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Varadero is no longer a prohibited city, but… 24 Aug 2013 | 11:28 pm
In a country such as Cuba not known for its middle class, few are the families who can give themselves the luxury of paying between 300 and 800 convertible pesos for a three or four night package in a...
The Day After Fidel Castro / Ivan Garcia 16 Aug 2013 | 07:31 am
Never has the life or death of one man awakened such dissimilar expectations. Fidel Castro, who turns 87 on August 13, has been given up for dead so many times that when death does come for him, many ...
Alvarez Guedes: Let’s Keep Everything Among Cubans 14 Aug 2013 | 02:24 am
In spite of being censored on the island, the Cuban comedian who passed away on July 30 in Miami at the age of 86, left us a saying indelibly etched upon all of our lives. If someone was trying to be...
CUBA Journalism in the street 10 Aug 2013 | 06:09 am
Photo: Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo Owing to the lack of statistics and figures, independent Cuban reporters have to reinvent certain rules when providing information. We don’t have access to government p...
Did Fidel Castro Make a Revolution Of the Humble, By the Humble and For the Humble? / Ivan Garcia 8 Aug 2013 | 10:34 am
On April 16, 1961, just before the end of a fiery speech at the speech delivered during the funeral for the victims of the bombardments that marked the prelude of the Bay of Pigs invasion, Fidel Castr...
Cuba Maintains Silence About North Korean Ship / Ivan Garcia 7 Aug 2013 | 11:12 am
If, from the island, a person wants to read about the rusty North Korean freighter Chong Chon Gang, where the Cuban regime was caught with obsolete Russian weaponry, they must pay 4.50 CUC an hour — t...
Cuba: Eases Travel to the United States / Ivan Garcia 7 Aug 2013 | 10:37 am
Two days before multiple entry visas good for five years, for Cubans with relatives in the United States, I walked around the outside of the U.S. Interest Section in Cuba (USIS), a few feet from the H...
A Survivor Named Fidel Castro 2 Aug 2013 | 09:18 pm
Fidel Castro and Cecilia Sanchez It is said that in his childhood he liked listening to news on the radio about the Spanish Civil War alongside the family cook. At the height of WWII he sent a letter...
Why Isn’t the Dissident Movement Relevant to the Average Cuban 28 Jul 2013 | 11:22 am
My neighbors think exactly the same way as many in the opposition. They are as unhappy with the government of the Castro brothers as any dissident. Many a night I have to listen to loud complaints and...
An Interview with Berta Soler, Leader of the Ladies in White / Ivan Garcia 28 Jul 2013 | 11:12 am
(Exclusive, Iván García in Havana) If you want confirmation that socialism does not work, do yourself a favor and visit Alamar. This community, twenty minutes east of Havana, is an example of real ur...
