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Valentine’s Day in Havana
By Aurelio Pedroso
William Shakespeare expressed it through one of his characters: “Love does not age; it dies in infancy.” The line is extremely controversial.
But this philosophical…
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Cuban government meets with émigrés
By Fernando Ravsberg
From BBC Mundo, January 27, 2010
HAVANA -- Francisco González Aruca escaped from La Cabaña prison disguised as a teenager. He had been sentenced to 30 years by…
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Woolworth’s with a red beret
By Aurelio Pedroso
Maybe because the word Woolworth’s is hard for Hispanics to pronounce, or perhaps for reasons of marketing, the fact is that the great American chain of stores,…
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U.S. – Cuba relations: the terror designation telecom conundrum
By Antonio Martinez
From the United States Cuba Policy & Business Blog
The U.S. Cuba Policy & Business blog has reported that the terror designation on Cuba has many…
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Popular debate on Cuba’s economy
By Antonio Díaz
For many in Cuba, Friday has become the golden day of the press. It’s for a very simple reason: it is the day when Granma, the central information organ of Cuba’s…
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The Achilles heel of 2010
By Mercedes Varona Graupera
Thetis, a divine mother with understandable concerns, submerged her beloved son in the fountain at Thesalia hoping to make him invincible. She plunged his…
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‘I prefer goats to English’
By Aurelio Pedroso
Havana-dweller Edelsio Gijón Hernández, 53, got a college degree in English in 1986. After the language school where he worked closed, two years ago, he devoted…
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The Washington Post: Cuba poses no threat
Taken from the Prensa Latina news agency (Jan. 5, 2010)
Washington, Jan. 5 (Prensa Latina) -- The Washington Post, one of the most prestigious newspapers in the U.S., denies in an…
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Cuba: Tradition and reality, a plausible mixture
By Luis Sexto
Cuba's official discourse has found the most appropriate term to name the renovative process that, despite many doubts, is moving slowly through the archipelago's…
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The cat and the bell
From Havana
The cat and the bell
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
In Spanish, there's a saying – phrased as a question – that describes a challenge: Who will bell the cat? Applied to the…
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