ECONOMY
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Cubans Walk as Fuel Crisis Paralyzes Daily Life
As U.S. pressure cuts oil supplies to Cuba, buses become scarce, gas stations run dry, and many Cubans walk miles…
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Cuba’s Fuel Shortage Impacts Markets Where Tomatoes Influence Prices
In Havana, a forty-five-minute walk has replaced bus rides due to Cuba's fuel rationing. Farmers' markets remain open, but deliveries…
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Colombian Roses Power Valentine Exports and a Quiet Women’s Workforce
Before a Valentine bouquet lands in a vase abroad, it begins in cold, humid rows where Colombian women cut roses…
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Cuba’s Tourism Engine Sputters as Fuel Shortages Darken Daily Life
Cuba is absorbing harsher U.S. pressure as flights are canceled, blackouts hit records, fuel is rationed, and the peso sinks…
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Venezuela Rewrites Oil Rules as Washington Quietly Shifts Course
Venezuela's Parliament moved to redraw the rules of its oil industry in a single day, just as Washington loosened constraints…
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Cuba Offers Dialogue as U.S. Oil Pressure Pushes Relations to the Brink
In a room where every adjective can become a diplomatic incident, Cuba says it is open to 'meaningful' dialogue with…
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Panama Coffee Harvest Runs on Indigenous Hands and Vanishing Labor
In Panama's western highlands, prized coffee begins as a handpicked routine. Ngäbe Buglé families arrive for the harvest, chasing wages…
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Cuba Gasoline Lines Return as Venezuelan Oil Lifeline Suddenly Vanishes
As Venezuela's oil abruptly disappears, Cuba's streets fill again with gasoline lines, dark humor, and quiet fear, exposing how a…
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Latin America 2025: Inflation Rates Declined Against All Odds
Latin America closed 2025 with inflation easing more than expected, defying fears that global trade shocks and U.S. tariffs would…
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Latin America Dollar Temptation Returns as Washington Smells Influence Again
After Nicolás Maduro’s removal, U.S. power is re-entering the hemisphere with a softer weapon: currency. A revived push for dollarization…
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