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Start-up aims to put Cuba back on the coffee map
Former British Treasury minister Philip Oppenheim has signed a deal with Cuba, which will allow his start-up business, The Cuba Mountain Coffee Company, to purchase high-quality coffee…
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Ivy League jazz band is visiting Havana
The 14-piece Brown University Jazz Band has been spending this week in Havana on a cultural exchange that brings them in personal contact with musicians of the island.
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Chicago bishop visits Holguín, Santa Clara
The Most Rev. John R. Manz, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, is visiting two Cuban dioceses to examine pastoral projects that have received funding from the United States Conference of…
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Spoiling what could have been a fantastic project
Two students here from Cuba who will attend Miami-Dade College agreed to be interviewed by Progreso Weekly but later shunned the cameras and evaded our reporter.
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Marco Rubio’s war on truth
According to the Republican Senator from Florida, the war on poverty has failed and it is high time we adopt a new and more effective Republican approach to the problem.
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European Union postpones debate on Cuba
Foreign ministers from the European Union countries will postpone a debate about EU relations with Cuba until further notice, the news agency EFE reported.
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Off to college, but in Miami
Fifteen young Cubans from the island are creating a sensation in Miami's Spanish-language media. Funded by the Cuban American National Foundation, the youngsters will study for 6 months…
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N. Carolina just gave millionaires a tax cut, raised taxes on the poorest
The 900,000 poorest working families in North Carolina just got another tax hike from the conservatives who swept state legislature elections in 2010.
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New law modifies self-employment rules
Law No. 315 governing self-employment has been published in Cuba's Official Gazette, the daily Granma reported detailing punishments to those who do not observe the regulations.
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Kerry to Vatican: Help free Alan Gross
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday asked the Vatican to help win the release of a Jewish-American contractor Alan Gross who has been in a Cuban jail since 2009.
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