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2012-04-12 / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo / Feature Article

Praying to Ratzinger behind the bars of the revolution

The prison guards had a radio on. It was a small transistor radio - an obsolete thing like everything else in the Police Station of La Regla, a town across the Havana bay. The interrogation offices were decorated in an antiquated style typical for Soviet-like political propaganda: Pictures of the assault on the Moncada Barracks, of the Granma yacht landing, of Che Guevara's bandaged arm, of the ... more

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Photo: Jirí Havrda / San Lazaro's Day

2012-04-12 / Jorge Olivera Castillo / Feature Article

Cuba and Europe: affinities and disparities

“This is the most beautiful land that human eyes have ever seen.” These were the first impressions of the Italian admiral Christopher Columbus when he beheld the land, which is now known ... more

2012-01-26 / Leopoldo Fornés-Bonavía Dolz / Feature Article

Private Entrepreneurship in Cuba: Hard Way of Capitalism

It has been a long time when the social democracy leader Felipe Gonzáles, a former Spanish prime minister announced to the press, not without a reason, something what makes you think: “The capitalism ... more

2011-12-01 / Alejandro Tur Valladares / Feature Article

The Longest Way

In the decade of the 80´s, the Chinese discovered something what the Cuban leaders are discovering now: “The communism is the longest way to reach the capitalism.” Later, in the decades ... more

2011-07-29 / Víctor Manuel Domínguez / Feature Article

The Work on Own Account and the Future

Returning of licenses for business running on one´s own account in Cuba, more than a sign of opening the centralized system of state employment, it is a fact which recognizes a fiasco of the economic ... more

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2012-05-17 / Marc Frank (Reuters)

Cuba drags feet on foreign investment

Cuba's reform plans to attract more overseas investment are off to a slow start as the government focuses more on regulating...more

2012-05-17 / Reuters

Daughter of Cuban leader Raul Castro to visit US

HAVANA: Cuban President Raul Castro’s daughter is scheduled to visit California next week to speak at a conference of experts on Latin America during a rare US trip by a member of Cuba’s ruling family...more

2012-05-17 / Sarah Rainsford (BBC News)

Cuba's crumbling buildings mean Havana housing shortage

Havana is beguiling from a distance, especially its old colonial buildings bathed in tropical sunshine. But up close this city is crumbling...more

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