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Cuban gov’t pardons over 2,600 inmates

HAVANA, July 19th (Reuters) Cuba, which has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, has pardoned…

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Cubans seek to revive little-known tango legacy

HAVANA, July 19th (REUTERS) — Cuba may be known now for upbeat salsa, but long before that genre even... emerged it's Afro beats fed into the melancholic Argentine tango which was widely popular on the Caribbean’s largest island. Now…

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Two Cuban transgender get married, a first on the island

HAVANA, July 18 (AFP) A transgender couple has been married this week in Havana, a first in ... Cuba where sexual minorities have long suffered from discrimination, but they had to register their union like that of a man and a woman, the…

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Cuban Power Outages May See End By Saturday

HAVANA, July 17th Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro after the Venezuelan crisis and plunging oil production and the... US sanctions on Venezuela threatened an oil barter deal between the two countries this year. The blackouts in recent days across…

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Sunwing announces twice-weekly flights Montreal to Havana

HAVANA, July 16th Sunwing is making it easier for Montreal residents to explore Cuba’s capital, Havana, this coming winter. For the first time since 2012, the tour operator is offering a direct flight service twice a week on Mondays and…

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THE NEW HOTEL PASEO DEL PRADO OPEN IN VIEW WEEKS

HAVANA, July 15 Exactly where the iconic Paseo del Prado merges with Havana’s Malecón, the French Accor chain’s... the first hotel in the Americas of the SO/ brand is being built. It will open the doors to its first customers in September…

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Santa Clara Celebrate 330th Anniversary of its Foundation

HAVANA, July 14 (PL) Cuban personalities and artists paid homage this Sunday to the city of Santa Clara, located in the central area of Cuba, on occasion of commemorating, July 15, 330 years of its foundation. An intense program to host the…

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Horse-drawn carriages drivers begin to suffer from travel restrictions

HAVANA, July 14 It is a low season for tourism in the historic center of the capital of Cuba. At least that is what the self-employed people who drive horse-drawn carriages in that area say, and who in the last few years had become an attraction…

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Cuba takes first step in railways upgrade with Chinese, Russian help

HAVANA, July 14th (Reuters) Cuba’s first new train passenger cars in more than four decades set off on their maiden... journey across the island on Saturday in what the government hopes will prove a total revamp of its decrepit railway…

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The La Herradura Uno wind farm north of Las Tunas advances

HAVANA, July 12th Three of the 34 bases to place the wind turbines of the La Herradura-1 wind farm, in the north of Las Tunas,... finished being built, for which it was necessary that workers from the Construction and Assembly Company had…

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Cuba's aging rockers finally earn their due

HAVANA, July 12th (AFP) For decades, their songs were banned, and even called the "music of the enemy." But Cuba's rockers have finally found their place in a nation where salsa, rumba, and reggaeton usually reign. This year, Havana will…

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Cuba's tourism dropps 8.5% due to Trump travel restrictions

HAVANA, July 11 (Reuters) Tourism to Cuba will likely drop 8.5% this year in the wake of tighter U.S. restrictions on travel to the Caribbean island,... the government said on Thursday, and the decline in arrivals will further hurt Cuba's…

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NEW TRAINS HERALD RAIL REVOLUTION FOR CUBA

HAVANA, July 11th “There are no timetables, only rumors.” Charles Nicholl’s assessment of Latin American travel happens to describe the railways of Colombia, but it sums up trains in Bolivia, Panama and all stations to Havana Central equally…

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Habanos S.A. Launch New Cigar in Switzerland

HAVANA, Jul 11th (PL) Habanos S.A. has notified in Havana Wednesday a special presentation for Switzerland on July 12 of the new brand of Punch, Short de Punch. This Wednesday's report indicates that Habanos, S.A., through its exclusive…

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Societe Generale sued for $792 million by heirs of Cuban bank

HAVANA, July 10th (Reuters) The family of the former owners of a Cuban bank seized by Fidel Castro’s government nearly six decades ago sued Societe Generale (SOGN.PA)... for approximately $792 million, saying the French bank owes damages…

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MGM Muthu Will Open Its Fourth Hotel in Cuba

Havana, Jul 10th (PL) With the opening in late 2019 of the Rainbow Muthu Cayo Guillermo Hotel, the Singapore-based MGM Muthu Chain will have its fourth hotel in Cuba and will reaffirm its commitment to tourism in the island. The hotel will…

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Rethinking Cuba & “Cubanidad” at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes

HAVANA, July 10th As its contribution to the XIII Bienal de La Habana—and as a preview of the city’s 500th-anniversary celebration this fall—in April the... Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes(MNBA) launched five shows examining Cuban…

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Cuban gov’t pardons over 2,600 inmates

Cubans seek to revive little-known tango legacy

Two Cuban transgender get married, a first on the island

Cuban Power Outages May See End By Saturday

Sunwing announces twice-weekly flights Montreal to Havana

THE NEW HOTEL PASEO DEL PRADO OPEN IN VIEW WEEKS

Santa Clara Celebrate 330th Anniversary of its Foundation

Horse-drawn carriages drivers begin to suffer from travel restrictions

Cuba takes first step in railways upgrade with Chinese, Russian help

The La Herradura Uno wind farm north of Las Tunas advances

Cuba's aging rockers finally earn their due

Cuba's tourism dropps 8.5% due to Trump travel restrictions

NEW TRAINS HERALD RAIL REVOLUTION FOR CUBA

Habanos S.A. Launch New Cigar in Switzerland

Societe Generale sued for $792 million by heirs of Cuban bank

MGM Muthu Will Open Its Fourth Hotel in Cuba

Rethinking Cuba & “Cubanidad” at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes

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