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Agricultural production needs further encouragement
By Mercedes Varona
In 2007, the Cuban authorities expressed their decision to introduce changes in the economic model, as a result of the deterioration of some indicators that make up…
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‘I came to be dead, but revived’
By Carmen Lira Saade
(Extracts from interview with Fidel Castro published by the Mexican daily La Jornada)
HAVANA – He spent four years struggling between life and death, in and…
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Blockade
Second Date
Blockade
By Silvio Rodriguez
From Cubadebate
I've been in the city since Saturday because of an emergency. The video card in our computer died, halting the…
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Putting on the thinking caps
By Manuel Alberto Ramy ramymanuel@yahoo.com
From Ramy's blog, A Correspondent's Notebook
After the official announcement that new spaces will be opened for the citizens' economic…
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Alejandro’s dilemma
By Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera
From Rebelión
I would like to start with the shame, because Alejandro Ríos affirms* that I haven't a bit of it when I say that Silvio Rodríguez,…
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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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