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Coming soon, a spring thaw with Cuba?
A current is emerging in the U.S. attitude toward Cuba that appears more favorable to improved relations. In November, Obama told the Cuban American lobby that U.S. strategy ought to…
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Placing blame on the latest Cuba-travel screw-up
The news, delivered from island authorities to the charter companies who carry passengers to Cuba, was that persons with passports not updated and current would not be allowed to enter…
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Homelessness
The man walked to the nearest traffic light and unfolded a cardboard sign. He ruffled his hair, looked sad, and raised the sign to his chest so that anyone standing nearby could read…
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Chinese official stops in Argentina on way to Brazil
As part of a whirlwind diplomatic tour, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met Wednesday (April 23) in Buenos Aires with Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and prepared to…
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Berlanga: Political decision makers can save people from amputation
In the U.S., between 70,000 and 80,000 people undergo amputation of diabetic foot every year and Cuba has developed a medication that helps in the healing of diabetic-foot ulcers and…
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WOLA: U.S. government should negotiate with Cuba to free Alan Gross
The Washington Office on Latin America issued a statement today calling on the Obama administration to negotiate with the Cuban government to secure the release of USAID contractor Alan…
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Washington helping to promote income inequality
The evidence of income inequality just keeps mounting. Our now infamous one percent own more than 35 percent of the nation’s wealth. Which has turned Washington into a protection racket…
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Destination Ecuador… and beyond
A couple of young Cubans who plan to travel to Ecuador say that their journey is to go "beyond" on a journey to the United States. It is one of many new dynamics in the relationship of…
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Guantánamo terrorism trial implodes
If anyone doubted that the U.S. military tribunals in Guantánamo were kangaroo courts those doubts should have been erased last week when it was revealed that the FBI has been spying on…
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‘Dead or alive,’ I’ll be back in less than a year, says Alan Gross (+Video)
One way or another I’ll be back with my family in Maryland in less than a year, Alan Gross told his lawyer during a recent prison visit in Cuba.
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