Cuban trade embargo? Not for Vermont cows.
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Amid debate over trade sanctions, a little-known exception allows farm exports, like apples and milk.
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Cuba announced on Monday that it was  ending circulation of the U.S. dollar in its territory as of  Nov. 8 in response to tightened U.S. economic sanctions.
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Cuba announces a ban on commercial transactions in dollars in response to tighter US sanctions.
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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann  Veneman on Tuesday said she did not foresee a scenario that  would stop imports of Canadian cattle resuming on March 7 as  planned.
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The US dollar, after a decade as the dominant currency for buying everything from shampoo to canned food to furniture, is no longer accepted in Cuba as of yesterday.
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Looking for foreign aid after his election, Haitian President Rene Preval stopped in Havana. When Trinidad's prime minister needed heart surgery, he twice turned to Cuban doctors. And when the U.N. held its annual vote to denounce the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, the Caribbean Community trade bloc gave its unanimous support.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 1 (IPS) - The European Union's decision to restore  diplomatic ties with Cuba Monday has angered human rights and  press groups.
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Cuba is not ready for the throngs of American tourists who would be expected to visit the island if a U.S. ban is ever lifted, but it has the time to build new hotels, a senior Cuban official said on Wednesday.
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Argentina will get nowhere pressing Cuba  to allow a dissident neurosurgeon to travel to see her son and  grandchildren in Buenos Aires, the country's former ambassador  in Havana, Raul Taleb, said on Friday.
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Cubans may not have McDonald's or Jack in the Box, but they do have pizza in a basket.
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Cuba's annual extravaganza celebrating its world-renowned cigars, which began Monday, could be devoid of star power this year.
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A Canadian museum dangles forbidden fruit from Havana near the United States border.
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Pity the poor epicure paying record prices for imported caviar, thanks to export limits on the ever-scarcer Caspian Sea delicacy. But take heart: CITES - the Convention on International Trade in Endangered
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Moving to wean its communist economic system from the U.S. currency, Cuba said that dollars will no longer be accepted at island businesses and stores in a dramatic change in how commercial transactions have been done here in more than a decade.
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It wasn't the Bay of Pigs invasion or the U.S. embargo against Cuba that turned Fidel Castro against the United States. He was in the anti-American camp long beforehand.
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Cuba was right to reject calls from the  European Union for negotiations to improve relations until the  EU scraps sanctions against the island, Cuban leader Fidel  Castro said in an editorial published on Thursday.
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Cuba will not send a boxing team to the world championships in Chicago because of Fidel Castro's fears of future defections.