Cubans queue to ditch US dollars
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Long queues have formed in Cuba as people rush to hand over US dollars, soon to be banned.
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The United States has big plans for Cuba once Fidel Castro is gone for good.
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Forty-three members of a Cuban dance troupe performing at a Las Vegas casino asked for asylum in the United States on Monday in the one of the biggest mass defections of entertainers from the communist country.
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Cuba and the US trade bitter words after Cuba announced it was banning the use of dollars on the island.
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The Cuban government has stopped the use of United States dollars in its transactions following the United States move to freeze all international transactions related to Cuba.
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China has been cutting dollar assets in its foreign exchange reserves to avoid losses stemming from the weakening of the US currency, the China Business News said on Friday.
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One of five Cuban dissidents who have been released from prison this week has been told he should consider leaving the country. The Miami Herald reported Wednesday that writer Raul
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Two Cubans in a boatload of people being smuggled to the United States drowned last week when their craft capsized off the island's coast, authorities said Thursday. Nine other passengers and two smugglers managed to swim to shore.
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The Bush administration is preparing to help reunite some Cuban families with relatives already in the United States as part of a limited easing of immigration rules following Fidel Castro's handoff of power.
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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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A retaliatory 10% tax on exchange operations involving US dollars comes into force in Cuba on Monday.
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The dollar is likely to drop on concern that international investors are scaling back purchases of US assets, according to a Bloomberg survey of currency traders and strategists.
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Red hat revolution The Cuban government has found another way to thumb its nose at the US, its bullyboy neighbour - opt for open source and throw its Microsoft software in the dustbin.â¦
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Here is what the average Cuban gets each month on the government's subsidized food ration at a cost of about 33 Cuban pesos, or about $1.30. It provides 10 to 15 days of nutritional needs each month. Cubans have other food sources, including meals at work and school, and can buy products at farmers' markets and at more expensive supermarkets.
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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 U.S. dollar.
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Sirva is feeling the pinch as organizations look to spend less on employees based overseas.
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The State Department says Cuba&#39;s move to ban the circulation of dollars underscores the weakness of Fidel Castro&#39;s communist government.