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A new association called RESPECT is in the process of being formed. Its mission is “responsible and ethical travel to Cuba." Progreso Weekly is part of this initial effort. We share…
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Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, said the president of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, lied about the border wall during the meeting both held in Mexico City on August…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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