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Nostalgia helping to spur loosening of Cuba policy
Tired of waiting for the end of communism in Cuba, more and more Cuban-Americans have concluded that it is time for the United States to allow more engagement with the island they left…
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Miami’s Tower of Babel
Remember Babel? "Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven And the Lord said, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand…
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A new perspective #FathersDay
Subhash Kateel, who occasionally writes for Progreso Weekly, wrote this piece for the BK Nation blog. Kateel welcomed a son to this world recently and is celebrating Fathers Day in his…
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A story about hurricanes II
I have to meet this man, Bob Dylan said to himself, and closed the book. On the cover, in gold letters: "The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472."
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Conexión Miami / Beckham: A business trip
Last weekend, while watching a soccer training session at José Martí Park in Little Haiti, David Beckham said something that resembled news or sounded like news: "I'm starting to know a…
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Hillary, Crist: End the embargo
Are the latest developments in the long debate over the interminable U.S. embargo against Cuba good or bad news for those who want a change of policy? One must read carefully beneath…
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A story about hurricanes (I)
Actually, this is the story of a song. Hurricanes and men go by; songs, those that are worthwhile, are a lot more tangible, solid, lasting. This song begins with pistol shots in the…
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Conexión Miami / Foolish words
The antics -- not to say foolishness -- of the Indiana Pacers' Lance Stephenson will be remembered with contempt when the NBA Finals begin Thursday between the San Antonio Spurs and the…
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Uncomfortable questions
Cuba is that way, someone said, pointing to the sea. We were standing at the exact point that marks the 90 miles that separate one shore from the other.
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Conexión Miami / Taken for a ride, in a Cadillac
David Beckham's proposed soccer stadium - in the last open space in downtown Miami - is wrong because it insults any sense of smart urban design in contemporary times by deferring to a…
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