HAVANA, Oct. 30th The Russian government has granted Cuba a $50 million loan to buy Russian military equipment, just days before Cuba’s handpicked President Miguel Díaz-Canel is scheduled to meet with Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

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HAVANA, Oct. 30th Announcing Havana VIP Nightlife App. We are so proud and excited to announce our new App with detailed listings of Havana’s best places to eat and drink and weekly Havana Live entertainment listings based on our Havana nightlife pages here on our site.

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HAVANA, Oct. 29th Havana’s Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Cuban arts building) shines a light on 100 images taken by 50 Cuban photographers from 1895 to present.

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HAVANA, Oct. 29th Good and at the same time surprising news made the round toward the end of September. There were reports about Cuba and the United States creating a joint venture in the biotechnology sector called Innovative Immunotherapy Alliance. The company was to develop medication and therapies for cancer.

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HAVANA, Oct 28 (RHC) Sixty antique cars and 10 motorcycles will  participate on Sunday, November 4, the XIV Rally of Regularity, Castrol Cup, in greeting to the 500th anniversary of the founding of Havana, the 120th of the arrival of the first car to the Isla and the 15 of the club “A lo cubano”.

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HAVANA, Oct. 27th The growth of Cuba’s private sector may be one of the keys to rescuing the island’s sluggish economy, but tight government controls are funneling millions of dollars to other countries.

HAVANA, Oct. 26th(EFE)  The economic embargo imposed by the United States on Cuba makes it hard for farmers to keep up with market demands, forcing the island to rely on imported goods to feed its population.

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HAVANA, Oct. 25 (Reuters) Cuba paid the third installment of a renegotiated debt of US $ 2,600 million to 14 nations this week, diplomats said, and also signed 10 investment agreements as part of the first swap that it has signed since the 1959 Revolution.

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HAVANA, Oct. 25th  (Reuters) – Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Wednesday the United States was on a path of confrontation amid signs Washington will further tighten decades-old sanctions on Cuba.

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HAVANA, Oct, 24th  (AFP) Sugar – it’s so quintessentially Cuban that even a young, machete-wielding Fidel Castro used to hack away at the cane stalks vital to the Caribbean island’s economy.

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HAVANA, Oct. 23th CEIBA Investments, a fund that owns stakes in hotels and commercial property across Cuba, said on Monday it raised $39 million on its first day of trading on the London Stock Exchange and will use the money to expand its business on the island.

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HAVANA, Oct. 23th Since the immigration reform came into effect in 2013, more than 40,000 Cubans residing abroad have asked for “repatriation” to the island, said diplomat Ernesto Soberón during a meeting with Cubans living in Europe over the weekend.

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HAVANA, Oct 23 (PL) Cuban tobacco industry spokespersons reported today that 350 people from 20 countries gathered in this capital from November 12 to 16, attracted by the Partagás cigar brand.

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HAVANA, Oct 23 (PL) Cuban cigar industry spokespersons informed that 350 people from 20 countries gathered in this capital from November 12 to 16, attracted by the Partagás cigar brand.

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 HAVANA, Oct. 21 A Cuban animal lover has dedicated 20 years of her life to feed, care for and protect more than twenty abandoned dogs that today become one of the most peculiar attractions of the Historic Center of Havana.

 Margarita García, 58, reserves the mornings of her Saturdays to bathe the street animals that haunt the Plaza de Armas. There, the dogs act as ‘guardians’ of the city and carry the identifiable neck to the identifications granted by the Office of the Historian.

 “These animals were appearing in the surroundings of the Plaza and I decided to welcome them, sterilize them and feed them,” the protector, also a graduate in Spanish and Literature and specialist of Ediciones Boloña, told Xinhua.

Margarita bringing food to the dogs / Foto: Agencia Xinhua

 Margarita not only dedicates time, but a good part of her salary to the care of these animals. With a salary that is around the average ($ 30), the woman covers not only the food and cleaning, but even the visits of the veterinarian.

  Foto: Cibercuba

 “They are already adult dogs that nobody welcomes, but everyone respects as pets here in the area and the Office of the Historian of the city,” explained the woman, who has five other dogs at home.

 Some of the dogs he cares for are Aparicio, Cortico, Pelusa, Vladimir, Canela, Mulata, Mocha, Nano, La Niña and P-9. When Margarita is at work or at home, the dogs roam through Old Havana and at dawn they accompany the custodians.

Foto: CiberCuba

 In the building of the Camera Obscura, a tower that allows a view of Old Havana in 360 degrees, are La Niña and P-9, who accompany the custody of Nilda Saavedra. “In the night guards they are an additional help and an incredible company,” he said.

 Currently, the non-governmental Cuban Society for the Protection of Animals and Plants (Aniplant), as well as other animal groups (such as Animal Protectors of the City and Cubans in Defense of Animals) are fighting for the inclusion in a new Constitution of the right of animals.

 Figures from the National Institute of Veterinary Medicine indicate that state clinics serve more than 1.9 million dogs and more than 50,000 cats. Those who are abandoned to their fate in the streets run the risk of being sacrificed by the departments of Zoonoses, assigned to the provincial directorates of public health.

HAVANA, Oct. 21 The Vía Azul buses, which the Cuban government charges in foreign currency and that supposedly must offer a quality service to travelers, have fallen into the habitual routine of services on the island: laziness, inefficiency and abuse.
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HAVANA, Oct 20. (PL) Cuban plastic artist Nelson Dominguez inaugurates Saturday an exhibition built with a structure similar to that of a ballet, to pay tribute to the legendary dancer Alicia Alonso.

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HAVANA, Oct 20th   The Cuba Libros Literary Cafe (at least its essence) will disappear on December 7, 2018, when a “series” of new regulations for private business owners come into effect.

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HAVANA, Oct 20 (PL) The enterprise Mariel Solar S.A. will soon start installation of the first photovoltaic park with 100 percent foreign capital, with an estimated output of 102 Gigawatts/hour (GWh) per year, revealed here an authorized source.

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Havana, Oct 19 (Prensa Latina) Cuba and Japan are coordinating in Tokyo the agenda of the 15th Economic Conference between the two countries (JCEC), scheduled for December 17 in Havana.

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HAVANA, Oct. 18 Global Air, the company that owns the old Boeing 737-200 plane that crashed in Havana last May, will have to pay several fines amounting to about US$ 90,000 , according to the newspaper published on Wednesday. Reform.

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HAVANA, Oct.18th  Silversea has released a programme of sailings to Cuba for the first time. A total of 17 voyages departing from Cuba and the US are available sailing in 2019-20. Read more

HAVANA, Oct. 17th As human contributions to climate change and U.S. relations with Cuba continue to divide the country, the Florida Aquarium is pushing ahead with a project that cuts across both issues.

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HAVANAS, Oct. 16th (CNN) This wasn’t the “Missiles of October,” the famed nuclear showdown between Cuba and the United States in 1962, but tensions between the two countries were impossible to ignore at the United Nations Tuesday afternoon.

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HAVANA, Oct. 16th (Reuters)  Cuban evangelical churches are collecting signatures to petition against a proposed constitutional amendment that would open the door to gay marriage, as part of an unusually strong non-governmental political campaign for  Cuba.

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HAVANA, Oct. 16th (AFP) American Airlines announced Monday that it would offer more daily flights to Cuba, by 2019, despite US restrictions on Americans traveling to that country.

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HAVANA, Oct 15 (PL) British designer Natalie Wildgoose’s Children in the Garden fashion collection will be exhibited at the Cuban Art Factory, on the occasion of the British Culture Week that takes place here.

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LA HABANA, 15  oct. Del fenómeno global al “secreto” más buscado, le Dîner en Blanc llega a la Habana y tendrá lugar en uno de los espacios públicos más icónicos de esta bella ciudad el sábado 24 de noviembre de 2018.

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HAVANA, Oct. 15th No structure close to the ocean is immune to the effects of rising sea levels. For the island of Cuba erosion is jeopardizing their coasts and its most iconic attraction…the Havana boardwalk, El Malecon.

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HAVANA, Oct. 14th Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, accompanied by the Minister of Tourism, Manuel Marrero, inaugurated on Saturday the Iberostar Grand Packard luxury hotel on the Paseo del Prado, which overlooks the Malecon in Havana and is designed for “high standard” tourists , according to local media.

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