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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:00:38 +0000
| 02/06/2012 10:29 PM |
| U.S. Travel To Cuba Grows As Restrictions Are Eased |
| The Obama administration has relaxed travel restrictions to Cuba, reinstating Bill Clinton's policy of allowing people-to-people travel. But that's drawing criticism from some Republican lawmakers in the U.S., who say the tourist packages come with a heavy dose of Cuban propaganda. |
| 02/07/2012 11:25 AM |
| Cuba TV airs Castro book-release party |
| Former Cuban President Fidel Castro once again dominated his country's airwaves Monday during the televised presentation of an event for his new memoir, "Fidel Castro: Guerrilla of Time." |
| 02/05/2012 08:37 AM |
| Cuba Denies Exit to Pro-Democracy Blogger Invited by Brazil |
| Cuba’s best-known pro-democracy blogger said she was denied permission to leave her country after Brazil granted her a visa ahead of President Dilma Rousseff’s state visit to the communist island last week. |
| 02/02/2012 09:00 AM |
| Cuba says imports from US off sharply in 2010 |
| Cuba says imports from US off sharply in 2010 HAVANA (AP) — Cuban imports from the United States fell sharply in 2010 while the country increasingly turned to trade with key ally Venezuela, according to newly released government statistics. The nearly 50-year-old U.S. trade embargo outlaws most U.S. commerce with Cuba, but it allows some things like agricultural goods and medicine to be sold to ... |
| 02/03/2012 09:06 PM |
| Cuba Denies Exit to Pro-Democracy Blogger |
| Cuba’s best-known pro-democracy blogger said she was denied permission to leave her country after Brazil granted her a visa ahead of President Dilma Rousseff’s state visit to the communist island last week. |
| 02/07/2012 06:10 PM |
| Cuba trade embargo turns 50: Still no rum or cigars, though some freedom in travel |
| On this day in 1962, U.S. President John F. Kennedy imposed a full trade embargo on Cuba. The White House statement that day was optimistic about what the embargo could accomplish: “The loss of this income will reduce the capacity of the Castro regime ... to engage in acts of aggression, subversion, or other activities endangering the security of the United States and other nations of the ... |
| 01/31/2012 05:30 PM |
| Cuba, Where Sheep Are Trained To Venerate Wolves |
| The government's technique of how to introduce communism on an island scale is worth studying. |
| 02/06/2012 04:48 PM |
| The Creole Choir Of Cuba: Tiny Desk Concert |
| With a musical history that dates back to the late 18th century, the group has revitalized a long-lost culture through music performed largely a cappella and entirely in Haitian Creole. Watch The Creole Choir of Cuba mash up Cuban and Haitian cultures in this spirited set at the NPR Music offices. |
| 02/06/2012 06:26 AM |
| Cuba producing sugar with new technology |
| Havana, Feb 6 (IANS/EFE) Cuba has begun to employ a new technology to produce white sugar, a measure that improves its quality, avoids the refining process and reduces the cost of manufacture, a media report said Sunday. |
| 01/30/2012 05:53 PM |
| Bash America? The Castros play to their base in Cuba |
| Cuba's Raul Castro attacked imperialism at last weekend's Communist Party conference, while Fidel Castro earlier criticized US Republican candidates. |
