Henderson: Leadership needed on Cuba issues - Tbo.com

Henderson: Leadership needed on Cuba issues Tbo.com For every point in the Cuba-America saga, there is a counterpoint with apparently no middle ground. It could get even worse, as Guzzo's story showed. Basically, M&T Bank, which helps Havana's diplomatic mission in Washington stay afloat, decided it ...

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Israel, Jordan and Palestinians sign accord on water cooperation - Los Angeles Times

Israel, Jordan and Palestinians sign accord on water cooperation Los Angeles Times The water line is receding rapidly, threatening the unique site and the tourism industries built around it, as well as ravaging the environment with unsightly and dangerous sinkholes. Environmentalists ... ALSO: Venezuela's ruling socialists survive ...

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Russia signs deal to forgive $29 bln of Cuba's Soviet-era debt -diplomats - Stabroek News

Russia signs deal to forgive $29 bln of Cuba's Soviet-era debt -diplomats Stabroek News Cuba's total export earnings are around $18 billion, including tourism and medical and educational services. Neither Cuba nor Russia has made any official comment on the debt agreement. Cuban officials were not immediately available for comment.

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Brazilian ex-president 'murdered'

An investigative commission in Brazil says it has found evidence that the ex-president Juscelino Kubitschek was murdered by the 1970s military regime.



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Telefonica S.A. (ADR) (TEF): Buy Telefonica For 6.5% Yield And Latin America ... - Seeking Alpha

Telefonica S.A. (ADR) (TEF): Buy Telefonica For 6.5% Yield And Latin America ... Seeking Alpha Another European telecom company that offers a compelling investment is Telefonica (TEF), a large global operator with a broad exposure to Latin America which has an attractive forward dividend yield of 6.5%. Telefonica has a market capitalization of ...

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DirecTV Stock Buyback, Latin America Outlook Eyed - Investor's Business Daily

DirecTV Stock Buyback, Latin America Outlook Eyed Investor's Business Daily DirecTV Group's (DTV) outlook for Latin America and its stock buyback plan will draw investor cheers or jeers. The satellite TV broadcaster is slated to hold its investor day event in New York on Thursday. "Latin America is going to be on people's ...

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Suspects detained in radioactive truck heist

Five suspects are now behind bars for theft of a truck found carrying radioactive cobalt last week.



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Trinidad security industry faces calls for clean-up - UPI.com

Trinidad security industry faces calls for clean-up UPI.com The energy-rich Caribbean nation has come under unwelcome spotlight as organized crime gangs fleeing anti-narcotics operations in Colombia and Mexico have turned the country into a cocaine transit point along the route leading to Venezuela and Grenada ...

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Congress comes to Tucson for border commerce hearing - Tucson News Now

Congress comes to Tucson for border commerce hearing Tucson News Now TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -. Take a look at Interstate 19, a road that carries billions of dollars in goods, services and tourism from Mexico to Tucson. It's an economic engine that means millions of jobs in this country. However, it's believed ...

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VIDEO: Ex-Rated: Should men fear this app?

Should men fear Brazil's hottest app?



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Díaz-Canel firmó libro de condolencias por muerte de Mandela

Miguel Díaz-Canel, miembro del Buró Político del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (CCPCC) y Primer Vicepresidente de los Consejos de Estado y de Ministros, manifestó hoy su pesar por el fallecimiento del prócer sudafricano Nelson Mandela. A nombre del Gobierno y el pueblo cubanos, Díaz-Canel firmó el libro de condolencias abierto en la Embajada de Sudáfrica, en La Habana, para rendir tributo a ese líder, fallecido el cinco de diciembre último a la edad de 95 años.



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Llegó Raúl a Sudáfrica para asistir a funeral de Nelson Mandela

El Presidente cubano Raúl Castro llegó a Sudáfrica para asistir a los funerales de Nelson Mandela, informó el estelar Noticiero Nacional de Televisión en la noche de este lunes. A la 1:30 am de este martes hora local -6:30 pm del lunes en Cuba- fue recibido en el aeropuerto internacional de Johannesburgo por el Ministro de Seguridad y Estado de Sudáfrica. Al arribar a tierra sudafricana, Raúl dijo que lamentaba que la visita a este país fuera en tal circunstancia. Sin embargo, añadió, "me siento muy honrado de estar aquí".



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Cuba's American hostage - MiamiHerald.com

Cuba's American hostage MiamiHerald.com Alan Gross began his fifth year as a prisoner of Cuba's unjust “justice” system last week, a symbol of the continuing estrangement between that island nation and the United States, and, more important, the fundamentally unchanged nature of the ... Ruth Marcus: American jailed in Cuba pleas for help

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CNBLUE to go on a Latin America concert tour! - allkpop

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CNBLUE to go on a Latin America concert tour! allkpop The band said, "We are really happy that we are able to start the Latin America tour that we had only imagined in our dreams. We want to work hard on finishing up preparations and showing our best selves. It will be our first time visiting Mexico and ... CNBLUE Confirms Latin America Tour in 2014, 'First Korean Band' CNBLUE Confirms Latin America Tour

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Cuba and Russia sign an agreement to forgive $29 billion of the island's Soviet era debt

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Greater DM Partnership leading cultural trip to Cuba - DesMoinesRegister.com (blog)

Greater DM Partnership leading cultural trip to Cuba DesMoinesRegister.com (blog) While on the trip, participants will tour the 500-year old Habana Vieja, or Old Havana, which forms the city center of Cuba's capital city, as well as Ernest Hemingway's Farm, Finca La Vigia. The trip goers will also visit the Cuban Literacy Museum to ... Partnership, chambers to lead exploration to Cuba

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Exclusive: Russia signs deal to forgive $29 billion of Cuba's Soviet-era debt ... - Reuters

Exclusive: Russia signs deal to forgive $29 billion of Cuba's Soviet-era debt ... Reuters Cuba's total export earnings are around $18 billion, including tourism and medical and educational services. Neither Cuba nor Russia has made any official comment on the ... "The agreements with China, Japan, Mexico and Russia ease some outside ...

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CR Dental Tourism; Solving Your Dental Problems - The Costa Rican Times

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CR Dental Tourism; Solving Your Dental Problems The Costa Rican Times These dental tourists usually go to Mexico, the U.K., the Philippines, Costa Rica, and India for their dental needs. The second thing you have to take into consideration is how to find the best dentist for you. The first step in finding a good dentist ...

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“Fresa y chocolate” es un éxito en Broadway, afirma reconocido actor

Una adaptación de la premiada película cubana "Fresa y chocolate" ha llegado al teatro Off Broadway de Nueva York, en su debut en inglés y protagonizada por el actor dominicano Roy Arias, quien durante dos años acarició la idea de representar esta historia. Arias destacó además la cooperación de Senel Paz, autor del guión de la película, para lograr los derechos de presentar esta pieza en la Gran Manzana.



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EEUU y Reino Unido espían también los videojuegos, revela The Guardian

Las agencias de espionaje de EE UU y del Reino Unido se han infiltrado en juegos online como World of Warcraft o Second Life en un intento de descubrir actividades terroristas, según informa The Guardian en una nueva filtración de los documentos de Edward Snowden. Un documento de 2008 detalla el potencial de obtención de datos que tenían juegos como "World of Warcraft", donde se podían hacer relaciones entre los distintos jugadores y sus conductas.



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El día en fotos, con Madiba presente

El resumen fotográfico del día, según la selección del diario español El País, pasa por la veneración al recién fallecido líder africano y mundial Nelson Mandela, los disturbios acontecidos en diversas geografías, la belleza de los paisajes naturales, la policromía de un festival de luces y la reunión de un grupo de judíos ultraortodoxos.



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Obama to share stage at Mandela memorial with Cuba's Raul Castro - McClatchy Washington Bureau

Obama to share stage at Mandela memorial with Cuba's Raul Castro McClatchy Washington Bureau Washington Watch, formerly called 'Planet Washington,' covers politics and government. It's written by McClatchyDC's Lesley Clark, William Douglas, David Lightman and Anita Kumar. Recent Posts. George W. Bush to attend Mandela funeral with Obama.

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'Floating university' carrying US students arrives in Cuba - NBCNews.com (blog)

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'Floating university' carrying US students arrives in Cuba NBCNews.com (blog) While Cuba remains off-limits to most U.S. travelers, the arrival of a ship full of American college students in Havana on Monday is being greeted as a milestone event in the half-century of contentious relations between the two countries. Operated by ... US Educational Cruise Arrives in Cuba with Some 600 Students

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Cuba temporarily resumes consular services in US - Washington Post

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Cuba temporarily resumes consular services in US Washington Post HAVANA — Cuba said Monday it is resuming consular services at its diplomatic missions in the United States after receiving an extension from a private bank that handles its financial transactions in the country. The Cuban Interests Section in ... Cuba temporarily reopens consular services in US, still seeks bank

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Exclusive: Russia signs deal to forgive $29 billion of Cuba's Soviet-era debt ... - Reuters

Exclusive: Russia signs deal to forgive $29 billion of Cuba's Soviet-era debt ... Reuters Cuba's total export earnings are around $18 billion, including tourism and medical and educational services. Neither Cuba nor Russia has made any official comment on the debt agreement. Cuban officials were not immediately available for comment.

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As Congress Looks to Next Year, Activists Keep Immigration Reform Alive

Congress takes a holiday break at the end of this week and won’t return from recess until January. This pause in the legislative calendar, however, has little meaning for immigration activists who are continuing to push Congress to act on immigration reform. While the timetable may be changing, the commitment to work for reform has [...]



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Obama to share stage at Mandela memorial with Cuba's Raul Castro - McClatchy Washington Bureau

Obama to share stage at Mandela memorial with Cuba's Raul Castro McClatchy Washington Bureau George W. Bush to attend Mandela funeral with Obama. Former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush will go to Mandela's funeral with President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on Air Force One.

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Bogota mayor banned from office

The mayor of the Colombian capital, Bogota, is sacked by the country's prosecutor general's office and banned from politics for 15 years.



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'Floating university' carrying US students arrives in Cuba - NBCNews.com

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'Floating university' carrying US students arrives in Cuba NBCNews.com “It's always a positive outcome when you have foreigners go to a country where there's been little exchange,” said Tom Popper, president of Insight Cuba, a leading provider of people-to-people travel to Cuba. “It's an incredible experience for ... Anchors Aweigh: Voyages past, into the future

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Mother’s Diet During Pregnancy Determines the Child’s Food Preferences for Life

Research shows that what a woman eats during pregnancy not only nourishes her baby in the womb, but may shape food preferences later in life. At 21 weeks after conception, a developing baby weighs about as much as a can of Coke — and he or she can taste it, too. Still in the womb, […]



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Latin America gets its own 538.com, and it beats the polls in Chile - Washington Post (blog)

Latin America gets its own 538.com, and it beats the polls in Chile Washington Post (blog) We found the U.S. and Chilean political contexts and polling scenes to be significantly different. In the American two-party system, voting intention for each candidate tended to be stable over time, and there were literally thousands of national and ...

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Daily Headlines: December 9, 2013

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Cuba gets US banking extension, says resuming consular services in ... - Calgary Herald

Cuba gets US banking extension, says resuming consular services in ... Calgary Herald HAVANA - Cuba said Monday it is resuming consular services at its diplomatic missions in the United States after receiving an extension from a private bank that handles its financial transactions in the country. The Cuban Interests Section in ...

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De Estados Unidos a la Habana: “Dos equipos, dos países, un juego” (+ Fotos)

El cineasta norteamericano Eugene Corr presentará en La Habana el martes 10 de diciembre a las 5:00 de la tarde, en el Teatro de la Orden Tercera, sede oficial de la Compañía Infantil de Teatro La Colmenita, el documental "Ghost Town to Havana" co-dirigido por el realizador cubano Roberto Chile. Bajo el emblema "Dos equipos, dos países, un juego" la obra de 92 minutos de duración filmada en California, Centro Habana y Regla durante el período 2007 y 2011 narra un juego de beisbol entre niños cubanos y estadounidenses.



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Bombazo: Revelan que Obama “manipuló” datos para justificar ataque a Siria

Washington sabía que los rebeldes sirios podían producir gas sarín, pero "manipuló" la información para acusar a las fuerzas gubernamentales del ataque químico del 21 de agosto en Guta, según reveló el periodista de investigación Seymour Hersh. La nueva información del ganador del premio Pulitzer por las revelaciones referentes a las operaciones militares estadounidenses en las guerras de Iraq y Vietnam, apareció publicada en el portal London Review of Books.



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Raúl Castro, entre los principales oradores del funeral de Mandela (+ Programa oficial)

El presidente cubano Raúl Castro figura entre los principales oradores que intervendrán mañana en el servicio religioso en memoria de Nelson Mandela previsto para las 11:00 horas locales (04:00 am en Cuba), informó hoy el Gobierno de Sudáfrica. De acuerdo con el programa oficial, solo seis altos gobernantes extranjeros intervendrán en la ceremonia: los presidentes Barack Obama (EEUU), Dilma Rousseff (Brasil), Hifikepunye Pohamba (Namibia) y Pranab Mukherjee (India), y el vicepresidente Li Yuanchao (China). Las palabras que cerrarán este bloque serán las de Raúl.



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Elecciones en Venezuela: Afirma experto que plebiscito anti Maduro fracasó

La victoria del PSUV en las elecciones municipales en Venezuela el domingo pasado indicó que el plebiscito anti Maduro ha fracasado, según el profesor de Ciencias Políticas Jorge Verstrynge Rojas. "Es una derrota grave para un manifiesto golpe de Estado económico que el empresariado venezolano, uno de los más reaccionarios de nuestro planeta, estaba llevando a cabo", comentó el académico.



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Y después de tanta lluvia, ¿qué es de la vida del hombre pararrayos de Las Tunas?

Después de las intensas lluvias que asolaron al país, Cubadebate publica un reportaje que nos hizo llegar el periodista de Las Tunas -ciudad del Oriente de la Isla-, Juan Morales Agüero, donde relata con lujo de detalles qué ha sido de la vida del "hombre pararrayos", el campesino que ha sobrevivido a seis descargas eléctricas y está aquí para hacer el cuento. "Ese rayo me perforó los tímpanos", relata Jorge Márquez. Su casa ha sido blanco de 15 descargas eléctricas en los últimos dos años.



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Cuba loves a bit of capitalism.. sort of - Marlborough Express

Cuba loves a bit of capitalism.. sort of Marlborough Express But as more and more islanders go into business for themselves under President Raul Castro's economic reforms, the ethos of capitalism is increasingly seeping into Cuban daily life, often in stark conflict with fundamental tenets of the Cuban Revolution.

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Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Harry Reid: “Under ObamaCare, my insurance costs me about $4,500 more than it did before.” Harry Reid: I’m not the only one to exempt “some of my staff from having to buy insurance through the law’s new exchanges.” Zeke Emanuel: If you like your doctor, you can pay more.



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Barack Obama and Raul Castro among speakers at Nelson Mandela memorial - The Guardian

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Barack Obama and Raul Castro among speakers at Nelson Mandela memorial The Guardian For dignitaries attending the memorial, not least Obama and Castro, a potential diplomatic minefield awaits. But Zelda la Grange, Mandela's personal assistant for more than a decade, told Reuters: "Tomorrow, people should all be honouring their ...

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Cuben president Raul Castro to attend Mandela funeral - Sowetan

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Cuben president Raul Castro to attend Mandela funeral Sowetan Cuban President Raul Castro will attend the funeral of South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, state media reported Sunday. It was unlikely, however, that Castro's ailing older brother Fidel, the Cuban communist revolutionary leader, would ... Cuba's Raul Castro to attend Mandela funeral Cuban President Raul Castro Meets with Spanish Politicians Raul Castro Expresses Deepest Sorrow for Nelson Mandela's Death

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Uruguay set to legalize marijuana

The Uruguayan parliament is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a controversial bill that would make the small South American country the first in Latin America to legalize marijuana.



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'Floating university' docks in Cuba for first time in nine years - NBCNews.com (blog)

'Floating university' docks in Cuba for first time in nine years NBCNews.com (blog) After being prohibited from including Cuba as a stop on its "Semester at Sea" program by the U.S. government due to increased restrictions in educational travel to the island nation, the University of Virginia, the program's current sponsor, was issued ...

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What’s The Worst Case Scenario?

Suppose that only two million people enroll through the exchanges, instead of the projected seven million. Seth Chandler dissects the results: Insurance sold through Exchanges without medical underwriting — a central promise of the Affordable Care Act — is likely to implode in a significant number of states by 2015 while limping along in several […]



via John Goodman's Health Policy Blog http://healthblog.ncpa.org/whats-the-worst-case-scenario/

Venezuela invests US$400mn in Margarita Island airport expansion - Business News Americas

Venezuela invests US$400mn in Margarita Island airport expansion Business News Americas Venezuela is investing 2.53bn bolívares (US$400mn) to revamp and expand Santiago Mariño international airport, in Margarita Island, a key tourism destination, state news agency AVN... This news article is one of hundreds published daily by Business ...

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Cuba reforms seen as changing ideals, values - Washington Post

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Cuba reforms seen as changing ideals, values Washington Post But as more and more islanders go into business for themselves under President Raul Castro's economic reforms, the ethos of capitalism is increasingly seeping into Cuban daily life, often in stark conflict with fundamental tenets of the Cuban Revolution. Elian Gonzalez makes first trip outside Cuba since return from Miami In Cuba's Press, Streets and Living Rooms, Glimmers of Openness to Criticism

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Presidente sirio envía mensaje a participantes en la cita juvenil de Ecuador

El presidente de Siria, Bashar Al-Assad, envió una carta a los participantes en el XVIII Festival Mundial de la Juventud y los Estudiantes que se celebra en Quito, capital de Ecuador. En el documento el mandatario árabe se refiere a los esfuerzos de su gobierno por garantizarle cultura y educación a las nuevas generaciones y recordó la difícil situación interna que sufre Siria debido a las acciones terroristas que impulsan algunas bandas. Cubadebate ofrece el texto integro.



via Cubadebate http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2013/12/09/presidente-sirio-envia-mensaje-a-participantes-en-la-cita-juvenil-de-ecuador/