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Secret Pacts The Cuban government has recently promoted its decision to sign a series of pacts with the United Nations. The commitments covered are in areas as sensitive as can be - civil law, along with political, cultural and social rights. The most extraordinary thing about this event was that nothing has been spread around regarding what these documents mean inside Cuba. As a result, the people don’t know what the Cuban government has signed and how it will affect them. |
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By Laritza Diversent The situation on the ground today in Cuba is extremely dangerous and delicate. It has been clouded now by the widely predicted, but diffuse renunciation, of Fidel Castro to the main people in charge of running the country. |
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In a store where goods are sold in CUCs (convertible pesos) located in La Puntilla, on the corner of First Avenue and Zero Street, in Miramar, by the municipal beach, people are lost in the contemplation of a special bin of apples from Virginia, USA. The large, red apples seem more like wax table decorations for the center of table. They beckon deliciously, but they cost 0.40 CUC. |
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We welcome the news that Fidel Castro has stepped down as Cuban leader. Forty-nine years as the head of a dictatorial regime which has deprived the nation of truly free elections is hardly an honorable mark of distinction. |
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By Dolia Leal Francisco HAVANA, Cuba, February (www.cubanet.org) - Most studies of the current Cuban situation agree that in the, short-term, there will be important changes in the country. |
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By Dolia Leal Francisco HAVANA, Cuba, February (www.cubanet.org) - Most studies of the current Cuban situation agree that in the, short-term, there will be important changes in the country. |
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Felipe Perez Roque Admits that the Dual Monetary System is Unjust |
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• Apparent Calm by Laritza Diversent HAVANA, Cuba – The tranquility that one might sense at the moment from Cuba’s political landscape is hardly synonymous with calm. The significance of certain facts, which have been mostly overlooked, is evidence of the regime’s fear and insecurity. The stale image of Fidel Castro that displays his biographical information in the massive campaign for his nomination as a national deputy has invoked indignation and laughter. |
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