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By Aurelio Pedroso Last December, I traveled through Placetas, a city in the center of the island. It was fiesta time and the fragrance of barbecued pork flooded the streets. In a…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Barack Obama’s administration has accomplished a great deal in a year and a half. It averted a cataclysmic financial meltdown that would have…
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By Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes On July 8, the Washington Post lead story reported Cuba had released five political prisoners with assurances of forty-seven more to come in the near…
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By Bill Press President Obama avoids "confrontation," complains Senator Harry Reid. That's right. Just two days after President Obama left Las Vegas, having raised beaucoup bucks for…
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By Varela Among the freed Cuban prisoners recently flown to Spain were The Obese Prisoners – a litter unlike other oppositionists – some of whom impressed the media because they are…
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By Luis Sexto Anti-Castroism is a kind of obsession based on an almost-global propaganda, military, diplomatic, economic, financial and credit machine serviced by governments and…
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Al’s Loupe David Rivera may be unscrupulous, but he wins By Alvaro F. Fernandezalvaro@progresoweekly.com David Rivera is a special kind of politician. His message: whatever gets him…
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Found this interesting note in the Cuban Colada blog written by Renato Perez of The Miami Herald. You can read a related story by Varela in tomorrow’s Progreso Weekly. “Freed prisoners…
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From Cubadebate Comrades Economists of the CIEM: On the occasion of Resolution 1929. On June 27, 2010, in a message sent on the occasion of the passing of Resolution 1929 of the United…
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By Varela In the late 1990s, an executive producer at Telemundo conceived the idea of an original serial comedy in the style of ¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.?, a stew based on Spanglish, a…
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