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Cuban businessman from Miami was invited to flag-raising ceremony

"See the American flag waving in Havana is a feeling as profound as that I felt in Washington " when the Cuban flag was hoisted on July 20, Hugo Cancio, one of the few Cuban invited to the ceremony, told AFP. Read More

The National Press Club asks Kerry to demand freedom of information in Cuba

The National Press Club (NPC) of the United States has asked John Kerry that press freedom and the spread of Internet access be a priority in talks with Cuba. Read More

Republicans: the embargo will be maintained despite embassy

Florida Republican politicians in Miami said today that the "gift" of the US Embassy in Cuba will not join the lifting of sanctions against the island since President Barack Obama lacks the votes in Congress to end the embargo. Read More

US invites Switzerland to reopen its embassy in Cuba

The Swiss government announced today that its Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter will travel to Cuba at the invitation of his US counterpart John Kerry to attend the historic ceremony of reopening the US embassy in Havana. Read More

There will be no changes in US visa granting to Cubans

Jeffrey DeLaurentis, current head of mission as Charge d'Affaires, in an interview that presents today the digital site OnCuba Magazine speaks of an embassy with less guards and freedom of movement that the Americans hoped to work in Cuba. Read More

Johns Hopkins University expands academic exchange program with Cuba

From 2016, students at the Johns Hopkins University, US, have the opportunity to study a full semester of their careers in Cuba as a result of academic exchange of this American institution with the University of Havana. Read More

US embassy in Cuba reschedules interviews for visa

Coinciding with the visit of Secretary of State John Kerry to Cuba on August 14 for hoisting the American flag at the US Embassy in Havana, the consular section of Washington on the island announced changes in the consular interviews. Read More

The New York Times one more time against the embargo

An editorial in The New York Times on the Cuban issue, from today August 3, calls again for the lifting of the US embargo. Read More

Antonio Banderas will star series "Havana Quartet"

The Spanish actor Antonio Banderas will star in the Starz series based on the detective novels of Cuban Leonardo Padura "Havana Quartet". Read More

Cuba gets upset by category improvement in human trafficking blacklist

"Cuba should not appear in any unilateral list, or be subject to any surveillance” said a released on the website of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, in which the Raul Castro Government's commitment to “fight with zero tolerance against prostitution and sex trade or other forms of trafficking" is repeated. Read More

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