From guayabera vendor to top of Miami’s fashion world: George Feldenkreis dies at 89
George Feldenkreis left Cuba for Miami in 1961 with his pregnant wife, their 1-year-old son Oscar and 14-year-old sister Eva, who he helped raise. He carried $700. The goal? Build a new life in the ...
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The Impact of Ending the U.S. Embargo on Cuba
The French entered the fray when Pernod Ricard joined forces with Cuba’s state-run Cubaexport and began selling the storied Havana Club ... and home builders. Real estate agents specializing ...
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SAAR, WILLIAM, a dintinguished pianist, died at Havana, Cuba, aged 26 years ... VAIL, STEPHEN, builder of the engines of the first steamship which ever crossed the Atlantic, and a skillful ...
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Obituary: Georges de Giorgio
Georges' father was a builder of wooden sailboats in Vina Del ... and Ernest Hemingway who he met by chance in Havana, Cuba. Georges even toured the Cuban capital with Hemingway, forging a bond ...
Cuba opens first of 92 solar parks in bid to tame energy crisis
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel inaugurated the first of 92 solar parks on Friday as part of a Chinese-backed plan to ease ...
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Havana Market boosts local economic opportunities
The Havana Market has become a staple event, breathing new life into the downtown area while giving local businesses a chance ...
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‘Poet of Havana’ uses his music to address pain caused by politics
As Cuba stands to become even more isolated, many Cubans continue to leave and those who stay remain cut off from family in the United States. Carlos Varela, a singer known as “The Poet of Havana,” ...
Little Havana used to look like that? See the old pictures from the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s
Little Havana got its name from the hundreds of thousands of Cubans who fled their homeland between the late 1950s and early 1970s and settled in what originally was a lower-middle-class Southern and ...
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Cuba opens solar park hoping to stave off blackouts
Cuba on Friday unveiled a new solar energy park in the capital Havana, part of an ambitious project to alleviate the ...
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A new luxury hotel towers over Havana as Cuba's economic troubles mount and tourism plummets
HAVANA (AP) — It’s impossible to miss ... a ban on cruise ships and other measures specifically designed to stifle the growth of Cuba’s tourism industry. “Tourism is gone,” said Julio Garcia Campos, ...
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Havana luxury hotel ‘unforgivable’ amid Cuba’s economic woes
The huge rectangular mass of concrete and glass – the tallest building in Havana – dominates the city ... designed to stifle the growth of Cuba’s tourism industry.
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A new luxury hotel towers over Havana as Cuba’s economic troubles mount and tourism plummets
People walk past the Selection La Habana new hotel, managed by Spanish chain Iberostar, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) Located near the legendary Habana Libre ...