Cuba ends US dollar use
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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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This lucrative currency strategy may be coming to an end.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro, seeking to  rid his country of the currency of his arch-enemy, said on  Monday Cuba was ending circulation of the U.S. dollar as of  Nov. 8 in response to tightened American sanctions.
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HAVANA - Cuba is moving to end circulation of the widely-used US dollar, a response to tighter American sanctions on the communist island.
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A day after moving to nullify the Bush administration's new rules restricting family travel to Cuba, the House on Wednesday voted to remove barriers to agriculture sales and student exchanges in the island nation.
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The United States remained Cuba's main supplier of food and farm products in 2007, selling the communist-run island more than $600 million in agricultural exports despite its trade embargo, a top official said Monday.
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Cubans rushed to change dollars into  local pesos on Tuesday as President Fidel Castro's communist  government prepared to end circulation of the U.S. currency  after a decade.
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HAVANA -- Cuba announced yesterday that US dollars will no longer be accepted at stores or other businesses on the communist island starting next month in a move that will radically change the way business has been done there over the past decade. The measure called for all such transactions to be done in a local currency known as convertible ...
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The story of the last week has been the fall and fall of the dollar with the currency touching daily record lows against the euro.
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Cuba severed diplomatic ties with Panama on Thursday, retaliating within hours for the president&#39;s pardoning four Cuban Ã©migrÃ©s accused of trying to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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BUCK STOPS HERE: Cuba announces that dollars will no longer be accepted in stores and businesses, saying it is trying to regain control of its economy as Washington cracks down on the flow of the US currency to Cuba.
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The US dollar reached a new all-time low yesterday against the euro, which hit $1.3548 in extremely light holiday trading with most European foreign exchange markets closed.
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Cuba said 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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The US dollar reached a record low yesterday against the euro, which hit $1.3548 in extremely light holiday trading with most European foreign exchange markets closed.
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The US economic embargo of Cuba jumped to the top of the Castro governmentâs agenda on Thursday. For the 13th year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution condemning the US embargo.
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The dollar eked out some gains against  the euro on Friday, the last trading day of 2004, but the  beleaguered U.S. currency ended the year at a nine-year low  against a basket of major currencies.
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Five days after falling and fracturing a knee and an arm, Cuban President Fidel Castro appeared on television on Monday with his arm in a sling to announce Cuba will end circulation of the US dollar.