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Google testing the waters in Cuba
The Google executive, Brett Perlmutter, is a New York-based member of the company’s Google Ideas unit aimed at helping to solve the world’s biggest tech problems.
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Is the Supreme Court passport decision a threat to Helms-Burton? We think so.
The Supreme Court’s decision this week in what is called the Jerusalem Passport Case poses a clear danger to the Helms-Burton law, and it will help to accelerate the unraveling of what…
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U.S.-Cuba deal expected in early July to restore ties, reopen embassies
The Obama administration is expected to announce an agreement with Cuba in early July to reopen embassies and restore diplomatic relations severed more than five decades ago.
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The Americans studying medicine in Cuba
How does someone get from California to the Cuban capital en route to becoming a certified doctor? But how does someone get from California to the Cuban capital en route to becoming a…
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Two senators introduce bill seeking to lift U.S.-Cuba trade embargo
Three months after a group of Kansas agricultural officials visited Cuba to check out trade opportunities, U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, a Republican from the Sunflower state, has introduced…
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Undocumented immigrants paid nearly $12 billion in taxes, study claims
A new study shows that undocumented immigrants paid an average state and local tax rate of 8 percent in 2012, higher than the 5.4 percent paid by the top 1 percent of taxpayers
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A commitment with Cuba to break the blockade
The wind is in our favor. The links between our countries are historic, and the benefits are much too evident to allow an outdated policy to determine our future.
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The changes in policy towards Cuba: are they irreversible?
In this city that practically lives from the political debate, as well as in important segments of the press and public opinion in general, the recent mood has been that the changes are…
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Verbatim: The State Department’s references to Posada Carriles
Excerpts from an Oct. 22, 1976, memorandum to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger from the Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research on the bombing of Cubana de Aviación Flight…
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Snowden would not get a fair trial – and Kerry is wrong
Edward Snowden is the greatest patriot whistleblower of our time, and he knows what I learned more than four decades ago: until the Espionage Act gets reformed, he can never come home…
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