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Progreso Semanal/RPA HAVANA – Brazil is weighing granting the construction company Odebrecht a $150 million credit to remodel airport terminals in Havana and other Cuban cities,…
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Wake up call for the government By Mark Weisbrot From The Guardian After a short but bitterly fought, insult-laden campaign, Chavista standard-bearer Nicolás Maduro defeated…
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By Sabina Covo From the blog SabinaCovo.com MIAMI – While talk continues on a very likely immigration reform this year, thousands of undocumented children in the United States…
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Al’s Loupe Opportunism and meatballs By Alvaro F. Fernandez MIAMI - Director Philip Lord is a very bright, young man. No doubt he’s on many A lists of up and coming Hollywood…
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By Max J. Castro MIAMI - Has the time finally come for the U.S. Congress to deal seriously with the reality of eleven million undocumented immigrants in this country who live in…
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By Chris Farrell From Bloomberg Businessweek Controversy and Cuba are synonymous in the U.S. The latest blow-up involves a U.S. Treasury-sanctioned educational excursion to Cuba…
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By Jorge Morales From the blog La Joven Cuba MATANZAS – Recently, I read a Spanish translation of the letter written by Roberto Zurbano to The New York Times. With some of his…
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By Gimleteye From Eye on Miami In 1976 I was in my final weeks as a Yale undergraduate, drinking coffee from a fire hose and hopelessly anxious that I would ever graduate. The…
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Rapper Common has joined the discussion on Jay-Z’s recent visit to Cuba. As to be expected, he adds his opinion via rap. It’s a second version of Jay-Z’s original which rubbed some…
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Venezuelaanalysis.com MERIDA (April 16) - This afternoon president Maduro said the opposition’s call for a general strike today had “failed”. He also blamed the losing candidate in…
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