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TripAdvisor, one the world’s largest travel sites, has announced that it is among the first U.S. travel companies to receive a license from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to provide and sell travel-related services to travelers to Cuba. The license permits TripAdvisor to promote educational and cultural engagement between travelers … Read more
What started out as an idea to organize a tour of Cuba for some fellow Harvard students morphed into starting a tour company, CUBA CANDELA, after graduating from Harvard Business School. It must have been Chad Olin’s thirst for a thousand tedious impediments – plus a good dose of Cuban rum and cigars – that … Read more
“The Cuban government has paid the first installment, and done so early,” France’s ambassador to Cuba, Jean-Marie Bruno, said on late on Wednesday. The $40 million payment was due October 31. The Cuban government announced earlier this year that France will be involved in Cuba’s largest airport renovation. That news surfaced weeks after the announcement … Read more
Every year for the past 25 years Cuba has introduced a resolution at the UN’s General Assembly criticizing the US embargo against Cuba and demanding its end. The U.S. has lost all previous UN votes by an overwhelming margin. Last year’s tally was 188-2 with only Israel siding with the U.S. This year, according to … Read more
Yesterday, Cuban Zoologist Gilberto Silva Taboada and U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr. received the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa degree from the American Museum Of Natural History (AMNH). Cuban biologist Gilberto Silva Taboada — a world-renowned expert on Caribbean bats — was recognized for his extraordinary contributions to science spanning the … Read more
Cabaret Parisien, smaller than the more famous Tropicana Club – Havana, is a fusion of Indoamerican, Hispanic and African cultures, that contains the roots of Cuban culture. Cabaret Parisien is typical of caberet entertainment, combining music, song, dance, recitation, and drama. It is mainly distinguished by the performance venue, which might be a pub, a … Read more
Trade and commerce are the focus in Obama’s most recent relaxing of rules pertaining to doing business in Cuba. Bolstering trade and commercial opportunities and the growth of Cuba’s private sector are the main priorities of the Obama administration’s plan to make his changes “irreversible.” Export-related transactions the U.S Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) … Read more
There is a virtual stampede of travelers headed to Cuba now that commercial flights have started flying most of the 110 daily approved routes authorized by the U.S. and Cuban governments. Cuba is different from most travel destination and is certainly different from the rest of the Caribbean: it is beautifully unspoiled. Despite having more … Read more
In a remarkable twist of fate, Cuba’s forbiddenness is unfolding for Americans for the first time in more than fifty years against the backdrop of a penetrating reality that the once innocent juggling of words in our election industry hides a darker reality, an inner poverty conjoined with the Cuban people’s outward scarcity of material … Read more
U.S. President Obama made a significant statement today about the U.S. government’s approach to Cuba as well a further loosening of Embargo restrictions. Here is the President’s statement: Today, I approved a Presidential Policy Directive that takes another major step forward in our efforts to normalize relations with Cuba. This Directive takes a comprehensive and … Read more
