Cuba tweaks socialist model to encourage work amid crisis
HAVANA (AP) — For more than 60 years, Cuba supplied at least some rice, milk, beans, sugar, chicken, electrical power and even cigarettes to its people nearly free of cost regardless of whether they worked, allowing many to survive without a job or depend solely on remittances.
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Cuba condemns new US sanctions, hopes for better with Biden
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba is convinced that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden does not believe the Caribbean island nation sponsors terrorism, a senior Cuban diplomat said Tuesday, a day after the outgoing U.S. administration returned Cuba to a terrorism list.
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Artists say Cuba government agrees to dialogue, tolerance
HAVANA (AP) — A group of Cuban artists and intellectuals say they won an unusual government vow of greater tolerance for independent art on Saturday after a demonstration in front of the Culture Ministry.
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Artists say Cuba government agrees to dialogue, tolerance
HAVANA (AP) — A group of Cuban artists and intellectuals say they won an unusual government vow of greater tolerance for independent art on Saturday after a demonstration in front of the Culture Ministry.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Artists say Cuba government agrees to dialogue, tolerance
HAVANA (AP) — A group of Cuban artists and intellectuals say they won an unusual government vow of greater tolerance for independent art on Saturday after a demonstration in front of the Culture Ministry.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Artists say Cuba government agrees to dialogue, tolerance
HAVANA (AP) — A group of Cuban artists and intellectuals say they won an unusual government vow of greater tolerance for independent art on Saturday after a demonstration in front of the Culture Ministry.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Outcry as Cuba removes protesters defending rapper
HAVANA (AP) — Cuban authorities have cleared more than a dozen artists and activists from a home they have used as a center for anti-government protests that have gained unusually wide attention.
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Cubans receive last of remittances via Western Union
HAVANA (AP) — Western Union closed its 407 locations across Cuba on Monday, a sanctions-driven move that will leave thousands bereft of remittances on an island that depends heavily on them — or force them to use less reliable ways to bring in money.
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Pandemic upends plans, lives of renowned Cuban musicians
HAVANA (AP) — Renowned Cuban musicians are turning to the internet or seeking other jobs to survive a pandemic that has closed bars, clubs and tourist venues across an island that only days ago reopened its airport to visitors after a nearly eight-month lockdown.
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Eta strikes Florida Keys; expected to become hurricane
HAVANA (AP) — A strengthening Tropical Storm Eta made landfall on Florida's Lower Matecumbe Key on Sunday night, days after leaving scores of dead and over 100 missing in Mexico and Central America.
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Eta expected to be hurricane and strike Florida Keys
HAVANA (AP) — A strengthening Tropical Storm Eta sliced across Cuba on Sunday and was aimed at the southern tip of Florida, where officials braced for a storm that could hit at hurricane force after leaving scores of dead and over 100 missing in Mexico and Central America.
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Many Cubans hope US election will lead to renewed ties
HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Not so long ago the tables at Woow!!! restaurant in Havana were filled with tourists ordering mojitos and plates of grilled octopus.
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Cubans fret as US sanctions threaten Western Union closures
HAVANA (AP) — More than 400 Western Union offices that Cubans heavily rely on for remittances sent by family abroad are in danger of closing amid a growing number of sanctions the U.S. government has placed on the island.
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Cuba relaxes coronavirus restrictions 7 months into pandemic
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba relaxed coronavirus restrictions Monday in hopes of boosting its economy, allowing shops and government offices to reopen and welcoming locals and tourists at airports across the island except in Havana.
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Cuba relaxes coronavirus restrictions 7 months into pandemic
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba relaxed coronavirus restrictions Monday in hopes of boosting its economy, allowing shops and government offices to reopen and welcoming locals and tourists at airports across the island except in Havana.
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Fuel, flour, diapers: Cubans turn to social media for basics
HAVANA (AP) — “Where to find it?” and “Whatever you want” and “What do you need?”
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Fuel, flour, diapers: Cubans turn to social media for basics
HAVANA (AP) — “Where to find it?” and “Whatever you want” and “What do you need?”
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Tightly-wrapped money?
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Cuba improving Cienfuegos port
HAVANA - Cuba will build three additional loading docks and a terminal large enough to accommodate modern supertankers by 2014 at its port in Cienfuegos, part of the communist government's effort with Venezuela to rehabilitate and modernize the area's oil refinery.
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