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The Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy is accepting nominations for the 2012 Jorge Perez-Lopez Student Award Competition. Anyone can nominate original papers authored by undergraduate and graduate [...]

At least 50 academic papers on subjects ranging from the mechanics of sugar arvesting to a look at Cuban real-estate developments will be presented at the 21st annual meeting of [...]

Back in May 2008, profiled London brokerage house Exotix Ltd., which has made a specialty of selling illiquid debt instruments from countries like Cuba, North Korea, Iraq and Serbia that [...]

Iran has given Cuba a 500 million [euro] ($684 million) credit line for reconstruction of its energy system, the Tehran Times reported, citing Abel Salas, vice president of Cuba's National [...]

Leonard Weinglass, who represented five Cuban intelligence agents convicted of spying in the United States on behalf of the Castro government, died Mar. 23 in New York. He had pancreatic [...]

An underwater fiberoptic cable between Cuba and Venezuela slated to begin operating in mid-2011 won't result in greater access to Internet service on the island, Granma said. The submarine cable, [...]

Something is moving silently within Cuban baseball that, if it comes to pass, would end 50 years of imposed tradition and push Cuban players into what was once derided as [...]

In their paper for the Brookings Institution, Jorge Pinon and Robert Muse recommend that the Obama administration complete the following actions as soon as possible: * Proactive licensing by the [...]

Power plants purchased from Cuba are insufficient to solve Venezuela's energy crisis, Caracas newspaper El Universal reported Feb. 4. Analysts quoted by the paper say the Cuban equipment is expensive, [...]

The Cuban Communist Party's national conference, held Jan. 28-29 in Havana, was a disappointment for rank-and-file party members and average citizens alike. After the Sixth Party Congress in April 2011, [...]

As of late December 2011, agricultural producers and tourism companies have signed 71 agreements for direct food sales, the Communist newspaper Juventud Rebelde reported. In an effort to substitute food [...]

Cuba's democracy movement plans to distribute a quarterly paper-and-ink magazine "dedicated to an open discussion of religious freedom," according to Vermont activist Rick Schwag--who is promoting the project in the [...]

Cuba has become increasingly attractive to Vietnamese investors following changes to the country's trade policies aimed at attracting foreign investment in key service and production sectors, says an Oct. 15 [...]

Cuba recorded a slight rise in the number of foreign investment projects last year, the first rise since authorities began winnowing out foreign ventures they deemed ineffective or corrupt in [...]

Declaring U.S.-Cuba charter flights a vital national interest, the Justice Department is opposing a Cuban-American woman's attempt to make air charter companies pay a $27 million judgment she won against [...]

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