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A One-Way Ticket From Cuba To Guyana Costs $7,000 On The Black Market

GEORGETOWN — Cubans who are required to fly to Guyana for visa interviews at the U.S. Embassy there are complaining that Havana-Georgetown tickets are selling on the black market for…

VI Free Press June 24, 2021

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NOT TOO LATE FOR HELLO: Julian Lennon On Taking Cool Pics In Cuba

HAVANA — Whether snapping daily life in Cuba or members of the Irish rock band U2, photographer and singer Julian Lennon says the pictures he most likes taking are spontaneous.…

VI Free Press May 21, 2021

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Cuba’s Tourism Workers Reinvent Themselves As Lockdown Lingers

HAVANA — Trumpeter Carlos Sanchez serenaded tourists in Old Havana for 30 years, earning handsome tips — until the coronavirus pandemic hit and Cuba closed its borders a year ago…

VI Free Press April 3, 2021

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Cuba’s Struggling Entrepreneurs Look To Biden With Hope

HAVANA — Business was booming for a trendy little clothing shop called Clandestina in the heart of Old Havana, one of thousands of new private businesses that had arisen in…

VI Free Press March 5, 2021

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EU Ambassador Has Some ‘Splaining’ To Do After Signing Off On Cuba Letter Critical Of Joe Biden

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has summoned its ambassador to Cuba to return to Brussels to explain himself after he reportedly signed an appeal asking U.S. President Joe Biden…

VI Free Press February 27, 2021

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Cuban Anti-Communist Jam Featuring Gente de Zona Goes Viral, Sparks State Fury

HAVANA — A group of Miami-based Cuban musicians including reggaeton duo Gente de Zona launched an impassioned anti-Communist anthem this week that has gone viral, sparking a furious state response.…

VI Free Press February 21, 2021

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Cuba Opens Door To Most Small Business Initiatives

HAVANA (Reuters) — In a major reform of the state-dominated economy, the Cuban government will allow small private businesses to operate in most fields, eliminating its limited list of activities,…

VI Free Press February 6, 2021

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Sunken pyramids discovered off Cuba might be lost city of Atlantis

HAVANA — The remains of what may be a 6000-year-old city immersed in deep waters off the west coast of Cuba was discovered by a team of Canadian and Cuban researchers.…

VI Free Press January 3, 2021

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China Spying On United States Citizens Through Security-Lax Caribbean Mobile Phone Networks

BRIDGETOWN — China appears to have used mobile phone networks in the Caribbean to surveil United States mobile phone subscribers as part of its espionage campaign against Americans, according to a mobile…

VI Free Press December 15, 2020

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Forecasters Are Tracking New Tropical Wave In The Caribbean

MIAMI — A new tropical wave has developed in the Caribbean Sea and has a 20 percent chance of development into a tropical cyclone over the next five days. This…

VI Free Press October 22, 2020