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No longer a ‘bourgeois social disorder’
By Saul Landau
HAVANA - Angelie Carmen, tall, pretty and very well built sings on weekends at a popular club in Vibora Park, a neighborhood in Havana. In her day job she works at …
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Three Mayan Wise Men in Havana
By Aurelio Pedroso
HAVANA – Just when notorious alarmists are announcing the end of the world on Dec. 21, misinterpreting the Mayan calendar (God knows why), and after most people…
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The success of ‘populism’
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
HAVANA – Electoral politics and the cheap press are one thing. The serious analyses by the think tanks that help formulate policies and in general turn them…
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Does Chavez exit spell disaster for Cuba?
By Anya Landau French
From The Havana Note
Could the end really be very, very near for Venezuela's Hugo Chavez? If it comes before his January 10, 2013 swearing in, thus…
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The cross and the sword
By Aurelio Pedroso and Manuel Alberto Ramy
HAVANA – The night of Saturday, Dec. 7, will be one to remember. Seldom does Cuban television interrupt its programming to announce…
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The reform goes on
By Elsa Claro
HAVANA – The question of whether a glass is half empty or half full allows us to consider that, while in Cuba the Gross Domestic Product (at constant prices) is 3.1…
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The importance of the Cuban-American vote
By Jesús Arboleya Cervera
Because they’re considered to be the most conservative voters in the U.S. political spectrum, the fact that at least 45 percent of Cuban-Americans…
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Cuban census shows population decline
From Bernama.com
HAVANA - Cuba's population declined by about 84,000 in less than a year according to the latest census data, confirming the warning that emigration and lower…
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Price of phone calls reduced
Progreso Semanal/RPA
HAVANA - Cubans will be making calls to different U.S. cities without fear of paying much higher prices. The decision was taken by the State Council.
Is it…
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More changes in structure of Cuban government
Pardo Cruz to head industries; new ministry is created
By Progreso Semanal staff
Brig. Gen. Salvador Pardo Cruz was appointed Minister of Industries, according to an Official Note…
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