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Babalaos in Cuba preview 2010
By Aurelio Pedroso
Doves, roosters and even the shy and harmless jutías – those tree-dwelling rodents that leap into the void at the barking of a dog – will not escape the slaughter…
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The festival’s best film was not on the screen
By Aurelio Pedroso
Havana immersed itself in a cinematographic feast, with more than 400 choices to make us think, laugh and meditate. That's what movies are for.
Every day and night,…
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Clock, don’t tick the hours
By Luis Sexto
While poets usually are good at describing images, they are not always so lucky when they try to philosophize. Was the bard who bequeathed his children “time, all the…
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‘Hon, you want the head for something religious?’
By Aurelio Pedroso
The fact that in Havana, a port city with one of the three of the world's most beautiful boulevards – I refer to the seawall Malecón, seven-plus kilometers long – it…
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Is it farewell to the ration book?
From Havana
Is it farewell to the ration book?
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
Throughout the island, the rumors are running faster than a Formula One racer. The disappearance of the ration…
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‘Eso que anda’
By Tony Pinelli
On Nov. 28, what we might describe as an artistic-musical event took place in Havana. The Cuban Institute of the Cinematographic Arts and Industry (ICAIC) and Abdala…
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It is time to return Guantánamo to Cuba!
By Lorenzo Cañizares y Rolando Castañeda
For years, we have decidedly supported the full reestablishment of relations between the United States and Cuba for a better and integral…
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E-4, or pawn to King 4: A new move by Washington
By Enrique Ubieta Gómez
When is a dialogue false? Is it when the demand for liberty becomes a rhetorical trick to deceive the reader? Whoever attempts to dialogue with Cuba has to…
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Digging into the agricultural sector
From Havana
Digging into the agricultural sector
The pebble in the shoe
By Manuel Alberto Ramy
Alimentary security – defined as strategic – and farm production are intimately…
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The famous Cuban bloggers
By Jesús Arboleya Cervera
The Cuban bloggers are the world's most famous. I refer to the “dissidents,” of course, because the first idea that they try to convey is that there are no…
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