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Cuba's poorest citizens are not excited about Obama's historic visit
By Frank Jack DanielHAVANA (Reuters) - Fluttering U.S. flags, fixed-up roads and fresh paint on colonial buildings convey the optimism in Havana ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's historic visit...
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Cuban demonstrators were detained hours before Obama arrived for his historic...
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban police backed by hundreds of shouting pro-government demonstrators broke up a march by the dissident group Ladies in White on Sunday, detaining about 50 people hours before...
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This infographic shows what the US and Cuba have to gain by mending ties
Since the 1960s, the US and Cuba have had a fraught and broken relationship. In 1960, President Kennedy put in place the first trade embargo on Cuba following the communist revolution in the country....
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JetBlue to launch scheduled commercial flights between the US and Cuba
HAVANA (Reuters) - U.S. budget airline JetBlue said on Thursday it would launch scheduled commercial flights from the United States to Cuba on Aug. 31, ahead of competitors that have also announced...
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Fidel Castro turned 90 on Saturday, so Cubans made him a 90-meter-long cigar
Former Cuban leader and longtime US foe Fidel Castro turned 90 on Saturday, some 58 years after he and fellow revolutionaries seized control of the island in 1958.While the elder Castro did not make a...
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A key group of voters in Florida is divided over Clinton and Trump
Miami (AFP) — For decades, older Cubans have loved to talk politics as they played dominoes and slapped tiles down on the board. And they were almost uniformly Republican.But in this election between...
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Nicaraguan officials say president wins 3rd straight term in an election...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — President Daniel Ortega won re-election to a third consecutive term as Nicaragua's leader, electoral officials said late Sunday as they released early results from an election...
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Cubans marked the 90th birthday of the late Fidel Castro by making him a...
Former Cuban leader and longtime US foe Fidel Castro died at the age of 90 on Friday, some 58 years after he and fellow revolutionaries seized control of the island in 1958.Castro will leave an...
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Cuban dissidents are lying low after Fidel Castro's death
Havana (AFP) - Cuban dissidents called off a regular protest on Sunday as the communist island prepared for days of tributes to the late revolutionary icon Fidel Castro.The Ladies in White movement...
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With Fidel Castro gone, a new 'maximum leader' looms over the US-Cuban...
The recent death of longtime Cuban strongman Fidel Castro has injected uncertainty into the future of his revolution and presents the first foreign-policy challenge faced by US President-elect Donald...
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'2017 is going to be really bad for us': Fear about the future is seeping...
HAVANA (AP) — Alex Romero was delighted when President Barack Obama came to Havana in March bearing the promise of a bright new future.Like so many other Cubans, the 42-year-old state photography shop...
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'It's like a dream come true': Cubans welcome a new way to contact the...
HAVANA (Reuters) — Downtown Havana resident Margarita Marquez says she received a special Christmas gift this year: web access at home, a rarity in a country with one of the lowest internet penetration...
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I traveled to Cuba after Fidel Castro's death — and it was far different from...
Cuba appears to be in a historical moment.In early December, Fidel Castro, the country’s long-time leader, died. It had been my assumption that his death was like the sun dropping out of the solar...
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Here's what internet is like in Cuba
It’s not exactly a secret that Cuba has notoriously bad internet. For those travelers heading to Cuba for vacation, the lack of internet is something to keep in mind — don’t expect to be hailing Ubers...
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Cuba's opening to the world has a problem much closer to home than Donald Trump
Donald Trump's denunciations of Obama's opening to Cuba while on the presidential campaign trail and his continued insistence on getting a "better deal" with the long isolated island nation have...
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Obama is ending the 'wet foot, dry foot' policy giving residency to Cubans...
The Obama administration is ending a policy that allowed Cubans who arrived in the US without visas to stay and gain residency, the Associated Press reported on Thursday, citing a senior administration...
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US relations with Cuba could become a bargaining chip in the healthcare debate
President Donald Trump took a hardline on thawing US relations with Cuba during the final weeks of his campaign, likely in a move to shore up his support with some segments of the electorate.In the two...
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Florida congressman reportedly used healthcare vote to try to get concessions...
Republican Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart leveraged his vote on the recent Obamacare repeal legislation in an effort to gain concessions from President Trump on Cuban policy, according to The Daily...
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Trump's rollback of Obama's Cuba policies may harm the Cubans it means to help
President Donald Trump appears set to walk back some aspects of the normalization of US-Cuba relations conducted by President Barack Obama during his final years in office.According to a draft of an...
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2 more Americans were affected by 'health attacks' in Cuba
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two more Americans have been confirmed to be affected by unexplained health attacks against U.S. diplomats in Cuba, the United States said Tuesday, raising the total number of victims...
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