Cuba

The U.S. State Department has asked two officials of the Cuban Embassy in Washington to leave the country, according to Heather Nauert, a spokeswoman for the U.S. diplomatic corps. The…
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"I think we have to look for a formula for the State not to pay for imported food what it can buy from its own farmers," says Eduardo Martínez, a peasant in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba. "How…
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The acute drought afflicting the island and its population is not news. But perhaps the real dimension of the problem has not been explained publicly to make people aware of the…
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To maintain better control over the work of "cuentapropistas" (self-employed entrepreneurs), the Cuban government has established new guidelines. According to official statistics, as of…
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Both Cuba and Russia have decided that, as long as U.S. President Donald Trump maintains a bellicose stance toward both countries, further attempts to improve relations with Washington…
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Public funds devote no less than $1 billion a year to the importation of food; consequently, the national production of food is a priority. It is one of the many reasons the concern…
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National tourism in Cuba has had meteoric growth in the last years. In 2016, more than 991,122 Cubans stayed in hotels on the island, establishing a record in the country's tourist…
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Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, a diplomat who for 11 years headed "the U.S. desk" at the Cuban Foreign Ministry and was instrumental in the negotiations that led to improved relations between…
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In Cuba, public health care is free and universal. Cuba also has medics who travel abroad on international missions. This service brought to the Cuban Treasury more than $8.2 billion in…
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Reports from the first-semester meeting of the National Assembly of the People's Power say that the Gross National Product rose by 1.1 percent in the first semester. Coincidentally,…
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