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The Threat of a Label: "Dissident"

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Cuban Dissidents, Cuban Communist Party, Human Rights in Cuba, Fulgencio Batista, Cuba, Social Democrats, Christian Democrats, World News
Yoani Sanchez

This article comes from the second issue of Voices, a new digital magazine from Cuba. A sugar-coated image shows Cuba as a country where social justi...

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Che and the "Original Sin" of the Intellectuals

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Cuban Writers and Artists Union, Pablo Milanes, Silvio Rodriguez, Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Padilla Affair, Heberto Padilla, Cuba's Five Grey Years, Cuba, Che, Orlando Zapata Tamayo, Real Socialism, Uneac, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Art for tourists in Cuba: Che is always prominently displayed Exclusive to Huffington Post. It's been said a thousand and one times: intellectuals ...

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Fidel Castro Book: Former Dictator Back In The Public Eye With New Book Out In August

CNN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Fidel Castro Book, The Strategic Victory, Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro, Books, Cuba, Castro the Strategic Victory, Books News

Cuba's Fidel Castro on Tuesday said he would publish a new book in August on the fighting more than 50 years ago between his ragtag rebels and the 10,...

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Choices for Cuban Dissenters: Stigma, Prison or Exile

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Cuba's Black Spring, Political Prisoners in Cuba, Cuban Revolution, Health Care in Cuba, Human Rights in Cuba, Fulgencio Batista, Fidel Castro, Education in Cuba, Raul Castro, Cuba, Orlando Zapata Tamayo, Cuba's New Man, World News
Yoani Sanchez

There are at least two hundred Cuban prisoners of conscience serving prison sentences for acts defined as common crimes, acts that would not be considered criminal in a country with a different political system, one more tolerant and more plural.

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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 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Bolivia, Abc, Steven Soderbergh, Fulgencio Batista, Judgment at Nuremberg, Frost/Nixon, Benicio Del Toro, Russnow, Ram Productions International, The Reader, Che, Che Guevara, Movies, Peter Andrews, Harvey Milk, Passion of the Christ, Peter Buchman, Defiance, Julia Ormond, Alberto Iglesias, Benjamin Van Der Veen, Fidel Castro, Mel Gibson, Michael Russnow, Cuba, Milk, Lisa Howard, Spartacus, Entertainment News
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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