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The US has a way to shut down Wikileaks, the infamous SDN list

 
Could the SDN list be the best censorship tool for websites?
 
You may not know what the SDN list (Specially Designated Nationals) is but we´ll explain. It’s the US version of Iran and Chinas state censorship machine. Initially created with good intent to inform the world (and US entities, persons) of Terrorists, Rogue regimes and other [...]

Autentica Cuba - Cuba´s tourism ministry launches its new campaign

 
Officially putting the “Viva Cuba” campaign to rest, the Cuba Tourist Board unveiled their new global marketing campaign “ Auténtica Cuba ”
In addition to the launch, attendees welcomed visiting Cuban vice-minister, Maria Elena Lopez, as well as introduced Cuba’s new director, Ruben Jimenez.
 
Jimenez, who will be based out of the tourist board’s Toronto office, had this [...]

Cuba Travel: The big squeeze

This year has seen the biggest exodus of Cuba dedicated travel agencies since the government allowed representation offices on the Caribbean island of foreign agencies in the early 90´s. The idea back then was to allow foreign travel companies and wholesalers to have on the ground staff to better manage inbound visitors and thus increase [...]

Cuba releases dissident just before he dies in jail

Close to death and probably to obvert further international outrage of jailed regime opposition, Cuba released Ariel Sigler Amaya, 46, who had been in prison for more than six years. “He is already home, they brought him by ambulance and carried him in on a stretcher because his health has greatly deteriorated,” his brother Juan [...]

Cuba raises stakes on car rentals for Cuban Americans

 
Local operators are suffering from a distinct lack of automatics cars. Better said, they are nonexistent. Why one would ask? Well, as of January 2010 a new rule was quietly introduced where automatic cars are only bookable through approved agencies such as Havanautos or Cuba Car
To combat this change and loss of business, local foreign [...]

Russia, the worlds largest oil producer back to Cuba for oil

Although most polls show that the American public is in favor of offshore oil drilling, the Obama administration is ready to ban it.  
Meanwhile while Obama is against the U.S. doing offshore drilling, it helped Brazil underwrite it in the Tupi oil field near Rio de Janeiro.
It also give Russian political power because it can [...]

Cuba back in the fray for real estate investments after 9 year hiatus

Cuba allowed the building of 16 developments between 1998 and 2001 which were sold as condos to foreigners. Buildings were built under a clause in the 1995 law 77 for foreign investment. It is rumored that the clause was designed to allow the building of hotels and when the then president, Fidel Castro, learned that [...]

Cash-strapped Cuba will require visitors to buy health insurance

Cash-strapped Cuba will require visitors to buy health insurance if they want to enter the country, according to a new government measure disclosed on Saturday.
Under the measure, which takes effect in May, the insurance will be sold by foreign companies approved by the Cuban government or by Cuban firms at ports of entry to the [...]

Cuba explains vanishing trick of frozen bank accounts

HAVANA - Cuba is offering foreign businesses percent annual interest over five years as part of a plan to repay hundreds of millions of dollars in bank accounts frozen by the cash-strapped government, diplomatic and business sources said this week.
 
The government is hoping the interest payments will encourage companies to keep doing business with import-dependent [...]

Ernest Hemingway still haunts Cuba

HAVANA – Ernest Hemingway still haunts Cuba; he’s just doing it in wax.
A life-size likeness of the legendary author debuted last week at a wax museum in the eastern city of Bayamo.
Hemingway wrote “The Old Man and the Sea” while living in Cuba and his exploits in literature and life are celebrated in monuments across [...]

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