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Chico & Rita is like a graphic novel of a romantic drama, set to music that entices and inspires. It's the grown-up choice to win this year's Oscar for animated feature.
Wherever we went, the highs and lows of Cuban society were clearly illustrated; we saw the beauty, the poverty, the arts, the decay, the hospitality and the biases.
If, in March of 2008, Raul Castro had imagined the role cell phones would play in Cuba's incipient civil society, he probably never would have authorized their use.
There's a new interview with me running on most NPR stations as of last week. The show is called The Story.
From the hole in the floor that serves as a toilet, a rat emerges and looks curiously at the curled up man lying there. Outside shouts are heard, metal banging, and the general noise of the Aguadores prison, one of the most feared in eastern Cuba.
It's time to call on our leaders in Congress to protect special places from drilling, protect our oceans, adopt adequate penalties and most importantly to support a swift transition to a clean and vibrant energy future.
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We hope she will not miss the opportunity and will comport herself consistent with the clamor for democracy, instead of opting for a complicit silence before a dictatorship.
Letting prisoners die is a complete disregard for humanity but could also possibly be a tactic to remove "undesirables" from Cuban society. But why would the Cuban government choose to let them die? The answer rests in present-day Cuba.
Thus, Human Rights Watch just released its annual human rights report on Colombia, and it is not pretty. The punch line of the report is most damning of the United States and its role in that country's abysmal practices -- undoubtedly, the very worst of this hemisphere.
It's a long standing tradition for candidates to go out on the trail with red-meat rhetoric to try and outdo their opponents and prove their anti-Castro bona fides to the politically significant, hardline exile community.
The hard liners' argument that travel provides economic support for Cuba's "evil regime" is disingenuous.
What urgent solution will be applied so that these tragedies won't continue to be a part of our daily landscape?
The list of Guantánamo critics is a long one. Archbishop Desmond Tutu dubbed it a stain on the character of the United States. Former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said the United States must close the camp as soon as possible.
I'm done beating the dead horse but for a company whose philosophy is to give the best to customers who expect the best -- because they are willing to pay for it -- you kind of look ridiculous.
