Cuba

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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By Aurelio Pedroso and Manuel Alberto Ramy HAVANA – On Tuesday, the daily Granma devoted almost three quarters of one of its eight pages to a cursory explanation of “The New…
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(To my constant friends) By Esteban Morales HAVANA – When in 2010 I wrote about corruption and what happened to me became general knowledge, it was inevitable that many people…
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Water in a basket Cuban television (Made in USA) Well-packaged garbage is still garbage By Dalia Céspedes HAVANA – In the red corner, Tom and Jerry! In the blue corner, Elpidio…
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