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Ocean Networks to Connect the Caribbean countrys with Submarine Cables

HAVANA, Feb. 23th American telecom development firm Ocean Networks Inc has begun building a submarine cable system linking Panama to the US state of Florida. Read more

23/02/2021/by Havana Live

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Havana lives under the siege of the new coronavirus

HAVANA, Feb. 23th In recent weeks, Havana has become the epicenter of the contagion of the new Coronavirus in Cuba, where authorities are fighting a third outbreak of the COVID-19 which started in January. In the city, where just over two…

Transtur posibilita la renta de autos eléctricos en Cuba

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Transtur makes electric car rental possible in Cuba

HAVANA, Feb. 22 The state-owned company Transtur recently announced the incorporation of electric cars for its car rental services in Cuba. According to information disseminated through social networks, it seems that the company is betting…

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Two Cuban Rappers Collaborate With Miami Based Musicians

HAVANA, Feb 22, 2021 (Reuters) A group of Miami-based Cuban musicians, including reggaeton duo Gente de Zona, have teamed with two Cuba-based rappers to launch an impassioned anti-government anthem that has gone viral. Gente de Zona,…

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More than a thousand coronavirus infections in Cuba, number rises again

HAVANA, Feb. 22nd The SARS-CoV-2 virus contagions in Cuba once again exceeded a thousand yesterday, with 1,039 cases, the highest number after that registered on February 1, according to information from the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). Most…

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How Cuba’s artists took to the kitchen to earn their crust in lockdown

HAVANA, Feb. 21st Not far from Havana’s Plaza de la Revolucion, where Che Guevara stares out nine stories high from the side of Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior, Julio Cesar Imperatori perches on the edge of a table in the kitchen of a shuttered…

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Meet the Cuban hotel owners turning to farming for survival

HAVANA, Feb. 20th In the tropical town of Vinales, in the west of Cuba, restaurants and lodges stand empty. 80 per cent of the population rely on tourism as their main source of income, so the pandemic has brought this town’s budding economy…

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La Tropical, the beer brand that “moved” some Cuban gardens to Miami

HAVANA, Feb 20 (EFE) After more than two decades of "odyssey" to recover the brand and the original formula of La Tropical, The first and most recognized Cuban beer, dating from 1888, the Miami businessman Manny Portuondo ended up “in the…

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The Cuban Who Built a Plane in His Garage

HAVANA, Feb. 19th Housed in the basement of a building in Havana, Adolfo Rivera’s garage may appear normal at first glance, but upon closer inspection, a half-built plane rests on the floor amid tools, cables and empty coffee cups. Rivera…

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Cuba readies regulatory laboratory for transgenic foods

HAVANA, Feb. 19th Cuba will have its first regulatory laboratory for transgenic foods, belonging to the National Institute of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology (INHEM), in Havana. The purpose of the installation is to monitor nationally…

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Three new decree-laws approved but animal welfare’s still pending

HAVANA, Feb. 19th The Council of State of the Republic of Cuba approved this Tuesday three new decree-laws “in compliance with its legislative work,” according to the island’s National Assembly. The approval took place during a session…

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Coronavirus Vaccine Nears Final Tests in Cuba

HAVANA, Feb. 17th People wait in line for four hours to buy detergent in Havana. Cuban pharmacies are out of pain medication. There are national bread shortages. And yet the Cuban government says it is on the brink of extraordinary scientific…

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Economists predict historic inflation in Cuba

HAVANA, Feb 17. The monetary reform undertaken by the Cuban government amid the global economic crisis and the coronavirus pandemic will sink the real value of short-term workers' wages between 15 and 50 percent, according to an analysis…

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Optimism as Cuba set to test its own Covid vaccine

HAVANA, Feb. 16th (BBC) Some of the equipment at the Finlay Institute of Vaccines in Havana might be considered outdated elsewhere in the world but the science taking place behind its white-washed walls is cutting edge. Researchers…

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Music Video Features Collaboration Between Musicians in Havana and Cleveland

HAVANA, Feb. 15th Elkarnal Decuba, a rapper who lives and works in Havana, has collaborated with a few Northeast Ohio-based musicians for his new music video for the tune “Que Bonito Es el Amor.” “This love song is inspired by pride…

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Official document reveals chaos and disorder in Trump’s response to “sonic attacks” in Cuba

HAVANA, Feb. 14th According to a recently declassified report, mismanagement and lack of coordination dominated the response of the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to the alleged “sonic attacks” that affected the health…

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The people of Cuba deserve the reversal of measures taken based on false pretexts

HAVANA, Feb. 13 After documents from the administration of former President Donald Trump declassified this Thursday revealed deficiencies in the handling of the health incidents reported by U.S. diplomats in Havana, officials and scientists…

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Cuba Publishes List of Banned Self-Employment Activities

HAVANA, Feb. 13 On February 10th, Cuba’s Ministry of Labor and Social Security published a list of work activities banned within the country’s self-employment sector. According to the document published on the Ministry’s website, there…

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Biden administration aims to close Guantanamo by 2024

HAVANA, Feb . 13 Joe Biden has a goal of closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison by the end of his administration, the White House said on Friday, following news it would launch an official review into the future of the controversial…

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Cuba loses phone, internet connections for about 90 minutes

HAVANA, Feb. 12th (Reuters) Cuba’s telephone and internet connections were knocked out on Friday in a nationwide failure, though there was no general power outage, witnesses said. All internet service and international communications…

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Biden to resume remittances, travel to Cuba

HAVANA, Feb. 12th President Obama took historic steps to thaw the hostile, Cold War-era relationship with the island nation of Cuba, 120 miles south of Miami. President Trump did his best to put everything back on ice. Now the Biden…

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Oxfam Internacional ejecuta en Cuba 12 proyectos de cooperación

LA HABANA, 12 feb La confederación Oxfam Internacional ejecuta hoy en Cuba 12 proyectos de cooperación con organismos e instituciones del país, de apoyo al desarrollo sustentable y equitativo, la seguridad alimentaria y la justicia…

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Cuba produces first batch of 150,000 vial bottles of Covid-19 vaccine

HAVANA, Feb 11 The Cuban biopharmaceutical industry produced the first batch of 150,000 vial bottles of Soberana 02, the most advanced Covid-19 vaccine candidate, which will start phase III of clinical trials in March, the developers…

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Planting on Havana´s Rooftops and in Backyards

HAVANA, Feb. 11th I had just gone to four markets and come home with only a quarter of what I had managed to get the previous week. A dormant desire was awakened. Could I plant some of the food I eat, provide some basic products for myself,…

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Coronavirus in Cuba: complicated situation in Havana continues

HAVANA, Feb. 10th This Tuesday there were five deaths from COVID-19 and the new infections amounted to 858 to reach close to 35,000 cases, according to the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP). In both statistics, Havana presents the most alarming…

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Cuba warns Colombia of possible ELN rebel attack

HAVANA, Feb. 9th (Reuters Cuba has warned that rebels from Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN) maybe planning an attack on Bogota, the Colombian defence Minister said on Monday. Cuban Ambassador Jose Luis Ponce on Monday sent “a…

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Animal Welfare Law in Cuba proposes fines of up to 7 thousand pesos to those who violate an animal

HAVANA, Feb 8th. Fines of up to 7 thousand pesos could be applied against those who exercise various forms of animal abuse in Cuba, warn officials of the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG). A MINAG team met with representatives of civil society…

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Cuba begins imposing restrictions on flights, travellers

HAVANA, Feb 7th (IANS) Cuban health authorities have started imposing restrictions on commercial flights and inbound travellers, who will have to submit to a period of isolation and testing to prevent further transmission of the novel coronavirus…

The reorganization’s prices of caps, violations and medicines

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Cuba sets new maximum prices for agricultural products and medicine

HAVANA, Feb. 6th The problem with the prices didn’t begin in Cuba with the monetary reorganization.< That, Cubans know well, is practically a truism on the island, a reality that has long been daily, fueled by the chronic economic crisis…

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Ocean Networks to Connect the Caribbean countrys with Submarine Cables

HAVANA, Feb. 23th American telecom development firm Ocean Networks Inc has begun building a submarine cable system linking Panama to the US state of Florida. The cable system, nicknamed Caribbean Express, will run between Palm Beach, Florida,…

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