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‘A space to breathe art’ – and other airs
By Aurelio Pedroso
HAVANA – The moral of the story usually appears at the end of the story, but in this case, I will point out that this story demonstrates that the Cuban people’s…
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Ambitious reforms await enactment
By Gerardo Arreola
From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada
HAVANA – On paper, a new cycle of economic reforms in Cuba paints an ambitious horizon of potential expansion of the private…
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Economy and professional frustration
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
HAVANA - The number of university graduates among fellow Cubans is impressive. According to the National Office of Statistics (ONI), in 2010 Cuba’s work…
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Data for a new religion
By Dalia Céspedes
HAVANA - They say that religion once meant the act of reuniting (religare). If I haven’t misunderstood Socrates, just as philosophy is love for something you…
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Cuban-Americans’ contributions to Cuba’s future
By Jesús Arboleya Cervera
HAVANA – Much is being said about the possible contribution of Cuban-Americans to the future of Cuba. Some have even described them as the nation’s…
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Doi Moi and ‘actualization’ The urgency to generate a consensus
By Lenier González Mederos
HAVANA – If anything has characterized the project of reforms put forth by President Raúl Castro, it has been the silence that surrounds the stages of its…
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Cuba’s Federation of University Students: The president’s view
A correspondent’s draft
Economy and professional frustration
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
April 30/ 2012
Reasons for professional emigration
Cuba’s FEU president interviewed for RPA
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O Marquez: A dialogue among Cubans
O Marquez: A dialogue among Cubans By Orlando Márquez From Palabra Nueva, the archdiocese of Havana’s magazine As previously announced, the meeting “A Dialogue among Cubans”!-->>!-->>!-->>…
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Exiles, émigrés and the fig leaf
By Luis Sexto
Lexicographers demand it: dictionaries must define words cleanly so their meaning may come through, uncontaminated by ideology or political interests.
Because if the…
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Two small hams and a mini sausage
Photo by Aurelio Pedroso
By Aurelio Pedroso
21 April 2012
The private initiative boom seems to be unstoppable and irreversible when compared to one of Cuba's three main problems:!-->>!-->>!-->>!-->>…
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