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		<title>Autentica Cuba &#124; Tales of corruption, fraud &#038; scams</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Behind the polished image of Cuba´s MINTUR (ministry of tourism) and their recent Autentica Cuba campaign lurks a sinister black market, or so we are told.
 
Seldom do professionals from the travel industry in Cuba speak out and, less so when they are foreign travel professionals located on the island. Historically, fearful of government reprisals, many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pope Visit to Cuba &#124; another dose of temporary faith?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
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Tomorrow the Pope will once again speak in Cuba. For you non religious types, no, it&#8217;s no longer Pope John Paul II, who blessed Cuba 14 years ago in 1998. This time, Pope Benedict once again takes the churches blessing back to an unchanged Cuba this week but, is this visit nothing more than another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba 2011 winter season bookings lowest since 1998</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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For an economy increasingly reliant on tourism as its only real source of income, numbers leaked this week from MINTUR (Cuba´s tourism ministry) do not bode well for the winter season. Consumers in Cuba´s single largest market, Canada, appear to have learnt from Cuba´s &#8220;panicked &#8220;price slashing of late October 2010 and are waiting for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cubans turn backs on self employment…Raul ups remittance requests to 1000´s</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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After a frenzied government hyped rush to become self employed the interest is waning and many Cubans have returned the coveted licenses which cost between 10 and 30 CUC (10-30$) per month to maintain.
 
Recent visitors to Havana claim that things have reverted back to normal in the dusty streets of the city and most budding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba Travel Restrictions &#124; where have you gone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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In January the Obama administration made sweeping changes to the Cuba Travel Restrictions along with a drastic change in the remittance allowances and who can send them to Cuba. These changes are now being to filtered down into the general population and Cuba is seeing bumper numbers of Americans visiting Cuba this year, some estimates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba travel for Americans &#124; Again?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 13:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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HAVANA – The forbidden fruit of American travel is once again within reach. New rules issued by the Obama administration will allow Americans wide access to communist-led Cuba, already a mecca for tourists from other nations.
Within months or even weeks, thousands of people from Seattle to Sarasota could be shaking their hips in tropical nightclubs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What´s next for bankrupt Cuba? More Freedoms…..?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 13:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
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You don´t need much imagination to establish that Cuba´s recent &#8220;easing&#8221; of regulations is a desperate attempt to appease an increasingly frustrated populace. The cold reality however is, the country entered bankruptcy in early 2010 and all measures being taken are to bring in more cash to prop up the communist government and those few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A visitor&#8217;s review - Festival del Habano 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
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As owner of Singapore&#8217;s largest private collection of Cuban cigars at one time it has been my dream to attend one of the annual Habano festivals in Cuba.
 
I finally made it! I attended the XIII (13th) Festival del Habano from February 21 to 25 but it was no dream, it was more like a frigging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Gross Trial in Cuba - The side show with an unlikely outcome</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
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This case has received a great amount of press over the past year, reaching fever pitch this week. With the trial now over, there are certain points worth taking note of that will probably decide the outcome for Mr. Gross.
 
Both Governor Bill Richardson and Hillary Rodham Clinton have stated that they would consider the release [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fidel Castro plays it safe talking about education</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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Cuban television aired on Thursday the third and final part of the meeting which took place on Tuesday and in which Cuban and foreign personalities shared with Fidel their concerns on the need to improve the education and training of the new generations. 
Argentinean writer Estela Calloni said that it is essential to consolidate the role [...]]]></description>
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