NORWAY — The Center for Ecology-Based Economy will celebrate Earth Day with a program that covers organic and low-input agriculture in Cuba and also solidarity with Cuba. The Let Cuba Live Committee of Maine is a co-sponsor. The event will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 23, at The Commons, CEBE, 447 Main St. […]
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Obama ends visa-free path for Cubans who step onto U.S. soil
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama announced Thursday he is ending a longstanding immigration policy that allows any Cuban who makes it to U.S. soil to stay and become a legal resident. The repeal of the “wet foot, dry foot” policy is effective immediately. The decision follows months of negotiations focused in part on getting Cuba […]
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Castro’s death brings moment to review history
Fidel Castro led rebel guerrillas that, allied with political movements, ejected the U.S.- supported dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959. The revolutionaries held that democracy meant economic and social rights, and they turned to distribution of wealth. That brought on a storm of trouble, especially from the United States. Castro’s death has provoked a flood of remembrances […]
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The left’s love affair with Fidel Castro
In a statement following the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, President Obama spoke of “the countless ways in which (Castro) altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation.” That’s an understatement as the thousands who have risked their lives through the years to escape from Cuba have testified. The president […]
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Former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who defied U.S. for decades, dies
HAVANA (AP) — Former President Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half century rule, has died at age 90. Castro’s reign over the island-nation 90 miles from Florida was marked by the U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs […]
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U.S. removes limits on bringing in Cuban cigars and rum
The Obama administration announced Friday it is eliminating a $100 limit on the value of Cuban rum and cigars that American travelers can bring back from the island. The administration is also lifting limits on cargo ship travel between the U.S. and Cuba and easing U.S. and Cuban researchers’ ability to conduct joint medical research. […]
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Baseball provided common tie
On Dec. 17, 2014, I — like many others — was glued to the television, hanging on to every word of the announcement that President Obama was seeking to re-establish relations with Cuba. I could personally relate to this groundbreaking policy because, 10 days earlier, I was an American playing baseball in Cuba. In the […]
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U.S. flag raised over American embassy in Cuba
HAVANA — The latest on ceremonies to raise the U.S. flag over the embassy in Havana after 54 years of broken diplomatic relations: UPDATED 10:55 a.m.: The live broadcast of Kerry’s critical remarks about Cuban democracy recalls the day in May 2002 when Cuban state media gave unprecedented live coverage to a speech by visiting […]
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Rich Lowry: Obama hands out gifts to Cuba
Candidate Barack Obama said that, as president, he would talk to anti-American dictators without precondition. He didn’t mention that he would also give them historic policy concessions without precondition. His surprise unilateral change in the U.S. posture toward the Castro dictatorship came without even the pretense of serious promises by the Cubans to reform their […]
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U.S., Cuba to renew diplomatic relationships; embargo still in effect
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama announced the re-establishment of diplomatic relations as well as an easing in economic and travel restrictions on Cuba Wednesday, declaring an end to America’s “outdated approach” to the communist island in a historic shift that aims to bring an end to a half-century of Cold War enmity. “Isolation has not worked,” […]