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Michael Weissenstein Associated Press

Michael Weissenstein Associated Press

February 26, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Cuba Gives Well-Known Dissidents Permission to Travel Abroad

The Cuban government has loosened travel restrictions on some of the island's best-known dissidents, granting them one-time permission to travel abroad ahead of President Barack Obama's trip to the island, activists said.

By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

3 minute read

February 17, 2016 | Daily Business Review

US, Cuba Sign Historic Deal on Commercial Flights

U.S. air carriers must file plans for Cuba service within 15 days. American, United, Delta, Southwest, Jet Blue and Spirit are expressing interest.

By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

4 minute read

February 17, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Obama Administration OK's First Factory in Cuba Since Revolution

The Obama administration has approved the first U.S. factory in Cuba in more than half a century, allowing a two-man company from Alabama to build a plant assembling as many as 1,000 small tractors a year for sale to private farmers in Cuba.

By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

5 minute read

February 12, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Church Talks Help Make Cuba 'Perfect for Place for Negotiations'

The heads of the Roman Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches will hold a historic meeting in the threadbare international airport of an officially secular, communist-run tropical island.

By Andrea Rodriguez and Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

4 minute read

February 11, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Vietnam Vet Sues VA Trying to Get Benefits Living in Cuba

Otto Macias' family is suing the U.S. government seeking to reinstate the his pension. They say President Barack Obama's loosening of the embargo offers the ailing 75-year-old a final chance to regain his benefits and win the recognition of the military service that his adopted country has denied him for 35 years.

By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

4 minute read

January 27, 2016 | Daily Business Review

Obama Administration Loosens Cuba Embargo With New Measures

President Barack Obama is making his third attempt to spur U.S.-Cuba commerce despite an embargo that still prohibits most forms of trade with the island.

By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press

4 minute read

April 10, 2015 | Daily Business Review

Poll: Cubans Expect US Detente to Improve Economic Lives

Cubans overwhelmingly expect detente with the United States to alter their widely disliked economic system, according to a rare poll of 1,200 people across the island.

By Michael Weissenstein Associated Press

3 minute read

April 10, 2015 | Daily Business Review

Poll: Cubans Expect US Detente to Improve Economic Lives

Cubans overwhelmingly expect detente with the United States to alter their widely disliked economic system, according to a rare poll of 1,200 people across the island.

By Michael Weissenstein Associated Press

3 minute read