UN: 19th Resolution against Blockade of Cuba Ready

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sunday, 24 October 2010 10:37 Source:Prensa Latina. Guantanamo (Solvision).- For the 19th consecutive year, the UN General Assembly will vote on a resolution on Tuesday demanding the lifting of the blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba for the last 48 years. Read More

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United States Cuba Policy & Business

<p style="text-align: justify;">United States Cuba Relations: Its About the Politics Not The Policy! More polls and articles continue to come out making excellent arguments why our policies with Cuba should change beginning with lifting the travel ban. Yet nothing has happened yet. To all those who want to see the travel ban lifted and the embargo ended, what is it going to take for us to learn? We have won the policy argument. It is the politics that we continue to lose and seem unwilling to address. A recent encounter with President Obama revealed as much. Read More

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A life of leisure on the interest alone

<p style="text-align: justify;">A Cuban reader of the blog La Joven Cuba has a suggestion for Guillermo Fariñas, winner of the 50,000-euro Sakharov Prize. Fifty-thousand euros translate into 1.5 million ordinary pesos (CUPs), the reader says, which Fariñas could squirrel away in a bank as a Certificate of Deposit. The rate of interest for CDs is 6 percent per annum, the reader notes, so in one year Fariñas would earn 90,000 pesos. Read More

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