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The beautiful ocean boundary between the U.S. and Cuba

HAVANA, Dec. 15th Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory features the deep blue waters of the Florida Strait and the shallow, turquoise waters that cover the Cay Sal Bank and Bahama Banks.

The United States and Cuba may be divided economically, but the two countries are only physically separated by 90 miles of beautiful ocean.

According to a recent study based on Landsat imagery, around 53 percent of Cuba’s landscape is still covered with undeveloped ecosystems, including forests and wetlands. Around 40 percent of the land is used for agriculture.

This image was captured on December 2, 2018 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite.

15/12/2018/by Havana Live

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Cuban Man Uses Scorpion Stings To Effectively Remedy His Arthritis Pain

HAVANA, Dec. 15th Ten years ago, Cuban resident Pepe Casanas decided to do something very unorthodox in his fight against rheumatoid arthritis (RA) pain; he purposely got a scorpion to sting him. Since that time, the 78-year-old farmer has…

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FedEx looking for 'alternative service options' to Cuba

HAVANA, Dec. 14th It’s a no-go for FedEx’s scheduled service to Cuba. The Memphis-based logistics and delivery giant received approval from the Department of Transportation (DOT) in July 2016 to be the first all-cargo airline to start service…

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XVI ALBA-TCP Summit begins today in Havana

HAVANA, Dec. 14th Havana today becomes the capital of integration, unity, and consensus, as high level representatives from ten member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Agreement meet in the…

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Cubana de Aviacion VENEZUELA FLIGHTS TO RESTORE WITH A PLANE from BLUE PANORAMA

HAVANA, Dec 14th (EFE) The airline Cubana de Aviación restores its flights to Venezuela today, paralyzed since May, with the Caracas-Holguin-Havana triangular route, operated with a rented plane to the Italian firm Blue Panorama Airlines (BPA),…

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Cuba sees nickel output topping 50,000 tonnes

HAVANA, Dec 13th (Reuters) Cuba’s nickel plus cobalt sulfide production will top 50,000 tonnes this year and earnings are up over 2017, the head of the country’s state monopoly Cubaniquel was quoted by local media as stating on Wednesday. Nickel…

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Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta stars in own biopic

HAVANA, Dec.13th (Reuters) - For Carlos Acosta, the son of a black truck driver in Cuba, overcoming poverty, prejudice and politics to become a global ballet legend, write a best-selling memoir and create his own dance company was not enough. Cuban…

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Cubans welcome softer laws on business and art

HAVANA, Dec. 12th (AP) Cuban entrepreneurs and artists are welcoming a series of government decisions to soften laws that they said would have sharply limited private enterprise and artistic expression. The partial rollbacks announced last…

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CUBANS ARE GOING TO BUY IN HAITI, THE MOST POOR COUNTRY OF THE HEMISPHERE

HAVANA, 12 Dec. Dozens of Cubans are arriving weekly to buy in Haiti. They look for what in the Island is scarce in the poorest country of Latin America. According to a report by the AP agency, hundreds of Cubans walk daily shopping in Port-au-Prince,…

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The chief of Russian foreign espionage meets in Cuba with Díaz-Canel and Raúl Castro

HAVANA, Dec. 11th (EFE) The Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia (SVR), Sergei Naryshkin, met Monday in Havana with the former president and leader of the ruling Communist Party, Raul Castro, and the president of Cuba, Miguel…

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THE HAVANA RIVIERA CELEBRATES 61 YEARS

HAVANA, Dec 10 (P L ) The Havana Riviera Hotel is now 61 years old from its opening in an attractive site of this capital, a space of time that has filled its salons and its history with singular meaning. The Spanish company Iberostar Hotels…

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Prince Charles of England could become the first member of the British Royal Family to visit Cuba

HAVANA, Dec. 9th Prince Charles of England could become the first member of the British Royal Family to visit Cuba during a historic official tour in 2019. Although the visit to the island is still in its planning stage and has not been confirmed,…

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Carlos Acosta returns to Cuba as a prodigal son with his biographical film 'Yuli'

HAVANA, 9 Dec. (EFE) .- Carlos Acosta, the "black god of Cuban ballet", returns to his native country as the prodigal son "who never left" with his biographical film Yuli, a story of success and "hope", directed by the Spanish Icíar Bollaín…

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This Cuban-inspired Hotel in Key West is Offering Day Trips to Havana

HAVANA, Dec. 9th The tailor-made trip includes roundtrip charter airfare, a guided walking tour of Old Havana, and more. With waterfront views and the biggest pool in all of Key West, Havana Cabana is one of the best new hotels to have popped…

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Cuba defends controversial arts decree but seeks consensus on norms

HAVANA, Dic. 8th (Reuters) Cuba's government defended on Friday a controversial new decree tightening control on the cultural sector but said it would seek artists' backing for how it will be implemented, a move those who had protested against…

reducción de los taxis del sector privado

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THIS IS CUBA'S PLAN NOT TO STAY WITHOUT TRANSPORTATION BECAUSE OF TAXIS

HAVANA, Dec. 7 (Reuters) Cuba said on Thursday it will import hundreds of buses to strengthen its weakened public transport system amid a reduction in private sector taxis, whose drivers have shown discomfort following new state regulations…

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Cuba modifies some regulations unpopular with private sector

HAVANA, Dec.6th (AP) Cuba's government has modified a series of measures unpopular with the country's private sector, including lifting restrictions on the number of business permits a person can have and the number of chairs there…

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The beautiful ocean boundary between the U.S. and Cuba

Cuban Man Uses Scorpion Stings To Effectively Remedy His Arthritis Pain

FedEx looking for 'alternative service options' to Cuba

XVI ALBA-TCP Summit begins today in Havana

Cubana de Aviacion VENEZUELA FLIGHTS TO RESTORE WITH A PLANE from BLUE PANORAMA

Cuba sees nickel output topping 50,000 tonnes

Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta stars in own biopic

Cubans welcome softer laws on business and art

CUBANS ARE GOING TO BUY IN HAITI, THE MOST POOR COUNTRY OF THE HEMISPHERE

The chief of Russian foreign espionage meets in Cuba with Díaz-Canel and Raúl Castro

THE HAVANA RIVIERA CELEBRATES 61 YEARS

Prince Charles of England could become the first member of the British Royal Family to visit Cuba

Carlos Acosta returns to Cuba as a prodigal son with his biographical film 'Yuli'

This Cuban-inspired Hotel in Key West is Offering Day Trips to Havana

Cuba defends controversial arts decree but seeks consensus on norms

THIS IS CUBA'S PLAN NOT TO STAY WITHOUT TRANSPORTATION BECAUSE OF TAXIS

Cuba modifies some regulations unpopular with private sector

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