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Cuba: Land of Opportunity
15 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Cuba, United States

By David Swanson
15 February 2015
What can I be sure of after only one week in Havana? Very little. There are exceptions to every pattern, and sometimes more exceptions than patterns.

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Cuba Through the Looking Glass
14 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Cuba, United States

By David Swanson
Today in Havana, Mariela Castro Espin, director of the national center for sexual education and daughter of the president of Cuba, gave us a truly enlightened talk and question-and-answer session on LGBT rights, sex education, pornography (and why young people should avoid it if they want to have good sex)—plus her view of what the Cuban government is doing and should be doing on these issues. She advocates equal rights for same-sex couples and a ban on discrimination, for example.

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Cuba Is Our Family
12 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Cuba, United States

By David Swanson
12 February 2015
Cuba and the Estados Unidos have been family for so long that relationships have been reversed, forgotten, turned inside out, and repeated.

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Cuba Is Good for Your Health
11 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Cuba, United States

By David Swanson
11 February 2015
“It's behind us,” Fernando Gonzales of the Cuban Five said with a smile when I told him just a few moments ago that I was sorry for the U.S. government having locked him in a cage for 15 years. It was nice of the New York Times to editorialize in favor of negotiations to release the remaining three, he said, especially since that paper had never reported on the story at all.

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Cuba Uncensored
10 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Features, Cuba, United States

By David Swanson
February 9, 2015
This evening a handful of visitors from the land to the north asked an assistant (or “instructional” which I take to be a step below “assistant”) professor of philosophy about his studies and his teaching experiences here in Cuba. One of our group made the mistake of asking whether this philosopher thought of Fidel as a philosopher. The result was an almost Fidel-length response that had little to do with philosophy and everything to do with criticizing the president.

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US peace and justice actvists in Cuba
09 Feb 2015; posted by the editor - Cuba, United States

By David Swanson
8 February 2015
We arrived in Havana tonight, or year 56 of the revolution, 150 of us filling an entire airplane, a group of U.S. peace and justice activists organized by CODEPINK. The place is hot and beautiful despite the rain.

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