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Cuba: Agreement signed with Paraguayan Documentary Film Association
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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August 19, 2025
The Paraguayan National Audiovisual Institute and the Cuban Embassy in Asuncion will be present online at 11:00 a.m. local time. The premiere of the documentary film series “Ruta ADN Cuba,” dedicated to painter Roberto Diago, will follow. The...
The Best Cuban Sandwiches in Miami
Bon Appétit - New York
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August 19, 2025
Who serves the best Cuban sandwich in Miami? The top burrito in San Francisco? Welcome to Taste of the Town, where we call on a local expert to share the best versions of one of their city’s most iconic foods. Here, local Miami critic Carlos Frías...
In Fidel’s forward-thinking vision lies the root of a scientific feat
Diario Granma
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Scientific development was only possible thanks to Fidel Castro’s strategic decision to create Cuba’s biotechnology industry. Photo: Jorge Oller On August 19, 2020, Dr. Vicente Vérez Bencomo, Director of the Finlay Institute of Vaccines (IFV, for...
Neurotrauma Center Created for Western Cuba
Diario Granma
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August 19, 2025
Photo: Taken from Tribuna de La Habana The Calixto García Clinical-Surgical Teaching Hospital in Havana has revitalized its neurosurgery service, leading to the creation of the Western Cuba Neurotrauma Center. This initiative, born from the...
From space robots to malaria vaccines, federal cuts upend research, academic careers at the University of Minnesota
Sahan Journal - Minnesota
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August 19, 2025
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Cuban Embassy hosts book talk on Fidel Castro
Korea Herald
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August 18, 2025
The Cuban Embassy in Seoul hosted a special book talk on Monday commemorating the 99th anniversary of Fidel Castro's birth. In his remarks at the event, Cuban Ambassador to Korea Claudio Monzon spoke about Castro’s legacy. He pointed out that many...
August Revolution 1945 military epic of Vietnamese people: Cuban journalist
Vietnam News Agency
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HAVANA — The August Revolution in 1945 is a military epic written by the Vietnamese people, representing one of the greatest victories of the era and proving to the world that a united nation can never be defeated, according to journalist Roberto...
New Report Associating Sanctions with Death Has Implications for Cuba
Marxism-Leninism Today
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August 17, 2025
August 8, 2025 The new report from the UK’s Lancet medical journal does not mention Cuba, but its main finding – that sanctions are lethal – clarifies to what extent and how it is that the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba is war against Cuba. The...
OpenAI, Other Tech Giants Bypass American Workers, Favor H-1B Candidates Through Discriminatory Job Postings: Report
Benzinga
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Major tech companies have been accused of using local newspaper job ads to target immigrant workers for green cards, potentially bypassing H-1B laws. Firms Post Job Ads For H-1B Roles, Raising Bias Claims Companies with H-1B employees in the green...
A look at the growth of Daytona's Museum of Arts & Sciences
Daytona Beach News Journal - Florida
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The Museum of Arts & Sciences (MOAS) in Daytona Beach, Florida, is Central Florida's primary art, science, and history museum. MOAS holds significant collections, including the best-preserved Giant Ground Sloth fossil in North America and one of...
Cuban-Born Biotech Capitalist Running for New York City Mayor
PJ Media - Virginia
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August 17, 2025
Joseph Hernandez arrived in the United States in 1980 at the height of the Mariel boat lift. Fidel Castro decided to allow 125,000 Cubans to flee that imprisoned island, and the Hernandez family were one of the lucky ones to make it. Castro was...
Cuban-American Entrepreneur Hernandez Enters NYC Mayoral Race, Aims To Counter Mamdani
The Free Press - Tampa - Florida
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August 17, 2025
The Cuban-born businessman is running on a platform of public safety, affordability, and technology, motivated by a desire to combat what he calls the “trajectory of this great city.” A new challenger has entered the New York City mayoral race,...
Cuban-born businessman enters NYC mayoral race, calls himself 'polar opposite' of Mamdani
Fox News
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August 17, 2025
Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said in a Thursday interview that the Mamdani campaign should have to answer critics who say he shouldn't be living in a rent stabilized apartment (Credit: CNBC) NEWYou can now listen to Fox News...
Russia Proposes a New Silicon Valley in Cuba on the ‘Island of Blackouts’
14ymedio
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August 18, 2025
The technology hub would host 12,000 experts and 3,000 students on the Isle of Youth, which generates only 18 MW despite having an installed capacity of 48 MW. The technology center would occupy some 450 hectares and would include offices,...
Roger Sosa Continues to Drive Tech Innovation in Banking at Banco Davivienda International
Hispanic Executive
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August 18, 2025
One PC was available for the entire loan department, and it was a big deal. Roger Sosa remembers installing that computer. It was the late eighties, and he got to install cutting-edge technology within his bank. The accumulated processing power of...
Former MLB Network pro trains Bergen Tech students
NJBIZ - New Jersey
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August 18, 2025
The basics: Former MLB Network producer Thomas Rome teaches at Bergen Tech Students edit real MLB footage, visit studio Bergen Tech’s Work-Based Learning program boasts 100% job placement CTE teachers with industry experience prepare students for...
Cuba reaffirms its willingness to strengthen cooperation with EAEU
Cuban News Agency
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August 17, 2025
Havana, Cuba, August 15 (ACN) Manuel Marrero Cruz, Cuban Prime Minister, reaffirmed today his country's willingness to continue strengthening relations with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). The Prime Minister spoke virtually Friday at the...
Cuban-born biotech honcho enters NYC mayoral race seeking to upset Mamdani: ‘I despise socialism’
New York Post
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August 16, 2025
He’s the anti-Mamdani. A Cuban-born biotech entrepreneur decided to make a longshot bid for NYC mayor because he loathes the radical left-wing ideas pushed by socialist frontrunner Zohran Mamdani — and saw just how dangerous they are in real life,...
Lawyer ’very confident’ a foreign adversary attacked Canadian diplomats in Cuba
Toronto Sun
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August 17, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links Canada Author of the article: Canadian Press Jim Bronskill Published Aug 17, 2025 • 5 minute read In this April 17, 2018 file photo, a man walks beside Canada's embassy in Havana, Cuba. Photo by Desmond Boylan /The...
Andreas Kluth: Expiring deals, rising China, rising tech, rogue dictators = rising nuke risk
Pioneer Press - Minnesota
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August 17, 2025
Tulsi Gabbard, the U.S. director of national intelligence, admittedly struck the wrong note in a melodramatic video she put out after visiting Hiroshima, which was destroyed by an atomic bomb 80 years ago. “As we stand here today, closer to the...