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The challenge of intellectualism
By Esteban Morales Domínguez
From his blog
HAVANA – In April 2010, I wrote that corruption was the most difficult and dangerous challenge we had to face. A problem of national…
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Raw sugar, refined lies
Water in a basket (a blog under construction)
Raw sugar, refined lies
By Dalia Céspedes
‘Órbita,’ by Manuel Moreno Fraginals. Unión Publishers, Havana, 2009. 477 pgs.…
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PDVSA picks up the baton
By Radio Progreso Alternativa
HAVANA – A statement from the Cuban company Cubapetróleo (CUPET), published on Aug. 6, says that while the prospection operations conducted by PC Gulf of…
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Conceptualization of the economic model
By Jesús Arboleya Cervera
Although hardly mentioned in the news related to the event, one of the most relevant issues of the recent meeting of the Cuban National Assembly of Popular…
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Highways here, there and yonder
By Aurelio Pedroso
HAVANA – The young Spanish politician Ángel Francisco Carromero Barrios will remember to his dying day the moment he chose to drive that Hyundai Accent, license…
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The Carromero-Modig case
From Cabbages to Fireflies*
The Carromero-Modig case
By La Saeta (The Arrow)
HAVANA – The second definition of “conspiracy” in the dictionary of the Royal Academy of the…
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Cuba unveils subversive plot engineered in Miami
By staff of Progreso Weekly/Radio Progreso
HAVANA – A political organization in Miami “paid, trained and instructed” a group of eight Mexican youths to carry out various activities…
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We were not summoned
To our readers and listeners
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
HAVANA, 30 July – (Radio Progreso Alternativa) – The thousands of listeners of Radio Progreso Alternativa and readers of Progreso…
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Cuba broadens economic reforms, plans new measures
By Marc Frank
From Reuters
HAVANA - Cuba adopted a new tax code this week and said it would loosen regulations on some state companies while turning others into cooperatives, as one of…
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Shouts and detentions
By the staff of Progreso Weekly/RPA
HAVANA – After the Mass in homage to oppositionist Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, said by Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino, a group of oppositionists began…
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