She was a friend my father had made in Cuba, and after the divorce she became my stepmother, his second wife.
"This has all the fingerprints of being 'Made in Cuba, ' " said Moises Naim, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
To confuse things, some poorly made counterfeits are made illegally in Cuba itself and sold to tourists (many of whom have their dud purchases taken away by customs police at the airport).
Thousands of anxious Cubans had boarded up their homes and sought safety from Gustav earlier as it slammed into the island nation. as it made landfall in western Cuba on Saturday night with sustained winds near 150 mph (240 kmh), the National Hurricane Center said.
Later, Vietnam's prime minister, also touched by her story, made arrangements for her to study in Cuba.
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The Resident Coordinator made a presentation on the current situation in Cuba and the overall cooperation and role of the UN.
Tributes to Chavez were also paid in Cuba, where the military made a 21-gun salute from the La Cabana Fortress overlooking Havana.
When Parisi took his first trip to Cuba in 1996, newly made "fresh" cigars were hot, and so he was able to load up on old favorites on the cheap.
Fourteen years earlier, a much different Fidel Castro greeted a much different pontiff when thousands were introduced to Pope John Paul II, who made the historic first papal trip to Cuba in 1998.
However, due to the lack of skilled craftsmen in Cuba, where African slaves made up the bulk of the labour force, Cuban Baroque became a simplified version of European Baroque, with a more streamlined and muscular profile than Paris or Vienna.
Hearing that his visitors had driven in Cuba's trademark vintage cars, he made a joke about their Soviet engines.
On Sunday night, waves as high as 50 feet crashed ashore in Baracoa, Cuba, southeast of where Ike made landfall as a Category 3 storm.
Also present in the opening ceremony was His Excellency John Petter Opdahl, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway in Cuba, a country whose financial contribution has made possible the training workshops at the national and sub-regional levels in the future.
Though many of the foreign consumer goods sold in Cuba -- Coca-Cola, for example -- are made in Mexico and Canada, plenty come from the U.S. via Mexico, the Dominican Republic and other Caribbean islands.
Though many of the foreign consumer goods sold in Cuba -- Coca-Cola, for example -- are made in Mexico and Canada, plenty come from the U.S. via Mexico, the Dominican Republic and various Caribbean islands.
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