... that he says amount to torturing detainees during interrogations and has promised to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. read the rest here
COSTA DO SAUÍPE, Brazil, Dec 17 (IPS) - A motion calling for an end to the United States embargo against Cuba accentuated the anti-imperialist tone taken on by the summit of Latin American and Caribbean leaders that ended Wednesday in this tourist resort in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia.
HAVANA, Dec 19 (IPS) - "I was ashamed to cry," confesses Alejandro López, a burly Cuban man who a year ago decided to break away from violence and leave behind the "macho" stereotypes that prevented him from expressing his feelings and sensibility.
BANES, Cuba, Dec 19 (IPS) - Coffee was ready, documents and files had been removed to a safe place, communications equipment was switched off and the optical system was secured. With nothing left to do but wait, Cuban lighthouse keeper Miguel Chacón climbed the 218 stairs to the tower of the Cape ...
HAVANA, Dec 30 (IPS) - Cuba’s reintegration into Latin America means that the government of Ral Castro will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Revolution in a wholly different regional context than the one that prevailed in the 1960s, when this Caribbean island nation was marginalised ...
HAVANA, Dec 31 (IPS) - The Cuban Revolution's 50th anniversary on Jan. 1 finds the country facing the challenge of sorting out the economy and improving living conditions, in the context of a complex international situation that may make reaching those goals particularly difficult.
HAVANA, Jan 7 (IPS) - The persistence of racism in Cuba is disturbing to some of the island's thinkers, who are calling for a debate on the problem in this country, where equal rights have not guaranteed equal opportunities for all social groups.
... failure to being an ugly lie. and Pre-Revolutionary Cuba is predictably presented in this film as a screamingly poor, fifth-world country. It seems that every other character is illiterate. People who were there remember it differently, and United Nations statistics from the period tell a different ...
... lab. Then I just wheeled my overflowing luggage cart right through customs. One of the officers asked a man walking near me where he flew in from (Cuba dun dun dun), but I just ran away and didn’t make eye contact. Richard (family friend of family friends the Smiths) picked me up. I felt very official ...
Hey guys, two more sleepies… Teresa’s Bday is this weekend… we all packing right… That’s why celebrating Teresa’s Bday on our first night in Cuba sounnds awsome… see you there bring your party faces. xoxo
