 Passport Magazine (blog) | Number of U.S. travellers to Cuba continues to rise, second only to Canada ... Waterloo Record In 2009, Obama lifted a limit put in place by former president George W. Bush allowing Cuban-Americans to travel to the island country no more than once every three years to visit relatives. And in 2011, he reinstated the so-called "people-to-people ... More US Travelers than Ever Are Heading to Cuba |
Travel briefs MiamiHerald.com 1 country of origin for travelers to Cuba. But the number of U.S. travelers has risen quickly, from about 245,000 in 2007 to nearly 600,000 last year. Most are Cuban-Americans visiting family, but others have no ties to the island and travel to ... |
Passport Magazine (blog) | Number of U.S. travellers to Cuba continues to rise, second only to Canada ... Waterloo Record 1 country of origin for travellers to Cuba, but the number of U.S. travellers to the island has been steadily increasing over the last seven years, according to a report released this week. Within the first three months of 2014 alone, there were more U ... More US Travelers than Ever Are Heading to Cuba |
 Havana Times | New bill to boost foreign property investment in Cuba Global Property Guide According to the bill, foreigners will be allowed to buy residential properties and real estate meant for housing, offices and tourism development in Cuba. Apart from real estate, foreigners will be able to invest in all other sectors excluding health ... Cuba and the Killer of Dreams Argentinian Foreign Minister, Cuban Delegation in Productive Meeting Cuba updates investment portfolio to attract foreign capital |
 San Diego Free Press | Legalization is a Human Rights Issue: Latin America Steps Up Resolve to End ... San Diego Free Press Seattle's South Park neighborhood has seen its share of drug-related crime and violence. Many of its residents are recent immigrants from Mexico; some came north fleeing the drug cartel violence that has ravaged their home communities. So the South ... |
Family shares its legacy at new Napa tasting lounge Napa Valley Register Both sections of the new venue hark back to a part of Napa Valley's past shared by Capp's family lineage, which traces back to the period when the region was still a part of Mexico. “We tried to incorporate a little bit of the early flavor of Napa into ... |
Is Bermuda's beach sewage problem par for the course, or a rarity? Washington Post In a follow-up conversation with Bermudan tourism authorities, a representative blamed the test results on events “that were short in duration, self-resolving, limited in scope and driven by very specific weather circumstances.” He added that health ... |
The Sunny Lure of Uruguay Wall Street Journal To market the building—by a local developer licensing the Trump brand—Fortune tapped the network it uses to sell Miami properties, attracting buyers from Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil and the U.S., in addition to Argentines and Uruguayans, Mr ... |
The Exceptional Traveler: Adventure in the Caribbean Huffington Post But when I once asked a couple who'd spent a year sailing from Florida to Venezuela which were their favorite islands, without a moment's hesitation the wife said, "the Grenadines." The Grenadines are a chain of over one hundred islands and reefs ... |
The Sunny Lure of Uruguay Wall Street Journal To market the building—by a local developer licensing the Trump brand—Fortune tapped the network it uses to sell Miami properties, attracting buyers from Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil and the U.S., in addition to Argentines and Uruguayans, Mr ... |
Havana Times | Cuba and the Killer of Dreams Havana Times Actually this is nothing new; this is the digital version of TV Marti and it's having similar results: millions of US taxpayer dollars spent to exert negligible influence within Cuba, reaching only 40,000 people. The slow opening in Cuba will not be ... |
Portuguese Trade Unions ask Obama to Free Cuban Prisoners Prensa Latina In a letter sent to the United States Embassy in Portugal, the trade union asks Obama to use his presidential power, included in the Section Two, Article 2 of the Constitution to pardon them. The letter recalls that over 15 years ago Gerardo Hernandez ... |
 National Post | Summer school: Belcampo's artist-in-residence program turns a Belize resort ... National Post From snowy Canmore to balmy Isla Mujeres, Mexico, seven March Break getaways perfect for kidding around · A resolution to run is easy to keep on Jamaica's South Coast — and then comes all the eating. It is part of a program launched by Californian CEO ... |
NBA San Antonio Spurs to play in Germany and Turkey San Antonio Business Journal (blog) That game was postponed and eventually moved to Minneapolis after smoke filled Mexico City Arena prior to tipoff. W. Scott Bailey covers health care, tourism, sports business, economic development; he also plans and edits some special reports. |
An Affiliate Of MIRA, Sponsored By Black Creek Group, To Donate New ... DigitalJournal.com ... beauty, Tres Santos is a new community currently in pre-development in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, an unspoiled 250-year old coastal fishing village and beach town designated by the Mexico Secretariat of Tourism as a historical "Pueblo Magico. |
French Foreign Minister to Pay Visit to Cuba as Bilateral Relations Improve Radio Cadena Agramonet Igarza expressed his country's interest in increasing foreign investment in several areas, including the Special Economic Zone in Mariel Harbor and in encouraging tourism. He recalled that some 96 thousand 600 French vacationers came to Cuba in the ... New bill to boost foreign property investment in Cuba Argentinian Foreign Minister, Cuban Delegation in Productive Meeting Cuba updates investment portfolio to attract foreign capital |
Senate committee orders review of US-backed 'Cuban Twitter,' asks for all ... Minneapolis Star Tribune An Associated Press investigation last week found the Obama administration secretly backed the program to stir political unrest in Cuba. The U.S. went to extensive lengths to conceal the operation by using computer networks and bank accounts overseas. |
 Foreign Policy Journal | Why Latin America Is Refusing to Follow the US on Human Rights Foreign Policy Journal “The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened” famously declared John F. Kennedy in his Civil Rights Announcement of 1963. Some 50 years later, such a remark coming from an American official would inspire derision. |
 International Business Times | Brazil Skirts Organizational Disaster With The Most Expensive World Cup Ever International Business Times MEXICO CITY -- When it comes to soccer, Brazil is a country of superlatives. Its fabled national team, whose skills with the ball are proverbial, has won the most World Cups, appeared .... Host countries routinely justify these costs by saying they ... |
Coyotes quietly call city home Daily Press Before 1700, coyotes had a range that was "restricted to the prairies and desert areas of Mexico and central North America," according to the website UrbanCoyoteResearch.com. But as wolves and bears were purged from large swaths of the country, the ... |
McAllen Mayor travels for Sister City Ceremony with San Luis Potosi The Valley Town Crier “We're excited about fostering good relations with San Luis Potosi because it is a progressive community, rich in culture and history, and a beautiful destination city for adventure tourism in central Mexico,” said McAllen Mayor Jim Darling. “We ... |
An Affiliate Of MIRA, Sponsored By Black Creek Group, To Donate New ... SYS-CON Media (press release) ... Baja California Sur, an unspoiled 250-year old coastal fishing village and beach town designated by the Mexico Secretariat of Tourism as a historical "Pueblo Magico." Tres Santos intends to embrace Todos Santos' local art, culture, agriculture and ... |
Other views: ZunZuneo was well-intentioned effort to break Cuba's information ... Jackson Clarion Ledger The Obama administration's recently exposed program to provide a text-messaging service for ordinary citizens in Cuba is a commendable effort to break the Castro government's information monopoly. We hope they don't quit trying. Critics of the program ... |
 Impact Magazine | Cuba: Castro, Cigars and Cuba Libres Impact Magazine Raul Castro, Cuba's leader, has begun to allow change. His country is beginning to allow privatisation and trade, although socialism is still prevalent. The ration cards, for example, ensure all people have basic access to food at reduced prices, a ... |
 Daily Mail | Cuba investigating data leak in ZunZuneo case New York Post Cellphone use has risen sharply since President Raul Castro ended restrictions in 2007, from around 400,000 active accounts back then to 1.8 million today, according to government statistics. Filed underCuba, Twitter, United States, ZunZuneo. Read Next:. ADAMS: Democracy can't be retweeted |
Sending Ideas to Cuba National Review Online (blog) What is not an outrage is that the United States Agency for International Development tried four years ago to circumvent Communist censorship in Cuba by setting up a text-messaging network that Cubans could access. This “Cuban Twitter” was a ray of ... |
Mayors hook up on Okeechobee water releases The News-Press Because the Caloosahatchee from the W.P. Franklin Lock and Dam to the Gulf of Mexico is an estuary, it needs a mixture of salt and fresh water; when too much or too little water is released from the lake, the balance of fresh and salt water is upset ... |
Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas is less about America than “America” A.V. Club Denver/Boulder There's just something weirdly banal and unsatisfying about the explanation Wenders and Shepard belatedly supply. What drove Travis to abandon his family and flee for the freedom of Mexico? ... The film is most satisfying, most moving, when it's at its ... |
Cruise industry still facing sinking public perception, survey shows Los Angeles Times The industry suffered another blow when a fire broke out in the Carnival Triumph in February 2013, leaving the ship adrift in the Gulf of Mexico for several days. In January, gastrointestinal illnesses struck more than 700 passengers on two separate ... |
Gross, US contractor held in Cuba, goes on hunger strike Tico Times Clark Lobenstine, executive director of the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington, speaks on behalf of imprisoned U.S. citizen Alan Gross, who has been held in a Cuban prison for 4 years, during a Washington, D.C. rally in December 2013. |
 MiamiHerald.com | Cuba: US using new weapon against us -- spam CNN Havana (CNN) -- Cuban officials have accused the U.S. government of bizarre plots over the years, such as trying to kill Fidel Castro with exploding cigars. On Wednesday, they said Washington is using a new weapon against the island: spam. Alan Gross hunger strike worries Cuba Gross, US contractor held in Cuba, goes on hunger strike Cuba probes mobile data leak in ZunZuneo case |
