New York Times | Latin America Leans Forward New York Times MEXICO CITY — A few months ago, I engaged in a public dialogue at Princeton with Mario Vargas Llosa, whose novels explore the troubles and horrors of Peru and Latin America. For years, Mr. Vargas Llosa held a dark and pessimistic view of the region ... |
New York Times | Brazil Forging Economic Ties With Cuba, While Hiring Its Doctors New York Times “Of course I knew this mission wouldn't be easy,” said Idarmis González, 45, one of the more than 4,500 Cuban doctors the Brazilian government is hiring to work in far-flung villages in the Amazon and slums in major cities. “We go where other doctors ... |
Wife's Cuba experience sparks Ormond writer's novel Daytona Beach News-Journal For Michael Pyle, 60, an attorney by profession, he's hoping to finish research in Cuba for a historic novel that deals with the years before, during and after Castro's revolution, as recalled in the thoughts of a dying man in Miami who lived through ... |
New York Daily News | NYC tourists rush for a last horse-carriage ride New York Daily News Tourists are heading to Central Park to take a ride in the park's famous horse-drawn carriages – before it's too late. “I want to enjoy them before they go away forever,” said Andrea Varela, 32, of Mexico, who said she always looks forward to a ... |
Newsday | Classic Cadillacs dominating Cuba's streets become available to collectos Newsday MIAMI - Cuba's government said it will make it easier for residents to sell their 1950s-era Chevrolets, Cadillacs and other used cars within the communist island. “After several months of study, it was decided to eliminate the existing measures ... |
Brazil Forging Economic Ties With Cuba, While Hiring Its Doctors New York Times “Of course I knew this mission wouldn't be easy,” said Idarmis González, 45, one of the more than 4,500 Cuban doctors the Brazilian government is hiring to work in far-flung villages in the Amazon and slums in major cities. “We go where other doctors ... |
South Florida's top business stories in 2013 MiamiHerald.com So strong are South Florida's ties to Venezuela that crackdowns by the Chávez administration would send enough flight capital to Miami to impact the housing market. No surprise, then, that the March 5 death of Chávez after 14 years in power was .... 1 ... |
New York Times | Latin America Leans Forward New York Times MEXICO CITY — A few months ago, I engaged in a public dialogue at Princeton with Mario Vargas Llosa, whose novels explore the troubles and horrors of Peru and Latin America. For years, Mr. Vargas Llosa held a dark and pessimistic view of the region ... Latin America has a homophobic killings problem |
Mandela's Message Didn't Make It to Cuba Wall Street Journal If he had enjoyed the kind of international support Mandela had, things might have turned out differently for him and for Cuba's predominantly black population. Government statistics in Cuba are unreliable but according to a 2009 report in the Inter ... |
Montreal Gazette | Among Cuban exiles, an old holiday toast to 'Next year in Cuba' goes steadily ... Fox News As another year approaches, some Cuban exiles will still toast to return to a land they last saw decades ago. But as new generations continue to build their lives in the United States, and recent arrival frequently return to Cuba to visit relatives ... 'Next Year In Cuba': An Old Toast Falling Silent Among Cuban Exiles Who Have ... Cuba's unhappy birthday Cuba opens market for new cars but who's buying? |
Victoria Times Colonist | 'Next Year In Cuba': An Old Toast Falling Silent Among Cuban Exiles Who Have ... Fox News Latino MIAMI (AP) – In their first years of exile from Cuba in the 1960s, Gustavo Pérez Firmat's family uttered the toast as a wish they anxiously waited to fulfill. Pérez Firmat's parents and grandparents would proclaim "Next year in Cuba" as they lifted ... Cuba's unhappy birthday Among Cuban exiles, an old holiday toast to 'Next year in Cuba' goes steadily ... Cuba opens market for new cars but who's buying? |
Victoria Times Colonist | Among Cuban Exiles, An Old Toast Goes Silent Huffington Post MIAMI (AP) — In their first years of exile from Cuba in the 1960s, Gustavo Pérez Firmat's family uttered the toast as a wish they anxiously waited to fulfill. Pérez Firmat's parents and grandparents would proclaim "Next year in Cuba" as they lifted ... Among Cuban exiles, an old holiday toast to 'Next year in Cuba' goes steadily ... Cuba's unhappy birthday Cuba opens market for new cars but who's buying? |
WTSP 10 News | Man who protested during pope's Cuba visit in US MiamiHerald.com Carrion yelled "Down with the Revolution! Down with the dictatorship" before an outdoor mass in Santiago de Cuba in March of 2012. Video of the incident showed Carrion being beaten by a man wearing a first-aid T-shirt and security agents pulling him away. Man who railed against communism during pope's Cuba visit now in Tennessee |
Cuba National Statistics and Information Office releases visitors numbers eTurboNews A statistic report by the Cuban Tourism authorities said that 2,546,851 tourists arrived on the island in the first 11 months of 2013, with 234,266 of them landing here in November. Cuba welcomed between January and November more than 2.5 million ... |
Cuba: More Than 2.5 Million Foreign Tourists in First 11 Months of 2013 Latin American Herald Tribune Among the main factors that have influenced Cuba's failure to reach its tourist target, Cuban tourism authorities point to problems in the source countries like the international economic crisis and other difficulties. Canada, which accounts for 38.9 ... |
Cuba National Statistics and Information Office releases visitors numbers eTurboNews A statistic report by the Cuban Tourism authorities said that 2,546,851 tourists arrived on the island in the first 11 months of 2013, with 234,266 of them landing here in November. Cuba welcomed between January and November more than 2.5 million ... |
Boston Globe | Among Cuban Exiles, an Old Toast Goes Silent ABC News In their first years of exile from Cuba in the 1960s, Gustavo Pérez Firmat's family uttered the toast as a wish they anxiously waited to fulfill. Pérez Firmat's parents and grandparents would proclaim "Next year in Cuba" as they lifted glasses of ... Cuba's unhappy birthday Among Cuban exiles, an old holiday toast to 'Next year in Cuba' goes steadily ... Classic Cadillacs dominating Cuba's streets become available to collectos |
Travel predictions for 2014 OCRegister (subscription) The month of reckoning comes in March, when the World Trade Organization releases its 2013 international tourism statistics. For the first time in recent memory, Mexico might not make the Top 10 international travel destinations. Who says? Mexico ... |
Among Cuban exiles, an old toast goes silent WAVY-TV MIAMI (AP) — In their first years of exile from Cuba in the 1960s, Gustavo Pérez Firmat's family uttered the toast as a wish they anxiously waited to fulfill. Pérez Firmat's parents and grandparents would proclaim "Next year in Cuba" as they lifted ... Among Cuban exiles, an old holiday toast to 'Next year in Cuba' goes steadily ... |
My Kingston - Wesley 'Diplo' Pentz Jamaica Observer It's already legal in 27 states in the US, and Colorado in particular generates a lot of revenue for their state and tourism, and even more people are now living there because of the lax rules. Whether you like it or not, Jamaica is associated with the ... |
Tourism leaders reflect on 2013 accomplishments Scottsbluff Star Herald From its location on 204 S. Kimball Blvd. near Interstate 80 exit 20, Kimball County Tourism Director Jo Caskey said she and two, part-time travel counselors have provided information to thousands of travelers from 50 U.S. states, Washington D.C. and ... |
Man Who Protested During Pope's Cuba Visit In US CBS Local Carrion yelled “Down with the Revolution! Down with the dictatorship” before an outdoor mass in Santiago de Cuba in March of 2012. Video of the incident showed Carrion being beaten by a man wearing a first-aid T-shirt and security agents pulling him away. |
Man who protested during pope's Cuba visit in US Naples Daily News Carrion yelled "Down with the Revolution! Down with the dictatorship" before an outdoor mass in Santiago de Cuba in March of 2012. Video of the incident showed Carrion being beaten by a man wearing a first-aid T-shirt and security agents pulling him away. |
