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The reemergence of the Cuban Catholic Church
By Margaret E. Crahan
From America, The National Catholic Weekly
The March 2012 visit to Cuba of Pope Benedict XVI focused attention on the emergence of the Catholic Church as an…
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Efficacy of scorpion venom is confirmed in Cuba
By Gerardo Arreola
From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada
HAVANA – For the first time in public, Cuba presented two cases that showed a reduction in cancerous tumors and an…
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Verticality and illegality
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
HAVANA – There are articles that one reads and – though they deal with apparently different topics – upon meditation one finds their core points or connecting…
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Cuba state TV airs report allegedly showing neighbor passing food into hunger striker’s home
By The Associated Press
HAVANA — Cuban state television aired images Tuesday night raising questions about the recent hunger strike by a prominent dissident.
The 15-minute segment…
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‘The economic sector cannot be limited’
Intellectuals of different tendencies debate an agenda of political reform for Cuba
By Gerardo Arreola
From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada
HAVANA – Under the auspices of a Catholic…
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U.S. Muslim leader Farrakhan warns of U.S. gov’t. threat
From Radio Cadena Agramonte
HAVANA - Leader of the US African American Movement Nation of Islam, Minister Louis Farrakhan, warned Cuban students of the danger posed by the…
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Silvio Rodríguez: “How humanly useful we can be”
By Mónica Rivero
From Iberoamerica.net
One summer day a police officer knocked on Silvio Rodríguez’s home door.
“Silvio, I’m in charge of Prevention at “La…
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The census moment
By La Saeta
HAVANA – The girl or boy who was born one minute past midnight on September 15 will not appear on the national inventories. The non-citizen will have to wait for another…
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Fifteenth birthday? In Cuba!
By Aurelio Pedroso
HAVANA – To cross “the sea ocean,” as Christopher Columbus used to say, or the small and distant Straits of Florida, loaded with streamers, balloons,…
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The no-shows are the losers
By José Alejandro Rodríguez
HAVANA – Despite the U.S. embargo, Cuba seduces tourists in ever-growing numbers.
And it’s the American citizens who lose out by being unable to…
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