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/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ARCHITECTURE-CUBA: If the Walls Could Speak
Fragments of what were once considered the most beautiful neo-classical arcades in the Cuban capital have been uncovered, appearing unexpectedly inside the walls of the Fine Arts Palace during reconstruction work.ENVIRONMENT-CUBA: A Desert Full of Fish Ponds
Environmentally harmful fish- farming techniques have aggravated a long-running process of salinisation and desertification in the province of Guantanamo, at the extreme eastern tip of Cuba, where the rivers are also drying up due to lack of rainfall.RIGHTS-CUBA: Opposition Group Calls for End to Death Penalty
Cuba is one of the countries that makes the most frequent use of the death penalty, relative to its population, protested an internal opposition group which wants the government of Fidel Castro to abolish capital punishment.RIGHTS-CUBA: Opposition Group Calls for End to Death Penalty
Cuba is one of the countries that makes the most frequent use of the death penalty, relative to its population, protested an internal opposition group which wants the government of Fidel Castro to abolish capital punishment.DEVELOPMENT-CUBA: Scepticism Over Announced End of Black-Outs
The scheduled blackouts that have made life difficult for Cubans since the early 1990s are supposed to end in September, although there is widespread scepticism that they will really become a thing of the past./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-CUBA: Tour to the End of the World
An unusual tour of several months through Cuba took singer-songwriter Jorge García to La Máquina, an isolated village on the eastern tip of the island that other musicians have completely forgotten.POLITICS-CUBA/US: A Million March in Anti-Embargo Protest
More than a million people, according to official counts, followed Cuban president Fidel Castro in a "march of the combatant people" Wednesday, demanding an end to the economic blockade the United States has maintained against the socialist-governed island for nearly 40 years.RIGHTS-CUBA: Dissident Group Protests ‘Low-Intensity Repression’
The Cuban government uses "low-intensity repression" against opponents of its socialist regime, an illegal human rights organisation stated in a communique distributed to foreign correspondents Monday.TOURISM-CUBA: Forbidden Fruit of the Caribbean Lures US Visitors
Although travel to Cuba is tightly restricted for United States citizens, in practice tens of thousands visit this Caribbean island nation every year without permission, travelling through third countries, while local authorities here oblige by not stamping their passports.CUBA-US: Massive March to Protest Latest Ruling in Elian Case
Hundreds of thousands of women marched on the United States Interests Section in the Cuban capital Friday to protest the new delay in the return of six-year-old Elián González from the United States.ECONOMY-CUBA: Real Estate Freeze and the Question of Property
The freeze recently declared on all real estate business involving residential units in Cuba highlights the controversial nature of the question of property in the context of the economic reforms undertaken by the government of Fidel Castro since the mid-1990s./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ HISTORY-CUBA: Picasso’s Unknown Family in the Caribbean
Pablo Picasso died in 1973 never having visited Cuba and without ever knowing that his grandfather had left him with relatives on the island - Afro-Cubans and mestizos - who were also unaware they were related to the great Spanish painter.POLITICS-CUBA: Gov’t Refutes Military Talks with Solomon Islands
The Cuban government firmly denied Thursday that it is considering providing military aid to the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, as the 'Nuevo Herald' newspaper in Miami, Florida, had reported.POLITICS-CUBA: Poland Rebuked for Backing Island’s Dissidents
Poland is advising and supporting members of the illegal internal opposition in Cuba in hopes that the Fidel Castro regime will be toppled within five years, charged Cuba's state-run press Tuesday.POLITICS-CUBA: Scepticism Replaces Jubilation in Elian Case
The euphoria felt in Cuba when Elián González was reunited with his father in the United States is turning to pessimism as the likelihood of the shipwrecked boy's prompt return to his home country fades./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-CUBA: ‘Trova’ Tradition as Strong as Ever
Singer-songwriter Jorge García says Cuba's 'trova' music will always be trova, no matter what people want to call it, in response to some of his colleagues who are attempting to found a musical genre they would instead call 'La Novísima' (The Latest).CUBA-US: Elian Is With His Father
Cuban shipwreck boy Elián González was reunited with his father Juan Miguel González Saturday at an airbase near Washington, D.C., after federal agents seized the boy from the home of his great-uncle in Miami.CUBA-US: Possible Police Action to Reunite Elian with his Father
The United States Justice Department is considering law enforcement action, possibly next week, to reunite Cuban shipwreck boy Elian Gonzalez with his father, who has been waiting in Washington to regain custody.DEVELOPMENT: South Summit Agrees to Revive North-South Dialogue/repeating to some points/
The Group of 77 (G-77) coalition of developing countries hopes that the final declaration and action plan agreed at its first summit will give a new boost to the North- South dialogue.DEVELOPMENT: UNDP, Italy Set Example for Donors at South Summit
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Italian government issued an appeal for development aid by setting an example themselves, at a panel held parallel to this week's South Summit of Third World nations in Cuba.DEVELOPMENT: UNDP, Italy Set Example for Donors at South Summit
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Italian government issued an appeal for development aid by setting an example themselves, at a panel held parallel to this week's South Summit of Third World nations in Cuba.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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