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The war that wasn’t
By Elíades Acosta Matos
On Sept. 16, 1980, the inhabitants of the Iranian province of Khuzestan awoke to a start. A sudden darkening of the skies, a perceptible tremor and an…
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Church’s laity rejects dissidents’ charges
(Text of article in Espacio Laical (Lay Space), a magazine of the Lay Council of the Archdiocese of Havana, titled "Mediation Will Have To Follow Its Unswerving Course." It was written…
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Dress me slowly; I’m in a hurry
By Elsa Claro
The text can be read quickly. "The Council of Ministers agreed to expand the practice of self-employment eliminating several existing prohibitions to the granting of…
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Something’s cooking
By Fernando Ravsberg
From BBC Mundo
If you're going to spy on the United States, I recommend that you do it for countries like Israel or Russia, with whom it seems Washington…
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Does Fidel govern or analyze?
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
Does Fidel Castro govern from the shadows or is he engaged in the analysis of global reality? This has recently been the big question for analysts,…
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Havana, Washington resume debate over a prisoner exchange
By Gerardo Arreola
From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada
HAVANA – Cuba and the United States raised the pressure last weekend to demand the mutual release of prisoners, an…
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Raul Castro did NOT speak
By Aurelio Pedroso
Far from what was expected for the July 26 celebration, Cuban authorities did NOT announce new economic reforms and left “the study, analysis and decision-making in…
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To privatize: ‘To be or not to be’
By Aurelio Pedroso
Last December, I traveled through Placetas, a city in the center of the island. It was fiesta time and the fragrance of barbecued pork flooded the streets. In a…
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The Diaz-Balarts without holy water
By Luis Sexto
Anti-Castroism is a kind of obsession based on an almost-global propaganda, military, diplomatic, economic, financial and credit machine serviced by governments and…
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Fidel: Dangers of a new war
From Cubadebate
Comrades Economists of the CIEM:
On the occasion of Resolution 1929.
On June 27, 2010, in a message sent on the occasion of the passing of Resolution 1929 of the United…
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