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...There, with Nina Menocal, an aristocratic émigré, he co-founded NinArt which provided an important platform for other now famous Cuban artists of his generation, such as José Bedia and Tomás Sánchez....
...They were joined by John Kerry, US secretary of state, and the presidents, from Cuba’s Raúl Castro to Argentina’s Mauricio Macri, who flew into Cartagena to witness the end of the western hemisphere’s oldest...
...Arguably he gave most importance to the ideas of the man he sought to equal: José Martí, the 19th-century national hero....
...Obama looks quiet and looking into the future,” said blogger Yoani Sanchez on Twitter....
...“It is standard procedure in Cuba that when an important dignitary is visiting, the security services harass or threaten dissidents,” said Jose Miguel Vivanco, director of Human Rights Watch’s Latin America...
...Sánchez started out as an abstract painter and set designer, moving in politically radical circles before the Cuban revolution....
...“The agenda on the far side of the Florida Straits we now know in detail, but the internal one remains, as it so often does, hidden and secret,” wrote Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez from Havana....
...He had many reasons to throw himself into the arms of Fidel Castro....
...In a country famous for its political billboards, Cuba this week prepared to welcome Latin American heads of state to Havana for a regional summit with a new poster showing Cuban President Raúl Castro with...
...(Weirdly, according to Cuban dissident Yoani Sanchez, Cuban state media also broadcast the handshake on television.)...
...Yoani Sánchez, Cuba’s best known dissident, still blogs and tweets. Yet the defiant tread a fine line....
...“The government has chosen its dauphin,” tweeted Cuban pro-democracy blogger Yoani Sánchez....
...Among the heads of state present will be Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, and José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission....
...That’s a good sign that there is some independence of the Supreme Court,” said João Augusto de Castro Neves of Eurasia Group....
...Mr Castro is 80, while Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, next in line in the party and government, is 81....
...“Judging from the Norwegian who bought next door for his Cuban wife, my house is probably worth $300,000,” says Nelly Sanchez who is thinking of downsizing from her four bedroom because her three children...
...Even on Cuba, in spite of public comments in support of the Castro brothers, Ms Rousseff’s government granted a visa to a leading Cuban dissident blogger, Yoani Sánchez....
...He thinks that Cohn-Bendit’s comparing Orban to Chavez and Castro was unfair. [blackbirdpie url="https://twitter.com/#!...
...“Raúl Castro has been just as brutal as his brother,” said José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch, in Washington on Tuesday....
...On Sunday Mr Obama described comments by Raúl Castro, Cuba’s president, that Havana was willing to discuss human rights “as a sign of progress”, while stressing the US’s call for Havana to free political...
...On Sunday the recently elected national assembly quietly confirmed Raúl Castro, Mr Castro’s younger brother, as president....
...Espin, who had four children with Raúl Castro, is the most important Cuban political figure to pass away since Celia Sanchez, Fidel Castro’s confidant and advisor, died in the early 1980s and perhaps since...
...Whether Raúl Castro can claim the “David” role will depend largely on Washington....
...How do you think that Fidel Castro’s death will affect Hugo Chávez’s regime? After all, Fidel Castro is Chávez’s ideological father and logistics advisor....
...Bogotá is keen to share its anti-drugs experience with Afghanistan, and the approach has been brokered by José Serrano, Colombia’s ambassador to Vienna....
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