Cubans in Miami and Havana, A Transnational Community?

Transnational communities generate bidirectional cultural flows that can be seen as cultural remittances. These flows feed a “marketplace” of ideas, values, customs and ways of life that overlap with national cultures. <br /> Read More

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Administration urged to work with Cuba on oil disaster, protecting Gulf

Anya Landau French, director of the U.S.-Cuba Policy Initiative at the New America Foundation, called on the Obama administration to make BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster the spur to work with Cuba to prevent similar catastrophes in the years ahead. Read More

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Cuba Expresses Sorrow at the Death of Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar Adua

HAVANA, Cuba, May 12 (acn) Esteban Lazo, Vice-president of the Council of State, expressed on Wednesday in this capital the sorrow of the Cuban people and government over the death of Umaru Musa Yar Adua, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Read More

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Ecologists from around 20 nations to meet in Havana

Specialists from around 20 nations will meet until Thursday at the National Hotel of Cuba, in Havana, about the use of agro-ecological techniques in favour of agriculture and the environment. Read More

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Bank agrees to forfeit $500 million to US

WASHINGTON — A bank formerly known as ABN Amro Bank N.V. agreed on Monday to pay the government $500 million for facilitating the movement of illegal funds through the U.S. financial system, the Justice Department announced. Read More

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MH: Four of 10 South Florida homes are 'under water'

More than four of every 10 owners of single-family homes in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area owed more on their mortgages than their homes were worth at the nd of March, according to a report released Monday. Read More

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Cuban migrants stopped at sea, returned to island

More than two dozen Cuban migrants were repatriated to Cuba on Sunday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Read More

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Nicaragua, Cuba to Boost Multidestination Tourism

Nicaraguan Tourism Minister Mario Salinas encouraged Cuba to promote joint bi-national multidestination packages within the 2010-2020 National Development Policy (NDP). Read More

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Shanghai: a World Expo to Remember

The Chinese public interested in the Cuban Pavilion Read More

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Carlos Varela sings Cuba's stories to the world

Carlos Varela is touring the United States for the first time since 1998. Read More

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