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Gross rejects Trump plan to launch ‘task force’ into Cuban cyberspace
Alan Gross, the elderly American who tried to smuggle electronic equipment into Cuba to start an unauthorized Internet system, reacted to the U.S. plan to convene a Cuba Internet Task…
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Trump’s divide and conquer strategy
Trump has intentionally cleaved America into two warring camps: pro-Trump and anti-Trump. The Republican Party used to stand for fiscal responsibility, state’s rights, free trade, and a…
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Cuba’s dual currency is due for revision
During the sessions of the National Assembly in December, the Cuban government reprised the discussion about the importance of moving toward a new monetary and exchange system. While a…
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Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart is dead by suicide
Fidel Castro’s oldest son, 68-year-old Fidel Angel Castro Diaz-Balart, who was being treated by a group of doctors for several months due to a deep depression, committed suicide early…
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Non-state sector in Cuba: Back to the past?
When in December 2017 the Cuban government released details of the new rules -- still not approved -- for self-employed labor and non-agricultural cooperatives, many of us remembered…
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The next big fight
Fresh off passing massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, Trump and congressional Republicans want to use the deficit they’ve created to justify huge cuts to Social Security,…
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Ethnic cleansing lite, or how to Make America White Again
First, throw out of the country as many black, brown, Muslim, and Spanish-speaking people as possible. Then, prevent others from coming in, with walls and blanket bans barring all…
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And who looks after them?
The consequences of population aging express themselves in a gradual inversion of the population pyramid. To have an older population implies having a population group in danger of…
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What Jose Martí teaches us about Trump-era imperialism
Thousands of Cubans participated in the March of the Torches on Saturday, an annual procession that pays homage to national hero Jose Martí on his birthday. This year’s march,…
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Puerto Rico needs aid, not new taxes
Puerto Rico lacks the right to declare bankruptcy for a fair process to restructure its debt. Instead, an undemocratic Control Board stocked with conservative ideologues was created by…
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