pyramid. To have an older population implies having a population group in danger of…
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Thousands of Cubans participated in the March of the Torches on Saturday, an annual procession that pays homage to national hero Jose Martí on his birthday. This year’s march,…
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One week ago Cuba was named “Safest Country for Tourism” at the 38th annual International Tourism Fair, in Madrid, Spain. Travel journalist Christopher P. Baker adds, "That’s no…
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According to new figures released by the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council, U.S. agriculture is benefitting from trade with Cuba. Exports of food and agricultural products from the…
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Cuba aims to become one of the more than 100 countries that will meet their energy demands with renewable sources like wind, water or sunlight by 2050. To reach that goal Cuba plans to…
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