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Cuban “Gamers” Surrealist Internet

There’s a hidden virtual Havana, sometime surrealist and only accessible to initiated members whose everyday activities are just a phantasmagoria, because “their” more “real” world lies in their videogames.

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Cuba: The Story of Two Blockades

The amended Foreign Investment Law has created new investment opportunities this year and a more attractive landscape to do business in Cuba, if it weren’t for the embargo’s extraterritorial persecution and other domestic problems which derive from national inefficiency and structures that suffocate our productive forces…

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A Cuban entrepreneur and His Social Conscience

“I still haven’t quite processed my encounter with Obama,” says Gilberto Valladares, known as Papito el Peluquero (Daddy the Hairdresser), or, more commonly, as Papito. He, along with other Cuban entrepreneurs, met the US president on his historic visit to the island in March this year.

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Odd Facts about the Town of Bejucal

Far from the walled city of Havana, from the new neighborhoods outside of the city and on the outskirts, the town of San Felipe y Santiago de Bejucal was founded in 1714, : the first vassal city in Havana and in Cuba.

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Medicine Shortages in Cuba Worsen

A serious problem that has begun to worry the Cuban people: the absence of many medicines in its pharmacies has made the news. The shortages that are beginning to be felt will most likely get worse before better.

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Havana Mozart Festival Oct. 15-23

This year, the Cuban festival runs from October 15-23 and celebrates the 70th anniversary of the relationships between Cuba and Austria. The “musical rejuvenation” of acoustically significant buildings has had a remarkable impact on Cuba.

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Ways for Cubans Abroad to Pay the Bill

Topping up cellphone accounts with bonuses from abroad has especially been welcomed by ETECSA customers and the Cuban community abroad, as communication channels have begun to open up more (or for friends of other nationalities) and have been improved.

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Clues about What Cuba Wants

The Cuban people, worried about prices at the market and uncertain about transport, don’t know how to assess the figure properly when they’re told, on a TV news report: Cuba needs to attract at least 2.5 billion USD per year in foreign investment if it wants to continue to increase national Gross Domestic Product at a steady rate.

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