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The Cuba Study Group today published a whitepaper in collaboration with the Americas Society/Council of the Americas and the Latin America Initiative at the Brookings Institution entitled “Empowering the Cuban People Through Technology: Recommendations for Private and Public Sector Leaders.”
The document outlines comprehensive U.S. policy recommendations aimed at facilitating greater access to technology and telecommunication devices in Cuba.
Over 50 IT and telecom executives and other experts contributed to the drafting of these recommendations as part of…
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Julian Aguila | Texas Tribune
Texas is poised to become the nation’s leading trade partner with communist Cuba after the Port of Houston Authority gained permission for its container vessels to sail to the island nation.
Trade experts are confident that Texas will be now able to carve out for itself a larger slice of the United States’ total trade with Cuba, which was estimated at $521 million in 2009, down from $710 million in 2008. Last year, $85 million dollars in goods was sent to Cuba from Texas, a distant second to Louisiana’s $241 million. Parr…
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By | Bloomberg
The U.S. House of Representatives may pass a bill next month that would cut restrictions on agricultural exports to Cuba and lift a ban on travel to the island, the measure’s sponsor said.
Congressman Collin Peterson, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, said he needs backing from one more lawmaker to assure the panel will pass the legislation. He expects to secure that pledge after Congress’s Easter recess, and for the measure to get approval by the full House.
“Cuba used to be one of our big markets,” Peterson, a Minnesota Democrat, said…
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John McAuliff | Fund for Reconciliation and Development
The US House of Representatives Agriculture Committee is having a hearing regarding US food sales to Cuba.
Thursday, March 11th - 1:00 p.m.
1300 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC
Full Committee on Agriculture - Public Hearing
RE: To review U.S. agricultural sales to Cuba
WITNESS LIST
Panel I:
Mr. Bob Stallman, President, American Farm Bureau Federation, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Roger Johnson, President, National Farmers Union, Washington, D.C.
Panel II:
Mr. Mike Wagner, Rice Producer and Owner/Operator…
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Rob Sequin | Havana Journal
The Havana Journal has seen a jump in traffic and membership registrations in the last several months. The site gets well over 2000 unique visitors per day now.
With that popularity comes comment spam, just a fact of life on the Internet. If you have left a comment on an article and opted in to be notified of follow up comments, you may have seen some of these off topic comments come through. Sometimes they are on topic but the comment spammers will bury links to their non-Cuba related sites into the comment.
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Jenalia Moreno | Chron.com
For the first time in nearly half a century, a shipping line will provide weekly transport from Houston’s docks to Cuba.
Local officials view this as the beginning of increased exports to a Latin American nation that still faces a partial trade embargo with the U.S.
“What we’re witnessing is the important first step,” said Jeff Moseley, president and CEO of the Greater Houston Partnership.
Shipping company CMA CGM of Marseille, France, recently began hauling food, medical products and other items allowed by…
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DEBRA MITCHELL | U.S. Postal Service
On September 8, 2009, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued a Federal Register final rule revising existing restrictions on exports of gift parcels. It also authorized exports to Cuba of certain donated consumer communications devices, including certain computers and software, mobile phones, and satellite receivers.
The only U.S. Postal Services available for authorized exports to Cuba are First-Class Mail International, International Priority Airmail, International Surface Air Lift, and the Priority Mail International flat-rate envelope and small flat-rate box. All of these services have a maximum weight of 4 pounds.
Eligible gift parcels for Cuba…
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The world recession has caused more intense screening of business executives seeking Cuban visas and has slowed down decision-making on new business projects on the communist island,a U.S. maritime executive said Thursday.
Speaking at the SeaCargo Americas conference in Miami, Jay Brickman, vice president of government services at Crowley Marine Services, said the worldwide slowdown has battered an already weak Cuban economy, with prices for nickel exports down by some 40 percent,a sharp decline in remittances from Cubans overseas and less spending by tourists visiting the island.
“The [economic] situation…
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By Nick Miroff | Global Post
For years, U.S. mobile phone companies and internet providers have been banned from doing business with Cuba, further isolating one of the least-connected countries in the hemisphere.
So when the Obama administration loosened those restrictions earlier this year, it looked like a tech surge was in store for the communist-ruled island. But after months of silence, Cuba seems to be saying no thanks.
Other outstanding trade and legal grievances need to be resolved before American telecommunications companies are granted access, a Cuban telecom official said Saturday, in a statement that appeared to rebuff one…
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Press Release
Fuego Enterprises, Inc. (PinkSheets:FUGI - News) spun off on October 12, 2009 a newly incorporated shell company to shareholders of record as of September 12, 2009. Shareholders of record are to ultimately receive 1 share of the new company, Cuba Business Development Group, Inc. (“CBDG”), for every two shares held in Fuego Enterprises, Inc. Fractional shares will not be issued.
“Cuba Business Development Group Inc. was formed to take advantage of opportunities we expect in the very near future as the U.S and Cuba inevitably establish more normal relations and businesses in both countries need our expertise and…
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