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Doug Bandow: Drop The Cuba Embargo

The National Interest | Posted 01.07.2009 | 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 01.07.2009 | 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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Castro's Promise: A Future Without Poverty; Now Only the Poor Remain

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 01.06.2009 | World

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Yoani Sanchez

The Humble I had not yet been born in April 1961, when the socialist character of the Cuban process was declared. "This is the socialist revolution ...

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Cuban Doctors Traded for Venezuelen Oil

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

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Yoani Sanchez

In Havana, your bank account would grow with the fifty convertible pesos you'd receive each month for your stay in Caracas. Your wife ordered a laptop and your youngest son asked for Play Station.

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From Anonymity to a Global Voice For Human Rights... In Just a Year

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 01.03.2009 | Media

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Yoani Sanchez

The Year of Yoani Note: The following post is from Desde Aqui, the blog of Yoani Sanchez's husband, independent journalist Reinaldo Escobar. It is ...

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Cuba Celebrates Revolution's 50th Anniversary

AP | ANITA SNOW | Posted 01.01.2009 | World

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SANTIAGO, Cuba — Fifty years after triumphant armed rebels descended from the mountains, communist Cuba celebrated the revolution's anniversary ...

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

Sarah Stephens | Posted 12.31.2008 | 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 12.31.2008 | 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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Beloved Cuban Singer: "We are Paralyzed... We Make Plans for a Future That Never Comes Nearer."

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.31.2008 | World

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Yoani Sanchez

Beyond the strings of his guitar he modulated his best tune yesterday, the one that raises dissent and the finger of the citizen pointed at power. It's the same tune hummed by thousands.

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Cheap Grace

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 12.30.2008 | Politics

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Robert L. Borosage

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 Cuban People and the State: Who Subsidizes Whom?

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.30.2008 | World

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Yoani Sanchez

The end of subsidies The tedium of this end of year drove me to go see the dreary spectacle of our parliamentarians in their final meeting of 2008. ...

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In Cuba, Isolated Islanders Wait For The Internet

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.28.2008 | World

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Yoani Sanchez

A vague completion date, and the question of whether it will bring information for all, surrounds the submarine cable linking Cuba and Venezuela.

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Christmas in Cuba 2008, Marking Another Year of a People in Waiting

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.26.2008 | World

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Yoani Sanchez

Today could be the 3rd of June or the 9th of September, because in Cuba, there are hardly any signs that it is Christmas.

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Cuban Economy Not Self-Sufficient 50 Years After Revolution

miamiherald.com | By MIMI WHITEFIELD | Posted 12.24.2008 | 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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Mallhabana.com: Web Site Lets Cubans Abroad Buy Gifts On Island

AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 12.23.2008 | World

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HAVANA — A country that shunned Christmas for decades is now looking to cash in on the holiday season, promoting an online shopping site designe...

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Solutions for Cuba: Let Everyone Speak

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.23.2008 | Politics

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Yoani Sanchez

Let everyone speak, no matter whether in complaint or in support of a proposal designed to address the problems.

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The United States vs. Capitalism?

Scott Malcomson | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

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Scott Malcomson

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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Mariela Castro Responds: Calls Yoani a "Cocky Hen"

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.17.2008 | World

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Yoani Sanchez

Gallita / "Cocky hen" A curious end of the year in which the surprises accumulate, Christmas trees return and sexologists start to use the language of...

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Bush Shoe-Thrower Elicits Editorial Reactions

James Freedman | Posted 12.17.2008 | World

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James Freedman

World Editorial Roundup for December 16, 2008.

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

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.16.2008 | World

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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 12.14.2008 | 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 12.13.2008 | 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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Asking Mariela Castro: When Will All Human Rights Come Out of the Closet in Cuba?

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 12.12.2008 | World

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Yoani Sanchez

I still don't understand that we accept the right of another to choose with whom they make love, however we continue in this ideological monogamy they have imposed on us.

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Belinda Salas: Cuban Activist Beaten By Police

Christian Science Monitor | Sara Miller Llana | Posted 12.10.2008 | World

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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 12.09.2008 | World

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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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