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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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Cuba sets out new constitutional reforms
Cuba will officially recognise private property for the first time under a new constitution that features a number of far-reaching changes, state media say. Property sales were banned after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, but permitted after a law change in 2011. The communist-run state's new constitution will reaffirm that central planning and state enterprise are key to the economy.
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A Medical Mystery Grows as U.S. Consulate Workers in China Fall Ill
The illnesses in China have broadened a crisis that started in 2016, when American Embassy employees and their family members in Cuba began getting sick after hearing strange noises.
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Cuba set to launch constitutional rewrite to reflect reforms
Cuba's national assembly is set on Saturday to begin the long-awaited reform of its constitution to give legal backing to the Communist-run island's economic and social opening while upholding the "irrevocable nature of socialism".
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Cuba's reggaeton scene is leading an underground revolution
In a country where music sales are controlled by the state, a generation of artists are riding a wave of success through pure entrepreneurial hustle.
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Los Intocables (The Untouchables) by Erik Ravelo (Cuba)
"The first image refers to pedophilia in the Vatican. Second child sexual abuse in tourism in Thailand, and the third refers to the war in Syria. The fourth image refers to the trafficking of organs on the black market, where most of the victims are children from poor countries; fifth refers to weapons free in the U.S.. And finally, the sixth image refers to obesity, blaming the big fast food companies. The new series produced by Cuban artist Erik Ravelo was titled as "The Untouchables"
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Cuba has a lung cancer vaccine. Many US patients can’t get it without breaking the law.
Trump’s recent tightening of travel restrictions to Cuba has made it harder for Americans to reach the island. Some US cancer patients say they have no other options. George Keays is not a rogue kind of a man. A Colorado realtor and grandfather of three, the 65-year-old practices yoga and meditates regularly. But the US government, he says, has left him no choice but to break the law. If, that is, he intends to stay alive.
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EU presents itself as ally of Cuba in face of US hostility
HAVANA (AP) — The European Union wants to be a reliable partner for Cuba in the face of the reversal in U.S.-Cuban relations under President Donald Trump, its foreign policy and s
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Brain abnormalities found in victims of US embassy attack in Cuba
Mysterious attacks that harmed 24 Americans in Havana resulted in changes to white matter tracts in brain, doctors say.
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JFK Files: CIA Plotted To Kill Castro, Stage Bombings In Miami
The CIA mulled mafia hits on Cuban President Fidel Castro. Someone called the FBI threatening to kill Lee Harvey Oswald a day before Oswald’s murder. And the US examined sabotaging airplane parts heading to Cuba. These assertions are some of many unearthed in newly revealed government documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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More US diplomats called out of Cuba after attacks with mystery weapons
Still no new information about what caused hearing loss, brain damage.
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US 'to pull staff from Cuba over attacks'
The US is withdrawing more than half of its staff at its embassy in Cuba in response to mysterious attacks which left its diplomats unwell. Washington is also warning Americans not to visit the country because some attacks occurred in hotels. At least 21 staff reported health problems ranging from mild brain trauma and deafness to dizziness and nausea.
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Trump considering closing US embassy in Cuba, Tillerson says
The Trump administration is considering closing the recently reopened US Embassy in Havana following a string of unexplained incidents harming the health of American diplomats in Cuba, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday. “We have it under evaluation,” Tillerson said. “It’s a very serious issue with respect to the harm that certain individuals have suffered. We’ve brought some of those people home. It’s under review.”
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Cuba mystery: What theories US investigators are pursuing
There must be an answer. Whatever is harming U.S. diplomats in Havana, it’s eluded the doctors, scientists and intelligence analysts scouring for answers. Investigators have chased many theories, including a sonic attack, electromagnetic weapon or flawed spying device. Each explanation seems to fit parts of what’s happened, conflicting with others. The United States doesn’t even know what to call it. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson used the phrase “health attacks.” The State Department prefers “incidents.”
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Mystery of sonic weapon attacks at US embassy in Cuba deepens
At least some of the incidents were confined to certain rooms with laser-like specificity, and some victims now have problems recalling specific words
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Hurricane Irma slams Cuba, takes aim at South Florida as Category 4
Hurricane Irma was downgraded to Category 4 status early Saturday as the storm slammed Cuba with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph, the National Hurricane Center confirmed. As of 5 a.m. ET Saturday, the eye of the storm was still moving over Cuba's Camaguey Archipelago, the National Hurricane Center said. The center of the storm was located about 245 miles south-southeast of Miami and was moving to the west at 12 mph, the National Hurricane Center added.
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Cuba airlifts dolphins to safety as Hurricane Irma slams the island
As Hurricane Irma continued its devastating run in the Caribbean, Cuba evacuated dolphins held in a dolphinarium in the north of the country, where Irma made landfall Friday night. The six dolphins were wrapped in wet towels to ensure healthy travel and put on helicopters that took the dolphins to the province of Cienfuegos, the Mirror reported.
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Inside Cuba’s DIY Internet Revolution
To connect to the world, people In Havana have taken matters into their own hands.
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