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Cuba’s entrepreneurs reinvent to survive pandemic

HAVANA, sept. 30th (Reuters) From a restaurant mixing take-away cocktails to a cosmetics company delivering home-made products by bicycle, Cuba’s entrepreneurs: Read more

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Mexico’s Aeromar to connect Cancun with Cuba

HAVANA, Sept. 29th. Cancun will be the starting point for the new regular flights that Aeromar will launch to Cuba starting November. The new flights will be in coordination with Viajes Libero to expand and diversify its routes. Through offices…

Cuba giving more autonomy to state companies

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Cuba’s state companies get more autonomy

HAVANA, Sep 28 ( PL) The Council of Ministers of Cuba approved new measures to improve the work of state companies, local media reported on Monday.The provisions are aimed at giving more autonomy to the grassroots state units (UEB) and make…

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Trump adds popular Cuban debit card to restricted list

HAVANA, Sept 28th (AP) A debit card backed by remittances that recently became popular in Cuba because people can use it to buy home appliances, food and replacement parts has landed on Trump's restricted list. U.S. Secretary of State Mike…

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How Do We Survive the Pandemic & Crisis in Cuba?

HAVANA , Sept 28th I’ve just received a combo package of personal hygiene items. For those of you who don’t know what this is, combos have become a trendy term in Cuba. It is used instead of a package and includes a series of items. My…

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Cuba and Russia agree to further promote cooperation ties

HAVANA, Sep 26 This Friday the meeting of co-presidents of the Cuba-Russia Intergovernmental Commission took place in Moscow, headed by the Cuban Vice Prime Minister, Ricardo Cabrisas, and the Vice President of the Russian Government, Yuri…

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How long can we resist?

HAVANA, Sept. 26th (by Julio Antonio Fernández Estrada ) The 2020 pandemic doesn’t end. Since March we’ve been locked up in Cuba. An island is already a water and sun trap without a pandemic having to impose the practice of physical distancing…

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The Faílde Orchestra from Cuba, new voting member of the Latin Grammys

HAVANA, Sep 25th The Faílde Orchestra, defender of Cuban danzón, rhythm and national dance, appears today on the list of voting members belonging to the Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which awards the Latin Grammy Awards.…

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Trump registered his trademark in Cuba in 2008

HAVANA, Sept. 24th Despite earlier promises in Miami that he would not do business in Cuba until the island was “free,” Donald Trump applied in 2008 to register his Trump trademark in the Caribbean nation for a variety of commercial…

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Two young Cubans foundet TB cocktail project using native plants

HAVANA, Sept. 23th (IPS Cuba) In 2019, Dagoberto Jesus Morejon and Manuel Alejandro Valdes founded the TB Cocktail project, a little bit out of necessity and a lot out of conscience, to create cocktails and products using native Cuban plants.The…

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US Government Suspends Private Charter Flights between the United States and Cuba

HAVANA, Sept. 23th On August 13, 2020, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a statement requesting that the US Department of Transportation (“DOT”) suspend private charter flights to all Cuban airports. This action will suspend all charter…

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Trump unveils new sanctions against Cuban rum and cigars

HAVANA, Sept. 23th (Reuters) U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposed new curbs on imports of Cuban rum and cigars and banned Americans from staying at properties owned by the Cuban government, as he seeks to lock in the Cuban-American…

New Canadian Airline Set To Fly To Cuba From The Fall

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Canadian airline OWG will fly to Cuba from November

HAVANA, Sep 23th The Canadian airline OWG will fly to Cuba starting next November, the Corporación de la Aviación Cubana S.A. confirmed today.As reported by the entity in a message through Twitter, the air operations will link the cities…

Cuba's leading export products present at German fair

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German Habano Cigars fair held in Berlin

HAVANA, Sep 21 (PL) Several leading export products represented Cuba at the German Habano Cigars fair, held this weekend, diplomatic sources reported on Monday.Brands such as Partagas, Ron Caney, Ron Santiago de Cuba, Ron Vacilon and Ron Havana…

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Cuba uses ozone therapy to fight Covid-19

HAVANA, Sep 21 Cuba today uses ozone therapy as a complementary action in the fight against Covid-19, a modality approved within the Natural and Traditional Medicine of the Ministry of Public Health.The largest of the Antilles also registers…

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Japan to donate medical equipment to Cuba

HAVANA, Sept. 19th Japan will donate medical equipment to Cuba to deal with the spread of COVID-19 on the Caribbean island, as part of the Japanese government’s Non-Reimbursable Financial Cooperation program.The signing ceremony for the donation,…

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Cuban enterprises will receive tax benefits for increased exports

HAVANA, Sept. 18th Cuba approved a package of tax benefits to encourage exportable productions from both state and private Cuban and foreign enterprises that operate on the island.Resolution 222/2020 of the Ministry of Finance and Prices applies…

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First boy registered in Cuba as the son of two mothers

HAVANA, Sep 18 (PL ) Paulo Cesar, a 13-month-old boy, is the first minor registered in the Civil Registry of Cuba as the son of two persons of the same sex: Cuban psychologist Dachelys Valdes and US anthropologist Hope Bastian.Recently,…

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A monastery reopens in Cuba after 125 years — and a hurricane threatens to close it for good

HAVANA, Sept 17th Maria Lozano - ACN The night of January 27, 2019, is one that Fray Gabriel Avila Luna will not easily forget; there were moments when he thought it might have been his last. Winds of close to 200 miles an hour ripped through…

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Cuba, Japan hold talks on joint cooperation projects

HAVANA, Sep 16 (PL) Directors of Japan's International Cooperation Agency (JICA) held talks with Cuba's Ambassador to Japan Miguel Angel Ramirez about joint projects aimed at the country's socio-economic development, the Foreign Ministry reported…

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Telmary and Habana Sana in online concert from Cuba

HAVANA, Sep 15 (PL) Cuban rapper Telmary and her band Habana Sana (Healthy Havana) will offer an online concert on Tuesday from Havana, organized by the Ministry of Culture (MINCULT)Telmary and Habana Sana took the stage in 2013 and since…

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An elevator of the Meliá Habana failed and causes serious injuries

HAVANA, Sept. 15. An elevator fell from the sixth floor of the Meliá Habana hotel on Saturday morning with a flight attendant of the Cubana de Aviación airline, who survived and was rushed to the Calixto García hospital with serious injuries. The…

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Cuban-American Claver-Carone to chair Inter-American Development Bank

HAVANA, Sept. 14th Cuban-American Mauricio Claver-Carone, advisor for the Americas to U.S. President Donald Trump and defender of the rollback in relations between Cuba and the U.S., was elected this Saturday as the new president of the Inter-American…

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Sarah Willis in Havana with Mozart y Mambo!

HAVANA, September 14, (By Debra Lew Harder) Sarah Willis, the first female brass player of the Berlin Philharmonic, is a musician after my own heart—she loves to dance. Ms. Willis’s affinity for Latin dance, especially mambo, led…

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Cuba punches above weight with ‘white coat army’ during pandemic

HAVANA, sept.14 (Reuters) At the start of Togo's coronavirus outbreak, the small West African nation welcomed a team of 12 Cuban healthcare workers to tend to sufferers of the virus, boost its laboratory testing and help improve its hospital…

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Young Cuban designs video game that recreates potential vaccine of Cuba against COVID19

HAVANA, Sep 13th Young Cuban Sitting for hours in front of his home computer, a 12-year-old Cuban boy designed a video game that bets on the success of a potential Cuban vaccine to counter the deadly effect of the new coronavirus.Five months…

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Havana’s cultural life struggles to survive COVID-19 pandemic

HAVANA, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) Ailen Piquero, 20, a university student from Havana's outskirts, is eager for a Saturday night at Cuban Art Factory, the city's most popular cultural venue, located in El Vedado district, famous for its hectic activity…

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Cuba shuts down interprovincial transportation due to new COVID-19 fears

HAVANA, sept. 12th Cuban state media reported on Saturday (Sept 12) interprovincial transportation would be shut down and a curfew in Havana extended until the end of the month as a surge in COVID-19 cases in the capital spreads to other…

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Havana Governor Prolongs Curfew Until September 30

HAVANA, Sept. 12th Governor of the Cuban capital of Havana Reinaldo Garcia Zapata has prolonged the coronavirus-linked curfew until September 30 over the remaining difficult epidemiological situation.In late August, the governor introduced the…

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Cuba’s entrepreneurs reinvent to survive pandemic

HAVANA, sept. 30th (Reuters) From a restaurant mixing take-away cocktails to a cosmetics company delivering home-made products by bicycle, Cuba's entrepreneurs: no strangers to hardship: are coping with the coronavirus shutdown in innovative…

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