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Original Technorati articles tagged “cuba”

• in TV
  Remembering the Cuban Missile Crisis, Tuesday, October 23, on PBS
  Visit a time when “the world came so close to World War III and mutually assured destruction.”
  by missbobetier / on Oct 22, 2012
• in TV
  Unfinished Spaces (2011) Explores the National Art Schools, Cuba
  Rediscover a visionary architectural masterpiece—Cuba’s ambitious yet neglected National Art Schools project.
  by missbobetier / on Oct 10, 2012
• in Sports
  5 PR Recommendations for Ozzie Guillén
  Former MLB Jock Suffers From Classic Case of Foot-in-Mouth Disease on an International Scale
  by torconstantino1 / on Apr 11, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “cuba”

 

• Today in Labor History—May 19

  
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  May 19, 1850 – Four thousand Mexican workers gathered in Sonora, California, to protest the "Foreign Miners Tax," enacted to drive them from gold fields. (From the Daily Bleed ) May 19, 1855 – U.S. troops landed in Shanghai to "protect American interests." (From the Daily Bleed ) ...
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• Mariela Castro Leads March Against Homophobia in Cuba: VIDEO

  
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  Mariela Castro led hundreds of people through the streets of Havana in a march against homophobia on Saturday, al Jazeera reports : People danced La Rampa through the crowded city, chanting "Homophobia no! Socialism yes!" as they made their way through Havana for more than an hour. Cuba has previously persecuted ...
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• 5 Things You Didn’t Know About the Cuban Word FRUTA BOMBA

  
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  Is is common knowledge that papaya in Cuba is vulgar slang for vagina and for that reason this delicious fruit was renamed fruta bomba. Having that in mind, one of our readers, translator Jeff Whittaker, shared the photo bellow with us with the following message: “I snapped this picture at our local grocery store. ...
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• Cuban Doctors in Brazil

  
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  Vincent Bevins of the L.A. Times published a story about the Cuban doctors going to Brazil. There are all kinds of stories embedded within it. First, it is yet another reminder that there are serious economic disparities in Brazil. Glowing reports of development mask a large urban/rural divide, for example. That ...
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• Arte de Cuba

  
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  Can you stand just one more post about Cuba?  This time its a visual treat for you folks who dont live here in Portland Maine.  Since the artist reception is over, I thought Id post some photos of how I hung the show in my little mini gallery inside Constellation Gallery.  Just click here and then go backwards ...
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• Gulag that shames the West: Five years after Obama said hed shut it, over 100 prisoners - including a British resident - are still chained in Guantanamo. DAVID JONES went inside and was horrified by what he found

  
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  For the 166 men who languish inside the detainee camps here, however, out of sight and mind on a sealed-off section of this 45-square-mile naval base in south-eastern Cuba (leased to the U.S. for more than a century under an agreement the Castro regime is powerless to break), time is of no consequence. Since there ...
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• Mapping the Cuban Blogosphere

  
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  Blogger Yasmín S. Portales comments on the challenges of mapping the Cuban blogosphere, including everything and anything written in blogs. This is her most recent project: A directory is a map: you have the swamps of glorious battles swamps and the mountains of infamy. You include it all, or its not a map. In ...
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• VI Conference Against Homophobia in Cuba

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 583
  Detail of the official poster of the VI Conference against Homophobia in Cuba. “Family is love, respect, inclusion.” Cuban blogger and LGBT activist Francisco Rodríguez  announces the events  [es] of the VI Cuban Conference Against Homophobia to be held during the month of May in the island. Written by ...
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• Cuban Spy Rene Gonzalez Renounces US Citizenship

  
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  Rene Gonzalez, currently on probation after spending 13 years behind bars in the United States for espionage, received on Friday formal certification of his renunciation of U.S. citizenship. “The (U.S.) Interests Section (in Havana) gave me the certificate of loss of United States citizenship,” Gonzalez told a ...
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• This Week’s Business News in Pictures

  
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  Cuba challenges Australia’s tobacco rules, American apparel retailers apply some “fair trade” practices and China shows more signs of a slowdown.        
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• La Fórmula Ganadora del Pueblo Cubano / The Winning Formula of the Cuban People

  
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  En Español: (Coraje + 26 + 7 + 53) * (Tenacidad + 2 + 12 + 56) = Victoria * 59 El que responda la siguiente pregunta correctamente tendrá la satisfacción de ser inteligente. Tu mamá estará orgullosa mañana. ¿Cual es el significado de los números? In English: (Courage + 7 + 26 + 53) * (Tenacity + 12 ...
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• The Butler – Trailer

  
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  The Weinstein Company has released the first trailer for The Butler . The film is directed by Lee Daniels and features an all star cast including  Forest Whitaker , Oprah Winfrey , David Oyelowo ,  John Cusack , Alan Rickman , Jane Fonda , Robin Williams , Melissa Leo ,  Terrence Howard , James Marsden ...
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• MICHELLE KNIGHT MOVES IN WITH GINA DeJESUS FAMILY & WILL GET RECONSTRUCTION ON HER FACE

  
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  THESE WOMEN WERE GAUNT, STARVED AND YEARING FOR FREEDOM FROM THIS SEXUAL SADIST THAT ARIEL CASTRO WAS AND IS.  HOW COULD HE HAVE NOT SEEN HOW SICK THEY LOOKED. GHOSTLY WHITE AND SICK WHILE HE CONTINUALLY RAPED THEM. TO TOP IT OFF HE HAD A CHILD WITH BERRY WHO IS NOW SIX YEARS OLD AND WAS LIVING IN THAT SQUALOR OF A ...
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• Cuba: Life in a Cuban Jail

  
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  This article originally appeared in the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, www.iwpr.net Life in a Cuban Jail Journalist Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias speaks about his own experiences, and the mistreatment of other prisoners.   By Laura Paz ...
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• Fidel Castro’s niece calls for a conga dance to eliminate homophobia

  
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  Cuban leader Raul Castro’s daughter, Mariela Castro, who campaigns on LGBT rights, has called on Cubans to join a “conga” dance against homophobia tomorrow in Havana. “We are the heirs of a strongly patriarchal Spanish culture, very homophobic and very discriminating,” Mariela Castro, the niece of Fidel ...
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• Rene Gonzalez Held News Conference Today

  
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  Rene said: "Im now simply a Cuban citizen, a Cuban patriot, which in all cases Ive always been," Gonzalez, 56, said in a Havana news conference as he held up the certificate [renouncing U.S. citizenship] he received on Thursday. "From the first day we were five, we were one. Im not going to feel free until my four ...
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• Cuba is an honorable country

  
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  This is an honorable country Nuria Barbosa León CHALLENGING U.S. government restrictions, San Diego resident Jurg Hinderling, recently visited Cuba as part of the 21st Ernesto Che Guevara Volunteer Work Brigade, comprising friends of Cuba from Canada and the United States. Talking to  Granma International ...
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• FotoFriday: Rooftops in Havana

  
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  This week’s photo was taken from the rooftop of the Hotel Ambos Mundos in Havana, Cuba. FotoFriday: Rooftops in Havana is a post from: Nicks Travel Bug
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• First nonstop Cuba-Brazil flight to take off in June

  
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  Cubana de Aviación will offer the first direct flight between Cuba and Brazil on June 10. Brazilian Tourism Minister Gastão Vieira made the announcement during the international tourism fair (FITCuba 2013) in Varadero. The once-a-week flights will connect Havana and São Paulo. Demand for travel between the ...
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• Skyjacker From The 70s Explains The Hell That Cuba Is

  
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  I’m all for the United States now. I’d even wear a Nixon button. Welcome to Communism. Filed under: History Tagged: Communism , Cuba , Skyjacking , Socialism
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