Romania indicates it may revise restitution offer as US Ambassador raises o...

Romania’s government indicated Wednesday that it is open to revising its offer to owners of property confiscated by the Communists decades ago, as it faced criticism from the U.S. Ambassador to Bucharest. Romania has become the late...
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Cuba backs Argentina's YPF oil company expropriation

Thu, Apr 19 2012 * Cuba says expropriation of Repsol shares a sovereign right * Repsol a key Cuban partner in offshore oil exploration HAVANA, April 19 (Reuters) - Communist Cuba on Thursday declared its support for Argentina's decisi...
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Spring delayed as Cuba follows China's model

Pope Benedict XVI calls for -authentic freedom- during his recent visit to Cuba is unlikely to result in any early conversion to democracy.
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Inside Cuba: Market Economy Takes Hold in Socialist State

Cuba is a surrealist's dream: mile after mile of gorgeous, yet dilapidated architecture; streets dominated by automobiles from the 1950s, filled with people on cell (not smart) phones; only 90 miles from the United States and yet a place wh...
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Revolution in retreat

Raúl Castro, who formally took over as Cuba’s president in February 2008 and as first secretary of the Communist Party in April 2011, is trying to revive the island’s moribund economy by transferring a substantial chunk of it from state to ...
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No Detente in U.S.-Cuban Relations

More than two years after a U.S. government contractor was thrown in jail by Cuba's Communist government, his plight is helping to ensure Washington's relationship with Havana stays frozen in Cold War ice.
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Scarsdale lawyer accused of illegal business trip to Cuba

Federal agents arrested Marc Verzani, 45, of Claremont Road, Scarsdale, and Adem Arici, 49, of Brooklyn, Thursday and charged them with conspiring to violate the federal Trading With the Enemy Act and trying to cover up the trip to Cuba.
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