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Greenback returns: How dollar stores came back to Cuba
Benito Morejon arrived at the supermarket before dawn to claim a spot near the front of the queue. The supermarket in Havana is one of a number of shops opened by the Cuban government on the island in which basic food and hygiene products can be paid for with the currency of its ideological enemy: …
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Cubans bid farewell to Eusebio Leal Spengler, the saviour of Havana
The old town of Havana has sheltered many famous faces over its 500 years, Alexander von Humboldt and Ernest Hemingway among them, but few more loved than Eusebio Leal Spengler, who died on Friday. The city historian could be seen most days walking through the cobbled streets, past the fruit hawkers and musicians, passing under …
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Cubans bid farewell to Eusebio Leal Spengler, the saviour of Havana
Much-loved citizen was born poor but went on to mastermind restoration of the island’s splendid capital Historian and de facto mayor has died aged 77 The old town of Havana has sheltered many famous faces over its 500 years, Alexander von Humboldt and Ernest Hemingway among them, but few more loved than Eusebio Leal Spengler, …
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Eusebio Leal Spengler, Cuban historian and restorer of Old Havana, dies aged 77
Prominent intellectual is credited with rejuvenating crumbling centre into tourist hub Eusebio Leal Spengler, the Cuban historian who oversaw the transformation of Old Havana from a crumbling quarter into an immaculately restored colonial tourist attraction, has died at the age 77. He had been suffering from cancer. Leal and his restoration efforts became so famous …
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Cuban Bank Based in London Punished by US
HAVANA TIMES – The United States announced sanctions on Thursday against Havin Bank LTD, a London-based Cuban entity also known as Havana International Bank, dealing a blow to the Cuban financial system, reported mercopress.com The Treasury Department said it had placed the bank on its Office of Foreign Assets Control list of entities which US …
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Havana City Historian Eusebio Leal, Dies at 77
Eusebio Leal took Barack Obama on a tour of Old Havana during his visit to Cuba in March, 2016. Photo: Nestor Marti HAVANA TIMES (dpa) – Cuban historian Eusebio Leal, who restored the colonial beauty of portions of old Havana and helped to turn the city into a tourist attraction, died Friday at the age …
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Cuba’s Gov. Bets on Transgenic Crops to Combat Shortages
By IPS-Cuba While increasing productivity has been a pressing matter for a long time in Cuba, some population groups and members of the scientific community have expressed their concern with regard to environmental and human health risks associated with using GM crops. Photo: todoelcampo.com.uy HAVANA TIMES – Afectada por la crisis internacional que trajo la …
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French company interrupts remittance transfers to Cuba and the United States places Cuban bank on blacklist
A French bank has decided to comply with an order from the U.S. Treasury Department and suspend the transfer of remittances to the island originating in the United States. The decision came after the Trump administration decided to include in the list of Cuban assets a London-based banking entity, Havana Internacional Bank (Havin), to which …
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Cuba inaugurates plant to produce drug against COVID-19
A synthetic peptides production plant, in which a drug used successfully in Cuba against COVID-19 will be manufactured, was inaugurated this Thursday at Havana’s Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB). President Miguel Diaz-Canel opened the plant. At the plant, identified with number 14 in the CIGB, the active pharmaceutical ingredient of the drug Jusvinza …
