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Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro, Behind the Ramparts (Part II of III)

Norberto Fuentes | Posted 12.30.2009 | Books

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Norberto Fuentes

In the whole of my experiences with or close to Fidel, this was the most pathetic. Here was a man who knew solitude was an impossibility, yet seemed happy to have the illusion of it.

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Saturday Night with Fidel Castro (Part I of III)

Norberto Fuentes | Posted 12.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Fidel Castro, Havana, The Autobiography of Fidel Castro, New Books, Books, Cuba, Castro, Castro Book, Books News
Norberto Fuentes

I felt very close to Castro, but my admiration for him and his achievements didn't seem to be enough. He was desperate to be fussed over. For me to fuss over him, over Fidel Castro.

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Two Castros Decide Everything, Our "Representatives" Simply Applaud

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.21.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba, National Assembly, Raul Castro, Fidel Castro, Foreign Affairs, World News
Yoani Sanchez

"The impasse is the dynamics of deterioration," my friend said, part philosophic part pessimistic after listening to Raul Castro's speech in the National Assembly yesterday.

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Raul Castro: Obama Seeking To Topple Cuban Communism

AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 12.21.2009 | World

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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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US - Brazil Relations Desafinado

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 12.14.2009 | World

Read More: Oscar Niemeyer, Raul Castro, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Brazil, Lula, Honduras, Farc, Obama, Desafinado, Fidel Castro, Cuba, Celso Amorim, George Lemieux, Thomas Shannon, Brasilia, Unasul, World News
Eric Ehrmann

Christmas season marks the 50th anniversary of Brasilia, the futuristic capital city designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer, and magazines and online media are celebrating the event.

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Cuba Detains U.S. Contractor

New York Times | MARC LACEY and GINGER THOMPSON | Posted 12.12.2009 | World

Read More: United States Agency for International Development, Castro, Yoani Sanchez, Laptops, Internet, Human Rights Watch, Raul Castro, Cell Phones, Gao, Havana, Censorship, Miami, Development Alternatives, Fidel Castro, Cuba, World News

HAVANA -- A United States government contract worker, who was distributing cellphones, laptops and other communications equipment in Cuba on behalf of...

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Opportunity For New Beginning In US/Latin American Relations Squandered

Vivien Lesnik Weisman | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Honduran Coup, Latin America, Fidel Castro, Manuel Zelaya, President Obama, US Latin American Relationsship, Hillary Clinton, Raul Castro Cuban President, Politics News
Vivien Lesnik Weisman

With his mishandling of the Honduras coup, Obama squandered the promise of a friendship with Latin America, one where Lula da Silva with the US, and not Chavez, set the agenda for Latin America.

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Prieto's New Novel "Travels By Taxi", And Free Speech In Cuba (VIDEO)

The Nation | Ben Wyskida | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books

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Ben Wyskida The Nation In the late 1980's noted novelist Jose Manuel Prieto was asked to leave Cuba, at odds with the Castro regime and what he calls...

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Yoani Sanchez: Obama Answers Top Cuban Blogger

AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

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HAVANA — President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in "talking for the s...

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Big Ag Takes Aim at Cuban Embargo

Barth Anderson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kansas, Fidel Castro, Cuban Embargo, Jerry Moran, Agriculture, Rosa DeLauro, Collin Peterson, Cuba, Barack Obama, Politics News
Barth Anderson

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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Cuba's Soft Power: Exporting Doctors Rather Than Revolution

Steve Clemons | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: Bruno Rodriguez, Central America, Pakistan, United Nations, Henry Reeves Brigade, US Foreign Policy, China, Medical Diplomacy, Susan Rice, Smart Power, US-Cuba Relations, Embargo, Fidel Castro, Sichuan Earthquake, Kashmir, Soft Power, Cuba, World News
Steve Clemons

I would have encouraged Cuba's foreign minister to say that the embargo was an anachronism of the Cold War, has not achieved the goals the US had for it, and harmed both Cuban and US interests.

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Just When You Thought Cuba Might Ever Get Rid Of Fidel

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

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Huffington Post: If you thought Cuba might one day be free of Castro, Ann Louise Bardach has another message for you. The following excerpts from her ...

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Cuban Vote at UN: "Here We Go Again"

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Susan Rice Un Ambassador, Fidel Castro, Cuba Embargo, Cuban-Americans, President Obama, UN General Assembly, US-Cuba Policy, Cuba, World News
Evelyn Leopold

For the 18th consecutive year, the General Assembly condemned the US embargo against Cuba. But this was the first vote since President Obama took office, and everyone listened for hints of change.

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Mario Vargas Llosa on the End of the Incan Empire at the Americas Society

Jim Luce | Posted 10.28.2009 | New York

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Jim Luce

Vargas Llosa speaks about Barack Obama's Nobel Prize, the state of literature, inter-American relations and politics.

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Juanita Castro, Fidel's Sister, Says She Collaborated With CIA

AP | LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

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MIAMI — One of Fidel Castro's sisters says in a memoir released Monday that she collaborated with the CIA against her brother, starting shortly ...

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Cuba Sends Spies To U.S. To Mislead, Misinform

miamiherald.com | By JUAN O. TAMAYO | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON -- In the six months after the 9/11 attacks, up to 20 Cubans walked into U.S. embassies around the world and offered information on terrori...

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Let the Philharmonic Play in Cuba

Alec Baldwin | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

Read More: Philharmonic, Philharmonic in Cuba, New York Philharmonic, Fidel Castro, Cuban Embargo, Cuba, New York Philharmonic Cuba, World News
Alec Baldwin

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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Fidel Castro Suggested Nuclear Strike On U.S.: Documents

nytimes.com | WILLIAM J. BROAD | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

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In the early 1980s, according to newly released documents, Fidel Castro was suggesting a Soviet nuclear strike against the United States, until Moscow...

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The Return Of McCarthyism: Hysteria In Action On The Right (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

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***UPDATE 9/22/09*** I haven't found another embeddable version yet, but sharp-eyed reader Mark points out that you can watch the video here. ***UPDA...

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Taylor Branch To Reveal "The Clinton Tapes"

GQ | Wil S. Hylton | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, 1964 Civil Rights Bill, Monica Lewinsky, Hillary Rodham Clinton, George W. Bush, Martin Luther King Jr., George Mcgovern, Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War, Whitewater, Taylor Branch, Katherine Graham, Lyndon Johnson, Politics News

It has been nearly forty years since three young Democratic activists named Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham, and Taylor Branch moved into a small apartme...

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Signs of Seduction and Change Sprout on Cuban Bodies

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba, Social Change, Generation Y, Capitalism, Embargo, Fidel Castro, Capitalism: A Love Story, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Dying your hair blue, getting a tattoo or attaching a ring to your navel is no longer seen as an ideological debility. Signs have begun to sprout on bodies, of seduction and change.

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Raised at Fidel's Knees, a Son of the Revolution Tells Us What's Behind the Curtain

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba, Leonid Brezhnev, Velasco Alvarado, Juan Almeida Bosque, Cuban Revolution, Juan Juan Almeida, Fidel Castro, Augusto Pinochet, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Juan Juan Almeida brushed up against power and got scratched, without it doing him much good. His book, Memoirs of an Unknown Cuban Guerrilla, is the story of a brazen witness.

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34 Years

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba, Living Alone, Raul Castro, Leaving Home, Subsidies, Independence, Fidel Castro, Soviet Union, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Since I left home in Cuba, I have learned to value autonomy, to distrust the subsidies and all these "gifts" that they constantly throw in the faces of citizens.

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New Photo Shows Healthier Fidel Castro

cnn.com | David Ariosto CNN | Posted 09.23.2009 | World

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HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) -- A new photo of ailing Communist leader Fidel Castro surfaced on Sunday -- the second in 10 days -- revealing a more healthy-look...

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Fidel's Dictionary: A Man's Phrases are Compiled When You Know He's Finished

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 09.13.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba, Fidel Castro, The Dictionary of Fidel Castro's Thoughts, Fidel Castro's Birthday, World News
Yoani Sanchez

To be reduced to the pages of a book, when once you held the microphone in front of a million people, must be a consolation as tasteless as the pap they administer to a patient.

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