Cuban Embargo

An American In Cuba

Tyler Wetherall | Posted 05.03.2012

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A great many flout the ban and travel here illegally, flying to Mexico or Canada from where they can buy a ticket to Cuba. And the chance of getting caught is slim.

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Wanted -- A New Cuba Policy

Rajan Menon | Posted 04.26.2012

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Havana still rejects the principle of far-reaching political change as a precondition for scrapping the embargo. There's no reason to expect a change of heart, particularly because other major economic powers' willingness to trade with and invest in Cuba has made the American boycott less painful.

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The United States Needs America More Than Ever

Monica Gutierrez | Posted 04.15.2012

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When you say "America" everywhere else in the world, the word makes unequivocal reference to the whole concept: including North, Central, South America, the Caribbean, and the adjacent islands.

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End the Embargo, End Castro Regime's Excuse for All Its Failures

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.25.2011

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I hope that today's vote in the UN is favorable toward those of us who wish such absurdity to end, especially we who consider the end of the embargo as a definitive blow to the authoritarianism under which we live.

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The Long Distance Run-Around

Margarita Alarcon | Posted 09.20.2011

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To say that one state controls US policy towards Cuba is in fact silly and insane. Its not one state, its worse.

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Yoani Sánchez Forbidden by Cuba to Collect Her Award; CEPOS Freedom Prize Presented in Absentia

Thor Halvorssen | Posted 07.05.2011

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Yoani Sánchez -- the world-renowned Cuban blogger and philologist -- will be honored here with the inaugural Freedom Award by CEPOS. But there's one oddity: Yoani is forbidden to leave her country to accept the award.

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Made in Cuba

Margarita Alarcon | Posted 06.27.2011

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Mother's Day is a few weeks away and Havana is all geared up for the merchandizing aspect of the day. In the past, due to scarcities, the embargo and...

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Bureaucracy: A Week of Enduring the Cuban System

The Morningside Post | Posted 06.06.2011

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Why did the most mundane of tasks require going from place to place and person to person, and waiting in numerous lines?

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Cuba

Ray Suarez | Posted 05.25.2011

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In many ways the embargo, what the Cubans call "El Bloqueo," "the Blockade," is increasingly honored in the breach.

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Julia Stiles and Me, An Embrace is Possible

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

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The snack bar on 13th between F and G -- that afternoon on December -- is full of security agents and admirers. The first are the ones who follow this...

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Christmas Returns to Cuba

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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The Mandarins Come By Boat

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

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What days those were -- when no one had to bring us, from a far off continent, what our own Cuban earth could produce.

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The Lack of Memory of Cuban-American Congress Members

John McAuliff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Suffering, confrontation, revenge and a visceral hatred toward the Cuban people is the only legacy that our Cuban American Reps. Diaz-Balart, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Albio Sires, and Sen. Bob Menendez can be proud of.

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DANCE: American Ballet Theatre Performs In Cuba For First Time In 50 years

Yahoo! News | Wed Aug 18, 2:36pm | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK (AFP) -- American Ballet Theater, one of the leading US classical dance companies, will perform in Havana, Cuba this year for the first time ...

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Internal and External Walls Block Cubans From Internet Sites

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

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Those who govern us have satellite antennas in their homes, broadband, open Internet, iPhones full of applications, while we -- the citizens -- trip over screens that say "this service is not available in your country."

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Political Grandstanding in US Prevents Economic Opportunity in Cuba

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 05.25.2011

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The longer we keep Cuba listed as a state sponsor of terrorism, an allegation roundly criticized by diplomats, the more we risk the credibility of our national security regime and reputation in the region.

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Obama and Castro: Sparring Over Human Rights

Martha Burk | Posted 05.25.2011

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We seem destined to continued the 50-plus year dance of mutual animosity between the U.S. and Cuba. The U.S. trade embargo will continue. The war of words will not abate.

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Raul Castro: Obama Seeking To Topple Cuban Communism

AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 05.25.2011

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HAVANA — Raul Castro gave the strongest signal yet his government's would-be honeymoon with the Obama administration is over, delivering a harsh...

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The Rubins on "What is Cuban Art?"

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Both the island and the art are an unusual mix of the traditional and the modern, of the ordinary and the special, of simplicity and incredible complexity.

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Big Ag Takes Aim at Cuban Embargo

Barth Anderson | Posted 05.25.2011

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You have to give Big Ag its due: Big Soy and friends are pushing hard to end the ridiculous US embargo of Cuba.

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Let the Philharmonic Play in Cuba

Alec Baldwin | Posted 05.25.2011

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The embargo on Cuban travel should be lifted, at the very least, for cultural projects like the one by the Philharmonic that was just delayed by the U.S. Treasury. Who benefits from continuing this policy?

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The U.S. Embargo: A Convenient Excuse for Cuba's Own Failures

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

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As I began my adolescence, the issue of trade restrictions was on nearly every billboard in the country. At the political rallies we no longer shouted, "Cuba yes, Yankees no" but a new hard-to-rhyme slogan: "Down with the blockade."

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If We Could Travel Freely Even Just Around Cuba, What Would Happen?

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

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The dust raised by the Juanes concert made us neglect important issues of our reality. Even negotiations to reestablish direct mail service between the United States and Cuba have been met with indifference.

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Uncovering Cuba

Teresa Rodriguez Williamson | Posted 05.25.2011

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You can't put a price on freedom, and if you could, it would be worth more that $20 a month.

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Defying the Castro Brothers Under Cuban Skies

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 05.25.2011

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Under cover of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Cuban authorities arrested and charged 75 prominent dissidents with being agents of "Yankee Imperialism," as shown in a new documentary.

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