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CUBA & EUROPEAN UNION IMPROVE STRAINED RELATIONS, ENDING "COCKTAIL WARS". Cuba and the European Union (EU) are moving in slow motion toward...Compared to the economic blockade the US maintains against Cuba, the EU sanctions imposed after the crackdown were mild and...dissidents and human rights has become the core of the EU's Cuba policy. In recent years, the US has focused as ...
April 7, 2005; NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
Regional group may tap Cuba, but history of relying on Soviets is a handicap. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers) Cuba, excluded from joining the North American Free Trade Agreement as long as the U.S. trade...Caribbean islands, Central American nations, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Surinam. For Cuba, it's not just a matter of being neighborly. With the collapse of Cuba's Soviet sugar daddy, Havana's economy is in ...
April 7, 1994; Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Cuba on the edge: food shortages, economic hardships threaten Fidel Castro's 35-year Communist rule. HAVANA, Cuba--FEE-del! FEE-del! Crowds still yell out his name with love and...victories to him. But Fidel Castro's days as the Communist dictator of Cuba may now be numbered. Cuba today is not a very happy place. Castro's promised Communist paradise...
January 24, 1994; Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
Regional cellular operators can't wait to crack Cuba's pent-up mobile market.(Cuba mobile telephone ) Cuba--a country known around the globe for its advances in education...UN Conference on Trade and Economic Development (UNCTAD), Cuba has one of the world's lowest mobile telephone penetration...Western Hemisphere, has far more cellphone lines in use than Cuba. Five years ago, the situation was even worse. ...
January 1, 2007; CubaNews
Cuba CUBA Republic of Cuba Rep ú blica de Cuba CAPITAL: Havana (La Habana) FLAG: The flag consists of five alternating blue and white horizontal stripes penetrated from the hoist side by a red triangle containing a white five-pointed star. ANTHEM...
January 1, 2007; Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
t. (Cuba's coffee industry)(Industry Overview) Cuba, which for years has built its economy around sugar, nickel...in New York entitled Preparing for Prosperity in the New Cuba, U.S. executives and top Cuban officials gathered to discuss...last provision, however, is subject to intense debate within Cuba because it would create a two-tier economy in ...
August 1, 1995; Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
The people in Cuba.(excerpts from new reports about the Pope's visit to Cuba) CUBA WARMLY RECEIVES POPE CUBA--Today, Cuba received Pope John Paul II with the enthusiasm and respect of thousands of people who greeted him and reaffirmed its national convictions through President Fidel Castro's welcome speech. In front of the...
April 1, 1998; World and I
The Cuba Company and the expansion of American business in Cuba, 1898-1915 The Cuba Company was the largest single foreign investment in Cuba during the first two decades of the twentieth century and...company. These networks proved crucial to the success of the Cuba Company and subsequently shaped the development of the...
April 1, 2000; Business History Review
U.S. money goes to Cuba's dead nuclear program: U.N. atomic agency keeps sending aid.(A) Cuba, which doesn't have nuclear weapons or a nuclear reactor...Menendez, New Jersey Democrat. We're on the honor code with Cuba, and that's a dangerous proposition. From 1980 to 1996, the IAEA sent $10.4 million to Cuba for, among other things, computers, safety training for those...
March 28, 1997; The Washington Times
EU, Canada watch jealously as U.S. food sales to Cuba jump. (Foreign Trade). Cuba's European and Canadian trading partners are feeling left out while their American rivals sell more food than ever to Cuba, and get paid rapidly--and in cash--from the Cuban government...in line for delayed settlement of their accounts. We love Cuba dearly as if it were our own land, but we also get ...
December 1, 2002; CubaNews
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