Two decades after the demise of Soviet bureaucratic “socialism” and the onset of its “Special Period” crisis, Cuba is immersed in an ongoing debate on the future of its socialist project…

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In 2012, the White House will focus on the most important of international and national issues: the re-election of the President. U.S.-Cuba policy will fall into “Next Year’s” box - or the year after that. The National Security staff reverts to its familiar positions on relations with that troublesome island: ignorance and arrogance…

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Published by the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., this 100-plus pages paper diagnoses the main problem of the Cuban economy as ‘an outdated model of central planning’  and argues for constructive engagement by the international financial institutions and U.S. policy makers aimed at strengthening the pace of internal economic reforms in Cuba.

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The 21 Cuba International Book Fair’2012 will be held from February 9th to the 19th, 2012.It will pay tribute to the Bicentennial of the rebellion organized by José Antonio Aponte against the Spanish colonial empire in Cuba and the Centennial of the Colored Independent Party members’ uprising. It will also honor our many Caribbean cultures, envisioned as a great cultural melting pot, diverse and at the same time integrated by their common history..

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There is a lot of discussion about Cuba and Internet access and how many Cubans are not connected to it. Oddly enough, most of the critics assume that having access is merely dependent on political will. A recent report by Nick Miroff for NPR’s “All Things Considered” was titled “In Cuba, Dial-Up Internet Is a Luxury.” The report did not address the issues of infrastructure cost; rather, those matters were disregarded…

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Stupid, petty, vindictive, short-sighted, counter-productive, a huge diplomatic faux pas. These are the some of the words that could be used to describe the U.S. decision not to issue a special license to allow the Trinidad Hilton hotel to host the Cuba-CARICOM Summit in Port of Spain on December 8…

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Unwelcome meddling by the United States Trinidad Express

US out of step on Cuba Trinidad Guardian

Shame on the USA! Federation of Independent Trade Unions

CARICOM’S stinging rebuke to the United States Rickey Singh

Blunder after blunder Raffique Shah

Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister apologises to President Raul Castro Trinidad Guardian

SPECIAL STATEMENT BY HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF CARICOM AND CUBA

Declaration adopted by the Cuba-CARICOM Summit

Cuba Guidelines Debate and Analysis

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The book it covers the unilateral economic sanctions that the United States first imposed upon Cuba at the height of the Cold War with the aim of overthrowing the revolutionary government of Fidel Castro…the Cold War is only a fading memory; still the United States persists in maintaining an economic state of siege that is suffocating for all levels of the Cuban population, although it primarily affects the most vulnerable sectors: women, the elderly and children…

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Let’s imagine for a moment that Cuba’s regime were to decide that Luis Posada Carriles deserves the same fate as Anwar al-Awlaki, the al-Qaeda operative executed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen last week…

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