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July 22, 2008

Did New Yorker Obama cartoon cross the line?

A cartoon on the cover of the U.S.-based publication the New Yorker stirred passions throughout the blogosphere. The cartoon, displayed on the front of the July 21, 2008 edition of the weekly news and culture magazine, depicted Obama in traditional African muslim dress and head wrap giving a "knuckle ...

July 17, 2008

Cuba: Exploring Oil

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

The Cuban Triangle is puzzled by a Florida Congressional delegation's idea that Cuba should be blocked from drilling for oil in its own Gulf waters. He says comments by Senator Mel Martinez, reported in El Nuevo Herald, must sound to Cuban readers, “as if he thinks he is in charge of their...

Cuba: Family Travel to Cuba

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

The US Congress has approved a 2009 fiscal spending bill containing a controversial provision that lifts family travel restrictions to Cuba. Uncommon Sense believes this would “restore some humanitarian sanity by helping break the barriers between Cubans who have been able to leave the country...

July 3, 2008

EU to Open Up Dialogue with Cuba

Aggregated from: VivirLatino

Big diplomacy news out of Brussels, which will hopefully resonate in the U.S.'s diplomatic relations (or lack thereof) with Cuba. The European Union has decided to officially lift any sanctions against the island nation and resume regular diplomatic activities, which deteriorated in 2003 after the "...

Cuba: Election Summer

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Circles Robinson Online on Cubans' interest in November's US presidential election, and what the possible election of Barack Obama may mean for relations between the two countries. ...

June 17, 2008

Barbados, Bahamas, Cuba, U.S.A.: R.I.P. Russert

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Cuban blogger Ninety miles away…in another country, Adrian Gibson at Weblog Bahamas and Living in Barbados acknowledge the passing of American journalist Tim Russert. ...

June 16, 2008

El Che is Remembered at Home

Aggregated from: VivirLatino

Saturday, June 14th is Flag Day in the U.S., but in Argentina, Cuba, and many other places in Latin America, June 14th was celebrated as the 80th birthday of Ernesto "el Che" Guevara. In Rosario, Argentina, a bronze statue of the legendary revolutionary was unveiled."I believe in the revolution, tha...

June 13, 2008

John McCain Targets Cuban Exile Vote

Aggregated from: VivirLatino

Seeing that he's trailing in Latino votes compared to Barack Obama, John McCain is going after the Cuban exile vote by bringing up the big bad wolves of Castro and the fact that Obama has said that he would consider meeting with whatever Castro happens to be in power. Wouldn't be interesting if Jo...

June 9, 2008

Yoani Endorses Obama and Val Endorses McCain

Aggregated from: Review of Cuban American Blogs

When Val Prieto attacked Yoani Sánchez in The Wall Street Journal last year as possibly a Castro mole and perhaps worse, no one could have imagined except those of us familiar with his erratic behavior that six months later he would be defending her prerogative to support the same candidate that Fi...

June 4, 2008

Caribbean: Reactions to Obama's Nomination

Barack Obama has secured the Democratic Party's nomination. Caribbean bloggers were online with immediate reactions to the history-making news that a black man actually has a chance of winning the race to the White House.