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UNICEF official recognizes damage to Cuba by U.S. blockade
By Juan Pablo Carreras
From the National News Agency
HOLGUIN – The United States’ blockade against Cuba is a direct attack on childhood and damages the entire nation, said in…
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Breakfast with ‘defector’ Glenda Murillo
By Aurelio Pedroso
HAVANA – Two, three, four cups of espresso coffee, which is my usual breakfast and one that I cannot recommend to anyone who wants to watch his health, and from…
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Stairway to an infarct
By Aurelio Pedroso
HAVANA – What’s happening right now in Cuba is reminiscent of an episode from the well-known Paris Commune. This, after saving everything that should be…
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Paul Ryan and the conservatives’ view of Cuba
By Jesús Arboleya Cervera
HAVANA – The selection of Paul Ryan as the Republican candidate to the Vice Presidency of the United States gives continuity to the strategy followed by that…
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From the Guinness records to Doña Eutimia’s ‘paladar’
Between bureaucrats and brutocrats
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
HAVANA – Last May, Cuban Erick Hernández set a Guinness record when he kicked a soccer ball for 12 hours and 5 minutes…
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Former Basic Industry officials are punished for corruption
From Granma Newspaper
The First Criminal Court in the People’s Provincial Tribunal in Holguín, after evaluating the abundant proof presented in the oral trial held recently in that…
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Banning is prohibited
"Hard-line performers are 'restricted,' top programmer says"
By Tony Pinelli
HAVANA – In early July, after a trip abroad that lasted about two months, I went to Radio…
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Evil powers
From cabbages to fireflies *
Evil powers
By La Saeta (The Arrow)
HAVANA – It is not hard to conclude that those who oppose changes in Cuba have power. I’m not saying a lot or a…
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New tax law takes effect in January 2013
By the staff of IPS Cuba
ipscuba@ipscuba.net
HAVANA – The new tax law, approved by the Cuban Parliament in late July, generated a debate between artists and activists about the…
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Cuban troupe loses funding
The Street Opera must now rely on public subsidy
By Gerardo Arreola
From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada
HAVANA – Economic reforms notwithstanding, the popular troupe The Street…
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