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Cuba's state-run economy has been in crisis mode for years, but it's facing some especially sobering arithmetic now. With trade falling and debt stacking up, President Raul Castro has warned Cubans that the island's socialist system must change. And he's asking them for something they're not used to giving in public: criticism.
Current Prior Producers Angola (Readj Kwanza) AOA 85.5 86 Bolivia (Boliviano) BOB 7.02 7.02 Brazil (Real) BRL 1.69875 1.7182 Burundi (Franc) BIF 1224.5 1224.5 Central African States XAF 437.695 438.5 Central Bank of West AfriXOF 437.695 440.58 Colombia (Peso) COP 1971.4 1984.6 Costa Rica (Colon) CRC 566.5 572.1 Cuba (Peso) CUP 1 1 Dominican Rep (Peso) DOP 36.15 36.15 Ecuador (USD) USD 1 1 El ...
Some of the musicians who played in ostracism during the last gray years of Communist rule gathered in New York over the weekend for a music festival.
Rays catcher Dioner Navarro had left elbow surgery in late October to stabilize an ulnar nerve but is expected to be ready for spring training, the team said Monday.
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As you read this, men and women are deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq, becoming the nation's newest generation of war veterans. They come from the active branches of our full-time military as well as National Guard and Reserve units -- men and women serving in harm's way as modern day patriots defending freedom.
As the door opened, a sensual aroma of citrus and garlic called my name. We were welcomed by two gentleman dressed in typical Cuban shirts, Guayaveras, who lead us to our table. They were as authentically charismatic and welcoming as the food.
MIAMI - Tropical storm warnings issued in Mexico, Cuba as Ida rapidly strengthens over Caribbean. NJ jurors convict Fla. man who claimed he was too fat to kill former son-in-law - A jury convicted a Florida man Friday of murdering his former son-in-law, rejecting the man's defense that he was too fat to have run up and down a flight of stairs to commit the crime and make a quick getaway.
There really are no words to express the horror and sadness that I feel over the senseless loss of two young lives in Miami Springs: Charlie Peel and Nick Colmenares. I have thought often that the residents of Miami-Dade County needed to take our communities back -- from the drug dealers, the criminals with guns who shoot and kill children, or whatever it is that is against common decency. Those ...
A late-season hurricane took aim at the United States and oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday after helping cause flooding and landslides that killed 124 people in El Salvador.
A late-season hurricane bore down on the oil fields of the Gulf of Mexico Monday after ravaging parts of Central America and killing at least 124 people in El Salvador.
Assault on Cuban Bloggers Ian Kelly Department Spokesman Washington, DC November 9, 2009 The U.S. government strongly deplores the assault on bloggers Yoani Sanchez, Orlando Luis Pardo, and Claudia Cadelo. On November 6, these three activists were forcibly detained by plain clothes security personnel and beaten while en route to a peaceful demonstration in Havana. The President has proclaimed ...
San Salvador - The sky above Salvadoran capital El Salvador appeared clear Tuesday: a radiant sun shone to dry the remnants of a weekend of weather chaos that changed whole landscapes. Police chief Carlos Ascensio con...
The Mexican government declared a "red alert" on Sunday as Hurricane Ida moved northwest toward the country's oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico.
Not speaking up when something is wrong is as bad as participating in the crime, Boston University professor Elie Wiesel said in a lecture Monday....
Hurricane Ida moved into the southern Gulf of Mexico Sunday, prompting a declaration of emergency in Louisiana and concern along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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