Cuban musicians have been prevented from gaining access to the United States market.

During any negotiations with Cuba s leaders, European politicians and diplomats should remind their Cuban partners of their obligations.

As could be expected, Che applied Soviet policies to the Cubans agriculture was destroyed and ghost factories dotted the landscape.

The obvious route to change for Cuban dissidents would be to leave as so many have done, often at the government s invitation. But Pardo and Rodiles don t want to leave.

Approximately 3 4 of Cubans have access to the Internet in internet cafes and in certain universities.

In more than five years of medical cooperation, 1,909 Cuban health care specialists have worked in Haiti.

John Langmore, United Nations Association of Australia, acted as moderator and Ester Aguilera, Asociación Nacional de Economistas y Contadores de Cuba, served as rapporteur.

One of the most controversial points in the relationship between Google and Cuba lies in the services that the company blocks from Cuban users.

Bloggers from Voces Cubanas and Havana Times saw the incidents as clear evidence of state officials' negligence of housing conditions in the city.

About 20 25 of Cubans have phone lines but mostly subsidized land lines, and the cell phone infrastructure is very thin.

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So it seems that the Cubans are hoping to find resources elsewhere, and the only possibility, as remote as it seems, is the Inter American Development Bank.

We demand the immediate release of the five Cuban anti terrorist fighters being held in imperial maximum security jails, the victims of the hatred and impotence of the failed enemies of the Cuban nation, despite the fact that the Atlanta Court of Appeals overturned the fraudulent ruling by which they were unjustly sentenced.

On the basis of the considerable demand for performances by Cuban artistes in the United States, the Cuban company Artex could have taken in a minimum of 9 million per year.

Castro has steadfastly refused to allow any kind of political opening, and he continues to deny Cubans human rights and fundamental freedoms as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Cuba now has fewer possibilities of accessing markets in order to acquire the advanced technologies needed to train Cuban athletes, resulting in significantly higher prices.

All of the Cuban academicians 64 in total invited to take part in the XX Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), held in October 2004, in Las Vegas, were denied a visa, something that had never happened before.

According to the International Telecommunications Union, only 13 percent of Cubans have access to the web, while the other two countries subject to the ruling, Iran and Sudan, have 31 and 10 percent of their populations on the web, respectively.

Tour Builder, a new service from Google that is still in its beta phase, is not currently available to Cubans as part of the United States' economic blockade against this country.

Trips by Cubans residing in the United States suffered a 50.3 per cent drop in the same period 57,145 persons travelled to Cuba in 2004, as compared with 115,050 in 2003.

In the end, Santos, like his summit hosting predecessors, had no choice but to inform the Cubans personally that they were not welcome, as there was no consensus regarding their participation.

Entering the Guantánamo province, Cuba. (Photo Ángel Baldrich) The negotiation of an agreement with Cuban President Raúl Castro about the naval base could contribute to the establishment of a direct relationship with the Cuban government and with Cuban citizens, thinks Parmly, who was Chief of Mission of the United States Interests Section in Havana between 2005 and 2008.

The blockade makes absolutely no sense to US interests if you wish the country to modernize the best way to do this is to empower the citizens with smart phones (there are almost none today) and encourage freedom of expression and put information tools into the hands of Cubans directly.

According to the findings of a 2003 study by the Brattle Group, an additional 289,000 Cubans residing in the United States would visit Cuba every year and an additional 2.8 million Americans (2.72 million more than the 2003 figure) would visit if the embargo were lifted.

He also accomplished, in a somewhat round about way, another goal showing the flag, so to speak, in the face of the mounting challenge from Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, who, thanks to virtually unlimited supplies of oil dollars and Cuban doctors and foot soldiers, is riding high across Latin America.