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Cuba rejects OAS remarks about its political system
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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19 more phantoms impede travel to 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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Gross rejects Trump plan to launch ‘task force’ into Cuban cyberspace
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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Cuba’s dual currency is due for revision
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 Diaz-Balart is dead by suicide
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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Non-state sector in Cuba: Back to the past?
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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And who looks after them?
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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What Jose Martí teaches us about Trump-era imperialism
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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Let’s stop calling Cuba unsafe
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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U.S. agriculture benefiting from trade with Cuba
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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