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How Airbnb reshaped Cuba’s tourism economy in its own image
Lorelis García de la Torre hails from the Cuban city of Camagüey but has always loved the stately old colonial homes of Havana, many crumbling and long past their glory days. She left Cuba in 2006, first for Spain and then Canada. Shortly after, the country’s tourism industry heated up, with aspiring entrepreneurs buying up properties to turn into casas particulares, private homes available for rent. In 2014, she made an offer on a two-story house in the neighborhood of Vedado.
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Cuba protests: Internet sheds light on anger - until it goes dark
Social media played a key role in rare protests, and the government moved quickly to restrict it.
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Thousands of protesters take to the streets in Cuba
Thousands of Cubans took to the streets from Havana to Santiago on Sunday in rarely seen protests, expressing frustration over economic conditions, the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations and what they said was government neglect.
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Tropical Storm Elsa headed to landfall on central Cuba coast
By Sunday, Cuban officials had evacuated 180,000 people as a precaution against the possibility of heavy flooding from a storm that already battered several Caribbean islands, killing at least three people.
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Cuba's COVID vaccine rivals BioNTech-Pfizer, Moderna
Cuba's health authorities said this week the domestically produced Abdala vaccine has proven to be 92% effective against the coronavirus in clinical trials. DW takes a closer look.
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Shooting Captured Insurgents (1898) A Silent Film Review
The dramatic reenactment of Spanish soldiers executing Cuban rebels. Produced by the Edison company and designed to supplement actuality footage shot in Cuba.
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Cuba's Dream: Come For A Vacation, Get A Homegrown COVID Vaccine
Cuba has a dream — to have so much COVID-19 vaccine that not only could everyone on the island get immunized but Cuba would give it away to friends and allies around the world. There would be so many doses, Cuban officials would even offer free inoculations to tourists on arrival at the airport in Havana.
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'Havana syndrome' likely caused by directed microwaves - US report
The US report is the latest attempt to explain a mystery illness that affected diplomats in Cuba.
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In pictures: A look at Havana at 500
As Cuba's capital celebrates 500 years, we explore the history behind some of its famous buildings.
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How Cubans Live as Long as Americans at a Tenth of the Cost
Lessons of physical prosperity in a despotic regime
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Bitcoin Trading Is opening For Citizens In Communist-Run Cuba
A Sept. 12 report from U.S. News claims that with the recent advent of mobile internet in the country, Cubans are increasingly buying cryptocurrencies to make online purchases, as well as to invest and trade. Bitcoin Trading in Cuba is now available.
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Cuba drastically reforms fishing laws to protect coral reef, sharks and rays
Cuba has introduced sweeping reforms of its fishing laws in a move seen as smoothing the way for possible collaboration with the US on protecting their shared ocean, despite Donald Trump’s policy of reversing a thaw in relations.
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Cuba’s generosity after Chernobyl
Letters: Havana treated victims of the catastrophe for free, writes Doreen Weppler-Grogan
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The Hidden World of the Doctors Cuba Sends Overseas
Thousands of Cuban doctors work in healthcare missions around the world. Some medics say conditions can be nightmarish.
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Why Infants May Be More Likely to Die in America Than Cuba
Many Americans would welcome some traits of the island’s free, universal health care system.
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The Sounds That Haunted U.S. Diplomats in Cuba? Lovelorn Crickets, Scientists Say
Diplomatic officials may have been targeted with an unknown weapon in Havana. But a recording of one “sonic attack” actually is the singing of a very loud cricket, a new analysis concludes.
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MLB Agreement Will Let Cuban Players Sign Contracts Without Defecting
Major League Baseball, its players’ association and the Cuban Baseball Federation reached an agreement that will allow players from the island nation to sign big league contracts without defecting, an effort to eliminate the dangerous trafficking that had gone on for decades. The agreement, which runs through Oct. 31, 2021, allows Cubans to sign under rules similar to those for players under contract to clubs in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
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Complete Cuban Jam Sessions
Just as American jazz musicians of the 1950s typically headed off to jam sessions following their last sets at clubs, Cuban musicians did the same in Havana. Musicians who dressed in guarachera shirts to play for tourists in hotel ballrooms...
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Cubans cheer as internet goes nationwide for a day
Cuba's government said it provided free internet to the Communist-run island's more than 5 million cellphone users on Tuesday, in an eight-hour test before it launches sales of the service.
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Cuba will recognize private property in its new constitution
Cuba has published a summary of a new constitution likely to be approved by the national assembly later this week, which will recognize a right to own private property. Private property was banned after Fidel Castro and his Communist Party seized power in 1959, but sales have been permitted since 2011. The proposed new constitution would freely recognize all private property, as well as the free market, while maintaining a strong role for the government, state media say.
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