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POLL: Artist Manipulates Iconic Che Guevara Image
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POLL: Che Guevara as a Puppy: Offensive or Just Silly?

By Stacey Rivera | 01/31/2011 - 17:30 | 3 Comments

It's kind of a long story but the basics are, a British greeting card company that takes iconic photos and replaces the subject with a dog has manipulated that incredibly famous photo of Che seen on T-Shirts, etc. and the original...

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Travel to Cuba Skyrockets
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Travel to Cuba Skyrockets

By Mariela Rosario | 12/08/2010 - 12:15 | 0 Comments

Travel to Cuba has grown incredibly fast over the last year with over 1,000 American visitors entering the country every day!

Business has been booming ever since President Barack Obama lifted travel restrictions. Now Cuban-Americans are able to travel freely between the two countries to visit their relatives and their homeland. The White House also...

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Castro Says Tea Party is Leading U.S. to Fascism
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Castro Says Tea Party is Leading U.S. to Fascism

By Fox News Latino | 11/19/2010 - 15:00 | 3 Comments

In a recent report published in the Cuban state-run newspaper, Granma, Fidel Castro made a bold declaration about American politics when speaking to a group of studens visiting Havana.

What was on his mind? The rise of the Tea Party in the United States. He called the country a "ruined nation" and said the new movement was "extreme right,"...

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Cuban Government Denounces Popular Video Game
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Virtual Assassination Attempt on Fidel Castro has Cuban Government Up in Arms

By Mariela Rosario | 11/11/2010 - 10:36 | 1 Comment

The Cuban government is harshly criticizing a new video game released this week in the U.S. Call of Duty: Black Ops was expected to be one of the highest selling video games of the year and sold $360 million in its first 24 hours on sale. Its release this week has been highly anticipated by gamers all across the country. But when the Cubans got wind that...

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All 68 Passengers Dead in Fatal Cuban Plane Crash
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68 Passengers Dead in Fatal Cuban Plane Crash

By Damarys Ocaña Perez | 11/05/2010 - 15:30 | 0 Comments

All 68 people on board were killed when a state airliner crashed in central Cuba on its way to Havana Thursday. The plane appeared to be one of the last carrying Cubans as well as European and Latin American tourists from Santiago ahead of the Hurricane Tomas.

AeroCaribbean Flight 883 lost contact with air traffic controllers just before 6 p.m. after making an...

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Obama Admin Considers Further Lift on Travel Bans to Cuba
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Obama Admin Discusses Further Lift on Travel Bans to Cuba

By Elayne Fluker | 08/19/2010 - 16:00 | 1 Comment

The Obama administration is planning to further ease restrictions on travel to Cuba, which has been subjected to US sanctions since John F. Kennedy's presidency. According to recent reports, the announcement could come as early as next week, but no final decision has been made yet.

Last year the government allowed Cuban-Americans with...

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Cuban Rapper Yotuel Romero's New Punk Sound

By Grace Bastidas | 07/16/2010 - 08:00 | 0 Comments

The Orishas may be no more, but Cuban rapper Yotuel Romero is now performing with a new band and a new sound called Afro Cuban Punk. Here, he tells us all about it:

How would you describe Afro Cuban Punk?
Afro Cuban Punk is a mix of Afro Cuban music—guaguancó, rumba—mixed with rock and roll that...

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Cuban Rapper Yotuel Romero On the End of the Orishas: "We Had a Good Time"

By Grace Bastidas | 07/13/2010 - 10:00 | 1 Comment

The bad news: Cuban hip-hop group Orishas isn’t reuniting any time soon. The trio called it quits last year at the Juanes-organized Paz Sin Fronteras concert in Havana, where they sang their mega-hit “A lo Cubano” live for the very last time. The good news: The group’s vocalist, Yotuel Romero, has...

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