Listen: How will Cuba change after Fidel Castro’s death and with a new U.S. president?
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Music of the Americas opens 2017 with folkloric music from Argentina fused with música popular brasileira, violin music from the Americas, Haitian virtuoso vocals, Cuban colonial music, a tribute to an Argentine songwriting legend, and a Cordóba-based festival bringing classical music to the local community.
Listen to a discussion on what the historic moment could mean for normalization of U.S. Cuban relations, as well as business opportunities on the island.
Turning back the U.S.-Cuba rapprochement would hurt the Cuban people and U.S. companies, writes AS/COA’s Alana Tummino for CNN.com.
Fidel Castro’s passing can give his brother space to embrace even more change although hard-liners in the U.S. caution against economic reforms on the island, says AS/COA’s Alana Tummino.
Restaurateurs make up Cuba’s largest group of self-employed cuentapropistas, but they have to bend the rules to compete in a growing market.
The changes will expand scientific collaboration and more.