Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Why the US's Cuban propaganda plane is a complete waste of money - The Week Magazine









Why the US's Cuban propaganda plane is a complete waste of money

The Week Magazine

For the past seven years, the United States has been funding a twin-engine plane that flies circle-eights over Cuba, broadcasting everything from baseball games to interviews with anti-Castro dissidents. Despite its cost to the U.S. government — more ...









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Egyptian coup: a page straight out of Latin America - DAWN.com









Egyptian coup: a page straight out of Latin America

DAWN.com

... laureate and the new vice-president of the republic, and Justice Adli Mansour and, of course, Mr Obama, considering to consider this a coup or not a coup? I apologise for the rhetoric and let's come down to history. This coup is a page out of Latin ...









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Cuba looks to medical tourism as income source - South China Morning Post









Cuba looks to medical tourism as income source

South China Morning Post

Football legend Diego Maradona blazed a path for Cuba to become a medical tourism destination when he travelled to the island for drug addiction treatment in 2000. Since then, thousands of other famous and not-so-famous faces have traveled here for ...

Gambling and the law: Cuba needs casinos

CARDENAS: Beware of Raul the Reformer









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VIDEO: Can Mexico win its war on drugs?

Forty years after the creation of the US Drug Enforcement Agency, leaders in Latin American are calling for a new strategy for the war on drugs.



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Monday, July 29, 2013

Cuba looks to medical tourism as income source - South China Morning Post









Cuba looks to medical tourism as income source

South China Morning Post

Football legend Diego Maradona blazed a path for Cuba to become a medical tourism destination when he travelled to the island for drug addiction treatment in 2000. Since then, thousands of other famous and not-so-famous faces have traveled here for ...

Opinion: Cuba marks 60 years of lost ground

Ghana Benefits From Cuba Relations-Minister

Cuba's Fidel Castro Meets With Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro









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Cuban government announces acceleration of privatization and austerity ... - World Socialist Web Site









Cuban government announces acceleration of privatization and austerity ...

World Socialist Web Site

Earlier this month, Marino Murillo, vice president of the Cuban Council of Ministers, announced that during the rest of this year and through the next the state would enact and carry through the next phase of its privatization and austerity measures ...









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Polesitter Ranger wins 3rd straight at NJMP - Short Track Action (press release)









Polesitter Ranger wins 3rd straight at NJMP

Short Track Action (press release)

Venezuela Tourism Toyota driver Nelson Canache was the last car on the lead lap, in 11th. Ranger sat on the pole for the race but it was Elliott grabbing the lead in the first turn and staying there until Ranger passed him on lap eight. Will Kimmel led ...









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