| 07/06/2008
09:54 AM |
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Cuba pushes for trial of exile (Miami Herald)
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With Panama's Supreme Court recent ruling that a 2004 pardon of Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles was unconstitutional, Cuba is hoping that the anti-Castro militant is extradited to face justice.
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| 07/05/2008
07:10 AM |
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Livin? La Vida Local (New York Times)
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In this multilayered first novel set in 1950s Cuba, American expatriates try to bury their dark pasts, even as the Castro brothers gather revolutionaries in the hills.
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| 07/04/2008
08:53 PM |
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Rachel Kushner's 'Telex From Cuba' (International Herald Tribune)
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The title of Rachel Kushner's multi-layered and absorbing first novel is somewhat misleading; the novel's real draws are its complex relationships and well-researched cultural context, not the big telex-worthy events.
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| 06/30/2008
02:42 PM |
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Cuba Extending Mobile Phone Coverage to Guantanamo Bay (Cellular-News.com)
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Cuba's Telecommunications Company (ETECSA) has announced that it is to expand its cellphone coverage in a road linking several eastern provinces. The Cuban News Agency (ACN) reported that the company will start to provide mobile coverage on the highway linking the provinces of Las Tunas and Granma, also the shortest way to reach Santiago de Cuba and Guantanamo, and a radio station is being built ...
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| 06/30/2008
09:22 AM |
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Flew guns to Castro, but soon fought him (Miami Herald)
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Pedro Díaz Lanz, a Cuban pilot who helped supply weapons to Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra mountains and then became the first chief of the Revolutionary Air Force before breaking with the Cuban leader, died in Miami Thursday night of a self-inflicted bullet wound to the chest, relatives and friends said. He was 81.
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| 06/27/2008
10:33 PM |
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Viernes, 27 de Junio de 2008, 15:49hs (Invertia Venezuela)
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HAVANA, June 27 . - Cuba plans to raise the capacity of a refinery in the eastern city of Santiago to 50,000 barrels a day, more than double current output, the island's foreign investment minister said on Friday.
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| 06/21/2008
06:04 AM |
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Quintessential Winslow Homer Works Captured in Installation at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Art Daily)
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Boys in a Pasture, 1874, Winslow Homer, American, 1836 – 1910. Oil on canvas. The Hayden Collection—Charles Henry Hayden Fund, 1953. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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| 06/17/2008
05:58 PM |
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Chávez: No one can halt the triumphant advance of Cuba and Venezuela (Granma Internacional)
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frías said today that the revolutions in Cuba and his country are successfully moving forward and affirmed that this triumphant advance will not be halted by Yankee imperialism.
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| 06/13/2008
06:05 PM |
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Ceremony of pride, regret (The Record)
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PASSAIC — On Sunday morning, Eduardo Montano helped raised the Cuban flag in Passaic to mark the overthrow of Spanish colonial rule in 1902.
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| 06/13/2008
06:19 AM |
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Visit to Hulman Field by vintage 1929 Ford Tri-Motor airplane thrills aviation fans (Terre Haute Tribune Star)
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The pioneer of commercial air travel landed in Terre Haute on Wednesday night and began providing rides Thursday.
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