A. unit purchased Monterrey, Mexico-based Banca Confia, which issues Visa and MasterCard credit cards to Mexicans that can be used in Cuba. (Credit cards issued in the U.S. aren't allowed in Cuba.) The impact on Citigroup's bottom line may be minuscule, but it's a toe in the Cuban door.
A. unit purchased Monterrey, Mexico-based Banca Confia, which issues to Mexicans Visa and MasterCard credit cards that can be used in Cuba. (Credit cards issued in the U.S. aren't accepted in Cuba.) The impact on Citigroup's bottom line may be minuscule, but it's a toe in the Cuban door.
Their forthright lyrics about life in Cuba don't make them any friends among Cuba's authorities, and that limits their opportunities on the island.
We haven't overthrown Castro in Cuba or the leaders of Iran.
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Mr. LOPEZ: (Through translator) I don't have anything against Cuba.
On the other hand, President Bush also has a very powerful American business lobby leaning on him which doesn't want trade with Cuba wrapped up in extra red tape.
But Santos said the absence of an agreement on Cuba didn't mean the meeting was a failure.
That congressional visit to Cuba isn't the only trip U.S. lawmakers are making this week to the countries that the Bush administration refuses to talk with.
Mel Martinez, who was born in Cuba, doesn't want to see changes to the embargo.
The U.S.-Cuba deal isn't the first time Francis has used his moral authority to try to broker international truces.
So not only has he not ceded power in any formal way, he hasn't really even shared authority for governing Cuba during all these years.
Isn't it hypocritical to trade with China while stiffing Cuba?
President Obama, today at the closing of the Summit of the Americas there was great expectation because you never came up with a document that would reflect a decision, and many people would say that Cuba and the Malvinas issue weren't taken up as they should have.
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"We'd like to print more literature, but our finances don't permit that, " explains Zuleica Romay, president of Cuba's official Book Institute.
The pro-embargo folks are ignoring the policy's epic failure and fail to recognize that U.S. policy has played into the hands of the Castro brothers, who have sinisterly used it to make the case to their people that if Cuba is starving and the island economy can't grow, it's because of this U.S. policy.
Believing they'd eventually return to Cuba, many families wanted to make sure their children didn't lose their Spanish.
And I bet there weren't a lot of fireworks let off in the back streets of Pyongyang for New Year's celebrations. (And don't even mention Singapore.) Fidel Castro still frowns on Christmas celebrations in Cuba.
And the Cubans who have come up from Cuba know that, and so that's why I don't see any change in that direction.
In fact, Senator Clinton picked up on much of that theme last night, brining in events from Cuba and Serbia, and suggesting again that Senator Obama just doesn't have the wherewithal in terms of experience and sense of maturity to deal with world crises.
Most don't want to be located or identified, preferring not to bring further trouble onto themselves or family still in Cuba.
Stevens argues that the embargo isn't working and she says the U.S. will have trouble getting support in the region for its Cuba transition plans.
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