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Minister Trips Up and Admits Fiber Optic Cable Is Working, But Cubans Can't Access It

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.29.2012

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Yoani Sanchez

Between La Guaira, Venezuela, and Santiago de Cuba runs an umbilical cord that should turn us into a 21st Century country, remove our technological and communications handicaps.

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Mariela Castro and the Future

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.28.2012

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Yoani Sanchez

She is the daughter of the man who inherited the presidency of my country through blood, that same country where my father years ago lost his profession as a train engineer.

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Will The Yankee Comandante's Bones Ever Return To U.S. Soil?

The New Yorker | David Grann | Posted 05.21.2012

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For a moment, he was obscured by the Havana night. It was as if he were invisible, as he had been before coming to Cuba, in the midst of revolution. T...

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Raul Castro Supports Gay Rights, Daughter Says

AP | ANNE-MARIE GARCIA | Posted 05.12.2012

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HAVANA -- The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro said during a rousing gay rights march Saturday that her father advocated eliminating sexual dis...

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Cuban Regime Disguises Paramilitary Agent as Red Cross Worker

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.11.2012

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Yoani Sanchez

At this point, there are few people on this Island who haven't seen the video where a man -- wearing a Red Cross emblem -- hits and beats with a stretcher Andrés Carrión, who had shouted an anti-system slogan.

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Carlos Harrison

Was Your IKEA Furniture Made In A Cuban Prison?

HuffingtonPost.com | Carlos Harrison | Posted 05.09.2012

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The flap is heating up over allegations that IKEA used Cuban political prisoners to make furniture. A bipartisan group of ranking Hispanic members ...

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The Heartland Institute Self Destructs

Richard Schiffman | Posted 05.04.2012

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Richard Schiffman

The notorious group has come out of the shadows and finally fessed up to being the kooks and fanatics that we long suspected they were.

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'To Capitalism We Will Never Return'

Reuters | Posted 05.02.2012

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By Jeff Franks HAVANA, May 1 (Reuters) - A red-tinged sea of Cubans marched through Havana's Revolution Square on Tuesday in a May Day...

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PHOTOS: Cuba In The Raw

Posted 04.27.2012

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Fidel Castro, embargos, poverty, and zombies. Cuba has been mired in such political and economic turmoil since Castro took power in 1959 that it's dif...

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Wanted -- A New Cuba Policy

Rajan Menon | Posted 04.26.2012

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Rajan Menon

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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Rising in Spite of Things in Cuba

Tiziana Dearing | Posted 04.24.2012

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Tiziana Dearing

The democratic reforms President Obama called for in Cuba might not be so crazy to imagine. I say that because in Havana, I saw a great deal about how hard it is to suppress people's desire to rise.

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More Protests Outside Marlins Park

AP | Posted 04.23.2012

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MIAMI -- About two dozen protesters are outside Marlins Ballpark, expressing their displeasure with manager Ozzie Guillen. The demonstration Thursday...

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Marlins Manager's Words Rash, but Protected

The Miami Hurricane | Posted 04.16.2012

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The Miami Hurricane

Although Guillen's comments could be considered inappropriate and were disrespectful to those who endured Castro's regime, the First Amendment is all-inclusive. Guillen, along with every U.S. citizen, is entitled to his own opinion.

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WATCH: Bill Maher Thinks Castro Is A 'Badass'

The Huffington Post | Ross Luippold | Posted 04.14.2012

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Bill Maher took to his "Real Time" pulpit on Friday to make a bold defense against those who condemned Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen for saying ...

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PHOTOS: Castro Comments Reveal Discourse Is Still In The Hands Of Hardliners

AP | CHRISTINE ARMARIO | Posted 04.11.2012

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MIAMI -- Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen's comments professing admiration for Fidel Castro caused a bigger uproar than if the Miami baseball team had sp...

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The Ozzie Guillen Political Correct-mess

Isabel Otero | Posted 04.11.2012

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Isabel Otero

Are we really going to go down this rabbit hole of political correctness in which we must overreact about any and all comments that may offend those who hold our purse strings?

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Ozzie Denounces Hugo Chavez

The Huffington Post | Michael Klopman | Posted 04.10.2012

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The Miami Marlins announced on Tuesday that manager Ozzie Guillen has been suspended for five games due to controversial comments about Fidel Castro. ...

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Ozzie Guillen Suspended

AP | STEVEN WINE | Posted 04.10.2012

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MIAMI — A contrite Ozzie Guillen sat in the heart of Little Havana seeking forgiveness for what the Miami Marlins manager called the biggest mis...

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Ozzie To Make Second Apology For Fidel Castro Comment

AP | STEVEN WINE | Posted 04.09.2012

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MIAMI — Five games into his tenure with the Marlins, motor mouth manager Ozzie Guillen is returning to Miami to explain himself as a backlash bu...

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Ozzie Guillen Apologizes For Castro Comment

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 04.07.2012

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CINCINNATI -- Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen apologized on Saturday for telling a magazine that he loves Fidel Castro, a comment that prompted to...

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Andy Garcia's Daughter, Dominik Garcia-Lorido, Dishes on 'Magic City,' Miami Living And Visiting Cuba

Lee Hernandez | Posted 04.11.2012

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Andy Garcia’s daughter Dominik Garcia-Lorido (“The Lost City”), has a new show called “Magic City,” premiering tonight at 10/9c on Starz. Th...

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My Trip to Cuba With Mary Hemingway!

Jay Weston | Posted 04.03.2012

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Jay Weston

I had the adventure of going to Cuba with Hemingway's fourth wife, Mary, and also director Sidney Pollack and screenwriter Waldo Salt, to meet with Fidel Castro.

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Crimes Against Humanity--And Fashion: World's Worst-Dressed Dictators

TruTV.com | Posted 04.02.2012

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Crushing entire nations can leave little time for wardrobe decisions. From Adolf Hitler to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, dictators past and present have on...

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What the Pope Should Have Said in Cuba

Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld | Posted 04.01.2012

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Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld

This past the week Pope Benedict XVI visited Cuba. Most of us never know what goes on behind closed doors, but by all public accounts, his visit was a profound disappointment to the Jewish community.

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Pope Gets Wish For Good Friday To Be Cuban Holiday

Reuters | Posted 05.31.2012

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* Benedict sought the holiday in meeting with Raul Castro * Government will decide whether to make it permanent HAVANA, ...

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