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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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The conventions and the future of U.S. policy toward Cuba
By Jesús Arboleya Cervera
HAVANA – Almost like a religious ritual, every four years, the topic of Cuba comes up during the conventions of both U.S. political parties.
It was no…
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Tour jeté through a controversy
By Elsa Claro
HAVANA – Carlos Acosta, 39, one of the few black dancers in classical ballet, likened by critics to Nureyev, was at the center of one of those disputes where genuine…
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Into the blackout
By Manuel Alberto Ramy and Aurelio Pedroso
HAVANA – Between the two news items we posted last night (the first at 9:05 p.m., the second at 11:18 p.m.) reporting on the blackout that…
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