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WLRN's Americas Editor Tim Padgett speaks with Cuba's Foreign Relations Vice-Minister, Carlos Fernández de CossÃo, about why the communist island is allowing more economic freedom — but not political liberalization.
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Cuban President Miguel DÃaz-Canel insists allies like China are rescuing his communist island from its economic disaster. Cuba economy watchers disagree.
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Cuba this week is reporting its worst sugarcane harvest in more than a century. It could exacerbate the island's economic crisis — and the flight of migrants to the U.S.
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Thousands of Cubans across the island country took to the streets to protest against the current dictatorship as people grapple with a shortage of basic necessities amid rising COVID-19 cases.
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Thousands of demonstrators went out to the streets in several cities in Cuba to protest against ongoing food shortages and high prices of foodstuffs, amid the coronavirus crisis.
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As Cuba unifies its two currencies, ordinary Cubans brace for skyrocketing prices — with still no structural reform of the island's failed economic system.
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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Saturday named Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz as the country's first prime minister since 1976 — a nomination…
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The Cuban government announced economic measures this week to seek dollars in a bid to stay afloat in the midst of an acute financial crisis triggered by…
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Cuba's economy continues to sink. In the past year the island has seen increasing food shortages, utility outages and fuel scarcity. On Thursday Cuba's…
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Cuba’s economy barely grew at all this year. Officials this week say the communist island will probably show the same dismal performance next year. And…
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COMMENTARYThis is turning out to be quite the embarrassing summer for communist Cuba.This week the State Department revealed that two Cuban diplomats…
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Next month marks the second anniversary of normalized relations between the U.S. and Cuba – and things couldn’t look more uncertain. President-elect…