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Cuban Adjustment Act needs adjustment
By Jesús Arboleya Cervera
HAVANA – In statements to the press, Cuban-American legislators Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Joe García have just staked two radically different positions…
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What had to happen did happen
By Aurelio Pedroso
HAVANA, 2013/01/15. In the full exercise of that journalistic genre that is the opinion article, and relying on our editor’s generosity, I have the impression that…
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Hugo Chavez recovering well, says his brother
By Fiona Govan
From The Telegraph (U.K.)
MADRID - The 58-year-old president, who has not been seen since he underwent a fourth round of cancer surgery a month ago, "continues to…
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My objections to the coming elections
By Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera
HAVANA – There are some who describe them as a comedy, because they are elections dominated by a single party, something that can create a unanimity whose…
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Cuba launches 2 economic reform plans
By Gerardo Arreola
From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada
HAVANA – Cuba this year launches two of its most ambitious economic reform plans: a kind of market bubble with state-run…
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Cuba on verge of significant immigration changes
From Prensa Latina
HAVANA (Jan. 9) - Just five days before new immigration changes take effect regarding the flow of Cubans to and from the country, local authorities are providing…
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Chávez, oil and Cuba
Summary of a conversation/interview between Francisco Aruca, director of Radio Progreso Alternativa, and Manuel Alberto Ramy, correspondent in Havana for that outlet and Progreso…
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A page of history: 1 January 1959
On the morning of Friday, Jan. 2, 1959, Americans who purchased The New York Times learned about a significant news event. "Batista and regime flee Cuba," said a headline atop Page…
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Once upon a time
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
HAVANA – Once upon a time there was a king named Herod. One day, his aides told him that, according to reports, a child had been born who would become a king.…
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Padura wins National Literary Award
HAVANA, 18 Dec 2012 –Progreso Semanal/Radio Progreso Alternativa (RPA)– Writer, journalist and literary critic Leonardo Padura Fuentes, 57, won the highest prize of Cuban literature,…
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