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May 22, 2012
Cuba's High-Speed Internet Link To Venezuela Was a Giant Lie
Last summer, millions of Cubans were deliriously ready to blow their meager earnings on badly knit Che dolls on Etsy, flood Facebook with Fidel-praising status updates and, yeah, just download mucho, mucho porn. High-speed Internet, they were told, was finally coming to the masses via a 1,000-mile l ... More >>
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May 17, 2012
Cuba North
Last summer, millions of Cubans were deliriously ready to blow their meager earnings on badly knit Che dolls on Etsy, flood Facebook with Fidel-praising status updates and, yeah, just download mucho, mucho porn. High-speed Internet, they were told, was finally coming to the masses via a 1,000-mile l ... More >>
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May 10, 2012
To Guayabera or Not to Guayabera?
Last summer, millions of Cubans were deliriously ready to blow their meager earnings on badly knit Che dolls on Etsy, flood Facebook with Fidel-praising status updates and, yeah, just download mucho, mucho porn. High-speed Internet, they were told, was finally coming to the masses via a 1,000-mile l ... More >>
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April 27, 2012
Travel Agency Destroyed, Owner Suspects It Was Firebombed For Booking Trips to Cuba
A Coral Gables travel agency exploded into flames early this morning. Police dogs detected accelerant inside the burnt out building, according to Channel 10 News. And the agency's owner says she suspects it was firebombed in retaliation for booking flights to Cuba."It's not that it's burned. It's pu ... More >>
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April 16, 2012
Hillary Clinton Parties at Cuban-Themed Bar, Sparks Dumbest Scandal Ever
Forget about the Secret Service agents and their Colombian hookers. Ozzie Guillen praising Fidel Castro? Old news. The raging hot scandal this morning, according more than 100 articles on Google News at last count, is that Hillary Clinton spent last night in Cartagena dancing and drinking beer at a ... More >>
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March 29, 2012
La Cuba pa’ la Gente
Forget about the Secret Service agents and their Colombian hookers. Ozzie Guillen praising Fidel Castro? Old news. The raging hot scandal this morning, according more than 100 articles on Google News at last count, is that Hillary Clinton spent last night in Cartagena dancing and drinking beer at a ... More >>
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March 15, 2012
Chico and Rita: Cartoon Cuban love at Coral Gables Art Cinema through March 16 to 22
Forget about the Secret Service agents and their Colombian hookers. Ozzie Guillen praising Fidel Castro? Old news. The raging hot scandal this morning, according more than 100 articles on Google News at last count, is that Hillary Clinton spent last night in Cartagena dancing and drinking beer at a ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2012
Obama Administration Says No to Florida Ferry Service to Cuba
You're going to have to wait for that romantic cruise to Havana. Under President Obama, travel restrictions to Cuba have eased from the Bush years, with new air charters opening routes from Miami and Tampa and even Texas to the island. That thaw, though, apparently doesn't include passenger boats ... More >>
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January 26, 2012
Annual Study: Cuba Has the Worst Press Freedom in the Americas
The annual Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index is out, and Cuba continues to have the least freedom of the press in our part of the globe. No other country in the Americas even comes close to Cuba's lowly ranking. Meanwhile, the United States fell 27 places in the rankings in a worrisom ... More >>
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December 29, 2011
Asia De Cuba's Crispy Tofu: A Dish Non-Vegetarians Should Love
Of all of the Latin American-Asian fusion dishes on Asia de Cuba's diversely unique menu, why would you order slabs of brown tofu? Because they're damn good and you don't have to be vegetarian to enjoy them. Dining with a vegetarian - when you are a natural carnivore who seeks out beef, veal, lam ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
Sweet Deck
Of all of the Latin American-Asian fusion dishes on Asia de Cuba's diversely unique menu, why would you order slabs of brown tofu? Because they're damn good and you don't have to be vegetarian to enjoy them. Dining with a vegetarian - when you are a natural carnivore who seeks out beef, veal, lam ... More >>
Blogs
November 10, 2011
Pope Benedict May Visit Cuba Next Year
Few pastoral visits caused as much controversy as Pope John Paul II's 1998 visit to Cuba. Catholic exiles worried that the Pope's visit to the island would further legitimize Fidel Castro's dictatorship, and images of the two shaking hands was not a welcome site for many in Miami.Now, the Vatican ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
Castro Legalizes Property Sales, Miami's Exiles Eye Long-Lost Family Homes
For fifty years, all Cuban property sales have been strictly under the cigar-stained thumbs of Fidel and Raul Castro -- until today. The regime announced that starting next week citizens can own up to two houses, move without government approval, and buy and sell their houses. Some experts see a ... More >>
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September 29, 2011
Cubans Can Buy and Sell New Cars, Raul Castro Says
Say farewell to the most enduring image of the time bubble the Castros have built around Cuba: the kinda charming fleet of jerry-rigged '50s American cars clogging Havana's streets, held together with not much more than duct tape and hope.For fifty years, the regime has forbidden most Cubans from ... More >>
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September 27, 2011
Michele Bachmann Makes Up Second Cuban Missile Crisis Based on No Evidence
In a major development, Cuba went to the United Nations yesterday and announced it wanted it to normalize relations with the United States. However, Michele Bachmann won't have it. Not because of anything like "prove facts" or a "rationale and informed understanding of the issue," but because she ... More >>
Music
August 25, 2011
Pablo Milanes at the American Airlines Arena August 27
In a major development, Cuba went to the United Nations yesterday and announced it wanted it to normalize relations with the United States. However, Michele Bachmann won't have it. Not because of anything like "prove facts" or a "rationale and informed understanding of the issue," but because she ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
90 Miles Features Cuban Comfort Food at Tropical Park Tonight
90 Miles90 Miles To Go serves Cuban soul food with a message.In Key West there's a famous landmark that stands at the southernmost point in the continental United States. The marker reads, "90 miles to Cuba." The message rings loud and clear: So close, yet for all intents and purposes, Cuba might ... More >>
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August 4, 2011
Cuba gets high-speed Internet
90 Miles90 Miles To Go serves Cuban soul food with a message.In Key West there's a famous landmark that stands at the southernmost point in the continental United States. The marker reads, "90 miles to Cuba." The message rings loud and clear: So close, yet for all intents and purposes, Cuba might ... More >>
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July 20, 2011
Bigoted NASCAR Track Owner Wonders If the Cuban National Anthem Is Sung in Homestead
Is anyone all that surprised when someone associated with NASCAR continually spouts racist, ignorant garbage? Not really. Sure, it's an image the league is trying to move past, but Bruton Smith, an owner of several NASCAR tracks, is sure making it hard. The guy is full of more hot air than all th ... More >>
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June 29, 2011
Havana Hosts Its First Independent Gay Pride Parade, Sort Of
A flyer for the event featured Prado Avenue's lion sculptures dressed in drag.It's quite a human rights paradox. Next month, the Cuban parliament will discuss a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage on the Communist isle, yet GLBT citizens are, like all Cubans, discouraged from gathering and ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
Cuba's new entrepreneurs ponder their future
A flyer for the event featured Prado Avenue's lion sculptures dressed in drag.It's quite a human rights paradox. Next month, the Cuban parliament will discuss a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage on the Communist isle, yet GLBT citizens are, like all Cubans, discouraged from gathering and ... More >>
Blogs
June 1, 2011
'Down With Castro' Fliers Earn Cuban Activists Five-Year Prison Terms
This guy cannot handle angry leaflets.Life in La Habana has been inching toward change lately. These days, it's perfectly legal to serve up to 50 people in your restaurant, to own your own barber shop and to spend all afternoon loading clunky dial-up porn on your home computer.Still most definite ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Get Nostalgic
This guy cannot handle angry leaflets.Life in La Habana has been inching toward change lately. These days, it's perfectly legal to serve up to 50 people in your restaurant, to own your own barber shop and to spend all afternoon loading clunky dial-up porn on your home computer.Still most definite ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
Dreaming in Cuba
This guy cannot handle angry leaflets.Life in La Habana has been inching toward change lately. These days, it's perfectly legal to serve up to 50 people in your restaurant, to own your own barber shop and to spend all afternoon loading clunky dial-up porn on your home computer.Still most definite ... More >>
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April 15, 2011
Amigo Skate Cuba's 16-Band Skateboard Benefit at Transit Lounge Tomorrow
When considering the misfortune (a communist dictatorship that rules with an iron fist, poverty pedaled as "socialist equality," a lack of basic comforts like Tylenol and, oh, light after 8 p.m., and freedom of speech) that's befallen the once sweet island paradise known as Cuba, it's easy to for ... More >>
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February 11, 2011
Fuego Cuban Music Festival Canceled a Week After Its Announcement
Fuego Entertainment's president and CEO Hugo Cancio.Cuban music aficionados and lovers of el cubaneo in general had reason to rumba in front of their computer screens last Wednesday when Fuego Entertainment dropped the news that it'd be producing the first-ever Fuego Cuban Music World Festival. ... More >>
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February 8, 2011
Cuban Officials to Testify in Posada Carriles Trial
In a highly unusual move, three officials from Cuba could take the stand as early as today in the trial of Luis Posada Carrilles, the Miami freedom fighter or terrorist, depending on which side of the Florida straits you live. The officials are expected to testify in federal court in West Te ... More >>
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November 19, 2010
Luis Bofill's "No Me Vuelvo a Enamorar"
Luis Bofill got his start in Cuba's Nueva Trova movement of the late '70s with the group Cuba Nueva. From there, he would cut a mean rug as an exciting interpreter of standards and for generating an infectious blend of jazz, rumba, Latin, and Afro-beat. He's been calling Miami his home since ... More >>
Music
November 11, 2010
Los Aldeanos and Silvito el Libre at Miami-Dade County Auditorium November 14
Luis Bofill got his start in Cuba's Nueva Trova movement of the late '70s with the group Cuba Nueva. From there, he would cut a mean rug as an exciting interpreter of standards and for generating an infectious blend of jazz, rumba, Latin, and Afro-beat. He's been calling Miami his home since ... More >>
Blogs
November 9, 2010
Iskander Talks Los Aldeanos y Cuban Conscious Hip-Hop
Los Aldeanos is leading the new generation of rebel music in Cuba. Since 2003, this collective has operated from within the confines of a tyrannical dicatatorial regime and made conscious hip-hop records that call out Fidel and his henchmen. It's music that reflects a starving, oppressed, bu ... More >>
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September 30, 2010
Cuba Libre, Please
Los Aldeanos is leading the new generation of rebel music in Cuba. Since 2003, this collective has operated from within the confines of a tyrannical dicatatorial regime and made conscious hip-hop records that call out Fidel and his henchmen. It's music that reflects a starving, oppressed, bu ... More >>
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September 13, 2010
Cuba To Lay Off 500,000 State Workers While Growing The Private Sector
Fidel Castro now claims that his statement claiming that the Cuban model of communism no longer works was misinterpreted and taken out of context by an American journalist, but actions speak louder and words as the island nation has announced a major layoff of state workers. At least 500,000 workers ... More >>
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July 30, 2010
Hillary Clinton to Visit Cuba in Coming Weeks?
Photo via U.S. State Department websiteApparently, the Cold War is not what it used to be. First we find out that the no-longer-so-Soviet Union (aka Russia) still has spies in the U.S. but they are totally lame and shop at Costco. Now Cuba teams up with the Catholic Church and announces it will r ... More >>
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July 15, 2010
Plato Royale: Battle of Yuca Frita, Havana Harry's vs. Casa Larios
Americans have potatoes. Cubans have yuca. So in Miami, you can find the root vegetable pretty much everywhere arroz y frijoles are sold. The starch can be boiled or fried but must be drenched in mojo (a sauce prepared with heavy amounts of garlic, olive oil and citrus juices) to be legitimate.Local ... More >>
Music
June 24, 2010
Cuban punk rockers Gorki and Gil used music to take on Castro
Americans have potatoes. Cubans have yuca. So in Miami, you can find the root vegetable pretty much everywhere arroz y frijoles are sold. The starch can be boiled or fried but must be drenched in mojo (a sauce prepared with heavy amounts of garlic, olive oil and citrus juices) to be legitimate.Local ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2010
BP Oil Spill Benefits Cuba, Fidel Castro
While Deepwater Horizon continues spewing black crude into the Gulf of Mexico, Cuban commies might be rejoicing. That's because the oil spill could be the strongest argument yet for ending the embargo.El Máximo and Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has signed an offshore drilling deal with C ... More >>
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June 10, 2010
Cuban Dissident Leaders call for Lifting Travel Ban
Hardliners opposed to lifting the travel ban to Cuba have been among the staunchest champions of the Communist island's increasingly vocal dissident movement. But a letter released Thursday by 74 of the Cuba's most prominent dissenters undermines some of the key arguments made by leaders of Miami's ... More >>
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May 27, 2010
Enterprising Cubans Use Condoms as Water Balloons, Flasks, and Fishing Equipment
via Global PostA fisherman fashions floats out of condoms.One of the few things that is not in short supply in Cuba is apparently condoms. The government heavily subsidizes and promotes Chinese made condoms and sells three of them for the equivalent of a U.S. penny. While this may contribute to t ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2010
Raices de Esperanza Aims to Change Cuba One Free Cell Phone At A Time
From anti-Castro bromides beamed for decades into Cuban airspace to Everglades training camps for squads of never-used, would-be invaders, Miami has a long, mostly futile history of trying to spark change in Cuba from afar. photo by Kotoviski Could free cell phones change life in Havana? ... More >>
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May 13, 2010
Human Rights Watch: Cuba More Repressive Than Ever
Cuba has been on a repressive kick since the beginning of a year. After well-known critic Zapata Tamayo died in February, other Cubans took to the streets in protest. Another one, Guillermo Farinas, is said to be at death's door. The government, in turn, responded by beating some them -- the Lad ... More >>
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May 6, 2010
Havana Good Time
Cuba has been on a repressive kick since the beginning of a year. After well-known critic Zapata Tamayo died in February, other Cubans took to the streets in protest. Another one, Guillermo Farinas, is said to be at death's door. The government, in turn, responded by beating some them -- the Lad ... More >>
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May 6, 2010
The Good Ol'Dias
Cuba has been on a repressive kick since the beginning of a year. After well-known critic Zapata Tamayo died in February, other Cubans took to the streets in protest. Another one, Guillermo Farinas, is said to be at death's door. The government, in turn, responded by beating some them -- the Lad ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2010
Cuba Readies for American Tourists With 200,000 New Hotel Rooms and Ten Golf Courses
"The gringos can't help but spend their money. They are the easiest tourists to sell to. They never ask for discounts," Daniel Garcia, a used book seller who hawks his inventory to tourists on the streets of Old Havana, tells Bloomberg news. He's not the only person in Cuba hoping that a potentia ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2010
Thousands Attend Puerto Rican Band Calle 13's Habana Concert
Who knew Cubans even liked Puerto Ricans? On Tuesday, boricua reggaetoneros Calle 13 threw a concert in Habana and 200,000 Cubans showed up.from diplo's twitter It was the second major concert by an international star in Cuba in the last year, following August's Juanes show. Singer René Pérez J ... More >>
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March 25, 2010
Baroque in Havana
Who knew Cubans even liked Puerto Ricans? On Tuesday, boricua reggaetoneros Calle 13 threw a concert in Habana and 200,000 Cubans showed up.from diplo's twitter It was the second major concert by an international star in Cuba in the last year, following August's Juanes show. Singer René Pérez J ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2010
Cuba Begins Experimenting With Capitalism, or Something Vaguely Resembling It
Cuba may have a bustling black market of underground entrepreneurs, but legal private enterprise has been outlawed since all businesses were nationalized in 1968. Now, according to Reuters, the communist island is about to embark on an experiment with something resembling capitalism.The ... More >>
News
March 4, 2010
If you thought Cuba's National Mule Census is dumb, think again
Cuba may have a bustling black market of underground entrepreneurs, but legal private enterprise has been outlawed since all businesses were nationalized in 1968. Now, according to Reuters, the communist island is about to embark on an experiment with something resembling capitalism.The ... More >>
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February 25, 2010
Hearts Grow Fonder
Cuba may have a bustling black market of underground entrepreneurs, but legal private enterprise has been outlawed since all businesses were nationalized in 1968. Now, according to Reuters, the communist island is about to embark on an experiment with something resembling capitalism.The ... More >>
Culture
February 18, 2010
Avant-garde Cuban art at the Lowe in Coral Gables erases political barriers
Cuba may have a bustling black market of underground entrepreneurs, but legal private enterprise has been outlawed since all businesses were nationalized in 1968. Now, according to Reuters, the communist island is about to embark on an experiment with something resembling capitalism.The ... More >>
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