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Placing blame on the latest Cuba-travel screw-up
The news, delivered from island authorities to the charter companies who carry passengers to Cuba, was that persons with passports not updated and current would not be allowed to enter…
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Berlanga: Political decision makers can save people from amputation
In the U.S., between 70,000 and 80,000 people undergo amputation of diabetic foot every year and Cuba has developed a medication that helps in the healing of diabetic-foot ulcers and…
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Destination Ecuador… and beyond
A couple of young Cubans who plan to travel to Ecuador say that their journey is to go "beyond" on a journey to the United States. It is one of many new dynamics in the relationship of…
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Guantánamo terrorism trial implodes
If anyone doubted that the U.S. military tribunals in Guantánamo were kangaroo courts those doubts should have been erased last week when it was revealed that the FBI has been spying on…
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From the Bay of Pigs to the ‘Bay of Tweets’
Last week, the John F. Kennedy Library marked the 53rd anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, a CIA covert operation with the goal of overthrowing the Castro government. No wonder…
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A passion named Fidel
The first time Gabriel García Márquez heard the name of Fidel Castro was in 1955. Then in 1959 he helped found the Prensa Latina agency. Since then, his relationship with Cuba and Fidel…
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Gabriel García Márquez and the Cuban Five
Gabriel García Márquez, the famed Colombian novelist who died April 17, 2014, played a fascinating cameo role in the story of the Cuban Five. In the spring of 1998, he carried a secret…
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Jeb Bush: Snake oil salesman
As Jeb Bush travels the country espousing his family’s “compassionate conservative” side, the fact is that his carefully manicured words are just part of a much larger, national agenda…
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Salón Tropical: A restaurant still afloat
One of the 'paladares' that survived all the waves that began in 1996, one of the oldest in Santiago de Cuba, is the Salón Tropical. Norges C. Rodríguez Almiñan interviews its owner,…
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Conexión Miami / March by Venezuelan oppositionists
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stated that his country will not take any measures related to the anti-government protests in Venezuela so long as the Bolivarian Government and the…
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