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Senile dementia to double in Cuba in two decades
Researchers this week said that the population with senile dementia is expected to double or even triple by 2040 in Cuba, which has one of the longest life expectancy rates in Latin…
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Accept the functions of small and midsized businesses
Cuba's Official Gazette recently published measures announced by President Raúl Castro that delve deeper into the control and organization of private enterprise on the island. Diverse…
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A movie plot: U.S. diplomats go deaf in Cuba
Just when relations between Washington and Havana had fallen into soporific boredom comes the story of some U.S. diplomats who last year suffered inexplicable auditive damage in Cuba.
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Reggaeton and diplomatic deafness
Since the information being offered on 'Eargate', from both the U.S. and Cuba, is so unclear, it could lead the imagination of many to think of more "realistic" causes, such as this...
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Cuba reacts to expulsions and accusations: Statement by Ministry of Foreign Affairs
In a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Cuban government asserts that they took the alleged incidents involving U.S. diplomats very seriously and would never allow Cuban…
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U.S. ousts two Cuban diplomats citing mysterious 2016 ‘incident’
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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Hanging by the thread of dependence abroad
"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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This drought of ours
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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Citing ‘deviations,’ Cuba stops issuing licenses to some self-employed workers
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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Trump’s intransigence leads Cuba, Russia to throw up their hands, not hold them out
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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