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Cuba hit back Thursday at 60 prominent U.S. black leaders who challenged its race record, with island writers, artists and official journalists calling the criticism an attack on their country's national identity.
With Jacksonville facing a budget crisis and its most crucial union bargaining in years, the city tried to jettison its veteran labor negotiator to a job created for her in another department. But Adrienne Trott, less than a year from retirement, never reported to her new role in May. When her attorney talked lawsuit, records obtained by the Times-Union show city attorneys crafted a deal to let ...
What you first notice about Santa Barbara’s Cuban-born Presser brothers, Leon and Abe, is a directness, warmth and sincerity. Abe is the voluble one, the storyteller, while older brother Leon is a bit more reserved.
By Tom Evans CNN Infosearch: Máximo Tomás Research Dept. La Nueva Cuba November 27, 2009
The Cuban pitcher Aroldis Chapman is talented, but baseball executives said it was risky to spend lavishly on such an unknown quantity.
Re Norma A. Orovitz's Nov. 28 letter Remember the pink islands: I saw Christo's famous pink islands from the Bal Harbour bridge to and from the restaurant at the Balmoral. My father and late grandparents worked there when I was growing up.
Chapman had a failed defection attempt in 2008, and was forced to meet with Cuban President Raul Castro, who suspended him fro the remainder of the National Series season. But he successfully defected in July of this year while the Cuba national team was participating in the World Port Tournament in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He has established residency in Andorra and is expected to garner a large ...
And you wouldn't have to deal with that pesky embargo or the Castros
Follow Stock Island’s Front Street past a row of old trailers, and you’ll stumble upon this little miracle. This big, clamoring seafood joint at a marina is rumored to have been the headquarters for the Bay of Pigs operation.
Cuba's armed forces launched three days of intense military exercises across the island Thursday, a mobilization that state-controlled media says is designed to guard against an American invasion.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Hugo Chavez says he is starting to "bombard" clouds now that Cuba has provided Venezuela with cloud-seeding help in an effort to produce rain and alleviate the effects of a severe drought.
The first time Tony Sellier went to Cuba he was 15.
When I met Hernán Henriquez, I never imagined how important he was in the history of Cuban animation. This interview reveals how the Cuban animation industry began side by side with Castro's revolution, and how Hernán became one of its founders and pioneers.
CUBA Hero's son barred from leaving island HAVANA | The ailing son of one of Cuba's revolutionary heroes said he was detained by security officials for three days after protesting that authorities wouldn't let him leave the country for treatment. Juan Almeida Garcia, whose father fought alongside Fidel Castro during Cuba's 1959 revolution and rose to the level of vice president before his death ...
Washington -- "Pingpong diplomacy" thawed relations between the United States and China in 1971. Can "baseball diplomacy" help do the same for the U.S. and Cuba?
More and more people are pointing a finger at the true origin of Cuba's problems and, though it comes as a surprise to the champions of the battle, their fingers do not appear to be pointing abroad.
