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Cuban writer Leonardo Padura (L), participates in a press conference alongside the widow of Martinican writer Edouard Glissant, Sylvie Glissant (C) and French cultural attache, Camille Barnaud (R) to receive the Prix Carbet de la Caraibe et du Tout Monde award on February 15, 2012 in Havana. Padura is known for his detective novels, and was nominated for the award for his novel 'The Man Who Loved Dogs'.
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AP IMPACT: USAID contractor work in Cuba detailed
under a 1996 law calling for regime change in Cuba, are run by the CIA as part of an intelligence plan to topple the government in Havana.While the U.S. government broadly outlines the goals of its aid programs in publicly available documents, the work in Read more »
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Cuba looks to kids to recover faded boxing glory
arm skyward in triumph, and a proud smile spreads across a face still years from feeling a razor's scrape. Perez has just become Havana's first under-75-pound (34-kilogram) boxing champion in a new age category for 9- and 10-year-olds.Boxing-mad Cuba is putting Read more »
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Cuban officials' bar in Washington toasts 'Papa'
"The Old Man and The Sea" there.But Hemingway didn't spend all his time in Cuba writing. He was a regular at the Floridita, a Havana bar where his favorite drink was the Papa Doble, a sugarless daiquiri with rum, maraschino liqueur, lime and grapefruit juice.Washington Read more »
Around the web
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Jaw-Breaking Midwest Carp Flying Home to China’s Dinner Plates
in the Feb. 20 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek. “People look at you funny when you reek of blood and fish.” As they depart from Havana, Illinois, and up a side channel of the Illinois River, the water starts to churn with agitated fish, and the boat’s hull 11:35 AM from Bloomberg.com Read more »
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Alabama-Cuban Initiative celebrates 10 years
you must be from Alabama.’” Learning from the Cubans The program works with many different organizations, but the University of Havana coordinates the majority of its operations. Alabama also works with the ministry of culture and the Cuban health system. 1:01 AM from The Crimson White Read more »
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Havana Journal: Real Estate Fever Spreads in Cuba
Encouraged by legal and economic changes in Cuba, Carmen MartĂnez says she hopes she can finally repair her house in Havana. HAVANA — As fixer-uppers go, Carmen Martínez’s derelict shotgun house is no cakewalk. The living-room roof collapsed 15 years ago, 2/15/12 from The New York Times Read more »
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Veterans honor sailors lost on U.S.S. Maine
Maine (NEWS CENTER) --- On this date 114 years ago, the Navy's U.S.S. Maine blew up and sank in Havana, Cuba. It was an event that sparked the Spanish-American War. On Wednesday at the U.S.S. Maine Memorial in Davenport Park, veterans and active duty sailors 2/15/12 from WLBZ2.com Read more »
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A revolutionary agenda
rolled cigar, but the pace seemed unstressful and the staff were chatting and laughing as they worked. On another occasion in Havana we stopped to chat to a flour depot worker who was having a break, sitting on a low wall against the pavement. We got talking from Morning Star Online Read more »
