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By Ana Mendoza Segovia (Spain), Sept. 27 –(EFE)– Cuban writer Leonardo Padura has just published a novel, perhaps “the most ambitious” of his works, about the assassination of Russian…
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By Francisco Aruca The title atop this truly brief written piece should have been attached to today’s first column, as announced in last week’s issue of Progreso Weekly. Regrettably, I…
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By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian "The old system of international economic cooperation is over,” announced UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh. “The new…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com "We've basically seen a lost decade," said Lawrence Katz, an economist at Harvard University."We had a plutocratic boom. Then we have egalitarian…
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By Saul Landau On September 20, President Raul Castro dropped in unannounced to see a family member who had invited me and other American friends to visit. Dressed in a white guayavera…
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Toward the Party Conference (Part 6) By Jorge Gómez Barata In the mid-1980s, as Fidel Castro criticized the errors and negative tendencies derived from the mechanical transfer of…
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By Gimleteye Taken from the Eye on Miami blog "It's Lonely in Condo Land", an editorial in Miami Herald, expresses a point of view that the paper blocked during the building boom.…
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By Bill Press Quick! What's the most important issue facing this country? If you watch Fox News, you have no doubt. It's not health-care reform, the economy, global warming,…
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By Matthew Lee and Paul Haven (AP) NEW YORK — A senior American diplomat has held unannounced, high-level talks in Havana with the Cuban government, three State Department officials…
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By José Dos Santos From Granma, September 25, 2009 When trumpet player Alexander Abreu showed his skills at the closing of the Peace without Borders Concert in Havana’s Revolution…
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