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Tampa City Council votes to write letter to Cuba's ambassador listen

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Tags: Cuba, Cuban-Americans, Cuban embargo, Cuba embargo, Cuba relations, Cuba-US relations, Tampa, Tampa City Council

This month Tampa International Airport resumed direct flights to Cuba. The temporary chair of City Council, Mary Mulhern was one of the first members of Tampa’s government to visit the country. The Council voted yesterday to send a letter to the Cuban ambassador expressing Tampa’s desire to interact more with the Caribbean country.

Mary Mulhern wants the Tampa Port to handle a higher percent...

Science in Cuba: how is it different than in U.S.? listen

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Tags: Cuba, Cuba-US relations, embargo, environment, Gulf of Mexico

Science in the US looks a little different from one of its closest neighbors.

Luis Barerras works for Cuba’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment. Speaking through translator Fernando Trelles, a researcher with Miami Beach–based Ocean Foundation, Barerras says relations between the US and Cuba have improved recently in terms of science, but they still aren’t exactly ideal.

Barerras says he’d like to see stronger relations between the two governments’ scientific arms because b...