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What happens if Fidel Castro dies?
By Aurelio Pedroso
HAVANA – Last Saturday, round about noon, a Mexican radio station phoned me to ask if I’d be willing to participate live in some program and comment about the…
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Cuban Missile Crisis – First of four parts
How the U.S. played Russian roulette with nuclear war
(Editor’s Note: Due to the importance of the analysis by the author, Progreso Weekly has decided to publish the entire…
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The reformation of Cuba’s immigration policy
By Jesús Arboleya Cervera
HAVANA – The long-awaited measures that reform Cuba’s immigration policy have just been announced. According to the government’s announcement, “other…
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Another absurd prohibition falls
By Elsa Claro
HAVANA – They say it’s never too late, but sometimes 20 years is just too long a wait – and may Carlos Gardel forgive me for contradicting him.
Several of…
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After the sentence, what?
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
HAVANA – Ángel Carromero Barrios has been sentenced by the Provincial Tribunal of Granma to four years’ imprisonment for imprudent homicide. Initially,…
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Cuba scraps exit permit to travel
Migration amendment will come into force in January 2013
From Granma
As part of the work undertaken to update the current migration policy adjusting it to prevailing conditions in…
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Viet Nam strengthens ties with Cuba
HA NOI (VNS) - Viet Nam will continue to cooperate with Cuba, developing the fraternal solidarity between the two nations.
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc made this…
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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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