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High salaries and lavish spending outlined in audit joint legislative committee takes up today
Lavish expenses of the Florida Municipal Power Agency — including providing health care for life for its chief executive officer, nearly $13,000 in holiday parties and a pair of season…
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Google Ideas is not Google
In order to approach from different directions the possible implications of the visits to Cuba of some Google executives in the past several weeks, Progreso Weekly interviewed engineer…
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‘I think it stinks’ – still, it works
Last December, when President Obama announced the agreement he reached with President Raúl Castro to restore diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba, you'd have thought…
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Fidel Jr. seeks closer ties with major Russian city
Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart met Friday in Novosibirsk with the city's mayor, Anatoly Lokot, and the region's governor, Vladimir Gorodetsky, to discuss closer relations between Cuba and the…
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Revising the national legend, or, the U.S. people don’t know
Filmmaker Louis Alvarez says that social classes in the United States can be harder to identify than the various races or ethnic backgrounds but that, in many ways, that's exactly what…
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Hot issues: Human rights and telecoms
Representatives from Cuba and the United States will meet in Washington next Tuesday (March 31) to discuss the human rights situation in both countries, a Foreign Ministry official said…
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Taking a page from the David Rivera Tallahassee playbook
Our Cuban-American politicians don’t care about those persons who will never vote for, or against, them. That’s why they pander to those who still dream of 1958 in Havana. These same…
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Analyst: Beware of Google bearing gifts
The intentions -- more than the actions -- of Google executives visiting Cuba are questioned in an article in a popular Cuban blog. Examples of Google's past ties to government agencies…
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Playoffs will be a baseball showcase
None of the four major teams in the history of Cuban baseball will go to the post-season of the 54th National Series. Instead, Matanzas, Ciego de Ávila, Granma and Isle of Youth will be…
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Google Ideas: We’re neither naïve nor paranoid
The mindset of confrontation could make us think that it's all a plan concocted by the USAID (maybe, maybe not) and could put us on the defensive in a process that really requires…
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