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SIUC sees opportunity in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">CARBONDALE - Advocates for educational exchanges in Cuba at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are happier these days, now that travel restrictions to the island are easing. Read More

Iran loses to Cuba in YOG volleyball

<p style="text-align: justify;">SINGAPORE, Aug. 23 (MNA) -- Iran was defeated by Cuba in the volleyball competition of Youth Olympic Games (YOG) on Monday. Read More

Cuba Travel Ban: Will the White House Fight to End It?

<p style="text-align: justify;">After it looked a couple of months ago as if a bill lifting the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba had the momentum to pass Congress, it now appears stalled in the House of Representatives. The bill, which would also make food sales to Cuba easier, cleared the House Agriculture Committee but still needs a vote in two other committees - Financial Services and Foreign Affairs - and it may not even come up for a full vote this year. Read More

MH/Tamayo: New Mexico governor in Cuba, may seek release of U.S. con

<p style="text-align: justify;">Should Gov. Richardson seek the release of Alan Gross while he's on the island,that would not be surprising nor unreasonable for Richardson to do. Read More

PROGRESO WEEKLY: Dress me slowly; I'm in a hurry

<p style="text-align: justify;">Wednesday, 18 August 2010 22:27. The text can be read quickly. "The Council of Ministers agreed to expand the practice of self-employment [...] eliminating several existing prohibitions to the granting of new licenses and the commercialization of some products, making the hiring of a labor force more flexible." Read More

Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., announces furloughs for state workers during at 2009 news conference

<p style="text-align: justify;">SANTA FE (KRQE) - Gov. Bill Richardson will be in the nation of Cuba for the week. Richardson left for Havana Sunday to strengthen trade and cultural partnerships between the caribbean nation and New Mexico, according to the governor's office. Read More

The blockade against Cuba and the banks

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Guardian, Monday 23 August 2010. Cuba is not the object of any "international sanctions" (Barclays faces $298m fine for breaking sanctions, 17 August). It has been the target for 50 long years of a unilateral US government policy of economic, commercial and financial blockade – as your article illustrates – but one that the international community has overwhelmingly condemned for 18 consecutive years at the UN general assembly. Read More

Loosening U.S. sanctions on Cuba long overdue

<p style="text-align: justify;">San Francisco Chronicle August 23, 2010 04:00 AM.Monday, August 23, 2010. The need to overhaul our draconian and counterproductive Cuba policy is so overdue that it is hard to get too excited over reports that the Obama administration plans to loosen the sanctions ever so slightly. Read More