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Meditating on the numbers
From Havana
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
I was writing my column when I received the article by my friend Luis Sexto ("Cuba, the smoke and the wheat") where he meditates about the speech made…
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Cuba, the smoke and the wheat
By Luis Sexto
As usual, the foreign commentators who analyze the Cuban situation from the right see only the smoke or the dry grass, seldom the wheat. They are, after all, observers…
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Juanes will sing in Cuba for peace
Megaconcert is set for Sept. 20
By Michel Hernández michelher@granma.cip.cu
From Granma
Colombian singer Juanes, an icon of Latin pop rock, will give a concert in Havana on Sept. 20,…
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Mercenary consternation
By Manuel E. Yepe
A CubaNews translation by Mercedes Rosa Diaz.
Edited by Walter Lippmann.
There must be consternation among Cuban dissidents on the payroll of the U.S. Interests…
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Bones that don’t rest in peace
By Aurelio Pedroso
From Point of Maisí to Cape of San Antonio, Cubans are forming a frenzied conga line in search of Spanish citizenship, and very few people are writing anything about…
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Beware! The fingers are on the triggers
By Jorge Gómez Barata
Failing to mention the impressive trade in guns that nurtures not only the Colombian guerrillas but also the paramilitaries, the drug traffickers and the gangs…
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From ‘Bravo!’ to ‘outtasight!’
By Aurelio Pedroso
There's lots to say about the singular presence of the London Royal Ballet in Havana, such as repeating “home-made” about Nicholas Georgiadis' magnificent costumes…
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Cuba: Nostalgia, mistrust, hope
The philosophy of scents
By Luis Sexto
Politics could be a feature of olfaction, if we realized that Cuba can be perceived in various scents.
The emigrants who stand at the point in…
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The broken man
From Havana
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
“The man who doesn't say what he thinks is not an honest man.” José Martí
A broken man does not speak his own words; he owes his language to…
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Latin America: Who changes whom?
By Jorge Gómez Barata
In terms of the political evolution in the hemisphere and beyond, I don't remember any other time in history where the rift between the past and the future, in the…
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