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His music, Timba, was ‘fast, loud, and characterized by its multiple overlapping rhythms and deep booming bass lines’ Photo: José Luis Cortés leading the band NG La Banda at Lincoln Center in New York in 1997. His performance, one reviewer said, had the audience “up on its feet and screaming.”Credit…Jack Vartoogian 28 April 2022 |…
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Sixty years on, the country fighting to ‘save’ Ukraine is still punishing Castro on a daily basis Photo: Cuban Flag 23 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Op-Ed: JFK’s economic embargo is still making Cubans go hungry 23 March 2022 | ANTHONY DEPALMA | Los Angeles Times For as long as most Cubans…
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A failed invasion of Cuba by exile soldiers in April 1961 embarrassed the new Kennedy administration. 31 OCTOBER 2017 HAWKINS BAY James Porteous Photo: (Photo: ABBIE ROWE / JFK PRESIDENTIAL LI, EPA-EFE) 30 October 2017 |Ray Locker USA TODAY “WASHINGTON — U.S. military planners estimated they would need 261,000 troops and between 10 to 15 days to…
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Cubans celebrate José Martí’s birthday every year. Martí is Cuba’s national hero. Originally published: 19 MAY 2018 HAWKINS BAY James Porteous 19 May 2018 | Various Sources | Hawkins Bay – This Day This Day – 19 May 1895 “Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It…
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Cuban jazz pianist Harold López-Nussa performs live at WGBH’s Fraser performance studio in Boston with his brother, Ruy López-Nussa 19 February 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Music Clipper Media : Music Video of the Day # December 4, 2017 – Cuban jazz pianist Harold López-Nussa performs live at WGBH’s Fraser performance studio in Boston…
It could be said that the longest US war was not with Afghanistan, but with Cuba. And it is an economic war that continues to this day. It needs to end now. 10 February 2022 | ISAAC CHRISTIANSEN | The Legacy of Lester Mallory: Brief Statement Against the U.S. Economic War Against Cuba | CounterPunch…
It has been 20 years since the US abrogated the Geneva Conventions and gave de facto ‘permission’ for every other country in the world to do the same thing. Photo: Detainees at Camp X-Ray, Guantánamo Bay on 11 January 2002. Photograph: Shane T McCoy/PA 09 January 2022 | Julian Borger | The Guardian On 4…
21 December 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media Yes, dear friends, as you will see here, Cuba is an actual country with actual happy people who live their lives (sometimes with difficulty) but othewise cherish and retain their unique history, music and society.
“The U.S. shares the vision of the Cuban people: democracy, prosperity, and human rights…” 01 November 2021 | Alan Macleod | Mint Press News HAVANA — The United States government is playing a key role in organizing, promoting and amplifying upcoming nationwide protests in Cuba planned for November 15. When directly challenged at a press conference as to…
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Photo: Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador delivers a speech. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has criticized the U.S. embargo against Cuba, calling it ‘inhumane.’ 27 July 2021 | Staff | Reuters MEXICO CITY, July 27 (Reuters) – Mexico’s president on Tuesday asserted his country’s right to send fuel to Cuba and said U.S….
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Photo: Cuban Americans demonstrate outside the White House in support of demonstrations taking place in Cuba on July 12, 2021 in Washington, DC.Win McNamee | Getty Images “We are always considering options available to us that would allow us to support the Cuban people,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said. 13 July 2021 | Amanda…
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Photo: Odalys de la Caridad Lara Reyes entertains employees by reading to them as they work making cigars at the La Corona Tobacco factory in Havana.(Ismael Francisco / Associated Press) 02 July 2021 | ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ | AP via Los Angleles Times | Additional Photos: Tobacco factory Lectors, 1910 Every morning Odalys de la Caridad Lara…
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