Author: Circles Robinson

How a US Law Invades EU-Cuba Business Relations

Leading Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad reported on June 9th under a headline of “Conflict over Cuba’s Millions” that the Dutch software company Exact* was being taken to court over the unilateral cancellation of its contract with Cuba under which it supplies software to the country’s biggest (state) companies that account for around 80 per cent of the national economy.

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Why the Loss of Cruise Ships Is a Win for Cuba

I write this as a loser in the Great Cruise Ship Wars in my hometown Key West, Florida— Havana’s sister city to the north. I have witnessed first-hand the virtual destruction of this once-peaceful (if somewhat quirky) island paradise in the turbulent wake of cruise ships.

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Celeste Mendoza and Her Rumba

Celeste Mendoza, a.k.a. “La Reina del Guaguanco”, was the first woman to sing this form of rumba, having been an exclusively male genre until then. Today we bring you her music.

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What’s Ahead for Nicaragua after Ortega’s Self-Amnesty

With his self-amnesty, Ortega admits the dictatorship’s responsibility for the massacre. In doing so, he can’t erase his own responsibility as Supreme Police Chief, nor that of the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity, because according to international law justice for such crimes cannot be proscribed.

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Silence, While Nicaragua Screams

In the middle of my silence, I saw myself one afternoon narrating in some old papers the great tragedy that we have witnessed in Nicaragua. I am going to tell it to you in these two illustrations I did with acrylic paint, graphite pencil and charcoal.

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