Cuba moves towards ditching two-tier currency
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba took the first step towards scrapping its two-tier currency on Tuesday in a move which could boost local workers' income and remove a major hurdle for...
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Americans traveling to Cuba in record numbers
HAVANA (Reuters) - Americans are visiting Cuba in record numbers despite strict travel restrictions, joining the hundreds of thousands of Cuban Americans who travel home each year, according to Cuban...
Cuba once more seeks U.N. condemnation of U.S. embargo
HAVANA (Reuters) - For the 22nd consecutive year, Cuba will ask the United Nations to condemn the United States economic embargo against the island, a top Cuban official announced on...
U.S. and Cuba talk about resuming direct mail service
HAVANA (Reuters) - The United States and Cuba concluded on Monday their second round of talks aimed at re-establishing direct mail service between the two countries after a 50-year ban,...
U.S. and Cuba talk about resuming direct mail service
HAVANA (Reuters) - The United States and Cuba concluded on Monday their second round of talks aimed at re-establishing direct mail service between the two countries after a 50-year ban,...
Colombian peace talks recess with scant progress, election looms
HAVANA (Reuters) - The Colombian government and leftist FARC rebels wound up a 13th round of peace negotiations on Wednesday, bickering over how to end the conflict and making little...
Cuban state begins to move out of the restaurant business
HAVANA (Reuters) - More than 20 state restaurants in Cuba are about to become employee-run cooperatives as Raul Castro's communist government continues its retreat from running just about everything on...
Colombian peace talks resume in Cuba as conflict rages
HAVANA (Reuters) - The Colombian government and leftist FARC rebels resumed peace negotiations in Havana on Sunday after a recess of more than two weeks, during which 19 soldiers and...
Cuba still allergic to private property as reforms creep forward
HAVANA (Reuters) - Every Monday in the bowels of Cuba's Palace of the Revolution, a group of men and women charged with revamping the island's moribund economy meets to review...
Cuba says loaded seized North Korean cargo ship with ‘obsolete’ weapons
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba said a North Korean cargo ship seized in Panama on Monday was loaded at one of its ports with 10,000 tons of sugar and 240 tons...