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By E.J. Dionne Jr. From The Washington Post Justice Antonin Scalia needs to resign from the Supreme Court. He’d have a lot of things to do. He’s a fine public speaker and teacher. He’d…
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A La Jornada editorial With an extraordinary session of the Organization of America States (OAS) dedicated to Paraguay as the background, that South American country is the topic of…
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By Curt Ventresca From Policymic.com It is time for the United States to remove the embargo against Cuba. The embargo has failed to achieve all of its stated goals (the removal of…
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By Jimmy Carter From The New York Times The United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights. Revelations that top officials are targeting people to…
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By Saul Landau What did Cuba do to the United States to merit 53 years of castigation? In 1960, those dirty Caribbean Commies joined the “evil” side in the Cold War…
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By Robert Sandels A Cuban official recently brought up a point that is seldom remarked in the foreign media, to wit, that the economic blockade – the centerpiece of U.S. Cuba policy…
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By Bill Press This is the political season. So you can expect to hear a lot of lies, and we do. "The stimulus did not create one single job." (John Boehner) "Barack…
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By Gerardo Arreola From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada HAVANA – Resistance to Cuba’s reforms is noticeable from the diverse societal sectors, among them the unemployed,…
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Motivation is one of the greatest challenges in our universities By Jorge Luís Leyva Romero From La Joven Cuba (The Young Cuba) MATANZAS – Why am I not motivated? More than once,…
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Water in a basket * The island, in (convertible) pesos By Dalia Céspedes HAVANA – The damned circumstance of water all around forces me to sit at the coffee table. Thus begins…
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