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Cuba: Oh joy!

Skye Hernandez — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:15:41 +0000

Cuban blogger Ninety miles away….in another country and Why does the glass have to be half empty or half full?, from Trinidad, both find good reasons to delight in their world.

Cuba: A FARC Cry

Skye Hernandez — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:10:41 +0000

Cuban blogger Machetera questions the timing of the rescue of French/Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt. And, she says, the comments of this high profile hostage show Ms Betancourt's experiences with the FARC guerillas, “left her with no greater understanding of the Colombian conflict than when she was seized on her presidential campaign tour seven years ago.”

Cuba: Developing Hackers

Jose Murilo Junior — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:19:30 +0000

André Deak is a Brazilian blogger who has recently visited Cuba, and in ‘Cuban Hackers‘ [PT] he tells about the ‘Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas‘ (Informatic Sciences University), where local developers are learning to create code in one of the most precarious technological environments, caused by the US embargo. Deak concludes that, like Cuban mechanics who learned to keep old cars riding, local developers might become very specialized hackers in the future.

Cuba: Waiting in Miami

Skye Hernandez — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:15:24 +0000

Ninety miles away….in another country points readers to an article about the cultural milieu of Miami's Little Havana, where old men eat Cuban sandwiches and dream of regime change in the island of their birth.

Cuba: The Church and Gay Rights

Skye Hernandez — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:02:36 +0000

The Cuban government's growing support for gay rights is drawing criticism from the island's Roman Catholic Church. Protest is good, says Uncommon Sense, but the Church has it all wrong on this issue.

Cuba: Above average

Skye Hernandez — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:17:19 +0000

The Cuban Triangle comments on the astonishing results of a UNESCO education study on third and sixth graders, in which Cuban students did so much better than the rest of Latin America.

Cuba: Exploring Oil

Skye Hernandez — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:05:26 +0000

The Cuban Triangle is puzzled by a Florida Congressional delegation's idea that Cuba should be blocked from drilling for oil in its own Gulf waters. He says comments by Senator Mel Martinez, reported in El Nuevo Herald, must sound to Cuban readers, “as if he thinks he is in charge of their country.”

Cuba: EU sanctions

Skye Hernandez — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:02:25 +0000

Ninety miles away….in another country posts two updates on the European Union's lifting of sanctions against Cuba. One is a comment on a CNN reporter's use of the word “blockade“, and the other a note on the arrest of an activist.

Cuba: Election Summer

Skye Hernandez — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:42:02 +0000

Circles Robinson Online on Cubans' interest in November's US presidential election, and what the possible election of Barack Obama may mean for relations between the two countries.

Cuba: Europe to Lift Sanctions

Skye Hernandez — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:43:07 +0000

The Cuban Triangle takes note of the European Union's decision to lift sanctions imposed in 2003, while Ninety Miles Away….in another country quotes Oswaldo Yañez to provide a “frame of reference” for this development.

Cuba: Review of Sanctions

Janine Mendes-Franco — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:45:03 +0000

Both Babalu and Child of the Revolution blog about the European Union's upcoming decision on whether or not to end sanctions on Cuba.

Azerbaijan: Media Campaigner Assaulted

Onnik Krikorian — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:32:51 +0000

This is Tbilisi Calling, the blog of journalist Matthew Collin, reports that a media rights campaigner has been pistol-whipped and hospitalized in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku. The incident happened after police raided a party celebrating the 80th anniversary of the birth of Che Guevara.

Barbados, Bahamas, Cuba, U.S.A.: R.I.P. Russert

Janine Mendes-Franco — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:44:41 +0000

Cuban blogger Ninety miles away…in another country, Adrian Gibson at Weblog Bahamas and Living in Barbados acknowledge the passing of American journalist Tim Russert.

Cuba, Bermuda: Critiquing Che

Janine Mendes-Franco — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:45:42 +0000

Cuban blogger Babalu visits Argentina, where, “conspicuous in its absence was the che propaganda I fully expected to be bombarded with”, while A Radical in Bermuda says: “Che Guevara, like all revolutionaries, indeed all people, had both his strong and his weak points.”

Cuba: Paying for Performance

Janine Mendes-Franco — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:36:43 +0000

Uncommon Sense and Child of the Revolution report on “a new rule that will allow Cubans to earn according (to) their labor”.