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Google set to expand Wifi, broadband access in Cuba, Obama tells ABC
• ReutersAlphabet Inc's Google is poised to expand Internet access in Cuba, U.S. President Barack Obama told ABC News in an interview during his historic visit to the island nation.
Obama: New Google deal will bring wifi, broadband to Cuba
• https://www.rt.comPresident Barack Obama began his historic three-day visit to Cuba Sunday and, despite landing in the country just hours ago, POTUS has already signaled major changes ahead for the island nation.
Obama's Cuba policy gains new fans
• http://www.politico.comMore Cuban Americans, Republicans are getting behind the push toward normalized relations.
America v. Cuba on Human Rights
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Obama in Cuba
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Cuba Collaborates With America On Lung Cancer Vaccine
• True ActivistAs a way to further the strength of the two countries' relationship and to hopefully benefit American citizens, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an agreement last year with Cuba to have CimaVax, a Cuban vaccine used to treat lung cancer, to th
Obama: I'll 'Speak Candidly' On Democracy and Human Rights While Talking With Castro In
• breitbart.comPresident Obama said that he would "speak candidly about our serious differences with the Cuban government, including on democracy and human rights" as he discusses "how we can continue normalizing relations" with Cuban President Raúl Castro
On Cuba, as politics advances, business leaders wait for their breakthrough
• https://www.washingtonpost.com, By Steven MufsonPresident Obama's planned trip to Cuba in March may be a political breakthrough, but American business leaders are still waiting for a breakthrough on the economic front.
Obama Plans Cuba Visit: Hold the Cheers
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Cuba and US Sign Deal on Commercial Flights
• http://www.telesurtv.netThe deal will allow for up to 110 flights per day from the United States to Cuba.
This Workaround Lets 2.6 Million Cubans Surf the Web
• motherboard.vice.comMore and more Cubans are getting access to the internet, thanks to government Wi-Fi hotspots and a loosening of trade restrictions with the US.
Social media helps drive historic Cuban exodus to US
•As summer began to bake the central Cuban city of Sancti Spiritus, Elio Alvarez and Lideisy Hernandez sold their tiny apartment and everything in it for $5,000 and joined the largest migration from their homeland in decades.
Cuba's Only Email Service Has Been Mysteriously Shut Down
• motherboard.vice.comThe Cuban government has shut down the island's only official email service provider and it's not clear when it'll come back.
Cuba's Only Email Service Has Been Mysteriously Shut Down
• motherboard.vice.comThe Cuban government has shut down the island's only official email service provider and it's not clear when it'll come back.
Sprint signed a major deal with Cuba
• Daniel Trotta and Jaime HamreCuba signed a roaming agreement with U.S. telecom Sprint Corp during its first annual trade fair since rapprochement with the United States and told 600 companies from 70 countries at that it was eager for more business.
Cuba's island of broken dreams
• http://www.washingtonpost.com, by Nick MiroffRelations between Havana and Washington are improving. But that offers little hope on the 'Isle of Youth.'
Cuban Troops Join Fight in Syria
• Prison PlanetCuban troops have joined Russian, Iranian, Lebanese Hezbollah and possibly Chinese soldiers assisting the al-Assad government in its fight against al-Nusra, ISIS and the U.S.-supported jihadis in Syria, according to the University of Miami's Instit
Rihanna and Mick Jagger party as gold-rush mood grips Havana
• http://apnews.myway.com, By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEINBy midnight, the basement of one of Havana's hottest clubs is packed wall-to-wall for a private concert by one of Cuba's biggest pop stars.
How Cuba Survived without Oil
• http://popularliberty.com, By AsclepiusIn 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and Cuba lost its major supplier of fuel, fertilizer and food. Since they were importing more than 80 percent of the food consumed, they needed to learn how to produce their own food.
US Blockade Costs Cuba US$833 Billion in Five Decades
• http://www.telesurtv.netCuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said his country would once again present a resolution before the U.N. calling for an end to the blockade.
Cubans Flood Texas Ports After Thaw in Relations
• texastribune.orgCall it another immigration surge of the United States' own making.
The Communist Computer Club for Kids
• MotherboardI am sitting in a communist computer club for children in downtown Havana, and I am being pushed pirated material from around the world by the Cuban government.
What It Looks Like to Use the Internet for the First Time
• http://motherboard.vice.com, BY JASON KOEBLERIt's easy to know when you've encountered a wifi hotspot in Cuba, if only because they're the only places that feel even remotely like you're walking through an American city.
The Swansong of Cuban Communism?
• http://original.antiwar.com, by Justin RaimondoCuba is coming in from the cold war era
John Kerry Lectures Cubans About Democracy
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US embassy in Cuba formally reopens: 'A day for pushing aside old barriers'
• The GuardianJohn Kerry reopens embassy and proclaims 'Cuba's future is for Cubans' as American flag is raised over building for the first time in more than half a century
A Hitchhiker's Guide To Cuba's Galaxy
• http://www.thedailybeast.comEven thumbing a ride is government controlled in Castro-land, but people think that's been imposed on them by the U.S. embargo.
Cuba plans boating boom as US luxury ships head to Havana
• apnews.myway.comA $3 million yacht left Key West this week with two barbeque grills, 250 channels of satellite TV and a just-in-case plan for rescuing stranded Cuban rafters encountered in the Florida Straits.
Clinton Endorses Dismantling of Cuba Blockade
• http://www.telesurtv.netHillary Clinton has criticized supporters of the Cuban blockade as looking at the world through an "outdated cold war lens."
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