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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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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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Zika crisis grows so members of Congress decide to go on vacation
Republicans in Congress are once again playing the extortion game with Obama by refusing to fund the administration’s $1.1 billion request to fight Zika unless a provision aimed at…
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Contact, conversation make a big difference when dealing with Cuba
Cuba is a great place to go: to learn, exchange, make friends, make progress and make bigger plans - so long as you can set the tropes aside, and come with ears to hear.
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Pharma’s business model: Your money or your life
Human life is supposed to be priceless, but U.S. pharmaceutical companies, like the makers of the EpiPen, have a clear sense of how much a life is worth to people who desperately need a…
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Lucre: Marco Rubio’s ultimate political goal
Marco Rubio's business is politics. Over the years it has served him well economically. Like others (he’s not alone), he does not see a problem growing his net worth as he runs for…
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Trump Is self-sabotaging his campaign because he never wanted the job in the first place
Donald Trump never actually wanted to be president of the United States. I know this for a fact, says the author Michael Moore. Now he will not suffer through being officially and…
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Cuba in the U.S. elections
So far, despite the tremendous media impact created by the reestablishment of relations, except for brief references in the platforms approved by each party, and an occasional comment…
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Trompe l’oeil economics*
Trump, being Trump, is proposing an even more radical fiscal counter-revolution than that that has been under way since the Reagan administration. It is a wonderful plan for business…
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