Improving trade relations with Cuba Proposed bills would improve trade with Cuba, which imports 80% of its food. “For 60 years we have been embargoing Cuba, and it has not served the people of Cuba or U.S. farmers well,” according to Paul Johnson, executive director of the Illinois Cuba Working Read more
U.S. urges investigation, but Graham Sowa defends the quality of the island nation’s medical schools. He got a degree for free. Dr. Graham Sowa knows some people might see him as a communist or even a spy. After all, he chose to attend medical school in Cuba, worked for a Read more
Headlines about the Trump administration’s new travel restrictions to Cuba, notably the banning of cruise ships, will surely deter some Americans from visiting the communist country, and yet, it has never been easier, and I would say important for Americans to visit the island. Go to Airbnb and search Havana, Read more
Two months after the Trump administration made sweeping changes to Cuba travel policy, tour operators say Americans are still baffled about how to visit the island legally. “There is confusion in the marketplace,” said Tom Popper, president of InsightCuba. “There need not be, but it still is not easy to Read more
Dear friends, Greetings from ProximityCuba! We are writing you to invite you to Cuba once again! As you may know the U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) announced that, as of June 5th 2019 travel to Cuba under the “People-to-People category” and by cruise ship are now forbidden. As a Read more
If Cuba were a woman, she would be called Mariana, like the strong mother who forged warrior children. If Cuba were a woman, she would wear a long dress with white and blue stripes and a star on her chest. If Cuba were a woman, she would enchant, not with Read more
The State Department is paying a contractor more than $1 million to train 25 to 40 “emerging Cuban leaders.” The contractor isn’t allowed to travel to Cuba to recruit participants. And U.S. officials discourage the contractor from hiring “third-country nationals” to carry out the task. Instead, the contractor should work Read more
Cuba reached the three million international visitors on August 15, sixth days later than in 2018, informed the Ministry of Tourism. This result is achieved in spite of the campaigns organized and directed by the Government of the United States to prevent the flow of tourists to our country. It Read more
The Cuban government surprised by decreeing a significant increase in wages for half of the workers in the state sector. Anticipating the inflationary effects of such a decision, it also decreed the setting of ceiling prices, including markets that were supposed to operate under the logic of supply and demand. Read more
On the occasion of the anniversary of Fidel’s birth, Granma shares excerpts from a speech by First Party Secretary Raúl Castro Ruz, December 3, 2016 Fidel’s authority and his close relationship with the people were key to the country’s heroic resistance during the dramatic years of the Special Period… At Read more
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