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Ileana’s retirement: The end of a cycle
Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen announced that she won't seek reelection in 2018. Her retirement marks the end of a cycle characterized by the access of the first generation…
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Cuba joins regional multilateral bank for development
In April, media outlets reported Cuba's entry into the Central-American Bank for Economic Integration. Incorporation into the BCIE has enormous importance for Cuba, both in symbolic and…
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Hoarding and other scenes from reality
Noontime, any day last week. A neighbor tells me that a small market near my home is selling toilet paper. Without thinking twice, I stop what I'm doing and embark on its search,…
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Vive la France!
In the presidential election in France this Sunday, by almost 2 to 1, voters emphatically rejected the politics of ultra-right, xenophobic nationalism. Emmanuel Macron, virtually…
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On Russia and Ros-Lehtinen’s retirement
While the U.S. and Cuba have real differences, what prevented us from restoring diplomatic relations before, and hampers our ability to build confidence and enjoy the fruits of a more…
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We need to move ahead
When we look at today's Cuba, so different from what we once wanted, we often experience an unwanted perception that the determinative reasons to slow down or stop the pace of the…
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Trump’s killer budget
This is, literally, a killer budget. It toys with human lives. It amounts to a counterrevolution the GOP has been carrying out for decades. A class war from above, which has succeeded…
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International Jazz Day: ‘This is a huge event’
Bobby Carcassés may have been one of the first to find out. He got a call from the Thelonious Monk Institute and was told that the 2017 International Jazz Day would be held in Cuba and…
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Culture in Republican crosshairs
Through their words and their work, artists, actors, and writers have been speaking out ever more loudly against Donald Trump, from the start of his campaign to today. The fight between…
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Some ask why more people don’t vote
Why are voters participating less and less in our democratic process? People are in fact fed up with lying and cheating politicians whose only interest seems to be themselves. Are there…
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