Cuba

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos will arrive Monday in Cuba "to complete with Castro's authorities the details of the release of several tens of political prisoners of…
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By Manuel Alberto Ramy According to The Wall Street Journal, Cardinal Jaime Ortega y Alamino, Archbishop of Havana, visited Washington last week and met with personalities and…
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By Manuel Alberto Ramy Havana 06/30/2010 – “Yes, it is true that Cardinal Ortega was in Washington,” I was informed by Orlando Marquez, spokesman for the office of the Archbishop of…
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By Aurelio Pedroso This is the fourth morning Dr. Darsi Ferrer wakes up in his own bedroom, after a tribunal ruled that he should serve the four months left in his sentence confined…
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By Luis Sexto At least among Cubans, the common definition of “being in crisis” is the equivalent of “being on fire,” about to go from flesh to ashes. Other, less ardent cultures,…
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By Jordan Levin From The Miami Herald One of Cuba's most famous and important musicians, Silvio Rodríguez, 63, composes poetic lyrics and tender love songs that have endeared him to…
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By Gerardo Arreola From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada HAVANA – What if Sarah Palin wins? Carmelo Mesa-Lago, a world authority in social security and an expert in Cuba's economy,…
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By Elíades Acosta Matos At different moments in Cuban history, as if obeying an ancestral spell or a curse, a strange illness afflicts the souls of some people born on this soil. The…
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Patricia Grogg interviews Humberto Rios From the Inter Press Service News Agency Cuban biodiversity scientist Humberto Ríos, one of the six recipients of the 2010 Goldman…
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By Roberto Montoy From the Cuban magazine Rebelión The U.S. Fourth Fleet, based in Mayport, Fla., composed of one aircraft carrier and three nuclear submarines, two dozen…
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