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Paco Pena Astonishes With Aplomb While The Afro Cuban All Stars Sizzle

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 10.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Massey Hall, Flamenco Dance, Flamenco, Spanish Guitar, Afro-Cuban All-Stars, Afro-Cuban Music, Paco Pena, Latino, Latin America, US-Cuba Relations, Latin Dance, Cuban-Americans, Dance, Havana, Performance, Entertainment News
Marissa Bronfman

I cannot recall the last time I experienced such an incredibly ebullient performance of such vitality and vigor, such precision and beauty, as Paco Pena's A Compas (Primal Pulse).

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Miami firm says it will lay first US-Cuba fiber

AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home

Read More: Miami, New York-New York, Havana, Cuba, Venezuela, Home News

NEW YORK — A small Miami-based company says the U.S. government has given it permission to lay the first optical communications fiber from the U.S. to Cuba. That could drastically cut the cost of calling the island nation and make the Internet more accessible to Cubans.

The Treasury Department could not immediately confirm that TeleCuba Communications Inc. has received approval. The Obama administration eased long-standing restrictions on telecom links to Cuba in April.

TeleCuba says its cable will be operating by the middle of 2011. It still needs final permission from the Cuban government to land the cable. Also, while the cable could make calling very cheap, the Cuban government will set rates, and could keep restrictions on Internet access as well.

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Cultural Diplomacy in the Caribbean: Why the New York Philharmonic Must Go to Cuba

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 10.05.2009 | New York

Read More: Caribbean, Cuba, Cultural Diplomacy, Cultural Ambassadors, New York Philharmonic, Caribbean Diplomacy, Cuba-Embargo, Cuba-Sanctions, Foreign Policy, Foreign Relations, Havana, Marti Adams, Office of Foreign Asset Control, United States Treasury Department, Zarin Mehta, Orchestras, New York News
Arlene M. Roberts

A visit by the New York Philharmonic, patrons included, would be a continuation of the improving trend in U.S.-Cuban relations.

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US diplomat met with Cuban dissidents in Havana

AP | PAUL HAVEN | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Havana, New York-New York, Cuba, Home News

HAVANA — Two Cuban dissidents say a senior U.S. diplomat took time out of unannounced talks with Cuban officials this month to meet with 15 opposition activists.

The dissidents say the meeting with Bisa Williams happened during a Sept. 21 lunch at the U.S. Interests Section, America's diplomatic mission in Cuba. Williams is the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs.

Martha Beatriz Roque and Vladimiro Roca told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Williams was intereted in learning how Cubans who oppose the government cope with the hardships of daily life.

Roque and Roca have both spent time in jail for their political views.

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US, Cuba Held Unannounced Talks

AP | MATTHEW LEE and PAUL HAVEN | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

Read More: Bisa WIlliams, US-Cuba Relations, Western Hemisphere Affairs, President Obama, Cold War, American Foreign Policy, Havana, Cuba, State Department, World News

NEW YORK — A senior American diplomat has held unannounced, high-level talks in Havana with the Cuban government, three State Department officia...

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Mariela Castro Espin, President Raul Castro's Daughter, Champions Cuba's Gay And Transgender Communities

advocate.com | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Raul Castro, Gay Rights, Havana Gay Community, Cuba Gays, Havana Gays, Havana, Mariela Castro EspíN, Cuba, World News

On sultry Saturday nights in Havana, thousands of young men and women -- including hundreds of gay men, a few lesbians, and many, many beautiful trans...

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Leo

Margarita Alarcon | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Latinos, Manhattan, 1960s, Civil Rights Movement, Memorials, Leo Orris, Cuban Missile Crisis, New York City, Obituaries, Havana, Cuba, New York News
Margarita Alarcon

For years Dr. Leo Orris and his family would be our sanctuary, our conversations, our endless nights of discussions where themes would range from the history of SDS and SNICC to how to end the Vietnam War.

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The Importance of Being... Cuban?

Margarita Alarcon | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: New York, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Havana, Cuba, World News
Margarita Alarcon

Rules and regulations that have been valid between the US and Cuba since the year 2004 are no longer going to be enforced

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Facing Che's Image, In The Shadow of Marti, a Concert is More Than a Concert

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 09.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Arturo Sandoval, Havana, Albita Rodriguez, Willy Chirino, Plaza of the Revolution, Jose Marti, Cuba, Paquito D'Rivera, Che Guevara, Juanes, Music, Concert, Entertainment News
Yoani Sanchez

On the September 20th, the Colombian singer Juanes will try to put a human face on an architectural ensemble where no one is going to go and sit placidly.

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Revolico.com Takes Communist Cuba's Black Market To The Web

GlobalPost | Posted 08.24.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba's Craigslist, Revolico, Havana, revolico.com, Cuba Black Market, Cuba, Craigslist, World News

HAVANA -- On this Communist-run island, the black market is a vast, irrepressible force, an underground river of unlicensed services, goods pilfered f...

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Honduras... The Big Backstory

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

Read More: Iran-Contra, Otto Reich, Chicago, Havana, Arias, Obama, Ros-Lehtinen, South America, Ortega, China, Organization of American States, Iran, Oas, Zelaya, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Harry Potter, Panama Canal, Nicaragua, Bill Clinton, Hugo Chavez, Mara Salvatrucha, Latin America, Kremlin, Venezuela, Hugo Llorens, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Gangs, Hutchinson Whampoa, Cuba, Soto Cano, War on Drugs, Palmerola, Sandinista, Dea, Mossad, World News
Eric Ehrmann

The White House denounced the action in Honduras as "illegal." But that call requires Washington to cut off all but humanitarian aid and could jeopardize the big Soto Cano base outside Tegucigalpa.

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Interview with Carlos Acosta: 'I Am Insufferable'

Christina Patterson | Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ballet, Houston Ballet, Dance, Cuba, Havana, Entertainment News
Christina Patterson

"We're very strong-minded people," says Acosta. "We learn to control the struggle. You wake up every single day to hammer your body, and you do it, and it does something to you."

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Why Can We Visit Kim Jung Il but Not Old Havana?

Jake Colvin | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Sanctions, Orbitz, Obama Cuba, US-Cuba Relations, Cuban Embargo, Cuba Travel Ban, Travel, Cuba, Travel to Cuba, US-Cuba Policy, Havana, World News
Jake Colvin

Restricting travel to Cuba severely limits the positive impact Americans can have abroad through everyday activities and interactions.

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Havana From the Ground

Michael Rowe | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

Read More: U.S.-Cuba-Relations, Hotel Nacional, Us-Cuba-Relations, Fidel-Castro, Havana, Obama, Cuban Blockade, Cuban Embargo, Cuban Missile Crisis, Obama-Cuba-Embargo, Obama Cuba Travel Restrictions, Fidel Castro, Obama Cuba, Hillary Clinton, Cuban-American Exiles, Cuba, Boston Brahmins, U.S. Cuba Policy, Miamia, Venezuela, World News
Michael Rowe

Many ordinary Cubans see Barack Obama as the first light at the end of the nearly fifty year-old tunnel.

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Letter From Paris: The Cuban Dreamland

Beth Arnold | Posted 05.22.2009 | World

Read More: Miami Herald, Obama Trinidad, Obama Summit of the Americas, Summit of the Americas, Fidel Castro, Cuban, Air France, Field of Dreams, Bermuda Triangle, James Morgan, Cuba, Havana, Caribbean Sea, Barack Obama, World News
Beth Arnold

It is time for American policies toward Cuba to change, but I must admit when I left there, I could see the point of trying to hold Fidel's feet to the fire.

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'Cruel' Cuba Embargo Must Be Lifted: Fidel Castro

AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba Obama, Cuba Travel Restrictions, Cuba Embargo, Obama Cuba, Castro Embargo, Cuba Travel Ban, Trade Embargo Cuba, Cuba, Travel to Cuba, Us Cuba Relations, Fidel Castro, Fidel Embargo, Havana, World News

HAVANA — Fidel Castro said Tuesday the Obama administration's softening of sanctions is "positive although minimal," and criticized it for leavi...

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Cuba: Island in the Dream

James Moore | Posted 05.14.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba Travel Restrictions, Cuba Travel Restrictions Lifted, Obama Cuba, Cuba Embargo, Cuba, Havana, World News
James Moore

True freedom and capitalism are likely to sweep the island like an intoxicant if America ever gives Cuba actual business reconsideration.

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Cuban Baseball Played For The Love Of The Game (VIDEO)

WorldFocus | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba Us, Cuban Baseball, Raul Castro, Video, Baseball, Castro, Cuba Us Relations, Cuba Baseball, Havana, Worldfocus, Cuba, Sports, World News

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus met with Cuban President Raul Castro to discuss improving relations, amid speculation that the U.S. is rea...

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Cuba Plans New Offshore Drilling In Gulf Of Mexico

US News and World Report | Thomas Omestad | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

Read More: Off-Shore Drilling, Latin America, Repsol, Gulf of Mexico, Havana, Oil Prices, Oil, Cuba, Oil Reserves, World News

Cuban officials say that exploratory drilling to assess the potential for oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico is likely to resume in the second quarter...

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Let a Thousand Blogs Bloom: Young Cubans Voice Their Discontent

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 03.04.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Santiago De Cuba, Cuban Olympic Athletes, Ernest Hemingway, Repression, Fidel Castro, Political Prisoners, Politics, Havana, Virgin of Charity, Raul Castro, Cuba, World, Cachita, Dissidents, Dissent, Blogging, Technology, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Young people filled with discontent and with desires to make things change, received us to hear about the Cuban blogosphere.

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My Friend Went to Cuba and All She Brought Back Was... This Lousy Husband!

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 02.22.2009 | World

Read More: Casanova, Communism, Tourism, Prostitution, Jose Marti, Fidel, Cuba, Havana, Jinetera, Jinetero, World News
Yoani Sanchez

I don't know if it's my pale skin, but my passport is just as blue and Cuban as the one he has. If not for his false impression that I'm a foreigner, he'd never come close to me.

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President Obama: Set Cuba Free

Eric Margolis | Posted 02.21.2009 | World

Read More: Communism, Ernest Hemingway, Dwight Eisenhower, Fidel Castro, Cuban Embargo, Inauguration, Ussr, Guantanamo, Moscow, Marxism, Bolivia, Che Guevara, Havana, Barack Obama, Paris, Cuba, 100 Days, World News
Eric Margolis

Releasing Cuba from 50 years of prison could be one of President Barack Obama's most sensible, easiest, and most applauded early acts.

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Belinda Salas: Cuban Activist Beaten By Police

Christian Science Monitor | Sara Miller Llana | Posted 01.10.2009 | World

Read More: Latin American Foundation of Rural Women, Latin America, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Belinda Salas Beaten, Cuban Activist Beaten, Havana, Cuba, Flamur, Belinda Salas, Cuban Dissidents, World News

Mexico City - On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Wednesday -- a day when Cuban dissidents traditionally g...

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Beating the Drum on Cuba Policy

Jake Colvin | Posted 01.09.2009 | World

Read More: Raul Castro, Obama Cuba, Cuba, Cuba Embargo, US-Cuba Relations, Havana, US-Cuba Policy, Foreign Policy, World News
Jake Colvin

Next January will mark the first time in eight years where there is a chance that the next U.S. President could loosen restrictions on Cuba. A number of groups are watching closely.

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Cuba Cracks Down On Bloggers

Mother Jones | Marc Cooper | Posted 01.09.2009 | World

Read More: Generacion Y Cuba, Bloggers, Cuba Censorship, Free Speech, Generation Y Cuba, Yoani Sanchez, Crackdown on Bloggers, Censorship, Havana, Cuba, Generation Y, World News

Havana-based writer Yoani Sanchez was recently named by Time magazine as one the 100 most influential people in the world, and she won the 2008 Ortega...

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