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Odds and ends
- Dow Jones: The “Section 211” case, named after a
1998 law that invalidated Pernod-Ricard’s registration of the Havana Club
rum trademark in the United States, came to an end in the U.S. Supreme
Court. Pernod lost and, cutting its
losses, announced the “Havanista” trademark for a Cuban rum that will
enter the U.S. market when the embargo ends. Cuba’s foreign
ministry, citing a WTO decision in Pernod’s favor, continues to call
on the U.S. government to register the trademark.
- Politico
on the voting propensities of younger-generation Cuban Americans.
- EFE:
University admissions in Cuba are down 26 percent, the national statistics
office reports. In today’s Granma,
a story on the priority being given to technical education.
- Trabajadores:
In large numbers, Cubans are updating and registering the titles to their
homes, and in spite of the streamlined process government workers are
straining at the workload. A clean
title is prerequisite to any sale or transfer of a property.
- AP
on the “mystery” of the undersea fiber optic cable that connected Cuba and
Venezuela last year and seems not to be working.
- AP:
A Cuban official tallies the distribution of idle state lands since 2008:
1.5 million hectares to 163,000 producers, with 79 percent of that land
now in use and 59 percent being used for livestock.
- Governor
Romney issued a Cuban independence day statement charging that the
late Damas de Blanco leader Laura Pollan died “at the hands of the
dictatorship.”
- The
New Yorker rounds up some of its Cuba coverage over the years,
including dispatches from the island in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
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