Cuba Revolution

For First Time Since Revolution, Cuba Allows Sale, Purchase Of Private Real Estate

AP | By PAUL HAVEN | Posted 01.03.2012

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HAVANA -- For the first time in a half-century, Cubans will be allowed to buy and sell real estate openly, bequeath property to relatives without rest...

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From Dictactorship to Democracy: The Transition in Cuba Has Already Started

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 10.28.2011

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Yoani Sanchez

We are in transition, something seems to be on the verge of being irreparably broken on this Island, but we don't realize it, sunk in the day-to-day and its problems.

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PHOTOS: Cuba Celebrates Revolution Day

Posted 09.25.2011

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CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba (AP) -- Cuba marked the 58th anniversary of Fidel Castro's failed attack on the Moncada army barracks Tuesday without a speech fr...

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When My Sister Can't Protect Me

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yoani Sanchez

It's been a year since my sister and I were victims of arbitrary arrest. Here is the audio recording I managed to make that day with my mobile phone.

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Christmas Returns to Cuba

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yoani Sanchez

To go to work on December 25, to have school on New Year's Eve or to be called to "voluntary labor" as the year drew to a close -- all this was possible in an ideologically fervent Cuba.

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Obama And Cuba: How Will US-Cuban Relations Change (LISTEN)

WorldFocus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jan. 1 marked the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, when the nation's U.S.-backed government was overthrown and Fidel Castro took power. A f...

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Cuba Celebrates Revolution's 50th Anniversary

AP | ANITA SNOW | Posted 05.25.2011

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SANTIAGO, Cuba — Fifty years after triumphant armed rebels descended from the mountains, communist Cuba celebrated the revolution's anniversary ...

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