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Cuban Revolution

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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Defying the Castro Brothers Under Cuban Skies

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 09.07.2009 | World

Read More: Cuban Revolution, Raul Castro, Fidel Castro, Cuba Embargo, US-Cuba Relations, US-Cuba Policy, Cuban Embargo, Cuba, World News
Luis Carlos Montalván

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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Cuba: Next in Line for a Color Revolution?

Boris Mamlyuk | Posted 09.02.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba, Fidel Castro, Cuban Revolution, Revolution, Iran, Iran Protests, World News
Boris Mamlyuk

Revolutions start with powerful ideas. The mode of transmission is secondary.

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21st Century Slaves: Cuba and Obama's Hope

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

Read More: Cuban Revolution, Cuban-Dissidents, Slaves, Barack Obama, Cuban Embargo, Cuba, Raul Castro Cuban President, World News
Luis Carlos Montalván

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 "Che" Resonates

Dennis Perrin | Posted 08.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Cuban Revolution, Steven Soderbergh, Che Guevara, Entertainment News
Dennis Perrin

There are stretches in Che when you feel lost in the jungle, where oblivion steadily hovers before closing in with a crash.

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Thugs and Caudillos

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

Read More: Honduras, Hugo Chavez, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, Honduran Coup, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Now in Honduras, the nation can wrap itself in the prickly coat of soldiers or be mesmerized by the "triumphal" return of one who was deposed by force. But in this dilemma, citizens rarely come out well.

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Che Gueverette: Rodizio Slayer

Warren Holstein | Posted 07.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Steven Soderbergh, Vegetarian, Peta, Lydia Guevara PETA Campaign, Fubar, Che Guevara, Vegetarianism, Batista, The Green Revolution, Cuban Revolution, Cuban Missile Crisis, Revolution, Health, Lydia-Guevara, Cuba, Guerilla Warfare, Politics, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

Yesiree, the ole family legacy lives on as the Butcher of La Cabana's bodacious petite-fille is out to butcher the butchers by showcasing her prime cuts.

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Castro: Never Mr. Nice Guy

David L. Wolper | Posted 06.24.2009 | World

Read More: Cuban Revolution, Raul Castro, US-Cuba Relations, Fidel Castro, Cuban Missile Crisis, US-Cuba Policy, Cuba, World News
David L. Wolper

Castro is no hero. The real Fidel Castro lied when he promised democracy, confiscated businesses large and small, and executed or jailed many of his fellow revolutionaries.

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The Young Castro Comes Alive In Soderbergh's Epic Che Through Actor Demian Bichir's Performance

Brad Balfour | Posted 06.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Cuban Revolution, Raul Castro, Steven Soderbergh, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Demian Bichir, The Girlfriend Experience, El Jefe, Latin America, Benicio Del Toro, Mexico, Bolivia, Entertainment News
Brad Balfour

Now that director Steven Soderbergh is in the public consciousness again with his intimate portrait of a high-class escort in The Girlfriend Experienc...

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Obama Threw the Ball, Now It's in Raul's Court

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

Read More: Cuban Revolution, Human Rights, Dissent, Free Speech, Raul Castro, Obama, Free Elections, Cuba, Barack Obama, World News
Yoani Sanchez

If the Cuban government doesn't grab the ball, there are thousands of hands ready to take our turn to launch it.

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Cuba at a Crossroads

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 08.05.2009 | World

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Daniel Bruno Sanz

TO THE HONORABLE BARACK OBAMA, 44TH PRESIDENT OF...

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Revolution.com: Coming to Cuba and Nothing Can Stop It

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 03.20.2009 | World

Read More: Politics, Internet, World, Censorship, Cuba, Human Rights, Cuban Revolution, Information Technology, Communications, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Even today, while behind closed doors they hold the closing ceremony of Information Technology 2009, already a new gap is opening somewhere, where we can pass without permission.

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On the Anniversary of Cuba's Revolution, the Case for Evolutionary Thinking Here at Home

Sarah Stephens | Posted 01.31.2009 | World

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Sarah Stephens

This is a moment for President-elect Obama to decide whether he wants to be the 11th president to champion a failed policy or the first president of a new era to be an advocate for a far more sensible course.

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Mr. Castro, Mrs. Schwarzenegger and Me

Cecilia Alvear | Posted 01.31.2009 | World

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Cecilia Alvear

With the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution this week, I remember the last time I talked to Fidel. It was at the Havana airport in 1988, and Fidel was saying goodbye to Maria Shriver and me. But this was no friendly adios.

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Cuban Economy Not Self-Sufficient 50 Years After Revolution

miamiherald.com | By MIMI WHITEFIELD | Posted 01.24.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba Oil, Cuba Sugar, Cuba Embargo, US-Cuba Relations, Latin America, Cuba Socialism, Cuba 50 Years Revolution, Cuban Revolution, Cuban Economy, Raul Castro, Cuba Economy Castro, Fidel Castro, Cuba, World News

Three weeks after Cuban revolutionaries claimed victory, Fidel Castro declared that the island wanted not only political freedom but also freedom from...

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Cuba: Maintaining the Revolution Block by Block, with a File on Every Citizen

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 01.16.2009 | World

Read More: Cuban Revolution, World, Cuba, Government Surveillance, Politics, Spying, Cdr, Committee for the Defense of the Revolution, World News
Yoani Sanchez

In one of those confusions so common in children, I thought for years that the logo of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution was an enormous eye carrying a machete.

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50 Years Later We Ask: When did the Cuban Revolution Die?

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cuban Revolution, Yoani Sanchez, Cuba, Generation Y, Fidel Castro, Revolutionaries, World, 1968, Spanish, Black Spring, Hippies, Sierra Maestra, Politics News
Yoani Sanchez

In 1975, the year I was born in Cuba, nothing remained of the rebellion that the older people remembered. We had neither long hair nor euphoria.

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