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Postal Service

A Package to ‘La Yuma’

Por Zunilda Mata

At 3:10 in the afternoon she entered the wide and deserted corridors of the main Cuban post office. Sonia had been carried away by the news and had packed up a small box with photos and a few ...

Generation Y

A Visit More Symbolic Than Political

Por Yoani Sánchez

The last time a United States president visited Cuba Havana’s Capitol Building had not yet opened, baseball’s star pitcher The Black Diamond died, and my grandmother was a little girl with messy ...

Opinion

The Embassy Wall Fell

Por Yoani Sánchez

In a few days they will change the letterhead, replace the name plaque, and hoist the flag. This building with its green-tinted windows by the sea will cease to be called the Untied States ...

US-Cuba Relations

Alan Gross leads movement to strengthen relations between Cuba and the US

5 May 2015 (With information from agencies) – Alan Gross, the former US contractor who imprisoned in Cuba for five years for espionage until last December, is heading up a movement created to push ...

US-Cuba Relations

Yoani Sanchez: “I am not expecting that Obama is going to demand our rights”

(EFE) - Yoani Sanchez said on Wednesday that the normalization of relations between Cuba and the United States gives new hope to the inhabitants of the Island, but stressed that Cubans themselves ...

US-Cuba Relations

The Gag Law: A Victim of the Rapprochement between Cuba and the US?

Por Victor Ariel González

Following the custom of seeing the speck in the eye of another, the “gag law” that in recent days has caused a waved of protests in Spain has been criticized by Cuba’s official Cuban. The Prensa ...

Opinion

A different end of year

Por Juan Carlos Fernández

The New Year was welcomed in the city of Pinar del Río very differently from before. For a long time it seems that we experienced more of a wake then a celebration. Wallets were thin, tempers ...

History

Will the eagle return?

Por Fernando Dámaso

Those who tear down monuments, dismantle statues, or deface figures display their lack of culture and blatant disrespect. Monuments celebrate important milestones in a people’s history, some for ...

Analysis

The U.S.-Cuba Spy Exchange

Por Mario Félix Lleonart

The days following December 17 are now a significant part of the close history shared by Cuba and the United States. Regardless of the support or objections that the recent political decisions may ...

Oposition

Cuban Civil Society Open Forum statement on the resumption of relations with the US

With regards to the announcement of the restoration of relations between Cuba and the United States, coming out of secret negotiations, Cuban Civil Society Open Forum wishes to state that:We are ...

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