Gene Hugoson, Minnesota's agriculture commissioner is going to Cuba

Next month, Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner Gene Hugoson will visit to Havana to check on the state's declining business prospects there and to see what a post-Castro business environment might look like. Read More

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Belarus approves agreements on air communication with United Arab Emirates and Cuba

The document regulates the order of disposing incomes received from the ticket sale and transfer of currency, setting up representative offices in the territory of another state. It describes a system of aviation safety under threat of violence and when illegal articles and substances are transported, the order of settling disputes and other issues. Read More

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Oil prices approach $88

Light, sweet crude for November delivery jumped another $1.48 to $87.61 a barrel in New York trading Read More

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Tobacco plantations damaged by heavy rains in Eastern Cuba

More than 8,600 tobacco seed beds were swept by the constant rains that fell on the eastern province of Las Tunas, which usually registers the least rainfall. Read More

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Livestock breeders take advantage of rains in Las Tunas

From January to September this territory, located to some 670 kilometers from Havana, obtained 16 million liters of milk, one million six-hundred thousand more than in same stage last year. Read More

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Cuba and Venezuela strengthen integration project

Raul Castro and Hugo Chavez sign 14 new initiatives for increased economic integration between the two countries under the framework of the ALBA agreement. Read More

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A Petrochemical Plant will be constructed by Cuba and Venezuela

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on Sunday the installation of a petrochemical plant for the production of oil by-products such as medicaments, cosmetics, clothes, and footwear in the Cuban central province of Cienfuegos. Read More

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President Hugo Chavez at the preinauguration of Camilo Cienfuegos Oil Refinery in Cienfuegos

The city of Cienfuegos known as the Pearl of the South and has the country's second port complex after the Bay of Havana and the most important in the southern coast will held in the near future a petrochemical complex. Read More

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New consulting body for cuban tourism

The agency will monitor tourist activities and tendencies and will propose measures to improve competitiveness and efficiency. Read More

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Chavez arrived to Cuba

The objective of his trip is to examine progress of bilateral agreements and projects in the framework of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA)and to transmit program "Alo Presidente" from the central province of Villa Clara, as a tribute to Ernesto Che Guevara Read More

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