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Costly Delays in the Port of Havana

Havana’s port-transport-domestic economy chain has been interrupted once again and, at the end of the day, it’s the majority of the Cuban population who suffer the consequences. This time, the Gordian knot involves 20,000 tons of rice and thousands of bags of fertilizer.

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Snags in US – Cuba Relations

While no one is exactly sure who’s the boss in the United States, and even more doubts will exist after the November elections, Havana must modernize its methods in negotiations if it wishes to maintain its independence.

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As Cuba Tries to Avoid a Total Collapse

The productive forces liberated at the beginning of the revolution became bound hand and foot as time passed and, recently, an imminent collapse became evident internally –regardless of the renegotiation of the foreign debt or the lifting of the US blockade.

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A Special Easter Week in Cuba

Very few times before have as dissimilar events – comparable only in the excitement they have caused among the population – coincided in Cuba chosen as their stage. There is but one topic of passionate or controversial conversation in Cuba these days: the visit of the US president and the concert to be staged by the British band The Rolling Stones.

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Jose Marti Answers Questions from the 21st Century

The interview you’re about to read seeks answers to developments in today’s Cuba in the figure of Jose Marti (1853-1895). Where did I find the answers to these questions? In Ramiro Valdes Galarraga’s Diccionario del Pensamiento Martiano (“Jose Marti’s Thought: A Glossary”), published by Cuba’s Ciencias Sociales in 2013, the 160th anniversary of Marti’s birth.

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Obama Has 400 Days to Visit Cuba

During his interview for Yahoo News, President Obama stated he very much wishes to visit Cuba in his last year in the White House, but only if he is permitted to meet with pro-democracy dissidents there.

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