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CUBA-US: Conflicting Interests Affect Incipient Thaw
The incipient thaw between Cuba and the United States could end up trapped in a vicious circle, due to the conflicting interests in Washington of hard-line political forces that insist on the embargo against the socialist government of Fidel Castro and business sectors keen on doing business with the island.MIGRATION-CUBA: No Stopover Too Far If Miami Is Final Destination
The southeastern U.S. city of Miami continues to be the objective of most of the Cubans who seek to emigrate, though fate often takes them first to Mexico or to such faraway destinations as Moscow or Madrid.CUBA-U.S.: Bilateral Relations Attain ‘Historic Moment’
U.S. politicians and business executives visiting Cuba feel like they are the protagonists of a historic moment in bilateral relations, with a trade-related emphasis.CUBA-US: New Thaw in Relations?
Military cooperation, the first commercial transaction in four decades and a veritable invasion of Cuba by US political and business leaders have marked the traditionally turbulent relations between the United States and Cuba at the start of this new year.DEVELOPMENT-CUBA: Havana Residents Live with Risk of Cave-Ins
Half of the homes in the Cuban capital are in an "inferior or poor" state of repair, and there are plenty of owners of homes that the authorities have categorised as "good" who are also demanding urgent fixes for construction problems.HEALTH-CUBA: Maternal-Infant Mortality Down Despite Crisis
Cuban maternity clinics suffer from a lack of hygiene, of sterilised cotton, of much-needed iodine to treat wounds, on top of many other shortages, but one almost never sees death.RIGHTS-CUBA: Dissident Group Calls for Abolition of Death Penalty
The moratorium on the death penalty applied by the government of Fidel Castro since 2000 should be replaced by a total abolition of capital punishment in Cuba, according to the Cuban Commission on Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN).
Havana Residents Face Risk of Cave-Ins
Official reports state that 39 percent of Havana's 2.2 million residents live in structures that are in a mediocre or poor state of repair./ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT/ART-CUBA: 2002 Is Painter Wifredo Lam’s Year
Wifredo Lam, considered the most important and universal of Cuba's painters, will receive tribute from his fellow Cubans and from art lovers around the world in 2002 as they mark the hundred-year anniversary of his birth.CUBA-US: Momentary Breach in Four-Decades-Old Embargo
Two freighters carrying shipments of food purchased from the United States, whose arrival in Havana passed virtually unnoticed in Cuba, punched a temporary hole in the embargo that Washington imposed against the government of Fidel Castro in 1960.TRADE-CUBA: Rum Trademark Dispute Awaits WTO Resolution
Executives at Havana Club International are confident that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will issue a definitive ruling in January on a legal dispute with the Bacardí company over the trademark of Cuba's most famous rum.HEALTH-LATAM: Growing Up with HIV/AIDS
Latin American children and adolescents living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, the precursor to AIDS) could all lead happy livesif they received the loving care and medical attention they needed.FOOD-CUBA: Shortages Loom in Wake of Hurricane Michelle
Cuba could find itself facing a "situation of food insecurity" in the next five months, according to a preliminary report by a United Nations mission that toured the country after Hurricane Michelle caused unprecedented material damages.POLITICS-CUBA/US: Renewed Wrangling over Migration
The always-strained relations between Cuba and the United States were evident once again this week at a meeting to review the bilateral migration accords that have been in force since the mid-1990s.SPORTS-CUBA: Baseball Victory Buoys a Suffering Nation
The victory of Cuba's national team over the United States in the baseball World Cup triggered prolonged celebrations that have led Cubans to forget, at least for the time being, about the devastation caused earlier this month by Hurricane Michelle and the island's deepening economic crisis.DEVELOPMENT-CUBA: Picking Up the Pieces after Hurricane Michelle
Efforts are underway to repair or rebuild tens of thousands of homes after Hurricane Michelle's passage through Cuba early this month, and wooden shacks will be replaced by concrete houses according to instructions issued by President Fidel Castro.ECONOMY-CUBA: Hurricane Damages Will Prolong Crisis
It took Hurricane Michelle just 15 hours to cause unprecedented damages in Cuba, which will further delay recovery from the Caribbean island nation's decade-long economic crisis./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/SCULPTURE-CUBA: Homage to Madness
The Gentleman from Paris, for decades Cuba's most famous madman, has returned to the streets of the Old City of Havana to mingle with passersby.POPULATION-CUBA: Bill to Introduce Paternity Leave
A draft law under consideration would make Cuba the first country in Latin America to meet a long-standing demand by women for child-rearing to be the shared responsibility of mothers and fathers, by turning what is now exclusively maternity leave into parental leave.ECONOMY-CUBA: Gov’t Seeks to Head Off Rumours of New Crisis
Government officials and the state- controlled press in Cuba are working hard at calming fears on what lies ahead for the economy, which has begun to show negative signals before it has even gotten back on its feet from the crisis of the 1990s.TRADE: Cuba to Buy More than One Million TVs from China
An agreement through which Cuba will import over one million TV sets from China has brought back memories of the days when home appliances from the now-defunct Soviet Union flooded the island.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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