Cuban divorce is easy, housing is harder
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After 21 years of marriage, Pedro Llera and his wife Maura decided to call it quits.
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It was certainly a marriage of convenience. After Fidel Castro led a revolution that toppled a friendly government in 1959, the CIA was desperate to eliminate him. So the agency sought out a partner equally worried about Castro -- the Mafia, which had lucrative investments in Cuban casinos.
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The business world is populated with successful Cuban-Americans who left their homeland as children when Fidel Castro took power. But even before Carlos Gutierrez was
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The most visible change in Cuba since an   ailing Fidel Castro handed power to his brother is that there   are fewer speeches, but a discreet transfer from personal to   institutional rule is underway, led by acting president Raul   Castro, Cuba experts say.
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On the surface, life in Cuba remains utterly normal a month after Fidel Castro ceded power for the first time in 47 years.
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When Jose Luis Cabrera had coronary by-pass surgery after a heart attack five years ago, his wife had to bring food and clean sheets to him in the hospital. The operation itself didn't cost the Cuban couple a cent.
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Blanca Reyes used to make coffee while her husband, writer Raul Rivero, spent hours talking with other intellectuals in their living room. But when Rivero was thrown into prison after a crackdown on dissidents by Cuba last year, the former homemaker became an activist, leading political prisoners' wives fighting for the release of their husbands.
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Gloria Estefan left her native Cuba  when she was just a year old. Her family was allowed to take  nothing with them, except the clothes they were wearing and a  small bag.
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WASHINGTON -- Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Guti&#xE9;rrez had some straight talk yesterday for lawmakers and business groups pressing for a softer approach toward Cuba as the island prepares for a post-Fidel Castro era.
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Cubans are increasingly talking in the past tense about Fidel Castro, the man who governed their lives for 47 years.
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The hardworking, tight-knit neighborhood known as "Little Guyana" is a peaceful home away from home for the many immigrants who left their violence-wracked Caribbean nation for a better life.
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RIVERVIEW, Fla., Jan. 25 -- Piece by piece, as the economy has faltered and as the subprime mortgage crisis has taken hold, Ivan Toledo's grasp on his job, his house -- his entire middle-class life -- has come undone.
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Leading advocates of easing sanctions against Cuba in the U.S. Congress will fly to Havana on Friday to assess the situation since ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro ceded power to his brother Raul in July.
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ALBANY, N.Y. -- A four-bedroom, 1-bath colonial for only a $450 monthly mortgage payment? How can you go wrong? Lots of ways. Fair housing advocates say the first-time buyer of that $85,000 Syracuse, N.Y., home lost out in one of the many forms of &quot;house flipping,&quot; or the fast resale of property at high profits.
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Corporate housing can be a boon for developers during a buildingâs transition from rental to condominium or for condominium investors facing a sluggish market.
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On the surface, life in Cuba remains utterly normal a month after Fidel Castro ceded power for the first time in 47 years. But behind the scenes, an emerging collective leadership is increasing the possibilities for change on the communist-ruled island, and bringing a fresh look at U.S. policies aimed at undermining the Cuban system.
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He fled Cuba in 1961, but still calls Fidel Castro his friend. He can't stand communism, but bitterly opposes the U.S. embargo. He lives in Miami, but travels regularly to Havana, even appearing on state-run television.