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Cuba will issue in October new licenses to open small private businesses, in order to offer available workers more employment options, after cutting the number of employees in the state sector.
Cuban light industry lost US$12.891 million from May 2009 to April 2010 as a result of the economic, commercial and financial blockade maintained by the United States against Cuba.
Cuban Vice President Ricardo Cabrisas will visit China from Saturday and will attend activities for the 50 anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
The Petroleum Workers Union of Trinidad and Tobago (OTWU), demanded the release of five Cubans imprisoned in the U.S. and demanded the end of the US economic blockade against the island.
Ecuadorian and Cuban deputy foreign ministers Kintto Lucas and Dagoberto Rodriguez, respectively, concluded a second round of migration talks on Wednesday with the approval of a joint communiqué.
Cuban prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso invited U.S. President Barack Obama and his family to the next International Ballet Festival in Havana, and asked him to bring home the five Cuban antiterrorists imprisoned in that country for over 12 years.
Cuban artists have thanked their U.S. colleagues for their friendship and solidarity, and in particular for their support to the international demand for the release of the Cuban Five.
The U.S Office of Foreign Assets Control levied a US$2.20 million fine on a Swedish subsidiary of the chemical company Innospec Inc. for selling a gasoline additive to Cuba.
The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, met on Tuesday with some of the 1,000 passengers aboard the Peace Boat, which was docked in Havana for a visit.
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez attended a 50th anniversary celebration in New York of the meeting between Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro and U.S. civil rights fighter Malcolm X.
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