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How very mistaken I was
There is no reason, asserts the author, to suspend or postpone the granting of new licenses to rent homes, rooms or spaces because of an imperative "to review the subject" after so many…
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A movie plot: U.S. diplomats go deaf in Cuba
Just when relations between Washington and Havana had fallen into soporific boredom comes the story of some U.S. diplomats who last year suffered inexplicable auditive damage in Cuba.
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Reggaeton and diplomatic deafness
Since the information being offered on 'Eargate', from both the U.S. and Cuba, is so unclear, it could lead the imagination of many to think of more "realistic" causes, such as this...
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Cuba reacts to expulsions and accusations: Statement by Ministry of Foreign Affairs
In a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Cuban government asserts that they took the alleged incidents involving U.S. diplomats very seriously and would never allow Cuban…
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U.S. ousts two Cuban diplomats citing mysterious 2016 ‘incident’
The U.S. State Department has asked two officials of the Cuban Embassy in Washington to leave the country, according to Heather Nauert, a spokeswoman for the U.S. diplomatic corps. The…
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Night thoughts on Trump and America
With Donald Trump away vacationing at one of his golf resorts, the rest of us may have a chance to relax. But in truth it’s more like a short break in a continuing nightmare. Just…
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Sessions’ DOJ says it’s OK to purge infrequent voters from Ohio rolls
The Obama administration was against the state's practice of purging inactive voters from the rolls, but this week, the Trump administration reversed course. The brief is not the…
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Hanging by the thread of dependence abroad
"I think we have to look for a formula for the State not to pay for imported food what it can buy from its own farmers," says Eduardo Martínez, a peasant in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba. "How…
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Trump’s immigration proposal is racist to the core
The Trump administration’s new immigration proposal aims at maintaining the demographic predominance and cultural/linguistic monopoly of the fictitious “Anglo-Saxon” race. These new…
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This drought of ours
The acute drought afflicting the island and its population is not news. But perhaps the real dimension of the problem has not been explained publicly to make people aware of the…
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