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By Saul Landau Gore Vidal died July 31. In 2005, I interviewed him for my weekly TV-radio show Hot Talk. We had first met years before at a dinner party at Marc Raskin’s house…
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By Esteban Morales Domínguez From his blog HAVANA – In April 2010, I wrote that corruption was the most difficult and dangerous challenge we had to face. A problem of national…
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Water in a basket (a blog under construction) Raw sugar, refined lies By Dalia Céspedes ‘Órbita,’ by Manuel Moreno Fraginals. Unión Publishers, Havana, 2009. 477 pgs.…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Bad ideas never die. They just get repackaged and resold as new. Like the Aztec gods, the bad idea that rules our times, the Market deity,…
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By Radio Progreso Alternativa HAVANA – A statement from the Cuban company Cubapetróleo (CUPET), published on Aug. 6, says that while the prospection operations conducted by PC Gulf of…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera Although hardly mentioned in the news related to the event, one of the most relevant issues of the recent meeting of the Cuban National Assembly of Popular…
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By Aurelio Pedroso HAVANA – The young Spanish politician Ángel Francisco Carromero Barrios will remember to his dying day the moment he chose to drive that Hyundai Accent, license…
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From Cabbages to Fireflies* The Carromero-Modig case By La Saeta (The Arrow) HAVANA – The second definition of “conspiracy” in the dictionary of the Royal Academy of the…
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By David Brooks From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada WASHINGTON – The super-rich in the United States and their counterparts in other parts of the world have committed what could…
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By Saul Landau As a child I played war games (cowboys killing Indians). My friends and I routinely shot each other with toy guns of course. In my south Bronx neighborhood, older gang…
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