Social / CSR in Cuba
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AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20
The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.
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CUBA, 2014/12/19
The United States and Cuba are to resume full diplomatic ties, which have been severed for over 50 years. Presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro announced separately on Wednesday, following the release for humanitarian reasons of US citizen Alan Gross, imprisoned in Cuba since 2009 in coincidence with an exchange of three Cubans convicted of espionage in Miami for one unnamed US intelligence investment .
The US, which has had a tight trade embargo on Cuba since 1961, is presently set to announce a loosening of economic and travel restrictions, although limitations will not be lifted all. Any travel that falls into 12 approved categories such as family visits, official government business, and trips for journalistic, educational and research purposes can go ahead fairly easily, inclunding humanitarian travel. But tourism or any visit that does not fall into the 12 approved categories—remains prohibited, White Home sources explained. The wider travel ban can only be lifted by Congress. Obama said he would seek that Congressional approval but will likely face a struggle.
