Cuba

By Osmany Sánchez From the blog La Joven Cuba MATANZAS – My wife thought I was crazy, talking to myself, when she heard me say “Finally!” during the first game of Team…
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By Gerardo Arreola From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada HAVANA – When Leonardo Padura arrives at the Cuba Pavilion, a storm threatens. It seems that the Havana International Book…
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Foreign journalists, two opponents of the government and a Cuban intellectual, opine about the impact that the television station Telesur is having on the Cuban population. You cannot…
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By Saul Landau HAVANA - I walk some of the same streets I did in 1960 and 1961, a time when most Cubans awaited an attack from the United States, a time when people in their…
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By Sarah Stephens From The Havana Note WASHINGTON, DC - As we travel back and forth to Cuba, often with delegations of U.S. policymakers, we focus our research and reporting on…
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By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa From The New York Times WASHINGTON - Just after Raúl Castro grabbed the world’s attention with his decision to step down from the presidency…
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From Progreso Semanal HAVANA – Raúl Castro Ruz was ratified as president of the Councils of State and Ministers. But the news is that Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez was elected First…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera HAVANA – The Cuba Study Group (CSG), formed by Cuban-American businessmen, intellectuals and political activists who identify with the so-called “moderate…
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By Anya Landau French From The Christian Science Monitor This past week was uncommonly full of Cuba news. At the top of the list has to be this weekend's selection of a new…
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By Paul Haven From Associated Press HAVANA - U.S. lawmakers confirmed on Wednesday that they visited Alan Gross, an American man whose detention and long sentence in Cuba has…
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