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Trump administration aims to stop professional baseball deal with Cuba

The Trump administration is expected to take steps to block a historic agreement that would allow Cuban baseball players from joining Major League Baseball in the United States without having to defect, according to an official familiar with the discussions.

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Rubio calls deal to allow Cuban players to sign with MLB ‘a farce,’ vows to overturn it

Sen. Marco Rubio questions whether MLB can sign a deal to bring Cuban baseball players to the Major League, but MLB says its agreement with the Cuban Baseball Federation is perfectly legal.

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This will be a record year for international visitors to Cuba, but barely

The year started out poorly for Cuba’s tourism industry, but the island is still expected to welcome a record 4.75 million visitors in 2018. Canada and the United States are the leading markets.

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After 60 years of revolution in Cuba, cracks in leadership emerge

With minimal economic growth in 2018 and continuing shortages of basic staples like flour at year’s end, experts say the Cuban government is failing under the leadership of Miguel Díaz-Canel.

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MLB, Cuban Baseball Federation sign agreement to limit defections, trafficking of players

MLB and its Players Association sign an agreement with the Cuban Baseball Federation that would allow experienced players to come to the U.S. on work visas and sign as free agents to cut down on defection and smuggling.

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Mental illness has shaped the work of some of these ‘outsider’ Cuban artists

They work outside the artistic mainstream, have received no formal art training and often suffer from mental illness and isolation, but Cuba’s outsider artists create art for art’s sake.

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Cuba’s president adopts leftist strategy to increase his ‘contact with the people’

Cuba’s Miguel Díaz-Canel has announced that he will use YouTube, the internet and television to increase his “contact with the people.”

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Cuban outsider artist ‘Gallo’ discuses inspiration for his work

Héctor Pascual “Gallo” Portieles, 94, a Cuban outsider artist, uses random objects he’s found in his Alamar neighborhood to create art. His collection spills out of his house and into his neighborhood.

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Cuba gives Miami airline permission to land

Gulfstream Air Charter was finally allowed to land in Cuba, which hadn't authorized it before.

Gulfstream Air Charter tiene contrato con la aerolínea islandesa Wow Air, que volará a Cuba con este avión cuando reciban el permiso de las autoridades cubanas.

Miami-Dade County

A nightmare for passengers: Cuba doesn’t give a Miami airline permission to land

Gulfstream Air Charter, which planned to fly between Miami and Cuba, did not receive permission from Cuba to land on the island. This weekend alone, 1,000 passengers will be stranded.

Politics

How Congress will tackle Latin America policy with fewer Cuban Americans in office

Cuban Americans will still carry clout in foreign affairs and push an anti-socialism message in the next Congress, where Venezuela will be the top priority for lawmakers like Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez.

Danierys Font, 42, a senior administrative assistant at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine, sits in a rotary chair used to diagnosed diplomatic personnel, who experienced neurosensory symptoms after exposure to a unique sound/pressure phenomenon in Havana.

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Doctors who first tested diplomats after Cuba ‘health attacks’ doubt concussion theory

Diplomats who worked at the US embassy and were targeted by mystery attacks in Havana, Cuba, have inner ear injuries and neurological problems, a UM-Pitt report says, not concussions, like a Penn study found.

Politics

Miami’s ‘big bad she-wolf’ finishes a 29-year run in Congress

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s foreign policy work, inspired by a childhood in Cuba, will continue long after she leaves office. The Miami Republican is known for her sunny disposition and anti-Trump message.

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New Cuba law that artists say amounts to state censorship will be implemented gradually

Cuban artists, writers and performers have met with government officials for weeks trying to get changes in a law they say amounts to censorship. Despite their displeasure, Decree Law 349 went into effect Friday.

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Elian González celebrates his 25th birthday by setting up Twitter account

As a young boy, rafter Elian González was the subject of a custody fight between his Miami relatives and his father in Cuba. Returned to Cuba as a six-year-old, González joined Twitter Thursday on his 25th birthday.

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Entrepreneurs can’t find supplies in Cuba — so they are flying to Panama to stock up

Since Panama began issuing tourism cards to Cubans, Cuban entrepreneurs seeking to supplement Cuba’s meager wholesale market have been lining up daily outside the Panamanian consulate in Havana to get the cards.

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Complaints from private entrepreneurs in Cuba lead to unusual about-face on new regulations

New rules for Cuba’s private entrepreneurs go into effect on Friday. There were so many complaints, the government made some 11th-hour changes, including allowing Cubans to hold more than one private business license.

A Keys couple has admitted to stealing this 40-foot yacht on March 30, 2018, near Big Pine Key.

Florida Keys

They were on a ‘honeymoon’ to Cuba — but they stole the yacht they used for the trip

Aaron Burmeister and Ashley McNeil, of Big Pine Key, admitted they swiped the 40-foot catamaran sailboat named the Kaisosi on March 30 from a Lower Keys harbor so they could leave America behind and take a “honeymoon” to Cuba.

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If you plan to travel to Cuba, bring repellent: Deadly dengue virus has returned

A deadly strand of the dengue virus, transmitted primarily by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito, the mosquito that transmits Zika, has returned to Cuba. This type of dengue has not been reported in Cuba since 1977.

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Cuba asked for public feedback on a new constitution. Now it’s deciding which suggestions to include

For the first time since 1976, Cuba is completing overhauling its constitution. During a three-month public comment period, more than 7 million Cubans made hundreds of thousands of suggestions. Now a commission is deciding which ideas to include before a national referendum.

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