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An Asian cautionary tale for Cuba and the United States
As Cuba increasingly welcomes foreign investment, some worry whether the nation’s relatively sophisticated system of environmental laws and regulations and its natural land and marine…
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Saying goodbye to Fidel
Cuban photographer Carlos Ernesto Escalona Martí (Kako) offers us a view of the people in Havana saying their last goodbyes to “El Comandante” at the Plaza of the Revolution on Tuesday.…
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Revolution means unity; it is independence, it is fighting for our dreams of justice…
The official English translation of the text of Fidel Castro’s revolutionary oath that people are signing in honor of the deceased leader at Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution.
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Fidel Castro and history
Although he himself predicted it in his final public appearance, Fidel Castro's death has not failed to affect the Cuban people and the rest of the world. Fidel was an invincible…
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Fidel: A man with the courage to try to change the world
Fidel Castro has staked his place in Cuban history. One hundred years, two hundred years forward, his name will hold a special and lofty place. Fidel’s name will go down as one of the…
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Nine days of mourning in Cuba
The Organizing Committee for the funeral of Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro announced that the country will remain in national mourning for nine days because of the death of…
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Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban Revolution, is dead
The death of Fidel Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution, was announced by his brother and current Cuban president, Raul Castro Ruz, on Cuban television on Friday night, Nov. 25.
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Building is a pain, in more ways than one
Any Cuban can tell hundreds of stories about the art of building. There's a thousand ways to find the space, but no one can avoid the need to -- at the very least -- recover a wall,…
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Cuba builds ‘petrohouses’ for disaster victims
Baracoa and Maisí, cities in Cuba's easternmost region that were severely damaged by Hurricane Matthew, will benefit from the construction of housing by Venezuela's Petrocasas system.
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Lessons from a bad decision at a troubled time
The reports that have circulated in recent weeks about the situation of private restaurants ("paladares") in Havana have raised concerns about the government's commitment to the…
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