Author: Circles Robinson

Taboos & Truths on Homosexuality in Cuba

Havana Times interviewed 20-year-old Angel Raicel Merencio Llanes, from Ciego de Avila province. This freshman English student at the University of Havana is a former member of the Tony Menendez Dance Company, and he’s homosexual.

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Aid Agencies Rush to Japan

Day five of Japan’s post-earthquake, post-tsunami life dawned dismally Tuesday, with soaring radiation levels from the Fukushima Daiichi power plants and a relentlessly rising death toll in the four worst-affected prefectures.

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Idle Land in Cuba’s Cities Is Inadmissible

It is inadmissible that there are still idle lands in cities and towns in Cuba, 14 years after the start of the urban agriculture program, Adolfo Rodríguez Nodals, head of the Urban and Suburban Agriculture Movement on the island, affirmed. The Cuban authorities are trying to increase the production of food, 80 per cent of which has to be imported.

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Japan Bracing For Nuclear Meltdown

Desperate efforts by the government to avoid the looming nightmare of a nuclear meltdown in tsunami damaged Fukushima nuclear plants, 240 kilometers north of Tokyo, have brought no relief to the public who face the possibility of another explosion that could spew deadly radiation across the country.

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EU to Consult Opposition on Cuba Policy

The general director of the European Commission for the Americas, Christian Leffler, will meet next Friday in Madrid with released Cuban opposition members, with the aim of consulting them on the renewal of the European Union (EU) policy toward the island. It is expected that the dissidents will be against any relaxation of the policy until the Raúl Castro government carries out political and legal reforms.

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Ladies in White Threaten to March

The Ladies in White, wives and relatives of political prisoners in Cuba, will march next March 18 on the eighth anniversary of the arrest of 75 dissidents if the government does not release before then the three dissidents who are still in prison, announced Laura Pollán, the group’s spokeswoman.

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