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Cuban passport: an unnecessary impediment (Part II)
The Cuban passport is one of the most problematic documents with which Cubans living outside Cuba must deal.
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Cuban baseball: The blockade and the profits
According to U.S. laws, no Cuban institution or person living in Cuba may receive payment in dollars for his services and that applies also to baseball. That is why some of the best…
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Russian official: We want no bases, just a firm presence
Back in Moscow after a visit to Vanezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba with Russian Defense Minister Sergei K. Shoigu, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Ivanovich Antonov gave a long interview to…
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Some Florida leaders just don’t care who they hurt
Does ideology trump a good deal that can lead to better health care for the many people who need help in Florida – whose numbers are upwards of a million?
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Urban cooperatives in Cuba: A little, not too much
The cooperatives are also a space of confrontation between the new, which wants to grow, and the old, which refuses to die. A struggle in which others, like Luis, who wants to go from…
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MinRex officials counsel Obama on talks with Cuba
An article in Granma today outlines what Obama can do to modify the blockade. It is unusual, in that it is signed by two persons identified as ‘functionaries’, but without mention of…
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15 powerful quotes from the world’s most humble president
This article was first published in June 2014. President Mujica will soon be Uruguay’s former president as he finishes his term in March 2015. We felt his thoughts and ideas are worth…
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Measles returns on the back of ignorance
Almost everyone, from scientists to doctors, to public health officials, to the average parent thought that, at least in the United States, measles was basically history. Recent…
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Russian diplomat in Cuba for talks on investment projects
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Alekseyevich Nebenzya was in Havana Wednesday and Thursday (Feb. 4-5) for expanded talks with Cuban officials on trade and bilateral ties,…
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The contradictions in the Cuban Adjustment Act
What is evident is that the Cuban-American far right has been caught in its own trap and, to escape, will have to chew off a foot, as some animals do.
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