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Cuba News Roundup: Fidel Castro, Jeffrey Goldberg, and Laura Pollan
AP Photo/Estudios Revolucion, CubadebateFidel Castro is back indeed, and talking about his near-death experience to La Jornada. And, while taking in a dolphin show at Cuba's national aquarium (he seems...
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Not Fidel's Cuba Anymore When Los Aldeanos, Silvito el Libre Perform in Miami
As we await news of a potential easing of U.S. travel rules for cultural pursuits in Cuba, it looks like the Cuban government may be loosening things on its end as well. El Nuevo Heraldreports that...
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Al Kamen Misses the Mark on Alan Gross
Who doesn't love Al Kamen's "In the Loop" column in The Washington Post? His scoop is always well researched and substantive, while bringing a little bit of much-needed levity to the news about town....
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Fidel Castro Adds 2+2 and Gets 5
Can someone out there in cyberspace please explain to me (as if I were a little child) the logic behind Fidel’s most recent statement last Friday? According to him, although he did in fact say, “The...
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Ileana Chides Netanyahu over Cuba
Politico's Ben Smith reports that incoming House Foreign Affairs Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen worked to shut down a potential warming of Cuban-Israeli relations after Fidel Castro made a surprise...
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Cuba News Roundup: Airports, Party Leadership and Trial of Alan Gross
It figures that just as I get ready to take an extended leave for the next two months (during which I'll be unable to blog here as much as I'd like), U.S.-Cuban affairs would get to their most...
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No Man is an Island (Fidel Castro turned 85)
Five years after Fidel Castro’s separation from power, it is essential to examine the role that the former revolutionary leader has played in the current Cuban political system from his convalescence...
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Cuba and Fidel Castro: Beyond his 86th Birthday.
Regardless of how long he lives, Fidel Castro has an influential role in shaping the political discourse in Cuba. Fidel skillfully mixed Marxism and nationalism and made a revolution that changed the...
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Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis: A Rashomon Exercise
“When I saw the rockets being fired at Mario’s house, I swore to myself that the Americans would pay dearly for what they are doing. When this war is over a much wider and bigger war will begin for...
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