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President Santos visits Cuba
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
Havana, 03/07/ 2012. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos arrived in Havana today. The visit has a double purpose: the signing, together with Venezuelan!-->>!-->>!-->>…
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Worries on wheels
By Roberto G. Peralo
From La Joven Cuba
To try to narrate and describe everything that happened during that hour-long ride would be really long. And the dynamic of modern…
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2012: Which way to go?
By Elsa Claro
HAVANA – It would seem that not much is going well in Cuba. Ugly, disheartening news emerges about the farm sector, a strategic part of the economy.
Will there be a…
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Church does not seek old privileges, Jesuit leader says
By Gerardo Arreola
From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada
HAVANA – Cuba’s Catholic Church is not looking to regain its privileges of the past but hopes that its faithful will…
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The Pope’s visit and the complex exercise of dialoguing
By Jesús Arboleya Cervera
HAVANA – Fidel Castro’s presence at the Vatican in the 1990s and John Paul II’s visit to Cuba in January 1998 were landmarks in Cuba’s…
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Mambí Virgin: May we be brothers!
From Espacio Laical
HAVANA - Very soon now, the Holy Father, Benedict XVI, will arrive in our homeland. The Pope visits us within the context of the Jubilee Year proclaimed by the Cuban…
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Castro merges 2 ministries, reduces 3 to end ‘unnecessary expenses’
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 Chapel in Revolution Square
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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Rescued taxes and values
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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