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A crucial moment for Cuba’s tourism industry
Two very different roads lie when forecasting the future of the tourism industry on the island. One will take Cuba to little more than expanding the scale of the last 25 years. The…
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U.S.-Cuba negotiating historic oil-spill treaty
The U.S. is working towards creating a joint clean-up agreement with Cuba in the case of an oil spill in the Gulf. Earlier this year it presented the Cuban government with a joint…
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‘The humiliation is now complete’
Mexicans across the board were really, really mad because their president, Enrique Peña Nieto, stood by silently, impassive, neither denouncing the idea of a wall nor demanding an…
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Released volleyball player will return to Cuba
Dariel Albo Miranda (#15, far right in photo) will return to Cuba "in the next few hours," the Cuban Volleyball Federation announced Saturday. Albo is one of six members of the island's…
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Mujica: Dilma was deposed for rejecting corruption
Former Uruguayan President José Mujica said that Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, elected in 2014, was deposed because she resisted the pressure to protect politicians accused of…
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Rousseff: ’This story does not end here … we will return’
Dilma Rousseff entrenched herself as soon as she received confirmation that she had been dismissed from the presidency of Brazil on Wednesday. With a 61 to 20 vote count against her,…
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Amid secrecy, one Cuban defendant in rape trial in Finland is freed (Updated)
Cuban volleyball player Dariel Albo Miranda was released from detention in Tampere, Finland, on Wednesday during a trial for him and five colleagues for the alleged rape of a Finnish…
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Cuba issues statement on Dilma Rousseff’s ouster
A "soft coup," as radical changes to the right are called nowadays, has just been staged in Brazil with the ouster of elected President Dilma Rousseff. What has just happened is…
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Brazil’s political and economic crisis threatens its democracy
Many Brazilians consider the whole process involving the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff a coup d'état — and not just against a president, but against democracy itself.
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The end of the charters?
On Wednesday, JetBlue passenger planes will fly from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to Santa Clara in central Cuba, symbolically cutting the ribbon that re-starts the scheduled flights between…
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