Cuba and the ‘mad cows’ from the U.S.
Latin American Weekly Summary
Havana, Radio Progreso Alternativa (RPA) -- Pedro Álvarez, president of Alimport, the Cuban food import agency that has been negotiating the import of…
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Mexico: The frustrated expectations of free trade
The lights and shadows of NAFTA on its 10th anniversary
By Jorge Coarasa
jorgecoarasa@hotmail.com.
Services of Adital
Jan. 1 marked the 10th anniversary of the North American…
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Brazil: Lula’s first year
By Eduardo Dimas
dimas@progresosemanal.com
Exactly one year ago, just about this time, Progreso Weekly published an article about the challenges facing the newly installed…
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Rush Limbaugh is a big crybaby
By Bill Press
Tribune Media Services
Stop! Don't touch that dial. There's nothing wrong with your radio. That piercing, high-pitched sound you hear is not a mechanical…
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Dean’s misunderstood domestic agenda
By Matthew Miller
Tribune Media Services
It's one thing for rival Democrats to slam Howard Dean's domestic agenda as some “left-wing abandonment” of President Clinton's centrist…
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Substituting Bush’s faith
By Saul Landau
Happy New Year! 2004 may become known as the year that the newly created Department of Faith-Based Homeland Anxiety helped George W. Bush slip back into the White…
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The Hitler mirage
Never underestimate the ability of The Miami Herald to be irrelevant. Case in point: its coverage of “the strange-looking photo” on Page One of the Cuban daily Granma of Dec. 4.
“Is…
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No hassle Cuba travel: don’t forget the affidavit
Al’s Loupe
By Alvaro F. Fernandez
The Homeland Security agent signaled to me curling his index finger. I walked over to him. “Yes?” I looked at him quizzically. “When was the last…
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Sounds like an airy tale to us
Pablo Alfonso does it again. The man who brought you Fidel Castro's private physician now brings you Fidel Castro's private jet plane. And, if we're to believe El Nuevo Herald's…
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End of the year giveaway
By Alvaro F. Fernandez
End of the year is upon us. I would like my last column of 2003 to be of high spirits and of all the good things we can expect in 2004. Even with a glass of…
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