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Housing — that damned word
In early 2012 the Cuban government eased the grip that for decades it had held on practically all aspects related to housing construction. It opened the doors to one of the greatest…
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What if Cuba returns to the IMF and the World Bank?
Former Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutiérrez said the U.S. should help Cuba enter the world's main multilateral economic institutions: the World Bank (WB), the International Monetary…
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Havana Club at the gates of the U.S. market
Jérôme Cottin-Bizonne, the French director general of Havana Club International, producer of Cuban rum, has "great hopes now that there's a new situation between the two countries."
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Medicare turns 50
Medicare turns 50. It was signed into law July 30, 1965 – the crowning achievement of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. It’s more popular than ever. Yet it continues to be blamed for…
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A Guantanamero in the papal Mass
It is not everyday that a musician has the opportunity to arrange a Mass for the figure of someone as influential as the Pope.
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Cuba: From surpluses to shortages
The insufficient production of materials and the hoarding and resale by the middlemen are some of the obstacles that today bedevil Cubans who are engaged in the difficult industry of…
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It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad country
When speaking of violence it's not just the crazy carnage inflicted weekly through the barrels of the ever-proliferating and increasingly deadly stock of guns in these United States,…
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Flag poles to public opinion polls
Are we progressing and winning in the court of U.S. public opinion in ways that are really catching our attention. Monday's flag raising at the Cuban embassy may be a sign of things to…
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Emergence of the individual entrepreneur
As a result of what has been called "the actualization of the Cuban economic model," the "non-state sector" now has an economic space within the country's development.
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Iran, Cuba: Sanity prevails at last
Last week the most powerful nations in the world reached an agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran they are convinced will preclude the development of an Iranian nuclear weapons…
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