After a two-year halt, Western Union (WU) has quietly resumed family remittance to Cuba through a pilot program with the hope of expanding its operations in the future, the company says, a much-anticipated step that provides Cuban-American families with a more reliable way to aid their families in Cuba.

The Adelaida del Mármol National Poetry Prize calls for its 20th edition, organized by the Pedro Ortiz Domínguez Center for the Promotion and Development of Literature, the Provincial Center for Books and Literature, and the Ediciones Holguín publishing house.
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Photo: Juan Pablo Carreras
Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Inés María Chapman Waugh made a working visit to the province of Holguín on Friday to check the progress of investments associated with the East-West Transfer, linked to important economic and social objectives in this territory.
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The delegations from Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo and Holguín that will attend the 12th Congress of the Union of Young Communists (UJC) to be held in Havana departed on Monday from this eastern Cuban city.
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Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez and the delegation he leads to the UN General Assembly attended Riverside Church in Harlem, New York, to pay tribute to the African-American leader Malcolm X on the centenary of his birth.
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