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Cuba’s new economic reforms: What’s really changing?

Within the next few months the Cuban government will ditch the Cuban convertible peso (CUC), one of the country’s two currencies, and one which is pegged to the US dollar. The CUC is designed to separate the heavily subsidi...
by Marcel Plichta
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The Changing Face of Cuba: Communism to Capitalism

For over half a century Cuba has been ruled by the Castro regime and has remained largely cut off from the rest of the world. The island’s economy is in a state of collapse and still inhabits the crippling stranglehold of the...
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Cuba And The Con

Cuba is a country with personality to spare. With its legacy in music, dance, rum and revolutionaries, it has a culture and people unlike much else. With all of its unique character, however, it has an array of unique problems....
by Max Horberry
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Time To End The Cold War: The United States And Cuba

One of the last vestigial rivalries of the Cold War played out another chapter this January, as countries from around the Americas met at the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit in Havana to discuss ...
by Walt Andrews
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Today’s Cuba – Running To A Standstill

Last week’s exchange of political prisoners between the US and Cuba, followed by a handful of far-reaching declarations tabled by the White House were widely acclaimed as a new opening between Havana and Washington. For all t...
by Mateusz Mazzini
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Brave New World: The significance of Cuba at the Summit of the Americas

In 2013, US President Barack Obama and the Cuban leader, Raul Castro, shook hands at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in Johannesburg, and it took the world by surprise. After five decades of separation, it appeared somethin...
by Simon Fraser
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