Travel Weekly | Cuba travel tips Travel Weekly Cubans are crazy drivers. Look right and left and don't jaywalk. Watch out for the bicis, the rickshaw-like bicycle cabs; the zippy, three-wheeled coco taxis that look like bright yellow, hollowed-out coconuts; and the colectifs, clunker cars that ... |
US hijacker in Cuba headed home after 3 decades Charlotte Observer FILE - In this Oct. 25, 2013 file photo, U.S. citizen William Potts explains his arrest in Cuba during an interview at his home in Havana, Cuba. Potts says he is booked on a charter flight from Havana to Miami early Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 and that he ... |
Cuba promotes special development zone at trade fair Xinhua Speaking at the 31st Havana International Trade Fair, the minister touted features, goals and prospects of the ZED, located at the western port of Mariel, as a new investment opportunity provided by Cuba's drive to modernize its economic system. Cuba Not Afraid of US Embargo Discouraging Investment in Mariel Project Cuba Promotes Mariel Special Development Zone Trade between Cuba and China Increases |
Earth Island Journal | Cuba Caught At Agricultural Crossroads Earth Island Journal With Raul Castro to step down in 2018 and the US embargo weakening, Cuba has taken baby steps away from the Marxist ideal, ceding state control to a variety of private sectors like transportation, food milling and processing, real estate, and, most ... |
Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe Makes Visit to Venezuela Caribbean Journal Lamothe visited Venezuela in early October, joined by Jacques and by Tourism Minister Stephanie Villedrouin. That visit covered the establishment of the new PetroCaribe Economic Zone. Lamothe returns Tuesday evening to Haiti. Email · Facebook Share. |
US Hijacker in Cuba Headed Home After 3 Decades ABC News An American fugitive hijacker who has been living in Cuba for nearly three decades says he is going home to face U.S. justice. William Potts tells The Associated Press his travel documents are all set and he is booked on a charter flight from Havana to ... William Potts, Black Panther Who Hijacked a Plane to Cuba, is Finally Coming ... |
US exchange-traded funds moving into Latin American pensions Reuters NEW YORK Nov 5 (Reuters) - Major U.S. exchange-traded fund companies are enthusiastically marketing their wares to Latin American pension funds, particularly in Chile where investors can allocate up to 80 percent of their pension contributions in ... |
Analysis: Latin America's wired activists take on crime IRINnews.org BUENOS AIRES, 5 November 2013 (IRIN) - In Latin America, where violent crime rates are six times higher than in any other region and where most residents have reported distrust in the state's ability to fight crime, a number of communities have taken ... |
The Atlantic Cities | The Novel That Neatly Dissects Latin America's Urbanization Preoccupation The Atlantic Cities Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa's newest novel deals with two pervasive problems in Peru and the surrounding region: rapid urbanization, and corruption. The Discreet Hero has been on Latin America's best-seller lists for the past month, with ... |
Times of India | Prateik Babbar gives Cuba trip a miss Times of India To celebrate the festival of Diwali with his grandparents, Shivajirao and Vidyatai Patil, Prateik Babbar, chose to skip his trip to Cuba. Apparently, the actor had been invited by the Indian Ambassador to Cuba, C. Rajashekhar, for the special screening ... Hamid Ansari meets Fidel Castro as he wraps up Cuba visit |
Latin American Herald Tribune | VenEconomy: Who's to Blame for High Airline Fares in Venezuela? Latin American Herald Tribune He complained about airlines raising the dollar fares obtained from Cadivi, the country's foreign exchange authority, twice or three times as much as they restrict the ticket supplies in both economy and tourist class. An allegation that, following the ... |
