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Cuban entrepreneurs urge Trump to expand trade and travel with Cuba
A group of over 100 of Cuba’s most important entrepreneurs delivered a letter to President Elect Donald Trump, asking him to move forward with changes to U.S. policy that are allowing…
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Fidel’s true legacy
The death of Fidel Castro has resulted in the unfortunate, but entirely expected, repugnant coverage of his passing from the Western mainstream media, particularly in the United States.…
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Cuba after Fidel; Trump after Fidel
The photo at top is of Cubans massed together in Havana's Plaza of the Revolution. They were there to pay posthumous tribute to Fidel Castro. In the days before his inauguration, we…
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Why Chicanos love Fidel Castro but hate Cuban exile politics
Gabriel San Roman writes that while many Cubans in the United States danced to the news of Fidel Castro's death this weekend, many Chicanos mourned what they felt was an extraordinary…
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Fidel, history has absolved you
One is struck by the dichotomy of coverage in the media with outpourings of condolences and recognitions of Fidel’s legacy coming from the island, Latin America and the world countered…
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Black America and the passing of Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro has a special significance for countless Black Americans. When he took up residence in the Hotel Theresa in New York’s Harlem, later meeting with Malcolm X, the Cuban…
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Claver-Carone: A hollow move simply to appease?
Earlier this week Mauricio Claver-Carone was tabbed by the Donald Trump team to sit at the table of the president-elect’s group of deciders. Yet, the truth is that Claver-Carone has NOT…
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Prejudice empowered: The nightmare begins
It didn’t take long for the hate and division incited and enabled by Donald Trump’s campaign to rear its ugly head. In the wake of the Republican candidate’s victory, numerous…
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Goodbye, American neoliberalism. A new neo-fascist era is here.
The neoliberal era in the United States ended with a neofascist bang. Donald Trump’s election was enabled by the policies that overlooked the plight of our most vulnerable citizens. We…
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Cuban-Americans and the Trump administration
One of the questions posed by Donald Trump's victory is whether or not he'll continue the policy adopted by Obama toward Cuba, and some have already reprised the quaint idea that that…
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