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Sabor a Cuba Festival in Santa Lucia Beach, Cuba
Prensa Latina
... dances and fine Cuban gourmet aimed at fomenting gusto for the 21 km (13 miles) of wide, white golden sandy paradise. Inter-hotel competition to improve the contendersâ�Ö ratings forecast a luring recreational choices with a carnival presenting a ...

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Macleans.ca

Fighting the Cuban regime—one tweet at a time
Macleans.ca
There is no such thing as home Internet for Cubans; the service is reserved for elite officials or foreign residents with deep pockets. Internet cafés are too public and expensive, but hotels are a good resource. “I write and accumulate eight or nine ...
Getting to CubaChicago Tribune
Cell Phones Have Changed Our LivesHuffington Post

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Fairfield Mirror

Grammy Award-Winning Jazz Musician Wows a Friday Night Crowd
Fairfield Mirror
On Saturday evening, jazz enthusiasts from the Fairfield community gathered at the Quick Center to listen to an incredible performance by the world famous Chucho Valdés and the Afro-Cuban Messengers. “I've been excited about this evening since the ...

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Havana Times

The Cuban Rap Agency Controversy (Soandry's Version)
Havana Times
We'll end up like reggaeton, charging expensive admission prices at the Capri Hotel, and having people like me wearing a lot of gold chains around my neck and bragging about all kinds of things to women. In that way we'd lose the concept of what Cuban ...

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Cuba Standard.com

Cuban joint venture to build hotel in Venezuela
Cuba Standard.com
Continuing the foray of Cuban state companies abroad, a Venezuelan joint venture of Havana-based Quality Couriers International SEA agreed to build a resort in coastal Venezuela. Socivireca CA signed a $5.3 million agreement with Venezuelan state ...

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VICE

Wondering... My Cuban Holiday - Part II
VICE
As Cuba is relatively cheap, we were able to pay a driver to shuffle us back and forth between Bauta and Havana City, where we were obliged to rent a hotel room as part of a package deal with our flight. Although the Cuban communist system has opened ...

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BBC News

Cuban embargo at 50: US cars with Soviet parts
BBC News
The towering Habana Libre was once the Hilton. On another street the New York Hotel is now a shell, windows shattered and walls crumbling. The confiscation of US property by Cuba's revolutionary government was a key trigger for the embargo.
US Travel To Cuba Grows As Restrictions Are EasedNPR
US embargo on Cuba, 50 years later and still no cigarDaily Maverick

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Technorati

Canadian Website Recognizes Cuban Hotels with an International Award
Technorati
According to reports from the Canadian visitors themselves, during their Cuba holidays they received the best treatment in the Cuban hotel. Fabrice Bozon, director general of the tourist facility, said the 47 000 views compiled in the last twelve ...

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Mexico no tropical paradise for street dogs and cats
Edmonton Journal
I first wrote about Moritz a year ago after he and his girlfriend, Jill, returned from a winter getaway to Varadero, Cuba. While there, they fell in love with a homeless dog they saw wandering the beach. The couple wound up spending most of their time ...

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Mexico no tropical paradise for street dogs and cats
Edmonton Journal
I first wrote about Moritz a year ago after he and his girlfriend, Jill, returned from a winter getaway to Varadero, Cuba. While there, they fell in love with a homeless dog they saw wandering the beach. The couple wound up spending most of their time ...

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Sydney Morning Herald

Tripologist: How to get a good seat on the plane
Sydney Morning Herald
What is the protocol when going to and from a pool in a five-star hotel? Is it OK to return to your room with a towel wrapped around you, or should you shower and change near the pool and return to your room fully dressed? It seems a little laborious ...

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Angus Reid Public Opinion

US Travel To Cuba Grows As Restrictions Are Eased
NPR
by Nick Miroff The US government has restricted travel to Cuba for a half-century. However, the Obama administration has gone back to a Clinton-era policy that eased some limitations, and some 400000 Americans visited Cuba last year.
Most Americans Willing to Re-establish Ties with CubaAngus Reid Public Opinion

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How To Travel From The US To Cuba Now (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post
Trips to Cuba aren't a typical Caribbean beach vacation; there are plenty of vacation deals to the Dominican Republic or Jamaica if that's what you want. The schedules planned by these approved travel companies are busy with cultural activities such as ...

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How To Travel From The US To Cuba Now (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post
Trips to Cuba aren't a typical Caribbean beach vacation; there are plenty of vacation deals to the Dominican Republic or Jamaica if that's what you want. The schedules planned by these approved travel companies are busy with cultural activities such as ...

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Happiness is a hotel cigar evening for new generation of female smokers
The Independent
I hope my doctor isn't reading this, because I'm fairly sure he'd take a dim view of me pulling away on a Cuban at 10am on a Friday morning. Puff Daddy would understand. And besides, it was all in the name of research. "We have a lot of ladies who come ...

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From Cuba to 'Carmen'
Cincinnati.com
And clearly, that wasn't going to happen in Cuba. “It was the time for me,” says Diaz. So in the middle of the night on Oct. 12, 2003, she and her fellow company member Cervilio Miguel Amador fled their Daytona Beach hotel and made their way to Miami.

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Finleys take dream trip to Cuba
Cleveland Daily Banner
He said that in Havana, the Cubans were using old cannon barrels for barricades and cannonballs as decorative edgings for parks and other locations. He said there was a long cannon in a dugout between their hotel and Havana's large harbor.

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A Chicago tradition from presidents to gangsters
Chicago Tribune
Chicago is home to many historic hotels, but few may be as storied as the Blackstone. Twelve presidents — from Taft to Carter — have stayed at the Blackstone, some at times of national crisis. John F. Kennedy learned of Cuba's nuclear capabilities ...

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Travel Insider: Great things to know about New Zealand
Sacramento Bee
By Chris Macias Welcome to Travel Insider, an occasional feature in which we get the inside scoop on common – and sometimes exotic – destinations from those who have lived or traveled there often. The expert: Mike Thiemann, 36, who lived in New Zealand ...

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ANALYSIS: Lifting Cuba's embargo, a domestic taboo for the US
Monsters and Critics.com
This explains the cautiousness of the administration of US President Barack Obama regarding Cuba. In three years in office, Obama has been very shy regarding the island, easing travel and remittances only for Cuban-Americans. For other US citizens, ...

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