Cuban Embargo

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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

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

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

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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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The Rubins on "What is Cuban Art?"

Jim Luce | Posted 10.26.2009 | Style

Read More: Richar Bruff Bruff, Alicia Leal, Abelardo Mena, Cuban Hip Hop, Cuban Avant Garde, African Slaves, Sandra Levinson, Mabel Poblet, Donald Rubin, Carlos Estevez, Instituto Superior De Arte, Global Citizens, Alex Rosenberg, ¿What Is Cuban Art?, Zaida Del Rio, Howard Faber, Shelley and Donald Rubin, San Alejandro Art Academy Havana, Alejandro Lazo, Sandra Ceballos, José García Montesbravo, Elsa Mora, Rma, Rubin Museum of Art, Cuban Culture, Marilyn Zeitlin, Chinese Laborers, Oglethorpe University Museum of Art, Center for Cuban Studies New York, Yamilys Brito, Orlando Justo, Ben Rodriguez-Cubenas, Fundacion Amistad, Cuban Cinema, Cuban Artist Fund, Dr. Gail Gelburd, Luly Duke, Manuel Mendive, RocíO GarcíA, New York City, Shelley Rubin, Alberto Barral, Spanish Colonials, Contemporary Cuban Art, Oglethorpe University, Himalayan Art, Cuban Embargo, Alberto Magnan, Donald and Shelley Rubin, Rachel Weingeist, Thought Leaders, Tibetan Art, Style News

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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Let the Philharmonic Play in Cuba

Alec Baldwin | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

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

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: Luis Alberto Garcia, Eduardo Del Llano, Cuba, Obama Cuba, Cuba Juanes Concert, Cuban Embargo, Cuba Reform, World News

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 09.20.2009 | World

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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 09.07.2009 | World

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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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21st Century Slaves: Cuba and Obama's Hope

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

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Today, the interests of international business, the U.S. government, and the Cuban populace coalesce around a single ideal: labor reform in Cuba.

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

Jake Colvin | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

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

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After Raul Castro

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Cuba, US-Cuba Relations, Fidel Castro, Cuban Embargo, Guantanamo, Cuban Economy, Raul Castro, Cuba, Politics News

After Raul, a disciplined group of senior army officers will likely rule Cuba in collective fashion.

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Cuba Embargo Easing Could Make Cuba A US Oil Exporter

Miami Herald | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

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Cuba has launched a bold policy of oil development that could turn the country into an important supplier of fuel in the Caribbean -- and the United S...

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Cuban Musicians Help Thaw US-Cuba Relations

Modiba | Posted 06.29.2009 | World

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This is HuffPost World's regular feature that highlights interesting musicians and musical trends around the world. Know of a great musician doing g...

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US-Cuba Thaw Taking Place In The Arts

Reuters | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

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The U.S. and Cuba governments have taken the first, tentative steps towards ending 50 years of hostilities, but the thawing of relations is already in...

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Havana From the Ground

Michael Rowe | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

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

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Raul Castro: Cuba Open To US Talks On 'Everything'

Reuters | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

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Cuba is open to talks with the United States about "everything" including political prisoners, President Raul Castro said on Thursday, a major softeni...

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Mr. President, May I Also Travel to Cuba?

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.16.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba, Latin America, Cuban Embargo, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, World News

Mr. President, I like to travel, too. I have a passport and everything. I am not a Cuban-American. But I am an American. May I also travel to Cuba?

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Letter from Cuba

Andy Schupak | Posted 05.14.2009 | World

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The end of the blockade, the Cuban people feel, will bring American tourists with the money and freedom needed to create a new beginning for Cuba.

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The Embargo-Industrial Complex Finds a New Argument for Helping Cuba's Castros

David Paul Appell | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

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After all these years of the stale same-old, same-old, the ideologues who've hijacked Washington's Cuba policy for the last couple of generations have managed to come up with a new and updated twist.

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Sons of Cuba-Interview with Director Andrew Lang

Robyn Hillman-Harrigan | Posted 05.08.2009 | Entertainment

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I spent the weekend in North Carolina at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and had the great pleasure of getting to see many inspiring and thought provoking films.

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Enough Hand-Wringing Over Cuba

Jake Colvin | Posted 04.12.2009 | World

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The changes to Cuba policy in the omnibus bill are small but important. Congress has shown a willingness to ease provisions of the embargo and forge a path forward for future changes.

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US Missing Out On Cuban Business Opportunities (VIDEO)

WorldFocus | Peter Eisner | Posted 04.11.2009 | World

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For 47 years, the United States has imposed a trade embargo against communist Cuba. And in recent years, former President Bush made it harder to tra...

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Why Despots Hate Barack Obama

Daniel Altman | Posted 03.02.2009 | World

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Castro, who once spoke favorably of Obama, condemned him this week for refusing to unconditionally return Guantanamo Bay to Cuba and for supporting Israel. Why the about-face?

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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

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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Cheap Grace

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cuba, Embargo, Foreign Policy, Barack Obama 2008, Obama Cuba, US-Cuba Relations, Barack Obama Embargo, Foreign Affairs, Cuban Embargo, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, Cuban Americans, US-Cuba Policy, Barack Obama, Politics News

In area after area for Obama, much goodwill can be garnered simply by embracing common sense. Call it cheap grace. A good place to start would be with changing our preposterous policy towards Cuba.

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The United States vs. Capitalism?

Scott Malcomson | Posted 01.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Government Bailout, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Brazil, Cuban Embargo, Financial Crisis, Federal Reserve, Capitalism, Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, China, Cuba, Group of Rio, Politics News

The rich countries, most innovatively or desperately the United States, are right now developing alternatives to their own system, and very possibly undermining it -- in order to save it.

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