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August 5th

Opportunities in Cuba Telecommunications Market

<div align="justify"> Despite economic difficulties, Cuba it is clearly a market with a lot of potential; a fact recognised by Latin America’s largest telecoms operator, Spain’s Telefónica.<br /> </div> Read More

August 4th

Grocery Stores Temporarily Closed in Cuba amid Bewilderment

<div align="justify"> More than a dozen stores in Cuba's capital that had been run by the now-defunct firm Cubalse closed Thursday to tally merchandise before they were transferred to the new managing company, TRD Caribe. The change is part of a government effort to streamline bureaucracy. </div> Read More

Report Says Cancer Death Will Increase in Cuba this Year

<div align="justify"> The expected rise in cancer deaths is due to risky lifestyle behaviours as well as the existence of better diagnostic tools for the disease, as doctors will be able to detect cases that were earlier not possible, the Juventud Rebelde newspaper reported Sunday. </div> Read More

Good Timing for Arkansas Gov. Reaching to Cuba

<div align="justify"> Hoping to take advantage of signs of an easing relationship between the United States and Cuba, Beebe traveled to the island nation last week to try and promote the state's agricultural products. Arkansas has exported products to the country on a limited basis, despite a 47-year-old embargo, but Beebe says there are opportunities for even more in the future. </div> Read More

Returned to U.S. Travellers that Challenged Cuba Ban

<div align="justify"> Opponents of the ban have been making such protest trips for 40 years but said recent overtures from the Obama administration have lifted hopes that U.S. relations with Cuba will improve. </div> Read More

August 3rd

Cuba's Revenues from Tourism Fell 10 Percent

<div align="justify"> Cuba welcomed 1.37 million tourists from January to June, or 2.7 percent more than in the same period in 2008, official figures show. But due exchange rates and the world crisis, revenues has fallen 10 percent. </div> Read More

Numbers of Americans Travelling to Cuba Getting Higher

<div align="justify"> President Obama ended some of Bush measures to strength embargo and now Cuban-Americans with relatives on the Caribbean Island now have carte blanche to travel there, raising hopes that American tourists may soon be able to take a legal vacation. <br /> </div> Read More

Time to End Cold War and Allow Free Travel to Cuba

<div align="justify"> The cold war has been dead for more than a decade, yet the United States still enforces a relic of that cold war with an economic embargo against Cuba. It is time to put an end to it. </div> Read More

Cuba Will Cut Spending for Education and Health Care

<div align="justify"> Cuban president called current spending on education and health &quot;unsustainable&quot;, but he vowed that the country will not change fundamentally and will mantain its comunist system. </div> Read More

August 2nd

Castro Tells U.S. Cuba Will Not Stop Being Socialist

<div align="justify"> Raul Castro says Cuba will cut spending on education and health care, weakening the building blocks of its communist system to try to revive a floundering economy. But Castro vows that anyone waiting for fundamental political change when he and his brother Fidel are gone is &quot;doomed to failure.&quot; </div> Read More