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Placetas, @antunezcuba y como Castro le tima el dinero a Venezuela

Published on 2012-02-13 16:46:00

Resulta de un cinismo sin igual que un gobierno como el de Cuba, que se pasa en los últimos años hablando y clamando en cuanta organización internacional sobre el bloqueo, que ha vendido prácticamente al mundo entero, y con especial insistencia a España - cuanta ironía, los mambises lucharon por liberarse de España, y hoy Castro le pone el país en bandeja de plata a esos mismos españoles - los más importantes resortes turísticos del país, ahora diga que va a “construir” un hotel

Al Jazeera reporter Moutaz Al Qaissia and Cuban media dogs in a Twitter’s brawl

Published on 2012-02-11 18:50:00

There is a Cuban proverb who says: “It is easier to catch a liar than to catch a lame”. Recently, an Al Jazeera reporter has been caught by Cuban agents in Twitter in a virtual brawl, where Cuban officials, as usual, had insulted them in a row.Moutaz Al Qaissia is working in Cuba as a reporter to Al Jazeera in Arabic because Castro’s regime doesn’t allow anybody of that news agency who reports in English. But everything started when the journalist, doing what a regular journalist does ev

Blanca and Rodolfo: the other face of Cuba’s Health Care System

Published on 2012-02-10 22:13:00

To the world, Cuba has one of the best Health Care systems, but that is not the world known by Blanca Rodriguez in the little town of “Las Tozas”, province of Sancti Spiritus. For Blanca, in her own words, she is “crossing the Niagara in a byke” - a very popular phrase in Cuba meaning she is living a nightmare.And She is really living a nightmare. Her little old house is inhabited by her and her only son, Rodolfo Fernandez – depicted in the picture on top of this post. To make even wor