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Cuba: Encouraging Artists to Criticize the System
Cuba’s Minister of Culture Abel Prieto in Havana during an interview he granted La Jornada. Photo: Pablo Espinosa.Cuba urges artists to be critical in order to defend the utopia, Abel Prieto saysBy Pablo Espinosa A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter … Continue reading
A Cuban Revolutionary and a Cuban Exile Reunite
Coqui Salazar. Photo by Michael D. Nolan / The Rag Blog.Dos Hermanos – Reunifying Two Cuban BrothersBy Michael D. Nolan / The Rag Blog / April 4, 2009 Toward the end of our week in Havana, Coqui took us on … Continue reading
Guatemala Apologizes for Bay of Pigs Training
Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban counter-revolutionaries, members of Assault Brigade 2506, after their capture in the Bay of Pigs. 1,000 people were imprisoned by Castro’s forces during the US supported invasion. Photo: Miguel Vinas/AFP/Getty Images.Guatemala apologizes to … Continue reading
Hurricane Watch : Texas-Cuba Alliance?
Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas, who will lead a delegation to Cuba, is shown with Shreveport, La. Mayor Cedric Glover, testifying on Capitol Hill Sept. 23, 2008, before a Senate hearing on disaster recovery. Photo by Jose Luis Magana / … Continue reading
Michelle Obama’s Yellow Dress : Shades of Oshun
“Oshun” by Brigid Ashwood.Oshun is an Afro-Cuban goddess of love, maternity and marriage.By Karen Lee Wald / The Rag Blog / January 24, 2009 Since several people commented that Michelle Obama was wearing a yellow dress designed by a Cuban … Continue reading
The Fiftieth Anniverary of the Cuban Revolution
Ernesto “Che” Guevara remembered by the people. Photos source.Cuba Celebrates 50 years in Santiago de CubaBy Ron Ridenour / The Rag Blog / January 1, 2009 Modesty was the tone of Cuba´s celebration of its first half-century of official revolution. … Continue reading
A History Lesson from Cuba: The PIC
Members of the Party: the Independents of Color. Photo: © Gloria Rolando, 2001.Cuba marks centennial of Independent Party of ColorBy Mike Taber / December 29, 2008 Two presentations on little-known history of party that championed black rights in Cuba in … Continue reading
Ron Ridenour : Half-Century of Cuban Revolution: ‘Challenges’
Some Cuban youth have turned to western styles. Here, a young Cuban with a punk hair style watches a tattoo artist apply a tattoo at the Metal City Festival in Santa Clara, Cuba, Oct. 27, 2007. Photo by by Javier … Continue reading
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Ron Ridenour : Half-Century of Cuba’s Revolution: ‘Solidarity’
Cuban walks past billboard celebrating the Cuban Revolution in August, 2008. Photo by Stringer / Reuters. Pastors for Peace leader Rev. Lucius Walker spoke of these 50 years of practicing solidarity as what Jesus Christ would have wanted the human … Continue reading
Fidel Discusses the Tar Sands, Bank Bailouts
Reflections by Comrade Fidel: The Unjustifiable Destruction of the EnvironmentBy Fidel Castro Ruz / December 15, 2008 Can the capitalist society avoid it? News about this issue are far from encouraging. The project to be submitted for approval on December … Continue reading
Cuba: Ahead of the Curve on Food Sustainability
A banana plantation is seen in San Antonio de los Banos in Havana in this July 18, 2008 file photo. Photo: Reuters/Enrique De La Osa/Files.In ‘Eat Local’ Movement, Cuba Is Years AheadBy Esteban Israel / December 16, 2008 HAVANA – … Continue reading
