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November 9, 2011
Raúl Castro's Daughter Joins Twitter, Quickly Calls Opposition Bloggers "Parasites"
TwitterA rare war of words is raging in Cuba.An hour after joining Twitter, Mariela Castro -- president Raúl Castro's daughter and possible successor -- promptly got into an all-out digital girl fight with Cuban dissident Yoani Sánchez.Castro called Sánchez and other opposition bloggers "despicab ... More >>
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August 15, 2011
Fidel Castro's Birthday Present: A Big Transsexual Wedding
Fidel Castro turned 85 this past Saturday, and the celebrations were mostly typical. Supporters held a giant concert featuring dozens of musical acts, but Castro himself spent the day in seclusion, which prompted rumors he might have been too feeble for a public appearance. Miami exiles, meanwhil ... More >>
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August 4, 2011
Cuba gets high-speed Internet
Fidel Castro turned 85 this past Saturday, and the celebrations were mostly typical. Supporters held a giant concert featuring dozens of musical acts, but Castro himself spent the day in seclusion, which prompted rumors he might have been too feeble for a public appearance. Miami exiles, meanwhil ... 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 >>
Culture
June 23, 2011
The perils and heartbreak of migration at Pan American Art's new exhibit
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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May 24, 2011
Cuban Artist Pedro Pablo Oliva Forced to Resign From Seat After Criticizing Cuban Government
Oliva's portrait of Fidel Castro once hung in Havana's National Museum of Fine ArtsCuban artist Pedro Pable Oliva is a world-renowned painter who has been championed by the Cuban government. He even held a seat in the Pinar del Rio provincial legislature. Though, while Cuba show some slow signs ... More >>
Music
June 24, 2010
Cuban punk rockers Gorki and Gil used music to take on Castro
Oliva's portrait of Fidel Castro once hung in Havana's National Museum of Fine ArtsCuban artist Pedro Pable Oliva is a world-renowned painter who has been championed by the Cuban government. He even held a seat in the Pinar del Rio provincial legislature. Though, while Cuba show some slow signs ... 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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April 27, 2010
It's the 2010 Cuban Election: Guess Who Won?
Cubans went to the polls Sunday to pick new political leaders. As far as elections go, it was another tense, too-close-to-call battle between communists and some other communists. Fifteen thousand seats were up for grab in this year's municipal assembly race, the first election in two years. In t ... More >>
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April 14, 2010
Top Ten Cuban Bloggers You Haven't Heard Of
Yoani Sánchez is on the cover of Italian Wired this month. In the three years she's been online, the 32-year-old blogger has become Cuba's Arianna Huffington.via @riccardowiredShe's now a tweeter and a blogger on the Huffington Post, and her blog gets 14 million page views a mont ... More >>
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January 28, 2010
Expats Return to Cuba for Pow Wow, Bad Art
The Cuban government had an enticing travel offer for expats around the world this week: Come back for a three-day panel discussion!Cuban governmentExiles travel to Havana for fancy confabSurprisingly, 450 of them accepted. Yes, a boatload of Cubans living abroad flew to Havana not for the green mo ... More >>
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October 13, 2009
Local Firm to Lay First Fiber-Optic Cable Between Miami and Cuba
via Wiki CommonsTeleCuba, a small Miami firm, says it has won permission from the Treasury Department to lay the first fiber-optic cable between Miami and Cuba. The announcement comes after the Obama administration eased some restrictions on telecom links to Cuba in April.The line could make call ... More >>
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February 7, 2008
Blogging from Cuba
via Wiki CommonsTeleCuba, a small Miami firm, says it has won permission from the Treasury Department to lay the first fiber-optic cable between Miami and Cuba. The announcement comes after the Obama administration eased some restrictions on telecom links to Cuba in April.The line could make call ... More >>

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Raúl Castro's Daughter Joins Twitter, Quickly Calls Opposition Bloggers "Parasites"

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Cuban Artist Pedro Pablo Oliva Forced to Resign From Seat After Criticizing Cuban Government

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Cuban Dissident Leaders call for Lifting Travel Ban

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