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Rebuilding relations: Cultural capillarity
President Obama will bring an olive branch to the country that managed to resist more than half a century of open hostility after freeing itself from U.S. tutelage. In exchange, he has…
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Those Rolling Stones years
We can't deny that this appearance by the elderly Mick Jagger and his musical entourage plucks many strings in our memory and -- why not -- in our nostalgia. Music evokes a perfect…
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‘You don’t build a cultural industry by centralizing ideas’
Osvaldo Pestana Montpeller (Montos), Cuba's “stellar” comic book artist, went from an irreverent boy who scribbled on any blank page that fell into his hands -- the classical doodler --…
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Why do Cuban athletes emigrate?
The question of why our sportsmen continue to leave has too many answers and almost all of them involve personal aspirations and economics. Having said that, let's focus on sports for…
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Obama: Springtime in Havana
President Barack Obama will greet the spring in Cuba. What's curious and remarkable about the visit is that the presidential trip will take place just a few weeks before the Seventh…
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President Obama is going to Cuba. Here’s why:
Cuba is only 90 miles from Florida, but for a long time the distance between our two countries seemed a lot greater.
For more than fifty years, the United States pursued a policy of…
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President Obama: ‘Next month, I’ll travel to Cuba’
"Next month, I'll travel to Cuba to advance our progress and efforts that can improve the lives of the Cuban people," announced President Obama a little after 9 a.m. on Thursday…
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The future of Cuban ballplayers in Major League baseball
The posting system that Major League Baseball established with professional baseball in Japan and South Korea provides a useful model for Cuban players to come to the United States.
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Hollande stresses need to end the ’embargo/blockade’ (Video)
Raúl Castro's visit to France will hopefully build bases for a forthcoming economic cooperation between the two countries. It comes at a key moment for Cuba; the island's public debt is…
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Hollande’s task: Reinforce France’s presence in Cuba
With about 180 million euros in annual trade, France, one of Cuba's top ten partners, wants to profit from the rapprochement begun in April 2014 during a visit to the island by French…
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