Cuba's unhappy birthday - Boston Globe

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Cuba's unhappy birthday Boston Globe New Year's Day marks the 55th anniversary of Cuba's communist revolution. It is the only full-blown dictatorship in the Western Hemisphere. As Human Rights Watch noted in April, no other country in Latin America is ruled by a regime that “represses ...

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Oscar López Rivera: El preso que quería ver el mar

Todos hemos sentido instintivamente -lo admitan algunos o no- la indignidad de experimentar que otro país decida la vida de uno de nuestros hijos. Para colmo, haciendo caso omiso de la voluntad de todo un pueblo, incluyendo a su gobernador estadolibrista y a su comisionado residente anexionista. La indignación de sentir en carne viva que no mandamos sobre nuestro destino me ha movido a escribir estas líneas marinas en apoyo solidario a Oscar López Rivera.



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Cuba: More than 2.5 mn foreign tourists in 1st 11 months of 2013 - GlobalPost

Cuba: More than 2.5 mn foreign tourists in 1st 11 months of 2013 GlobalPost ... island this year, according to ONEI figures. Canada is followed by Britain, Germany, France, Argentina, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Venezuela, Chile, Colombia, the Netherlands, Switzerland, China, Peru and Brazil, the Cuban governmental organization said ...

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Brazil police search Amazon reserve

More than 200 Brazilian police search an indigenous reserve in the Amazon region after allegations that a local tribe had abducted three contractors.



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Chinese Firm to Assemble Cars in Cuba - Havana Times

Chinese Firm to Assemble Cars in Cuba Havana Times Global Times quotes Geely as saying that the number of its vehicles on the streets in Cuba “has reached nearly 10,000 units,” utilized mainly by the Cuban Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, the Ministry of the Interior, and the Ministry of ...

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VIDEO: The opera house in the Amazon

The man who has spent 40 years working at Manaus Opera House, in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region.



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Venezuela emerges from trying year

How Venezuela's opposition failed to make the most of 2013



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