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Race in Cuba: The Eternal 'Black Problem'
After almost five decades of Marxist revolution, the official romantic idea was that, with the elimination of certain onerous economic and social practices that promoted racial discrimination, the last vestiges of racism would be vanquished. Given the usual silence with which Cuban governmental institutions deal with the thornier issues in Cuban society — as might…
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Cuba 2010: The Year of (Even) More Belt Tightening
(Translated by Achy Obejas) Havana—Provecta, in Spanish, means “old, mature.” (With a certain dignity.) For a person, 51 is a provecta age, especially in terms of maturity (just tell me about it, now that I’ve surpassed that threshold and can feel myself rusting). The Cuban revolutionary project has reached 51 years of existence and, for…
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