Monthly Archives: March 2016
Cuba’s Odd 2-Currency System, As Explained By Ice Cream Connor Hickox, Zach Toombs , Zach Toombs 9:48 AM, Mar 30, 2016
All these Cubans are waiting hours in line — for vanilla ice cream.
“There’s only vanilla,” one woman told… Continue reading
U.S. rapprochement with Cuba creating investment window for Canada: ambassador Ross Marowits, The Canadian Press The Canadian Press March 31, 2016
MONTREAL – Cuba’s rapprochement with the United States is creating a window of opportunity for Canadian business to invest… Continue reading
Rolling Stones Ink Business Partnership With Cuba’s Castro Family HUMBERTO FONTOVA 12:44 PM 03/30/2016
What? You missed that news item? Well, you probably read about it, but under a different headline last weekend. You probably read about a “Historic!” —… Continue reading
If engagement gives Fidel Castro a heart attack, it’s good enough for me
Aging dictator’s letter to “Brother Obama” has sardonic racist tinge Some exiles not happy with Obama visit either Castro, Obama detractors awkwardly on same side of history… Continue reading
Financial ties with U.S. still far from normal, Cuba says Published March 30, 2016 EFE
Cuba and the United States still do not enjoy “normal” financial ties, the island’s foreign minister said in comments posted Wednesday on the official Web… Continue reading
52 migrants repatriated to Cuba
Twenty of the migrants were on a boat with six people who had serious gunshot wounds and stayed in the country due to receiving medical attention BY CARLI TEPROFF cteproff@miamiherald.com
The Coast Guard on Wednesday… Continue reading
Who Is Gregory Elias? 6 Things To Know About Lawyer Who Paid Rolling Stones Cuba Concert Geplaatst op 31 maart 2016 door redactie curacao By Natalie Rotterman
Fans wait for the free outdoor concert by the Rolling Stones at Ciudad… Continue reading
Unusual dissent erupts inside Cuban Communist Party By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
ANA (AP) — Days after President Barack Obama’s historic visit, the leaders of Cuba’s Communist Party are under highly unusual public criticism from their own ranks for… Continue reading
Russia Ready to Invest $1.35Bln in Cuba’s Thermal Power Plants Sputnik/ Taras Litvinenko BUSINESS 23:21 29.03.2016
Russian companies are ready to invest 1.2 billion euros ($1.35 billion) in the construction of Cuban thermal power plants, Russian Deputy Energy Minister Anton… Continue reading
Vilsack allows agricultural checkoffs in Cuba By Jane Fyksen
HAVANA, Cuba — As part of President Barrack Obama’s trip to Cuba to further normalization of relations, advance commercial and people-to-people ties, and express U.S. support for human rights in Cuba,… Continue reading
TORRES SERVED TO OBAMA IN CUBA 30th March, 2016 by Rupert Millar
Torres’ ‘Milmanda’ 2012 and Vega Sicilia Unico 2007 were among the wines served to President Barack Obama on his trip to Cuba this month.
On 21 March Obama… Continue reading
Logistics Executives See Shipping Hub Potential in Cuba U.S. businesses touring freight sites find modern facilities along with decaying infrastructure and “endless” possibilities for American exports By LORETTA CHAO March 29, 2016 2:51 p.m. ET
U.S. logistics executives who toured… Continue reading
Flights to Cuba Are Getting Cheaper By Tom Burson | March 29, 2016 | 11:55am
Looks like the warming of relations between the U.S. and Cuba could spur something beyond cheap cigars and rum: flights to Cuba are about to… Continue reading
US-Cuba detente shows trade is blind BUSINESS/OPINION/COLUMNISTS / 30 March 2016 at 07:30am By: Keith Bryer
Among the many positive attributes of a free market economic system is that it is blind. It does not care about politics. It cares… Continue reading
Progress in Cuba starts with people By Benjamin Naimark-Rowse Wednesday, March 30, 2016 | 2 a.m.
When President Barack Obama touched down in Havana a week ago, he tweeted, “¿Que bolá Cuba?” This colloquial Cuban greeting is their equivalent of,… Continue reading
Meet the lawyer who paid for the Rolling Stones concert in Havana
Curaçao’s Gregory Elias says the show was about having fun, not politics By some accounts, it cost $7 million to bring the Stones to Cuba And they STILL… Continue reading
Fidel Castro to Obama: “We do not need the empire to give us any gifts” / 14ymedio Posted on March 28, 2016
14ymedio, Havana, 28 March 2016 – A week after Barack Obama’s arrival in Cuba, the official press has… Continue reading
Cuban Communist Party Guidelines Will Not Be Changed, Only Updated / 14ymedio, Reinaldo Escobar Posted on March 28, 2016
14ymedio, Reinaldo Escobar, Havana, 28 March 2016 – Just 18 days before the start of the 7th Congress of the Cuban… Continue reading