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Playing for change: Guantanamera
This past week a version of Guantanamera was released where Cuban musicians, led by Carlos Varela and Manuel Galban, and under the direction of Jackson Browne and Mark Johnson, reminded…
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White House acknowledges ‘the Mujica approach’
The White House on Friday (June 20) admitted that President Obama asked Uruguayan President José Mujica to deliver to Cuban President Raúl Castro a bid for the release of Alan Gross.
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Pot Lady
"You were talking about mari-juana," said a disgruntled lady to a couple of morning radio talk hosts in Miami. The announcers were not advocating its use, much less selling it. They…
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The path is clear; we don’t seem to want to take it
The latest Cuba poll had no major surprises. A not so close analysis shows a path to victory for those who’d like to see a change in U.S.-Cuba policy. One we've known about for some…
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Mujica said to be mediating between Obama, Castro
At the summit of the Group of 77+China, held June 14-15 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, President José Mujica took a key step toward an improvement in U.S.-Cuba relations and the…
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Websites are unblocked wholesale: Hints or mistakes?
On Thursday several Cuban websites heretofore blocked were unblocked. Without any previous announcement, some doors have been reopened but no one can be sure that they won't be shut…
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Progress as a political program
Socialism changed humanity as far as humanity could be changed, confronted capitalism and in many aspects forced it to change its course. Today's adversary is not someone who thinks…
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Iraq on the brink
The final chapters in George W. Bush's Iraq misadventure are being written in blood now. The Islamist threat that Bush's war was supposed to destroy now threatens to dominate a wide…
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Judy Gross: ‘A devastating blow for Alan and our family’
U.S. contractor Alan Gross' mother has died at age 92 in Texas, because of lung cancer.
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Cuba confident of Russian contracts for offshore oil exploration
Cuba is "almost sure" that it will sign oil-exploration contracts with Russian oil giants Rosneft and Zarubezhneft, a Cuban oil representative said in Moscow on Wednesday (June 18).
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