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As Cuba embarks on a bold new experiment - firing 500,000 state workers and letting them plunge into freer markets - experts in the region are watching to see whether the communist government and its baby entrepreneurs can salvage the economy without...
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Euridis Rivero might not look like much of a role model for Cuba’s new economy: His tiny eatery selling fried pork and salami sandwiches on Havana’s...
made popular Sep 15 2010
Fidel Castro, visionary and pioneer.
Fidel Castro is back in the game. After suffering a medical illness, the revolutionary initially let his brother Raul to take...
made popular Sep 10 2010
Cuba’s communist economic model has come in for criticism from an unlikely source: Fidel Castro.
The revolutionary leader told a visiting American journalist and...
made popular Sep 9 2010
There’s a saying that goes “when hell freezes over”, meaning something that is never expected to happen, like peace between Israel and Palestine or...
made popular Sep 8 2010
Cuba’s Fidel Castro, reprising symbols of his former power, wore a full military uniform and spoke to a mass audience outdoors Friday for the first time since he...
made popular Sep 4 2010
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he acknowledges the persecution of gays and lesbians during the Revolution in his country, according to a newspaper interview...
made popular Sep 1 2010
Is Osama bin Laden — figurehead of al-Qaida and the most wanted terror suspect in the world — secretly working for the U.S. government? Former Cuban...
made popular Aug 28 2010
A reinvigorated Fidel Castro marked his 84th birthday Friday after a recent return to the Cuban spotlight, insisting he remained true to the ideals of the revolution...
made popular Aug 14 2010
At a state project to refurbish a decaying building in Old Havana, one worker paints a wall white while two others watch. A fourth sleeps in a wheelbarrow positioned in...
made popular Jul 20 2010
The United States is for the first time actually preparing extensive war plans against an air attack of Iranian nuclear facilities. According to Time:
Other...
made popular Jul 16 2010
Former President Fidel Castro visited the National Scientific Research Center, or CNIC, in Havana last week, his first public appearance since he fell ill in 2006, the...
made popular Jul 12 2010
Smoking bans and recession are stubbing out Cuba’s cigar industry, signalling a hostile era for a product whose mystique once captivated the likes of Winston...
made popular Jun 23 2010
In this week’s installment of Cuban news, Fidel Castro may have ties to Mexico’s drug war.
The arrest of the former mayor of Cancun has revealed a human...
made popular Jun 11 2010
It is a call you would expect from Fidel Castro or Hugo Chávez: soak Latin America’s rich to help the poor and build a fairer society. “In many places it...
made popular Jun 9 2010
The celebrations for the fiftieth anniversary of the first meeting between the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and American writer Ernest Hemingway, began...
made popular May 14 2010
Carlos Franqui, who has died aged 88, was a Cuban writer, journalist and poet who played an influential role in the early years of the Cuban revolution. A close friend...
made popular May 13 2010
Drive along the coast road in Cuba that passes the Bay of Pigs in spring or early summer, and you risk a distressing sight: a stretch of road, some 20 miles long,...
made popular May 8 2010
Dissident Cuban neurosurgeon Hilda Molina, now living in Argentina, said in an interview that Fidel Castro once felt “a very marked inclination” towards her.
The...
made popular Apr 10 2010
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State-run Cuban media outlets announced Tuesday the distribution on the island of a “natural” medicine that can serve to fight AIDS, cancer, malaria, diabetes,...
made popular Apr 7 2010
Bolivia’s army has begun using the revolutionary motto “Fatherland or death, we shall overcome!”, angering some conservative former...
made popular Mar 24 2010
Fidel Castro says President Barack Obama’s “friendly smile and African-American face” are hiding Washington’s sinister intentions for Latin...
made popular Dec 15 2009
Juanita Castro, the younger sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, worked for the CIA during some crucial years of the Cold War, she says in her new...
made popular Oct 27 2009
The United States suspended diplomatic relations with communist Cuba in 1961 and after the Bay of Pigs - a failed C.I.A. effort to overthrow Castro - and the Cuban...
made popular Aug 11 2009
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro predicted that Latin America would be swept by a wave of military coups if Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was not returned to power...
made popular Jul 11 2009
Ireland was one of the poorest countries in Western Europe, with unemployment as high as 17 percent. But the scrappy nation had one advantage: It always invested in...
made popular Jun 23 2009
A quintessential theme, which is not necessarily popular by a majority, is the restoration of relations and lifting of the described embargo of Cuba by the United...
made popular Jun 22 2009
A retired State Department worker and his wife have been arrested on charges of spying for Cuba for three decades, using grocery carts among their array of tools to...
made popular Jun 6 2009
There may not be a more pointless American foreign policy than the Cuban embargo. When Fidel Castro declared himself a community in 1961, President Kennedy crabbed a...
made popular Apr 20 2009
Fidel Castro has called on Latin American countries to support an end to Cuba\’s isolation when they meet the US president at a regional summit.
Cuba is not...
made popular Apr 6 2009
Costa Rican President, Oscar Arias, re-established relations with Cuba in the spirit of progress. He felt that the official coldness that had characterized diplomatic...
made popular Mar 31 2009
Chile has been an exemplary model of democracy, social and political stability and economic growth in a region otherwise known for debt faults [Argentina], excessive...
made popular Mar 26 2009
A lot will be written about the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution. I would like to concentrate on what Cuba was before the Castro brand of communism became the...
made popular Jan 2 2009
Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has slept with 35,000 women in his 82 years of life, according to an upcoming documentary.
“He slept with at least two...
made popular Sep 20 2008
he first revolution in Cuba was bloody. A fiery rebel named Fidel Castro declared war on Fulgencio Batista, energizing the working class to rise up against...
made popular Apr 21 2008
Pope Benedict XVI is in the midst of the first journey to America of his pontificate, and he met with President George W. Bush this week. Hopefully this visit will...
made popular Apr 18 2008
Fidel Castro, the ruler of Cuba who captured power almost fifty years ago in an armed revolution to establish the first Communist state in the western hemisphere has...
made popular Feb 20 2008
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