Sentences with phrase «cuban state»

The firm has more than two decades» worth of experience advising clients on transactional mandates such as joint ventures with the Cuban state, as well as representing them in contentious mandates such as investment treaty arbitration cases.

Performance art, with its short - term, spontaneous and ephemeral elements, is a way to criticize the Cuban state.

There were at least three possible survivors among the 105 passengers as well as nine crew, Cuban state - run media reported, adding that there were five children on board.

A Cuban state airways passenger plane with 104 passengers on board crashed shortly after taking off Friday from Havana's Jose Marti airport, state media reported.

As the International Trade Union Confederation has phrased it, «The trade union movement is controlled by the Cuban state, and the leaders of the single union CTC are not elected by the workers but appointed by the state and the Communist Party of Cuba».

Cuban state media reported 10 deaths after the passing of Hurricane Irma despite the country's usually rigorous disaster preparations.

Habanos S.A., a 50 - 50 joint venture between the Cuban state and Britain's Imperial Brands Plc, said sales in China,...

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Cuban added that Clinton's handling of classified email while she worked in the State Department shows she knows very little about technology.

The page states that Scott was hoping to reach a wider Hispanic and Cuban audience, and was able to do so through targeted Facebook ads that often targeted people following the 2010 World Cup that was going on at the same time as Scott's campaign.

Billionaire investor and TV personality Mark Cuban tweeted some advice for Democrats after President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris climate accord.

Let's be real: the Cuban market isn't going to blossom overnight, not with 90 percent of their economy controlled by the state, and foreign investment laws that only offer a glimmer of openness.

If the trade embargo is lifted, Cubans can export their products not just to the United States, but also to many other countries that don't do business with Cuba based on agreements with the US.

Cuban, one of the sharks, stated that he's always looking for «hungry» businessmen not people looking for a ridiculously high salary.

Soon after the Cuban Missile Crisis was successfully dealt with, there was a sense of certainty in the relationship between Russia and the United States.

Cuban went on to voice his support for programs such as AmeriCorps, which engage young people in public service work across the United States.

Cuban, it's worth pointing out, had previously stated he would be willing to run as vice president on either a Trump - or Clinton - led ticket.

The United States on Friday dramatically eased restrictions on imports of goods and services from private Cuban entrepreneurs as part of Washington's rapprochement with Havana after more than half a century of enmity.

Other sports - team investors hailing from the tech industry include Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob, and Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer.

«They believe the Cuban government wants better relations with the United States,» one Senate aide said.

Tillerson's statements notwithstanding, some State Department officials have also told members of Congress privately that they have assessed the Cubans» denials of involvement to be credible, officials said.

Although the United States has suggested that Cuba have failed to live up to its responsibilities to protect foreign diplomats under the Vienna Conventions, Cuban officials have emphasized that Washington has not cited any specific actions the Cuban government has failed to take toward that end.

The State Department has published a comprehensive list of Cuban entities now banned from doing business with US citizens.

Nor, officials said, was Secretary of State Tillerson informed of the situation until days after the department's acting assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs, Francisco Palmieri, finally called in the Cuban ambassador in Washington, José Ramón Cabañas, to present a diplomatic note of protest on Feb. 17.

According to a one - page summary of the cases that was jointly prepared for the Cuban government by the State Department's bureaus of Medical Services and Western Hemisphere affairs, «Some voiced feeling shocked or shaken by the exposure, or awoken (sic) from sleep, and others described a more gradual onset of symptoms that continued for days to weeks afterwards.»

Early last fall, the State Department withdrew more than half of the diplomatic staff assigned to Havana, while ordering a proportional number of Cubans to leave Washington.

The Cubans asked for detailed medical information about their injuries; the State Department demurred, citing privacy concerns.

«I still believe that the Cuban government, someone within the Cuban government, can bring this to an end,» Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said last month.

The foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez, who had earlier called Trump's Miami speech in June «a grotesque spectacle,» emphasized one point above others: The United States had presented no evidence whatsoever that the Cubans had done anything but try to help investigate the problem.

An internal department document obtained by ProPublica also suggests that the slowdown of consular activity may make it difficult for the United States to meet its commitment to processing at least 20,000 immigrant visas for Cubans this year, an annual target that is important to Cuban - Americans seeking to bring relatives from the island.

The Cubans asked to interview the Americans identified as victims; the State Department refused.

I wanted to be a part of the Cuban experiment so badly that I spent about $ 5,000 to go on a state - sanctioned tour — with a people - to - people visa, the most straightforward method for Americans to visit the island.

Still, if you're genuinely worried about the preservation of the culture, consider this: Up until 50 years ago, the United States played a major role in Cuban business and politics.

During Obama's 48 - hour tour, he will dine with Cuban president Raul Castro at a state dinner and meet with anti-government dissidents and civil society leaders.

4) Irma left 10 Cubans dead and destroyed many of Havana's fragile buildings: The US State Department is warning Americans to avoid travel to Cuba right now because the country is in major recovery mode following Irma.

He was often recognized as an outstanding local hero in the first stop for thousands of Cuban refugees, an area that is now home to thousands of Central American immigrants who also seek a better life in the United States.

Presidential oratory provides much of the supporting evidence for McDougall's ideas about civil religion, from President William McKinley's implication that the United States had not so much conquered Cubans as it had ministered to them («Are we not made better for the effort and sacrifice, and are not those we serve lifted up and blessed?»)

The Church's Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone, and Havana's Cardinal Jaime Ortega also successfully negotiated an agreement between Cuba and Spain that allowed 52 Cuban political prisoners held since March 2003 to immigrate to Spain under provisions of political asylum.

Now ask the same to the people of Tibet, The Old Soviet States, The South Vietnamese who live here, Ask any Cuban.

The continued rule of Castro leaves the Cuban Americans in a state of suspended animation.

Large numbers of Cubans have gazed toward their native island from American shores since 1959, when Castro deposed Fulgencio Batista and thousands of middle - class Cubans fled to the United States.

The causes for this are many, according to the authors (Rafael Cepeda, Elizabeth Carrillo, Rhode González, and Carlos Ham), including the recent recognition by the state of the need for new spaces for religious practice and expressions, and of the profound ideological and economic crisis facing socialist models in general and Cuban society in particular.

But the question is not whether we love the Cubans or the Cubans love us, The question is whether the United States will consume so much Cuban sugar, alcohol, and bagass that Cuban canefield peons will have work and Cuban politics, in consequence, will stay attuned to Washington and not feel forced to find political friends elsewhere in order to sell sugar.

Most of the common charges leveled against the Nicaraguan revolution (it is totalitarian, it exports arms to foment revolution in neighboring countries, it is a Soviet / Cuban puppet state, it will allow Soviet military bases on its soil, it represses the church, it persecutes Jews, it commits genocide against its native peoples, etc.) are easily refutable.

I long to see deeper studies on the Cuban American devotion to N. S. de Caridad and their Afro - Cuban sense of santeria; on the Puerto Rican devotion to San Juan Bautista and other religious practices; on the Cristo Negro de Esquipulas of Guatemala and other devotions and rituals of the various Hispanic peoples living in the United States.

And even when the Cuban government denounced religion as an enemy of its Marxist - Leninist state, Cubans found ways to practice their Catholicism or their Santeria (or both).

Later, her Cuban good nature returned, and she went down the United States bench shaking hands.

After that six weeks in Sanford, McLain spent short stretches at two other jails before he wound up in what he regards as the very bottom of the belly of the beast, the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, the federal prison that two months after his release would become a site of rioting, destruction and hostage - taking by Cuban - born inmates.

Baseball has been at the forefront of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba in the past, and now, when those relations have softened considerably over the past year, we're going to see a game played between the Cuban National Team and the Tampa Bay Rays.

Yorgelis Rodriguez took bronze in a Cuban record of 4637 followed by Eliska Klucinova of the Czech Republic, Erica Bougard of the United States and Xenia Krizsan of Hungary.

Borussia Monchengladbach winger Johnson was part of the squad that played the first United States friendly on Cuban soil in 69 years.