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Margarita Alarcón :
Cuba hosts the CELAC Summit, and ‘parallel’ dissident gathering

The CELAC Summit was unprecedented, with all the leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean gathering together with a common goal: unity. By Margarita Alarcón | The Rag Blog | February 6, 2014 HAVANA — All of Latin America and … Continue reading

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Margarita Alarcón : Five Reasons to Remember the Pentagon Papers

Daniel Ellsberg speaks to reporters outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles on Jan. 17, 1973. Ellsberg’s co-defendant, Anthony Russo is at center right. Photo by AP.Five reasons to rememberthe Pentagon Papers By Margarita Alarcón / The Rag Blog / … Continue reading

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Margarita Alarcón : All Roads Lead to Posada

Luis Posada Carriles. Photo by Delio Requeral / Cubaencuentro.Life as a diplomat’s daughter:All roads lead to Posada By Margarita Alarcón / The Rag Blog / January 27, 2010 The thing that made my life growing up in the U.S. quite … Continue reading

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Margarita Alarcón : 50 Years of Cuban Embargo is Enough

Cuban president Raul Castro at Cuba’s National Assembly in Havana. Photo by Ismael Francisco /AFP/ Getty images.‘Four Riders’ and the Cuban embargo:Fifty years should be enough By Margarita Alarcón / The Rag Blog / November 6, 2010 In 1992, a … Continue reading

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Margarita Alarcón : Cubana Flight 455 Was Cuba’s 9/11

73 black flags mark Cuban remembrance of the Oct. 6, 1976 terrorist bombing of Cubana Flight 455. Photo from picasa. Cuba marked the thirty-fourth anniversary of the bombing of Cubana Flight 455 on Wednesday with a call for the U.S. … Continue reading

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