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Cuba: Sex, Taking All Comers / Ivan Garcia
There is still the ration book. Potatoes are scarce, the price of fruit is going through the roof, and drinking a natural orange juice is a luxury. Sanitary pads are only distributed every two months… more →
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Mexicanos clavadistas arrasan la Serie Mundial de Clavados
wrote 11 hours ago: En el marco de la Serie Mundial de Clavados organizada por la Federación Internacional de Natación ( … more →
Cuba: Sex, Taking All Comers / Ivan Garcia
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wrote 6 days ago: There is still the ration book. Potatoes are scarce, the price of fruit is going through the roof, a … more →
Fidel Castro, Mentor to Chavez / Ivan Garcia
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wrote 1 week ago: The French General Charles de Gaulle used to say that when two people or two countries associated wi … more →
Private 3D Movies, the Latest Fashion in Havana / Ivan Garcia
wrote 2 weeks ago: Some are advertised online. And they pay taxes to the state. Other work by the left. Either way flow … more →
Camouflaged Capitalism / Ivan Garcia
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Like Deng Xiaoping in China, General Raul Castro is using capitalism to save Cuba’s brand of sociali … more →
Havana and the Cult of Burglar Bars
wrote 1 month ago: Photo from La reja de mi ventana Havana is not Caracas. You can still walk the streets at night. The … more →
Tapatio sports stars shine abroad
wrote 1 month ago: The past weekend was one of sporting success for Guadalajara-born athletes competing across the worl … more →
Raul Castro Buys Time
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wrote 1 month ago: On Sunday, April 14, at 11:45 PM Havana time, the president of the National Electoral Council, Tibis … more →
DIVING: FINA Diving World Series 2013, Edinburgh - Live on Sky Sports
wrote 1 month ago: The third leg of the 2013 FINA/Midea Diving World Series takes place at the Royal Commonwealth Pool … more →
Jorge Olivera: The History of the Cuban Dissidence is Long
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wrote 1 month ago: Photo: Víctor Manuel Domínguez For someone from Havana, the best thing is to walk the streets in spr … more →
When Fidel Castro Wanted to Break Up the Dissident Movement
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wrote 1 month ago: Neighbors witnessing the arrest of a dissident in 2003 — see more detailed note below. 2003 wa … more →
Cuba, An Island of the Aged
wrote 1 month ago: The statistics are troubling. For more than thirty years the average Cuban woman has given birth to … more →
Sonia Garro and Ramon Munoz: A Year in Prison Without Trial
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wrote 1 month ago: Freedom gives light, color, harmony, life to a dark dead society. Freedom-Democracy for Cuba. A year … more →
An American Pope
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wrote 2 months ago: It is unprecedented. For the first time in Catholicism’s more than two thousand year history, we hav … more →
Uncertainty in Cuba After the Death 0f Hugo Chavez
wrote 2 months ago: For Joel, a 29-year-old engineer, the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez marks a before and a … more →
Havana: Bread, Pills, and Weed
wrote 2 months ago: Néstor, a baker, on one of his dawn work shifts, after selling 60 lbs of hard bread to the owner of … more →
Raul Castro: His Last Term
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wrote 2 months ago: It is likely that the saga of a five decades old government in which the Castro brothers have played … more →
Cuban Fast Food
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wrote 2 months ago: Without McDonald’s, Burger King or KFC, fast food par excellence in 21st century Cuba consists of fr … more →
Drinking in Cuba
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wrote 3 months ago: As with everything in the island of the Castros, there are two standards for alcoholic beverages. If … more →
