Cuba ceases use of $US
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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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In a televised address, President Fidel Castro of Cuba announced Monday night that United States dollars, which have kept his country&#39;s ailing economy afloat for the
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MEXICO CITY, Feb. 19 -- Fidel Castro announced early Tuesday morning that he is stepping down as Cuba's president, ending his half-century rule of the island nation.
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The government has taken US dollars out of circulation following the recent tightening of US sanctions against Cuba.
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Cuba accuses the US of issuing fewer entry visas to Cubans than allowed for by a deal between the two countries.
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HAVANA -- Cuba has agreed to buy about $125 million in farm goods from US companies attending trade talks in Havana, officials say.
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Description: The Cuban government has demanded the US Interests Section in Havana take down its Christmas decorations. Among the trimmings is a sign that reads 75, symbolizing 75 dissident writers and journalists put in jail over the last year.
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Cuba will open a currency exchange window to trade Japanese yen, Canadian, European and Latin American currencies for the convertible peso, the local currency the government is using to replace the US dollar, the communist party daily Granma announced Tuesday.
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Stricter enforcement of 40-year-old U.S. sanctions has made it harder for Cuba to do its banking and has seen Cubans evicted from U.S.-owned hotels around the world, Cuba said on Tuesday.
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HAVANA/PANAMA CITY  - Cuba cut diplomatic ties  with Panama on Thursday after its outgoing leader pardoned four  Cuban exiles who plotted to kill President Fidel Castro in  2000.
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Libya withdraws $1bn of unfrozen assets from the US after a trade embargo is lifted as a reward for giving up weapons of mass destruction.
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Cuba's Communist government has signaled  a crackdown on the use of black-market satellite dishes, just  over a week after ailing leader Fidel Castro temporarily  relinquished power to his brother.
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Cubans jammed banks and exchange kiosks  to swap their dollars for local pesos on Thursday, as the  communist government, retaliating for tightened sanctions,  moved to pull the U.S. currency from general circulation.
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HAVANA Â· The central bank president says he is committed to keeping the Cuban peso&#39;s value on par with the US dollar in the wake of his country&#39;s decision to remove the US currency from circulation.
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President Bush Monday scrapped the U.S. trade embargo on Libya in a reward for giving up weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. Treasury Department said on its Web site.
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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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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.