Cuba

After dusk in Havana, an ice-blue neon sign illuminates the faded facade of the Cine El Mégano, one of many abandoned movie houses in the Cuban capital, lighting up a once-vibrant…
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During the past number of years there has been a notable decrease in Cuba’s birth rate, at which time the country has not reached the necessary population replacement rate since 1978.…
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When the currency situation is finally resolved the greater question then becomes what is the value of each Cuban's work. What will be the value of one's real salary, and if that real…
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Cuba rejected recent statements made by Luis Almagro, secretary-general of the Organization of America States, on the island's political system, stating that Almagro had no…
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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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