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The State of Havana Architecture

February 12, 2017February 15, 2017 Circles Robinson 4 Comments Tracey Eaton

Old Havana streets are covered with Massachusetts stones that were used as ballast in ships that once journeyed to Cuba to pick up sugar. “That means when you are walking around on the streets of Havana, you are walking on US soil,” Cuban architect and urban planner Miguel Coyula joked.

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Will Obama Turn the Tide in Cuba?

March 17, 2016March 19, 2016 Circles Robinson 2 Comments Tracey Eaton

“Obama to Lay out Vision for Cuba in Historic Havana Speech.” That was the headline of an Associated Press story published Wednesday. Here’s how former Cuban diplomat Carlos Alzugaray reacted on Facebook…

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Cuba, Democracy and the Dueling Ladies

July 21, 2015July 23, 2015 Circles Robinson 5 Comments Tracey Eaton

In 2016, the State Department plans to spend $20 million for programs to strengthen Cuban civil society, support “fundamental freedoms and respect for human rights” and aid “victims of political repression and their families”.

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Opinion 

Fidel Castro, Bags of Nickels and More

January 14, 2015January 19, 2015 Circles Robinson 7 Comments Tracey Eaton

I’ve been working on a project about the legacy of Fidel Castro. I’ve interviewed a range of Cubans, including some who joined Castro on the Granma yacht when it journeyed from Mexico to Cuba in 1956 carrying 82 fighters, most of whom were killed in battle after reaching the island.

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US Funded Contest in Cuba Aborted

October 13, 2014October 17, 2014 Circles Robinson 11 Comments Tracey Eaton

When Jeff Kline visited Cuba offering to train young people to produce radio programs, A 25-year-old woman signed up. Kline was from another country and another generation, but she said the American quickly gained her trust.

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Features 

Secret Cuba Work and the other Alan Gross

May 16, 2014May 20, 2014 Circles Robinson 4 Comments Tracey Eaton

Cuban authorities arrested American development worker Alan Gross in 2009 after his fifth trip to the island to set up a network of Internet hotspots. But Gross evidently wasn’t the only older Jewish man spotted in Cuba carrying out a mission for the U.S. government.

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News 

No Commotion in Cuba yet

April 22, 2014May 16, 2014 Circles Robinson 1 Comment Tracey Eaton

A surveillance-resistant tool called Commotion is not yet operational in Cuba, the U.S. Agency for International Development told the New York Times.

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News 

Posada Carriles Court Transcripts

April 20, 2014May 16, 2014 Circles Robinson 1 Comment Tracey Eaton

Three years ago this month, former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles, now 85, was acquitted on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and immigration fraud. For journalists, scholars and others interested in his case, I’m posting here more than 700 pages of transcripts from Posada Carriles’ trial in El Paso, Texas.

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Features 

Cuba Policy Pads Many Pockets

February 15, 2014May 16, 2014 Circles Robinson 5 Comments Tracey Eaton

When people ask why does the US trade embargo and travel ban on Cuba exist more than 20 years after the end of the Cold War one of the most savvy answers is pointing to all the individuals and groups that benefit from hundreds of millions of black hole funding without having to show much in return.

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Interviews 

Alan Gross’s Wife on US-Cuba Impasse

February 6, 2014May 16, 2014 Circles Robinson 23 Comments Tracey Eaton

Forget South Florida politics, negotiate with the Cubans and find a way to bring Alan Gross home. That’s what Judy Gross told investigative reporter Tracey Eaton earlier this week in a lengthly interview.

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