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Cuba-U.S.: Cultural exchanges
By Jesús Arboleya Cervera
In 2004, despite the political tensions and government restrictions that had always existed, when the government of George W. Bush made the activity almost…
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Visiting Palma Linda
By Aurelio Pedroso
From what was once a harmonious and noisy sugar mill called Palma Linda, now, nearly at the end of 2010, only the tower and a stately mansion remain, in an unequal…
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‘You stay there, I stay here’
Havana university students demonstrated on Human Rights Day
By Aurelio Pedroso
The big fountain at the famous Calzada Street park, adjacent to the Amadeo Roldán Theater in the Havana…
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In doubt lies the truth
By Luis Sexto
The newborn process of actualization of the Cuban economy has generated its first fruit: doubt, typical of everything that initiates or repeats similar and failed…
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Antolín and the changes
By Elsa Claro
Bad habits are like contagious diseases. They move fast and can even kill. The comparison comes from Antolin, a descendant of veterans of the War of Independence,…
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Assange’s condom
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
Taken from A Correspondent's Notebook
We are witnessing events that go from the dramatic to the bawdy. The pivot point is Julian Assange, the Australian who has…
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Wikileaks: U.S admits efficiency of Cubans against dissidents/terrorists
ID: 194480
Date: 2009-02-27 21:20:00
Origin: 09HAVANA132
Source: US Interests Section Havana
Classification: SECRET
Dunno: 09STATE13023
Destination: R 272120Z FEB 09
FM USINT HAVANA
TO…
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The bell, the cat and the Party
By Aurelio Pedroso
First of all, I must clarify that the much-hackneyed phrase used for the headline was used by President Raul Castro less than 16 months ago, when he said that “the…
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The advance of the right and the crisis in the neoliberal system
By Jesús Arboleya Cervera
The advances made by the right in the midterm elections in the United States correspond to what has been happening in Europe in recent years.
Perceived by…
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Lights and shadows
By Francisco Aruca and Manuel Alberto Ramy
Second part of the conversation between Francisco Aruca and Manuel A. Ramy, Nov. 6 in Havana. We should clarify that that conversation, as…
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