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Obama's Speech Through a Cuban Lens; Leaving Rhetoric Behind

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

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Yoani Sanchez

The serene statement delivered yesterday by Barack Obama, with his manner of carefully constructed arguments and invocations to harmony, condemned all the rhetoric to be left in the 20th century.

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Chavez To Write Column For Venezuelan Newspapers

AP | Posted 02.20.2009 | World

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CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez is once again following the lead of his ailing Cuban ally, Fidel Castro _ this time, writing a newspa...

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Instead of "Eco-Tourism" Try "Equal-Tourism": Come to Cuba and Live Like We Do!

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 02.20.2009 | World

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Yoani Sanchez

The golden advertisements that show a Cuba of mulattas, rum, music and dancing will not be able to hide the panorama of collapsing buildings, frustration and inertia. .

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Chavez: Obama Has "The Same Stench" As Bush

Washington Post | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

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In an interview shown in the past week on the Spanish-language network Univision, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama said that Venezuela's firebrand pr...

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Doug Bandow: Drop The Cuba Embargo

The National Interest | Posted 02.07.2009 | World

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The policymaking guard is changing in Washington, but the newcomers are anything but new. Unfortunately, that will encourage policy continuity. One ar...

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Che The Movie, Exquisitely Detailed: It's Not Just One Film, It's Two, Though a Little Bit Overdone

Michael Russnow | Posted 02.06.2009 | Entertainment

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Michael Russnow

Benicio Del Toro is magnetic and haunting as Che, but he has the difficult task of communicating to us through subtitles, as most of the film is told in Spanish.

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Raul Castro Warns World Leaders Against Softening Toward Washington

AFP | Posted 02.02.2009 | World

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President Raul Castro has warned that the US "enemy will never stop being aggressive, dominant and treacherous" on the 50th anniversary of Cuba's Comm...

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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

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

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics

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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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As Cuba's Regime Turns 50, How About Some Common Sense -- Finally?

David Paul Appell | Posted 01.13.2009 | Politics

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David Paul Appell

The brothers Castro have outfoxed ten U.S. presidents, thanks partly to the embargo put in place by John Kennedy in 1961, before Barack Obama was born. Chances are they won't outlast an eleventh.

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Majority Of Cuban-Americans Now Oppose Cuba Embargo

VOA News | Brian Wagner | Posted 01.08.2009 | World

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A new U.S. public opinion poll shows long-time support for the U.S. embargo against Cuba is falling among the Cuban-American community in Miami. VOA's...

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Fidel Castro Offers Talks With Obama

Times Online | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

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Fidel Castro, the former President of Cuba, has offered to talk to Barack Obama, in Havana's latest overture to the US President elect. "With Obama, ...

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Mountain of Snakes

Sean Penn | Posted 12.31.2008 | Politics

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Sean Penn

I'm not a socialist. Or at least not entirely so. As an American, I've got a little Al Capone in me. I like the idea of individual achievement -- just not against a background of hopeless oppression.

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Medvedev To Meet Fidel, As Russia Rebuilds Latin American Relations

Guardian | Posted 12.29.2008 | World

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President Dmitry Medvedev was due to hold talks with Fidel Castro tonight to rebuild Russia's relations with Cuba almost a decade after they ended in ...

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Election Amnesia: Cuba on My Mind

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

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Ashley Rindsberg

With the election in the air, there are many things we've forgotten to remember. But Oscar Elias Biscet isn't one of them because, sadly, we never remembered the good Doctor Biscet in the first place.

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The More Things Change: Norman Mailer and the 1964 Republican Convention

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 11.13.2008 | Entertainment

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Erik Lundegaard

Goldwater lost that election, of course, he lost big, but in later years even the much-hated media would see that convention, and that loss, as the birth of the modern Republican party.

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How Mean Can the Bush Administration Be?

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

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Blake Fleetwood

The Bush administration has offered $100,000 worth of aid to hurricane-battered Cuba; this is but a pittance compared to what is needed by one of our closest neighbors. Someone should remind Bush that the Cold War is over.

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Sam Stein

McCain Campaign Running Obama-Castro Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

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The McCain campaign has a new web ad out placing Barack Obama, for the second time, side-by-side with a foreign dictator. This time, it's Fidel Castro...

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Elian Gonzalez Joins Cuba's Youth Communist Union

CNN | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

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The Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle eight years ago has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union. President Fidel Castro, left,...

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McCain and the Cuba Libre

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

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Robert L. Borosage

John McCain seems intent on embracing every failed policy of the Bush administration. Iraq, check; top end tax cuts, check. Privatization of Social Security, check. Unraveling employer based health care, check. And this weekend, McCain boldly informed the remnants of the Miami Cuban expatriots that he will sustain the most egregiously failed US policy of them all -- the Cuban embargo.

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Castro criticizes Obama plan to keep US embargo

AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics

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HAVANA — Former President Fidel Castro says Sen. Barack Obama's plan to maintain Washington's trade embargo against Cuba will cause hunger and s...

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Cuba's Communist System Unshaken

AP | ANITA SNOW | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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HAVANA — Cuba's parliament named Raul Castro president on Sunday, ending nearly 50 years of rule by his brother Fidel but leaving the island's c...

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McCain Hopes Castro "To Meet Karl Marx" Soon

Reuters | Jason Szep | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Republican presidential front-runner John McCain suggested on Friday that he hoped retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro would die soon and said Castro's ...

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Charlie Gibson's Weird Castro Lede

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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The big news, frankly, was that there was a Castro announcement that didn't involve him being dead.

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