Cuba

By Gerardo Arreola From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada HAVANA – President Raúl Castro confirmed his intention to slim down the government body by ordering the merger of two ministries…
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A view of the construction. Photo Ramy/PS/PW   By Aurelio Pedroso and Manuel Alberto Ramy February 29, 2012   The base of José Martí’s monument in Havana is teeming with…
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By Elsa Claro HAVANA – The payment of taxes, something habitual everywhere in the world, is a novelty that has not been practiced by Cubans for decades. Some never paid them. The…
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By Osmany Sanchez From La Joven Cuba (The Young Cuba) The news hit us like a hammer: again this year, Cuba will not play its World Volleyball League games at Ciudad Deportiva –…
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From The Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — A senior U.S. senator met with imprisoned American Alan Gross and discussed the man's case in a long sit-down with Cuban President Raul Castro,…
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By Dalia Céspedes HAVANA - Herakles, that Hellenic hero whom the Romans and Disney called Hercules, performed 12 extremely difficult tasks before he was poisoned by his wife. If the…
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By Aurelio Pedroso HAVANA – The government and the Communist Party have been asking us for some time now to do something as complex and hard to explain (also to accomplish) as…
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By Jesús Arboleya Cervera HAVANA – Several of the panels held during the recently ended Havana Book Fair dealt with the topic of Cuban culture among émigrés and the relationship…
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