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If the murderer had been Chávez, not Netanyahu
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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The Church, dialogue, and the critics
A Correspondent's Notebook
The Church, dialogue, and the critics
By Manuel Alberto Ramy ramymanuel@yahoo.com
I think Progreso Semanal has done well to publish the article written by…
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The good of Cuba is a useful and democratic party
By Luis Sexto
The Tenth Catholic Social Week, set for June l6-20 in Havana, finds the times somewhat favorable to the impact of an event whose themes include a debate on “the…
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Cuba Prisoners Moved Closer to Home
From Reuters
The Cuban government began moving political prisoners to jails closer to their homes on Tuesday in a modest humanitarian gesture promised in recent talks with the leader of…
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Bringing the government to its knees
By Elíades Acosta Matos
Bringing the government to its knees serves not only to punish but also to profit. Beyond the doctrinarian obsession of the conservative right to keep the…
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Fariñas accepted the mediation
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
Progreso Semanal makes available to its readers a transcription of the telephone interview conducted by Manuel Alberto Ramy, editor of the bilingual magazine…
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Release of Cuban political prisoners may be close
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
Havana, 5/23/2010 (Radio Progreso Alternativa) – The release of political prisoners may begin within the next 24 hours, sources close to the Catholic Church in…
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Cuba ready to resolve political prisoners issue: Church
By Isabel Sanchez (AFP)
HAVANA — President Raul Castro is ready to consider resolving the thorny issue of Cuba's jailing of political dissidents, though talk about releasing them was…
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The New Country comes by mail
By Aurelio Pedroso
In Havana, a group of dissidents has just issued a proposal to create a new group, this one called “The Charter of the New Country.”
The birth of this peculiar…
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In Cuba: A different farmers congress
By Jorge Gómez Barata
I followed with interest the work of the Congress of the Small Farmers Association (ANAP), also called “the Peasants’ Congress.” The effort was worthwhile…
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