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Cuba by billboards
Our Observer in Cuba, blogger Yoani Sanchez, takes us on a tour of the propaganda billboards of Havana. Read more and see the photos. Yoani runs the blog Generacion Y. She was recently voted by Time...
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Yoani sends a thank you note to her spies
Yoani Sanchez, our Observer in Cuba, is under permanent surveillance. She decided to photograph the men who camp outside her house. Yoani lives in the capital Havana, from where she writes the blog...
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"Obama should read Granma"
Image: "Pexi" on Flickr. Gaja Pellegrini is a communications consultant in Belgium. She's been following the situation in Cuba since a visit to the country two years ago, during which she met one of...
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Obama gesture leaves Cubans hopeful but wary
"An open road for travel to Cuba". Front page of the Puerto Rican-based "El Nueva Dia" on Tuesday. Image: "juan787". After 50 years of strict sanctions, Barack Obama's gesture towards Cuba on Monday...
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Our Observer in Cuba, blogger Yoani Sánchez, has decided to test Cuban Web censorship with a hidden camera. Subtitles by France 24. Our Observer in Cuba, blogger Yoani Sánchez, has decided to test...
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French student deported from Cuba for befriending political dissidents
Foreigners are welcome in Cuba, as long as they stick to the beaches and don’t meddle with local politics. A young French student learnt this the hard way, when she was forcibly deported from the...
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Raul Castro: “We no longer see him”
Saturday marked the Cuban Revolution's 56th birthday and Raul Castro's third time in celebrating the event with a televised speech. One of our Observers there, Yoani Sanchez, watched the speech on her...
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Jailed for crying out his hunger
An unemployed drunkard shot to fame last month in Cuba when a video of him storming a TV report to demand food began circulating on the Web. His outburst got him a prison sentence, making him a symbol...
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Video: Colombian rock star Juanes's outburst against Cuban concert censorship
The Colombian rock star Juanes gave a much anticipated concert for peace in Havana, the Cuban capital, along with 14 other Hispanic artists on September 20. But the concert was nearly cancelled when...
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“This country is one big prison with walls built of ideology”
Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez was awarded Latin America's most prestigious prize in journalism in July of this year. Going to pick it up however, has proved impossible. Yoani is forbidden from leaving...
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A very controversial job at McDonald’s
This is a recruitment ad for a position at the Cuba branch of McDonald's. Strangely enough, they seem to have forgotten to mention, that the only McDonald's on the island, is in the Guantanamo Bay...
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Teenage Castro writes to FDR
This letter, held in the American National Archives in Washington, is dated November 6, 1940. It was written by Fidel Castro, a teenager at the time, to the then US president, Franklin D. Roosevelt....
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Cuba’s 'balseros' risk their lives to set foot on US soil
A recent video of stranded Cuban boat people that were rescued by the crew of a luxury cruise ship is a stark reminder of the risks illegal immigrants are willing to take
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Leaked video shows Cuban spy course on dangers of social media
Eduardo Tato Fontes Suarez is an intelligence officer with Cuba’s interior ministry. A lecture published on the vid
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Five decades on, the embargo continues
Cuba Led by the United States in 1962 the US-Cuba trade embargo has limited virtually all American companies from any trade connections with Cuba. On Tuesday 13th September, President Obama once more...
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