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At the same time, he allowed U.S. cruise lines to continue to take passengers to Cuba, where they pay millions to disembark at military-run docks and make quick trips onshore that are generally coordinated by government tour agencies that stejrer travelers to state-run destinations.\n\nCuban government figures from the first full year under Trump\u2019s policy show occupancy of private bed-and-breakfasts in Havana plunged to 44 percent in 2018 after years at near capacity in the wake of President Barack Obama\u2019s start of normalization with Cuba, said Michael Bernal, commercial director for the Ministry of Tourism.\n\nEven as the private sector suffered, U.S. travel to Cuba was growing, from 618,000 in 2017 to 630,000 last year, Tourism Ministry figures say. Most of those travelers came by ship, avoiding the confusing rules on travel to the island with package tours that are guaranteed to comply with the law.\n\nThe shift to cruises meant the average U.S. stay on the island dropped from six days to three, said Jose Luis Perello, a former University of Havana professor who studies Cuba\u2019s tourism industry.\n\nThat has had a devastating effect on owners and employees of Cuba\u2019s 24,185 private bed-and-breakfasts and 2,170 private restaurants known as paladares. They cherished U.S. travelers as heavy tippers who crammed days full of activities like classic car rides and cooking classes that put money into private hands.\n\nDavid Pajon, a university professor who bought an apartment to rent in Old Havana, said he has had to drop his rates and his income has fallen 40 percent since Trump\u2019s new policy went into effect in 2017. He still was a third empty last month, the first time in three years that he wasn\u2019t fully booked in December.\n\n\u201cU.S.-Cuba normalization inspired a lot of people who thought this was a good business to invest their savings in,\u201d Pajon said. \u201cAnd all of a sudden you have the U.S. government creating a situation that has an impact on the number of people who came, or changes the way they\u2019re coming \u2014 on cruise ships!\u201d\n\nThe Trump measures, which were backed by Cuban-American Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, ban U.S. travelers from doing business with tourism businesses under the military-linked conglomerate known as GAESA, which runs dozens of hotels and a major tour-bus line, among others.\n\nInstead, Americans are going to businesses run by the Tourism Ministry, but there is no reason to believe that Cuba has any difficulty transferring money within its highly centralized single-party government, said Richard Feinberg, a Brookings Institution fellow and University of California, San Diego, professor of international political economy who studies Cuba.\n\n\u201cTrump\u2019s policies have reduced on-island, versus cruise ship, tourism and thus harmed B&Bs as well as other private tourism-related firms including paladares and taxistas,\u201d Feinberg said. Beyond that, he said, \u201cthe only traceable impact of the Rubio sanction is to inconvenience US tourists.\u201d\n\nThe number of U.S. travelers to Cuba grew from 162,000 in 2015, the year after Obama and then Cuban President Raul Castro announced detente, to 284,000 in 2016 and 618,000 in 2017.\n\nThe overall number of travelers grew, too, from 3.5 million in 2015 to 3.7 million in 2016, 4.3 million in 2017 and 4.7 million last year.\n\nNonetheless, the private sector suffered.\n\nEnrique Nunez, owner of La Guarida, perhaps Havana\u2019s best-known restaurant, said he had to cut his employees\u2019 hours last year because his revenue fell 40 percent.\n\n\u201cWe don\u2019t understand the U.S. rules,\u201d said Bernal, the tourism official. \u201cWe heard the president\u2019s speech saying that the U.S. government supports entrepreneurs. 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where many Cuban exiles live - of having \"confiscated US policy towards Cuba\".\n\n\"I reiterate our willingness to coexist in a civilised way despite our differences, in a relationship of peace, respect and mutual benefit with the United States.\"\n\nMr Castro said new generations of Cubans had \"assumed the mission of constructing socialism\", adding that \"the revolution hasn't aged\".\n\nBut BBC Central America correspondent Will Grant says Mr Diaz-Canel faces a huge battle in satisfying the demands of today's young Cubans.\n\nA referendum on a new draft constitution will be held in February but many are growing impatient for greater social freedoms and increased economic opportunities, our correspondent says.\n\nGovernment supporters insist the new constitution will reflect a changing Cuba but critics say it will simply concentrate power in the Communist Party's hands." + }, + { + "title": "Recorded sounds that plagued U.S. diplomats in Cuba just crickets hard at work - University of California, Berkeley", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Recorded sounds that plagued U.S. diplomats in Cuba just crickets hard at work - 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Yet in the annals of Cuban history, she is seen both as an activist and the island\u2019s own Betsy Ross.\n\nEmilia Teurbe Tol\u00f3n is credited with embroidering the first Cuban flag in 1850. She was also the first woman to be deported from the island because of her affiliation to the Cuban struggle against Spanish rule.\n\n\u201cShe was a woman who was ahead of her time,\u201d said Luis Perez Tol\u00f3n, the film\u2019s producer and director, who is one of her descendants.\n\nHer unique story is the topic of a documentary that will launch the 2019 film series by UM Libraries Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) in a special screening at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 17, 2019 at the Shalala Student Center.\n\nThe screening will be followed by a conversation between Perez Tol\u00f3n and Lillian Manzor, UM associate professor and chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.\n\nCHC director Elizabeth \u201cLiz\u201d Cerejido said the film is a vivid example of the Collection\u2019s curated approach to programming, as the film\u2019s focus on the central role women have played throughout Cuba\u2019s history helps contextualize the gender-related themes explored in the CHC\u2019s current exhibition about representations of women in the artists\u2019 book collection.\n\n\u201cWith *Emilia*, we launch our first film series that will include documentaries that focus on a range of issues and from an interdisciplinary perspective pertinent to Cuba and Cuban diasporic studies,\u201d she said.\n\nEmilia\u2019s story is told by Cuban-born Perez Tol\u00f3n, who narrates the video. For him *Emilia* is a personal journey, and a search for ancestral roots.\n\n\u201cI grew up hearing stories about my grandfather\u2019s great aunt Emilia who sewed the first Cuban flag,\u201d he said. Even though Emilia\u2019s face graced a Cuban postage stamp, he lacked details of her life.\n\nIt was not until 2010 when her remains were found buried in a cemetery in Madrid, Spain and returned to the island that he was able to trace her life story. Perez Tol\u00f3n visited Cuba, Spain, and New York to piece together Emilia\u2019s life.\n\nBorn in Matanzas, Emilia married a well-known poet and journalist Miguel Teurbe Tol\u00f3n who was a nationalist and freemason whose writings put him at odds with the Spanish rulers.\n\nHe left Cuba for exile in New York City. Emilia was deported in 1850 for conspiring against Spanish rule. She joined her husband in New York City where they continued their efforts to free their country from Spanish rule alongside other exiles.\n\nIt was there that she embroidered the red, white and blue flag with the lone star that was recognized as the official flag in 1869.\n\nPerez Tol\u00f3n, a respected producer who worked for many years at Discovery Latin America, said that Emilia\u2019s contribution went beyond embroidering the Cuban flag. 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Ron DeSantis and U.S. Sen. Rick Scott a significant boost in tight statewide races.\nsitename: Florida International University\ndate: 2019-01-10\n---\n# Support for the embargo on the rise among Cuban-Americans, reveals FIU Cuba Poll\n\nA strong majority of Cuban-American voters in Miami-Dade County supported Republicans in the 2018 midterm elections, giving Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and U.S. Sen. Rick Scott a significant boost in tight statewide races.\n\nSeventy percent of Cuban-Americans surveyed said they voted for DeSantis and 69 percent said they voted for Scott, according to the 2018 FIU Cuba Poll, the longest-running research project measuring Cuban-American public opinion. The poll also revealed that Cuban-Americans in Miami are now evenly split on support for the U.S. embargo of Cuba \u2013 a striking contrast to the 2016 poll, where only 37 percent of those surveyed expressed support for the policy.\n\nThis is the first Cuba Poll conducted since the midterms and the first since President Donald J. Trump took office. The poll showed Cuban-Americans were highly motivated this election cycle, with 87 percent of registered voters turning out on Election Day.\n\nIn Florida\u2019s Congressional races, 72 percent of Cuban-Americans surveyed said they voted for Republican candidates, showing strong support even in races where the Republican candidate ultimately lost, including former U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo and broadcast journalist Maria Elvira Salazar.\n\nDespite the strong showing for Republican candidates, a large majority of Cuban-Americans in Miami said they continue to favor many of the policies of engagement ushered in under President Obama, including lifting of travel restrictions and increased investment in the island.\n\n\u201cThe policy preferences of Cuban-Americans are less a reflection of their party affiliation and more a reflection of the attachments that they have on the island,\u2019\u2019 said Professor Guillermo Grenier, the principal investigator on the project and chairman of the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies in the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs, the primary sponsor of the poll. \u201cCuban-Americans with relatives and alliances on the island are more likely to want to keep doors open.\u201d\n\nSince Obama\u2019s decision to reestablish relations with the island nation in December 2014, much has changed in the tone of U.S.-Cuba relations, particularly under the Trump administration. A series of \u201csonic attacks\u201d reported by the U.S. Embassy in Havana in 2016 and 2017 led the U.S. to withdraw most of its diplomats and issue a travel advisory for U.S. citizens.\n\nThe national narrative and recent events seem to have fed a return to support for the embargo. The shift in attitude seems to be driven by older Cuban-Americans and those who arrived in the U.S. prior to 1980 \u2013 a segment of the population whose support for the embargo has gone up more than 10 percentage points \u2013 from 57 to 68 percent \u2013 since the 2016 poll.\n\n\u201cThe mood of the community has changed in the last two years,\u2019\u2019 Grenier noted. \u201cWe see a community divided on the issue of the embargo while still willing to maintain and even expand business relationships established as a result of the Obama initiatives.\u201d\n\nSixty-three percent of those surveyed said they supported Obama\u2019s decision to open diplomatic relations with Cuba, with a strong majority among all age groups supporting this view except those ages 76 and above, where support drops to 31 percent. The majority of registered voters (61 percent) and those not registered to vote (77 percent) said they supported the reestablishment of diplomatic ties.\n\nA strong majority (57 percent) said they favor the lifting of travel restrictions for all Americans to Cuba, while half of those surveyed would allow investments by all Americans in private business enterprises in Cuba. Sixty-eight percent support the expansion or maintenance of existing business relations with the island.\n\nThe Republican Party\u2019s hold on Cuban-American voters in Miami-Dade has steadily declined since the poll began \u2013 from 70 percent in the early 1990s to just 54 percent this year. Younger voters and newer arrivals to the U.S. are fueling the growth of Democratic (19 percent) and independent or \u201cno party affiliation\u201d Cuban-American voters in Florida (26 percent).\n\nThe FIU Cuba Poll was** **conducted by telephone \u2013 cell phone and landline \u2013 between Nov. 14 and Dec. 1, 2018, using a random sample of 1,001 Cuban-American residents of Miami-Dade County, age 18 and over, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent. Interviews were conducted in Spanish and English, depending on the respondents\u2019 preference.\n\nFlorida International University\u2019s Cuban Research Institute (CRI) began sponsoring the Cuba Poll in 1991 to record a snapshot of the Cuban-American community at a time of major geopolitical change, including the collapse of the Soviet Union. Funding for the 2018 Cuba Poll was provided by the Green School, CRI and the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center. 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Restaurant Implements Civil Rights Training Following Transgender Bathroom Incident\nauthor: Gabe Hiatt\nurl: https://dc.eater.com/2019/1/16/18185752/cuba-libre-settlement-transgender-bathroom-incident\nhostname: eater.com\ndescription: Two staff members attempted to prevent a transgender woman from using the ladies bathroom in June\nsitename: Eater DC\ndate: 2019-01-16\ncategories: ['Eater Archives']\ntags: ['dc.eater,pagetype:story,eater-archives']\n---\nThe Cuba Libre restaurant in Penn Quarter has agreed to institute civil rights training for employees and pay a $7,000 fine following an incident in June in which two staff members attempted to prevent a transgender woman from using the ladies bathroom.\n\n# D.C. Restaurant Implements Civil Rights Training Following Transgender Bathroom Incident\n\nTwo staff members attempted to prevent a transgender woman from using the ladies bathroom in June\n\nD.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced today that his office had reached a settlement with the Washington location of the chain following an investigation that found Cuba Libre DC violated the city\u2019s Human Rights Act by discriminating against Charlotte Clymer\u2019s gender identity and failing to educate its employees on customers\u2019 rights.\n\nIn a document signed by Racine and Cuba Libre co-owner Barry Gutin, the restaurant agrees to:\n\n- Create and maintain written compliance policies regarding gender identity rights.\n- Implement and maintain a training program regarding customers\u2019 rights.\n- Post signage that states all individuals are allowed to use bathrooms corresponding to their gender identities.\n- Report any complaints regarding the Human Rights Act to the attorney general\u2019s office for the next two years.\n- Pay a $7,000 penalty to the city.\n\nDays after Clymer\u2019s story of the discrimination she suffered at Cuba Libre made headlines, Gutin issued a public apology and pledged to make a contribution to an LGBTQ support group, Casa Ruby.\n\nAccording to city\u2019s investigation referenced in the settlement, Cuba Libre has fired the employees involved, already instituted many of the changes it has agreed to make, and entered into a separate settlement with Clymer that included a charitable donation to a non-profit.\n\nIn a statement following Racine\u2019s announcement, Gutin says Cuba Libre wants to \u201c help ensure safety for D.C.\u2019s transgender community at all area restaurants.\u201d Along those lines, Cuba Lubre will bring in Casa Ruby founder Ruby Corado to conduct a workshop on understanding the transgender community and complying with D.C. regulations.\n\nCuba Libre will open the workshop to D.C. area restaurant owners and managers on Monday, January 28, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Interested parties can RSVP here.\n\nIncluded in Racine\u2019s announcement was a statement that his office has introduced a piece of legislation amending the Human Rights Act to clarify that the office has the \u201cindependent ability\u201d to bring civil action against parties who violate the HRA in addition to collaborating with the city\u2019s Office of Human Rights.\n\n*This post has been updated to include Cuba Libre\u2019s statement following the settlement.*\n\nCuba Libre settlement by on Scribd\n\nDine, drink, and dance the night away at Cuba Libre, and add a stamp to your culinary passport as you experience the vibrant culture of Old Havana." + }, + { + "title": "Cuba\u2019s reform: a comparative perspective with Vietnam - Cuba Capacity Building Project", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cuba\u2019s reform: a comparative perspective with Vietnam - Cuba Capacity Building Project" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMilAFBVV95cUxQaDlvdHJsWGpXYXVzdnFJcHlTdGdoRHo1ODV0SmZmdDBwUk1xdVpRS0RWMUpNQTdYMTBGcGlLaTBUMVRWNXdBS0F5S0pMb1RqR0RPd2Q5QW5uX2RucVhpTEVPTjFwOEZkSXlKU3NMeXp0Z281cFI1aWRtaUdhc2JYc1ZYRHpkWTNLM05aQXE1dUlscHVL?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://horizontecubano.law.columbia.edu/news/cubas-reform-comparative-perspective-vietnam", + "id": "CBMilAFBVV95cUxQaDlvdHJsWGpXYXVzdnFJcHlTdGdoRHo1ODV0SmZmdDBwUk1xdVpRS0RWMUpNQTdYMTBGcGlLaTBUMVRWNXdBS0F5S0pMb1RqR0RPd2Q5QW5uX2RucVhpTEVPTjFwOEZkSXlKU3NMeXp0Z281cFI1aWRtaUdhc2JYc1ZYRHpkWTNLM05aQXE1dUlscHVL", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Fri, 04 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 4, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 4, + 4, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Cuba\u2019s reform: a comparative perspective with Vietnam  Cuba Capacity Building Project", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cuba\u2019s reform: a comparative perspective with Vietnam  Cuba Capacity Building Project" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://horizontecubano.law.columbia.edu", + "title": "Cuba Capacity Building Project" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Cuba\u2019s reform: a comparative perspective with Vietnam\nurl: https://horizontecubano.law.columbia.edu/news/cubas-reform-comparative-perspective-vietnam\nhostname: columbia.edu\nsitename: horizontecubano.law.columbia.edu\ndate: 2019-01-04\n---\n# Cuba\u2019s reform: a comparative perspective with Vietnam\n\nCompared to those undertaken by Cuba, the Vietnamese reform efforts have not only achieved a higher economic growth rate for the country, but have produced greater economic diversification and reduced the nation\u2019s vulnerability to external forces.\n\nAfter several years of reforms, the Cuban macroeconomic growth figures do not meet expectations. The annual GDP growth rate has been merely around 1.7% for the last five years. Cuban GDP growth lags behind the rates reached by Vietnam during the first years of reforms: in 1987-1993 Vietnam achieved a GDP growth rate of 5.6%. Subsequently, Vietnam accelerated its growth rate above 7%.\n\nThe differential between the economic growth of Vietnam and Cuba during the first six years of reform is 2.9% in favor of Vietnam. The differential increases up to 4.5% and 4.6% when compared with the average growth rates achieved by the Vietnamese economy during the 1990s and the 2000s.\n\nWhen the evolution of the different sectors that make up GDP are confronted, all, without exception, have had higher growth rates and higher accounting contributions in Vietnam. The same applies to all components of GDP on the demand side, highlighting exports first and investments second. The process of opening up to international capital inflows has been crucial for increasing Vietnamese exports and investments.\n\nIn effect, exports have presented incredible dynamism to Vietnam with rates of double-digit growth, but its multiplier effect on the economy has been low. In Cuba, the elasticity is higher, but the growth in exports has been very poor.\n\nThe Vietnam growth can be explained not only by its export success. The reform also managed to reduce external vulnerability and accelerate changes. International openness, which included the end of the U.S. embargo, and institutional factors also explains the difference in results.\n\n## Institutional factors: The speed of reform and resistance to change\n\nIn all respects, the Vietnamese reform seems much more aggressive than the Cuban one in terms of speed and depth. The Cuban government has opted for a sequence in which an experiment is done first, the results are checked and adjusted, and the tested project is then generalized by the creation and adoption of the legal framework. The test sequence and generalization makes the Cuban reform process rational but slow.\n\nThe tempo for updating the Cuban economic model has been slow because of the fear that drastic changes could produce a reform\u2019s collapse if state enterprises are exposed to a hasty transformation. One option that the Cuban government has not considered is to undertake a momentum reform of two speeds, slower in the state sector and faster in agriculture, cooperatives and all of the emerging private sector of small and medium scale.\n\nCertainly, the structure of the Vietnamese reform favored undertaking a steady but accelerated reform, which at times could even implement measures of \u201cbig bang\u201d style. The state sector in Vietnam was always smaller than in any of the other former socialist economies. The large-scale state enterprises were only a small part of its economy.\n\nDollar (1993), Perkings (1993) and Riedel and Comer (1995) agree that the structure of the Vietnamese economy was convenient for responding to \u201cbig bang\u201d liberalization. It is easier to make a market system work when small units are in the majority. Farmers, households business, and small industries can adjust their method of operation to market forces much more easily; they are natural net-income maximizers. They have less to learn when the overall economic system converts to market principles, while big industries need more time.\n\nVietnamese reform was, of course, the result of a political process where contradictions, power struggles and ideological discussions existed. However, it seems that Vietnam had less resistance forces to the changes, than Cuba has today.\n\nResistance to Raul Castro\u2019s reforms can be recognized from various sectors of the Cuban society. State unemployed, retirees and families depending on government subsidies, especially pensioners, seem to integrate the most vulnerable group. On the values and beliefs of much of the population (whether or not political leaders or party members) weigh fifty years of a system with full employment, generalized subsidies and free social services, benefits that the Cuban people are afraid to lose. The Vietnamese population had fewer benefits to defend, and this could explain the less significant resistance to change (Yamaoka 2009). It is also more difficult to develop institutional transformations after fifty years of living under the same rules and ideology against the market and private sector. On the contrary, Vietnam had a recent past of capitalism in the southern half of the country and was therefore better prepared to adjust to market reforms.\n\nAnother form of resistance to Cuba\u2019s reform is taking place on what has been termed as \u201cthe bureaucracy\u201d. In Cuba, the general final government expenditure accounted for 34.7% of GDP in 2008 whereas in Vietnam it accounted 7.8% in 1989 and 6.1% in 2008. With a large state sector, there is more room in Cuba for rent-seeking behavior and resistance from the bureaucratic sector.\n\n## International Insertion\n\nThe Vietnamese reform, compared to Cuba\u2019s, not only has a bigger growth rate, but further diversification and reduction of external vulnerability. In this sense, one of the first advantages for the Vietnamese reform is that it began before the dismantling process of the socialist block and, hence, the country had time to build up enough inner strength for economic growth, which allowed cushioning of the effects of the fall in trade and support from the Soviet Union. The Cuban GDP contracted 35% from 1990 to 1993 due to the breakdown of the socialist block, while the Vietnamese GDP slightly decelerated but remained on track of positive growth.\n\nBy the time of the Soviet Union\u00b4s disappearance, Vietnam already had achieved a major diversification of its hard currency income sources, in part because it found important oilfields but also due to rapid results yielded by the agricultural reforms. Vietnam not only began its reforms before the Soviet Union fell, but used the Soviet aid to support the cost and adjustments of the reforms (Dollar 1993; Perkings 1993).\n\nA second difference is that the Vietnamese government did not replicate going forward the kind of relationship it had with the socialist block. From the 1990s on, the Vietnamese growth has been resting on increasing productivity, foreign investment inflow, and the integration to the international value chains based upon marked relations.\n\nDuring the nineties, the Cuban economy obtained significant progress on the liberalization and diversification of its markets. However, during the 2000s, the landscape changed with the rapprochement to Venezuela. Special financial and commercial relations were concentrated on Venezuela and a series of policies discontinued and in some cases reversed the nineties\u2019 reforms.\n\nThe problems now facing the Venezuelan economy are also responsible for low growth in Cuba\u2019s GDP. Currently, the goods trade with Venezuela accounts for 40% of the island\u2019s total exchange, well above the second place of China with 12.5%. Nevertheless, the data shows that the Cuban GDP dependence was higher with the former Soviet Union than it is compared to Venezuela. Before the Soviet debacle in 1990, commercial relations with the former Soviet Union represented 28.2% of the GDP; while at the present, with Venezuela, this percentage means around 12%. This suggests that a breaking of the linkages with Venezuela should have a noteworthy negative impact on the Cuban economy, but less than the impact during the nineties after the crumbling of the Soviet Union.\n\nUntil the U.S. embargo is completely lifted, companies based in Cuba will not be able to export goods and services to the United States. If the U.S. embargo is finally lifted, the possibilities of international insertion will multiply, as it happened in Vietnam, favoring even further the GDP growth.\n\nThe stock of foreign direct investment (\u201cFDI\u201d) as a ratio of Vietnamese GDP rose from zero in the mid-1980s to over 75% by the 2000s.\n\nThe first years of international openness took place in Vietnam under the U.S. embargo and without access to international financial organization funds, a common element with Cuban reform. Not until 1993, Vietnam renegotiated an unsettled debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and began receiving new loans. In 1994, Vietnam joined the World Bank and the U.S. suspended the economic embargo against the Asian country. As of this date, the openness rate (proportion of foreign trade volume to GDP), increased from 60% to over 100%, and annual FDI inflow jumped from US$0.5 to US$1.8 billion. In 2007, it surpassed US$8 billion per year. Foreign investment has been essential for the Vietnamese industrialization process. The main amount of Projects with foreign capital have been directed to that sector, followed by the real estate sector.\n\nThe ending of U.S. embargo on Vietnam and its entrance to international financial institutions added 2% to GDP growth (Vidal, 2015). This can provide some clues as to the effect it would have on the growth of the Cuban economy, with a future end of the U.S. embargo and a greater integration into international financial institutions.\n\nThere is great potential in the Cuban market, and the country is an attractive location due to its high levels of health, security and education. Its geographic position in the continent and proximity to the United States is also a favorable element that would open great options once U.S. embargo is eliminated.\n\n### References\n\nDollar, D. 1993. \u201cVietnam: Success and failures of macroeconomic stabilization\u201d, in Ljunggren, B. ed 1993, *The Challenge of Reform in Indochina. *Cambridge:* *Harvard Institute for International Development.\n\nPerkings, D. H. 1993. \u201cReforming the economic systems of Vietnam and Laos\u201d in Ljunggren, B. ed. 1993, *The Challenge of Reform in Indochina. *Cambridge: Harvard Institute for International Development.\n\nVidal, P. 2015. \u201cCuba\u2019s Reform and Economic Growth: a Comparative Perspective with Vietnam\u201d, *Journal of Economic Policy Reform*, December 2016\n\nYamaoka, K. 2009. \u201cThe feasibility of Cuban market economy: A comparison with Vietnam\u201d, IDE Discussion Paper No. 189, https://ir.ide.go.jp/dspace/bitstream/2344/832/1/189_yamaoka.pdf." + }, + { + "title": "CHC presents Emilia, a documentary about the woman who sewed the first Cuban flag - University of Miami News", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "CHC presents Emilia, a documentary about the woman who sewed the first Cuban flag - University of Miami News" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMisAFBVV95cUxNR181MWpSSHFIWENJX3hCTzdtb0I3Q2lNcU1ZTFVRa3JCVmYzRnFwNFZXallYdGxoS2pjUzB3dENjbnQ5bU9VSnUyQjJUemNEeEJSTUR2SURIcEhxTGFqbVNiem5LRmVfckF2THZMX0xVNzhCNHVGTGloRjNpbkN4Z1V0X3MxY1hNTkRmMDM3dC1iMXZYTXVsMTNHU0hvUFNmekpreC1vbHlSX0VNZTJFSQ?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://quillette.com/2019/01/07/60-years-on-reflections-on-the-revolution-in-cuba/", + "id": "CBMisAFBVV95cUxNR181MWpSSHFIWENJX3hCTzdtb0I3Q2lNcU1ZTFVRa3JCVmYzRnFwNFZXallYdGxoS2pjUzB3dENjbnQ5bU9VSnUyQjJUemNEeEJSTUR2SURIcEhxTGFqbVNiem5LRmVfckF2THZMX0xVNzhCNHVGTGloRjNpbkN4Z1V0X3MxY1hNTkRmMDM3dC1iMXZYTXVsMTNHU0hvUFNmekpreC1vbHlSX0VNZTJFSQ", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Mon, 14 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 14, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 0, + 14, + 0 + ], + "summary": "CHC presents Emilia, a documentary about the woman who sewed the first Cuban flag  University of Miami News", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "CHC presents Emilia, a documentary about the woman who sewed the first Cuban flag  University of Miami News" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://news.miami.edu", + "title": "University of Miami News" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: 60 Years On: Reflections on the Revolution in Cuba\nauthor: Jorge C Carrasco\nurl: https://quillette.com/2019/01/07/60-years-on-reflections-on-the-revolution-in-cuba/\nhostname: quillette.com\ndescription: It would be decades before the people fully understood the fraudulence of 1959\u2019s heady idealism, but it was corrupt from the start.\nsitename: Quillette\ndate: 2019-01-07\ntags: ['History', 'Top Stories', 'Latin America']\n---\nSixty years ago, as thousands of Cubans celebrated the fall of Fulgencio Batista\u2019s regime, an atmosphere of hype and hatred was also overtaking Havana. Not many people foresaw what was to come, but on January 1, 1959, the Republic of Cuba was murdered. Few tears were shed for her at the time\u2014some were too busy desperately packing their bags, while others were preoccupied with burning cars and smashing storefront windows. The institutions not destroyed by the previous dictatorship were savagely dismembered in the following months and years by the Castro regime. Cuba\u2019s National Congress would never again return to session in the National Capitol building (or anywhere else, for that matter). Christmas, bars and cabaret clubs, independent trade unions, religious schools, private clubs, large and small businesses, any and all vestiges of what was Cuba before communism\u2014all of these were destroyed, expropriated, or otherwise expunged from the lives and minds of the Cuban people.\n\nThe Cuban Revolution never disguised its contempt for the greatest symbol of the Republican era: Havana itself. The Havana Hilton hotel was renamed, and the city\u2019s glorious buildings, beautiful parks, grand mansions, statues, theatres, and museums were all deemed too bourgeois and ostentatious by the revolutionaries, products as they were of the hated \u201ccapitalists and imperialists\u201d they had just driven from power. All this too was now consigned to oblivion or simply neglected as if it had been complicit in some unimaginable evil. \u201cBourgeois Havana,\u201d hitherto one of the world\u2019s most socially and culturally rich cities, gradually collapsed. One by one, its buildings fell into ruin and disrepair, and in their place, nothing was built after 1959 that would return the city to its former splendor.\n\nThe bourgeois Republic\u2019s glamour had masked its cruelty and inequality, but the Revolution ushered in a violent and grotesque cruelty of its own, as ugly as the Soviet brutalist architecture that now filled the Havana suburbs with hundreds of square housing complexes devoid of elegance and grace. Havana began to resemble a permanent war zone, in which a seemingly unending battle would be waged for the next 60 years and counting between the revolutionary tyrants and the ordinary people who populate the city, and who, generation after generation, give it life.\n\nFidel Castro knew that Cubans in the 1950s would not receive him as some kind of redemptive socialist deity (as North Koreans had done with the Kim dynasty). So, instead, he demanded allegiance to the Revolution itself, the romantic idealism of which masked the pitilessness of the political system that had replaced the Republic Castro despised. \u201cRevolution\u201d meant the liberation of the island and its people from Batista\u2019s dictatorship and battles in the mountains of the Sierra Maestra. It meant \u201csocial justice\u201d and the promise of equality for all. It meant the sugarcane harvest, the nation\u2019s newly forged ties to the equally revolutionary Soviet Union and its Communist Party, anti-imperialism, and the cult of Che Guevara. And, in the end, of course, it meant Fidel Castro himself.\n\nIf you had a house, ate the State-rationed food, enjoyed access to free healthcare and education, then this was all thanks to the Revolution. And if you suffered or went hungry, or were persecuted and oppressed, if you denounced your \u201ccounter-revolutionary\u201d neighbors and relatives to the secret police and pelted political dissidents and homosexuals with eggs, then this too was all for the Revolution. Every time a Cuban referred to the Revolution, instead of the Republic or the government or simply Cuba, he became more than a mere citizen\u2014he became a soldier of revolutionary progress. Uncountable crimes were perpetrated and justified in the name of that single word.\n\nIt would be decades before the people fully understood the fraudulence of 1959\u2019s heady idealism, but it was corrupt from the start, when hundreds were sentenced to death by Che Guevara\u2019s revolutionary tribunals and executed in La Caba\u00f1a. On August 23, 1968, Castro gave a speech justifying the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the armies of the Warsaw Pact, and in that moment, he effectively surrendered Cuba\u2019s sovereignty and extinguished any remaining pretense of national liberation. Should the same kind of revolt have erupted here, the Soviet Union now had permission to invade the island and restore the revolutionary order by force. From that point onwards, Cuba was no longer free. Once again, the island was condemned to be a docile servant to the new imperialists.\n\nToday, \u201dRevolution\u201d is a word empty of meaning for most Cubans. People prefer to call the regime \u201cthe system,\u201d or \u201cthe thing.\u201d Words die when they no longer refer to anything specific, when they are repeatedly used without precision, and when they no longer make any sense to anyone. Young Cubans, hungry for knowledge, modernity, and technology, now prefer to dream of evolution. They blame the revolutionary winds which once intoxicated so many for the devastation of millions of families\u2014those who escaped predestined misery and left loved ones behind, those who were murdered or left to languish in Castro\u2019s jails or forced labor camps, those who perished on rafts or drowned trying to reach the US, and those who remained to suffer the oppressive poverty of a corrupt and brutal dictatorship.\n\nWhen he replaced his brother as Head of State in 2008, Raul Castro began a slow and insufficient process of reform that nevertheless significantly changed the lives of thousands of Cubans. For the first time since 1959, Cubans were permitted to stay in hotels (a privilege previously reserved for foreign tourists and the revolutionary elites), to apply for a private license to run a small business, to open a restaurant or rent a room, and to buy and sell cars and houses. But following the thaw in diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba, President Obama\u2019s visit to Havana, Trump\u2019s election, and the death of Fidel Castro, the moribund regime found itself more politically vulnerable than ever. Fearing that liberalization would awaken young Cubans and destroy the private kingdom the Castro family had built on the country\u2019s ruins, the regime\u2019s repression of dissidents, artists, and journalists exponentially increased. The arrival of the internet was delayed to prepare the conditions for online censorship and control over fledgling private initiatives was tightened. The system is once again being transformed from within in a desperate attempt to prevent the Revolution consuming itself. At the end of last year, the National Assembly approved new constitutional reforms intended to safeguard the Castro legacy for the revolutionary dynasty\u2019s descendants.\n\nCastro is right to worry. A new generation of Cubans, naturally immunized against ideological doctrine and yearning for the prosperity and liberty their parents were denied, is looking beyond the regime. No evil is eternal, and Cuba\u2019s youth are more connected with the world outside than ever before. But, for the time being, there is not much \u201csocial justice\u201d to celebrate in Cuba. An economic abyss still separates the regime\u2019s leaders from average workers earning less than 30 dollars a month. The new rich bourgeoisie are no longer big businessmen, capitalists, and entrepreneurs, they are the relatives of important military personnel and members of the Communist Party who still control the most luxurious hotels, restaurants, and bars on the island. Almost nothing remains of the Revolution\u2019s promises of opportunities and civil liberties for all, for which so much blood was spilled. On the contrary, a strict system of surveillance and control has been its most durable \u201cachievement.\u201d For Cubans, the promise of liberation remains a dream, endlessly deferred." + }, + { + "title": "After Discriminating Against Trans Woman, Cuba Libre Will Pay $7,000 Fine - DCist", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "After Discriminating Against Trans Woman, Cuba Libre Will Pay $7,000 Fine - DCist" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMipwFBVV95cUxQQkNYTWtEUEZEMUdmTEtjSU5vVFJwM3dkQWNyVFJlNWlMTEszYmI4Z3ZOSWVUdDJ1TW5TakxWcmE1RWFYYTdmRFgwR0luLVNYT0d0NjFfMVpuLXBSM1p2OGY2RU9VMV9xRkM5c2hCX3l3dUx0V1AtWFdPV1o2WkkyOUtVd3JCRm5WYUFWcjNNOUJWNjhBcjhZMWRHak9MVzFEREY0MV8yZw?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://dcist.com/story/19/01/16/after-discriminating-against-trans-woman-cuba-libre-will-pay-7000-fine/", + "id": "CBMipwFBVV95cUxQQkNYTWtEUEZEMUdmTEtjSU5vVFJwM3dkQWNyVFJlNWlMTEszYmI4Z3ZOSWVUdDJ1TW5TakxWcmE1RWFYYTdmRFgwR0luLVNYT0d0NjFfMVpuLXBSM1p2OGY2RU9VMV9xRkM5c2hCX3l3dUx0V1AtWFdPV1o2WkkyOUtVd3JCRm5WYUFWcjNNOUJWNjhBcjhZMWRHak9MVzFEREY0MV8yZw", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Wed, 16 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 16, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 2, + 16, + 0 + ], + "summary": "After Discriminating Against Trans Woman, Cuba Libre Will Pay $7,000 Fine  DCist", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "After Discriminating Against Trans Woman, Cuba Libre Will Pay $7,000 Fine  DCist" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://dcist.com", + "title": "DCist" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: After Discriminating Against Trans Woman, Cuba Libre Will Pay $7,000 Fine | DCist\nauthor: Rachel Kurzius\nurl: https://dcist.com/story/19/01/16/after-discriminating-against-trans-woman-cuba-libre-will-pay-7000-fine/\nhostname: dcist.com\ndescription: The Gallery Place restaurant will also institute policies and employee training to ensure the place is compliant with the District's anti-discrimination laws.\nsitename: DCist\ndate: 2019-01-16\n---\nWhile attending a bachelorette party at a Gallery Place restaurant in June, a transgender woman reported being asked to provide her ID to use the bathroom\u2014which is illegal in the District. Ultimately, she was kicked out of the establishment. Her social media account of the incident drew support from Chelsea Clinton, Mayor Muriel Bowser, and D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine, among others.\n\nTurns out, Racine had more than a tweet on deck. His office announced on Wednesday a settlement with Cuba Libre Rum Bar and Restaurant, which requires the establishment to stop discriminating against transgender patrons, institute policies and employee training to ensure the place is compliant with the District\u2019s anti-discrimination laws, and pay $7,000 to the city both as a penalty for violating the Human Rights Act and in legal costs. Cuba Libre must also post clear signage on its restrooms that say all individuals can use whichever restroom corresponds with their gender identity.\n\n\u201cI am quite grateful for the work of Attorney General Racine and his staff to ensure that discrimination has no place in D.C., and I am thankful that Cuba Libre and CEO Barry Gutin have worked in good faith since the fall to ensure this doesn\u2019t happen again,\u201d Charlotte Clymer, the woman at the center of the incident, tells DCist over email. \u201cAll parties worked together to make sure a terrible night was turned into a great teaching moment, which was built on the history of advocacy by trans folks in D.C., particularly trans women of color. I saw a resolution to this because of the foundation they laid.\u201d\n\nWhen the incident first occurred, Cuba Libre apologized over Twitter, saying the restaurant welcomed \u201cguests of all gender identifications\u201d and was \u201cimmediately re-training our entire staff to ensure this does not happen again.\u201d\n\nAt the time, Clymer responded by expressing skepticism that a training would impact the manager in question. \u201cHis callousness and bigotry far exceeded a simple lack of understanding,\u201d she wrote. \u201cHe was intentional in his discrimination. This person did not act in good faith.\u201d\n\nAccording to Racine\u2019s office, Cuba Libre fired the employees involved the incident, and the restaurant has separately reached a settlement with Clymer.\n\nClymer says that she cannot say much about the terms of the settlement, though she deleted the original Twitter thread recounting the incident \u201cas a measure of good faith\u201d when Cuba Libra pledged to make improvements. \u201cThey have honored that,\u201d she says. \u201cThey made specific commitments on their policies, made a sizable donation to Casa Ruby, committed to ongoing training (also through Casa Ruby), and agreed to a personal settlement with me.\u201d\n\nShe adds that \u201cthe sad truth is that trans people throughout D.C., particularly trans people of color, have experiences like these and are afraid to come forward and report them. I am certainly not naive enough to believe that what happened to me at Cuba Libre will not happen again, but what I\u2019m hoping is that D.C. businesses have taken notice from this and rechecked their policies to ensure they\u2019re operating inclusive environments in accordance with D.C. law.\u201d\n\nRacine also introduced legislation at the D.C. Council on Wednesday that clarifies the D.C. attorney general can bring cases for violations of the Human Rights Act independent of the D.C. Office of Human Rights." + }, + { + "title": "The Cuban revolution, 60 years on - Salon.com", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "The Cuban revolution, 60 years on - Salon.com" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMif0FVX3lxTE9NWXZvR09MN2VIa3ROM19wTlpzekQ1Q2YyRnY5ejA1OU5GZ051LXdydTRiZE1SUlh2cWFqQXMzLXdhTHpFT2NDOWk4RHlFa3BGV2RuUUR2TzBkNmdoWjlUNWhCSHBVd29Ud3JTcmxoTGp3R2JGWkY5XzAzQ0FFZlU?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.salon.com/2019/01/04/the-cuban-revolution-60-years-on_partner/", + "id": "CBMif0FVX3lxTE9NWXZvR09MN2VIa3ROM19wTlpzekQ1Q2YyRnY5ejA1OU5GZ051LXdydTRiZE1SUlh2cWFqQXMzLXdhTHpFT2NDOWk4RHlFa3BGV2RuUUR2TzBkNmdoWjlUNWhCSHBVd29Ud3JTcmxoTGp3R2JGWkY5XzAzQ0FFZlU", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Fri, 04 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 4, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 4, + 4, + 0 + ], + "summary": "The Cuban revolution, 60 years on  Salon.com", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "The Cuban revolution, 60 years on  Salon.com" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.salon.com", + "title": "Salon.com" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: The Cuban revolution, 60 years on\nauthor: Vijay Prashad\nurl: https://www.salon.com/2019/01/04/the-cuban-revolution-60-years-on_partner/?utm_source=website&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ogshare&utm_content=og\nhostname: salon.com\ndescription: Over six decades the United States has tried to undermine the will of the Cuban people. It continues to do so\nsitename: Salon.com\ndate: 2019-01-04\ncategories: ['All Salon, News & Politics']\ntags: ['All Salon', 'cuban revolution', 'independent media institute', 'News & Politics']\n---\nEarly on New Year\u2019s Day 1959 \u2014 60 years ago \u2014 Cuba\u2019s dictator Fulgencio Batista boarded a flight for the Dominican Republic. The previous day, Batista had bragged that his forces had won the decisive Battle of Santa Clara. The morning newspapers printed his side of the story. It was false. Che Guevara\u2019s band of troops in Column 8 had taken the town and derailed a train filled with Batista\u2019s U.S.-backed forces.\n\nBatista had enough armed men to crush the rebels. But his soldiers had no morale. They hated the dictator as much as the rebels did. It was part of the charm of the rebellion that it had more legitimacy than the old dictator ever had. By the time Fidel Castro rolled into Havana on January 8, Cuba was with him.\n\nBatista had fled with the money. With him went the property owners and many of the highly skilled professionals. Cuba was left with its debt and with the tentacles of multinational corporations dug deep into its entrails. Castro\u2019s forces had to pivot from an armed struggle to building a state. Driven by the deep desire for equality, the new government used what social wealth was available to enhance human potential.\n\nA CIA assessment of Castro\u2019s first year in office admits that \u201cthe bulk of the Cuban people, especially those in the lowest economic strata, continue their strong emotional attachment to him,\u201d namely Castro. \u201cHis virtual monopoly of plans for social and economic reform, which the majority of Cubans regard as desirable and necessary, also enhances his position.\u201d\n\nNonetheless, the United States government pointed the spear at Cuba, particularly at Castro. The CIA teamed up with the mafia to assassinate Castro several times in 1960, failing with each attempt. Over time, the CIA would try to kill Castro over 600 times. Castro died in 2016 at the age of 90. He outlived many of those who had tried to kill him. The Cuban revolution also outlived millions of its detractors.\n\nThe United States remains pledged to overthrow the Cuban government, despite moves by the former U.S. President Barack Obama. U.S. President Donald Trump has openly called for regime change on the island. His national security adviser John Bolton has said that the \u201ctroika of tyranny\u201d (Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela) will face U.S. pressure \u2014 either sanctions or war. Over six decades the United States has tried to undermine the will of the Cuban people. It continues to do so.\n\n**Bread from India**\n\nBread often sits at the center of unrest. Early modern rebellions \u2014 the Novgorod Uprising of 1650 and the Boston Bread Riots of 1710-1713 \u2014 were all spurred on by the rise in the price of bread. The French Revolution begins with the Flour War of 1775 and cascades into the Women\u2019s March on Versailles of 1789. In our time, the food crisis of 2007-08 produced protests from Bangladesh to Haiti, while the Arab Spring of 2010-11 was driven by the withdrawal of bread subsidies \u2014 particularly in Egypt.\n\nCuba had an endemic problem with wheat, almost all of it which has been imported to the island. The USSR and Canada were the main exporters of wheat to Cuba, although in 1988 \u2014 just before the USSR collapsed \u2014 all of Cuba\u2019s flour imports came from the Soviet Union.\n\nThe fall of the USSR dried up the trade in sugar (to the USSR) and flour (to Cuba). At the Fourth Party Congress in September 1991, Castro told his comrades that the collapsing USSR had been unable to fulfill 42 percent of its contracts. This impacted upgrades to machinery and delivery of flour to bakeries. The USSR and the Eastern European countries, which had previously provided their ships to carry Cuban produce (citrus, sugar) to Europe and to the USSR on a solidarity basis, now asked for payment in hard currency. This was impossible for Cuba.\n\nThe U.S. embargo hardened, and Cuba was increasingly isolated. I remember those years vividly. In far-off India, the Communists went from door to door asking farmers to donate a handful of wheat and rice, a few clothes and unused medicines. From the fields of Punjab to the backwaters of Kerala, ordinary people handed over something to defend this little island at the other end of the planet. I was then in Punjab, participating in the collection drive, which was monumental.\n\nIn December 1992, the *Caribbean Princess *departed from West Bengal for Cuba with 10,000 tons of wheat and 10,000 tons of rice as well as other goods. Communist Party of India (Marxist) leaders Harkishan Singh Surjeet and M.A. Baby traveled to Havana to deliver the food. Fidel called the bread made of this wheat the \u201cbread from India.\u201d It was a gesture of solidarity, but not a solution to Cuba\u2019s endemic crisis.\n\n**Shortages of flour**\n\nCuba\u2019s Economy Minister Alejandro Gil Fernandez told the National Assembly that the 2019 plan will have to be \u201cone of adjustment to current realities.\u201d What are the contours of this reality?\n\nFirst, the U.S. blockade, which has tightened under Trump. Trump has openly invoked the Monroe Doctrine, which the U.S. interprets as giving it extraterritorial control over the Americas. He has tightened the embargo on Cuba, particularly on its financial system. This has made banks hesitate to lend money to Cuba, or to renegotiate its outstanding loans. No longer is Cuba easily able to borrow credit or buy wheat on the open market. As a consequence, for example, Cuba has been unable to pay its debt to Brazil \u2014 whose incoming right-wing president will most likely use that failure to pay down the $597 million loan from BNDES (Brazilian Development Bank) as a weapon against the socialist island. The \u201cfinancial persecution\u201d of the U.S. embargo \u2014 as Cuba\u2019s President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel put it to the National Assembly \u2014 has meant that Cuba cannot raise the funds easily to import wheat and bread.\n\nSecond, the embargo itself has \u2014 since the fall of the USSR \u2014 made it difficult to repair and replace key machinery. The La Kary biscuit factory (founded in 1945) had used machinery that was first introduced in the 1980s. This May, the machines broke down and the biscuit factory had to remain closed while the workers struggled to bring it back on line by September. The new machine bakes twice the number of biscuits as the older one. Other factories and bakeries struggle with aged machines. The Jos\u00e9 Antonio Echeverria flour mill in Havana has broken down. It has caused a shortage of flour for the capital.\n\nThird, the collapse of the USSR meant that Cuba lost its key trading partner. Venezuela, since the start of the Bolivarian Revolution in 1999, replaced the USSR. It brought the rest of Latin America into a reasonable trade relationship with Cuba, giving the island the opportunity to recover from the Special Period of the 1990s. But now, with Venezuela under sanctions, that lifeline is wearing out. There is no other lifeline on the horizon.\n\nFourth, Hurricane Irma of 2017 took a toll on the island, destroying infrastructure that cannot easily be rebuilt in the conditions of the Embargo. Tourism is down as a consequence, which means foreign exchange is down.\n\n**Recipe for regime change**\n\nThe U.S. government has a clear agenda for how to conduct regime change.\n\n**Tighten sanctions.**The hegemony of U.S. banks and of the U.S. dollar has meant that U.S. sanctions can easily suffocate any country.**Heighten internal contradictions.**Difficult economic situation creates serious internal tensions, which are then blamed on the government rather than on the sanctions policy. Funds and political support are afforded to the disaffected population, which begins to call for regime change.**Force the government to miscalculate.**The danger of what appears to be a \u201ccolor revolution\u201d \u2014 a revolution of astroturf rather than the grassroots\u2014pushes the government to take undemocratic measures against its own population to defend the sanctity of its political process. This raises eyebrows about authoritarianism.**External support.**Now, with the crackdown, the door opens for regional entities and for the U.S. government directly to call for intervention to support \u201cthe people\u201dagainst the government (now known as the \u201cregime\u201d). Media firms offer the U.S. State Department\u2019s view and produce global unity against the government.\n\nThis is the formula. Trump has moved to the first phase.\n\nCuba has, over the past 60 years, upheld its sovereignty through the revolutionary process. It has been able to withstand direct assault by the United States and it has been able to survive the collapse of the USSR.\n\nCuba is \u2014 like Venezuela \u2014 now in deep danger. Trump and Bolton might not be able to provoke a military invasion, but they will do everything possible to undermine the government and to create internal problems.\n\nIn 2002, Ignacio Ramonet asked Fidel Castro if the revolution could collapse. Yes, Fidel said, \u201cthe country can self-destruct, can destroy itself. This Revolution can destroy itself.\u201d A country has to change, has to correct its errors, has to defend itself from myopia. \u201cThat\u2019s why we are acting, we are marching towards a total change in our society.\u201d\n\nFidel had the correct attitude. It was infectious. 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After the initial cases in Cuba were detected, U.S. diplomats posted there were encouraged to record strange sounds that they heard and in some cases were given recording devices by the government.\n\nLast year, an interim FBI report said that sound waves alone couldn\u2019t have caused the damage, raising the possibility that whatever sound the diplomats heard was not the direct cause of their injuries. Some investigators have suggested that the sound could have been the byproduct of something else that caused the damage or beamed at the diplomats as a decoy to obscure another type of technology.\n\n\u201cThe fact that the sound on the recording was produced by a Caribbean cricket does not rule out the possibility that embassy personnel were victims of another form of attack,\u201d Stubbs and Montealegre-Z wrote in their paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a scientific journal.\n\nCrickets, when they produce sound with their wings, create a \u201cdistinct acoustic signature\u201d that can be measured for several characteristics, the researchers wrote \u2014 similar to how each person\u2019s fingerprint is unique. Using technology that creates visual representations of sound signals, they were able to study characteristics such as pulse repetition rate, oscillations per pulse and duration.\n\n\u201cThe way that they produce their sound, the wing decelerates through each sound pulse, which allows you to see the frequency change through each sound pulse,\u201d Stubbs said in an interview.\n\nCuba has adamantly denied any knowledge of or involvement in any attacks in U.S. diplomats. In 2017, Cuban experts who had studied recordings of the sound provided to Cuba by the U.S. government said they\u2019d determined they were very similar to the sounds of cicadas and crickets that live along Cuba\u2019s coast.\n\nThe Indies short-tailed cricket, known scientifically as anurogryllys celerinictus, has been found previously in Jamaica, Grand Cayman and the Florida Keys, but isn\u2019t known to exist in Cuba. Still, a similar type of cricket is found in Cuba, and the researchers hypothesize that it\u2019s possible that the Indies short-tailed cricket is present there, too.\n\nAt first, the researchers studying the AP recording found that the pulse structure was \u201cunlike any natural insect source.\u201d But they suspected that was because the diplomats had recorded the sound while indoors, where the recording might picked up echoes from the walls and floor, as opposed to recorded outside \u201cin the field.\u201d\n\nTo test that theory, they took a recording of the Indies short-tailed cricket and played it indoors on a loudspeaker. They then recorded it again and found that it now matched the pulse structure seen in the recording from Cuba.\n\nPrevious studies of the recordings, which have also been extensively studied by the U.S. military, have come to different conclusions. Last year, engineers at the University of Michigan who studied the same AP recording in a lab determined that the sound could have been the unintended side effect of poorly built ultrasonic eavesdropping devices that combined to create audible sound heard by the diplomats." + }, + { + "title": "With Spies and Other Operatives, a Nation Looms Over Venezuela\u2019s Crisis: Cuba (Published 2019) - The New York Times", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "With Spies and Other Operatives, a Nation Looms Over Venezuela\u2019s Crisis: Cuba (Published 2019) - The New York Times" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMifkFVX3lxTE5RaVlHZ2p0bXdONklfVGdXbURPajNTQVhmdjVLZ1EtTXBRa3l0QVRzeXBHTXRxRk9tV2M4c3ZBYWtjSWpHQ3FpNkI1c1NpYmdoWU9DYm5wVUNrUHVXamFjYm1YbG9vcmVXbmdpNXlsbnV4TVE4TU85Q3Vpb1J3QQ?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/world/americas/venezuela-cuba-oil.html", + "id": "CBMifkFVX3lxTE5RaVlHZ2p0bXdONklfVGdXbURPajNTQVhmdjVLZ1EtTXBRa3l0QVRzeXBHTXRxRk9tV2M4c3ZBYWtjSWpHQ3FpNkI1c1NpYmdoWU9DYm5wVUNrUHVXamFjYm1YbG9vcmVXbmdpNXlsbnV4TVE4TU85Q3Vpb1J3QQ", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Sat, 26 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 26, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 5, + 26, + 0 + ], + "summary": "With Spies and Other Operatives, a Nation Looms Over Venezuela\u2019s Crisis: Cuba (Published 2019)  The New York Times", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "With Spies and Other Operatives, a Nation Looms Over Venezuela\u2019s Crisis: Cuba (Published 2019)  The New York Times" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.nytimes.com", + "title": "The New York Times" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 403, + "response": "Error: HTTP 403" + }, + { + "title": "The Cuban Revolution \u2013 60 years on - Revolutionary Communist Party", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "The Cuban Revolution \u2013 60 years on - Revolutionary Communist Party" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiZkFVX3lxTE9XYXEtSUcwWldyWDFOcWgyeUpmeXlha2szMk8tbXRqWmJhUzJVX1VLdWNRN0dhVC15UWdHeTZJWFh2MWVfZnVnNzNndjFkeGNWOU1tbTk4SF9zSHRlM0RYZ1JhalNCUQ?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://communist.red/the-cuban-revolution-60-years-on/", + "id": "CBMiZkFVX3lxTE9XYXEtSUcwWldyWDFOcWgyeUpmeXlha2szMk8tbXRqWmJhUzJVX1VLdWNRN0dhVC15UWdHeTZJWFh2MWVfZnVnNzNndjFkeGNWOU1tbTk4SF9zSHRlM0RYZ1JhalNCUQ", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Thu, 03 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 3, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 3, + 3, + 0 + ], + "summary": "The Cuban Revolution \u2013 60 years on  Revolutionary Communist Party", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "The Cuban Revolution \u2013 60 years on  Revolutionary Communist Party" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://communist.red", + "title": "Revolutionary Communist Party" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: The Cuban Revolution \u2013 60 years on - The Communist\nauthor: The Communist; Jorge Martin\nurl: https://communist.red/the-cuban-revolution-60-years-on/\nhostname: communist.red\ndescription: This week marks the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. To mark this, we republish here an analysis by Jorge Martin, explaining how the revolution came about - and where it is heading today.\nsitename: The Communist\ndate: 2019-01-03\ncategories: ['Revolutions']\n---\n**Sixty years ago, on New Year\u2019s Day 1959, a general strike paralysed Cuba and forced dictator Fulgencio Batista to flee the country. Within a few days the 26th of July Movement guerrillas \u2013 led by Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara \u2013 had entered Havana and were received as heroes. The Cuban Revolution had succeeded.**\n\n## Colonialism and imperialism\n\nIn 1898, Spain lost Cuba, one of the few remnants of her former colonial power. But that did not mean independence for Cuba. The island was just transferred from one colonial master to another: the United States of America.\n\nFor three years after 1898, Cuba was militarily occupied and ruled by the US. The Cuban Republic was only declared in 1902, after Washington passed the Platt amendment declaring the right of the US to militarily intervene in the island at any time. Cuban politics for the next 60 years were to be determined by the US, who did actually send troops to the island on several occasions: 1906, 1912, 1917, 1920 and 1933.\n\nThe Cuban economy was also largely dominated by the US. The island\u2019s main source of income was sugar cane which was sold at preferential prices to its powerful northern neighbour. Most of the country\u2019s sugar mills were in the hands of American companies and so were most of the other key sectors of the economy \u2013 oil, electricity, telephone etc.\n\nThis crushing domination by the US relied on a system of land property which remained basically the same as under Spanish domination: a few landowners had most of the land, while the majority of peasants were landless labourers.\n\nThe only other group to benefit from this situation was the small and very weak Cuban bourgeoisie, confined to manufacturing the very few things not made by US subsidiaries.\n\nMeanwhile, the living conditions of the Cuban masses were appalling. In good years 25% of the workforce was still unemployed. This percentage went up to 50% in bad years. Illiteracy was very high and the average per capita income was only US$312.\n\nFor years the Cuban workers played a key role in the struggle against imperialism and to advance their own interests. A high point was the huge wave of strikes and demonstrations during the 1930s, including armed uprisings and the establishment of revolutionary councils in the sugar mills. This led to the overthrow of General Machado\u2019s US puppet government by an army coup led by Fulgencio Batista.\n\nUnfortunately, the Cuban Communist Party, instead of relying on the revolutionary might of the Cuban workers, adopted the Stalinist theory of the \u201ctwo-stages\u201d. According to this, they were supposed to look for an alliance with the so-called \u201cprogressive national bourgeoisie\u201d in order to complete the \u201canti-imperialist and democratic revolution\u201d. Only after that would the struggle for socialism be on the agenda.\n\nThis theory was utterly divorced from Cuban conditions and indeed from the real class relationships in any of the colonial countries. The Cuban landowners and the tiny bourgeoisie were completely linked to and dominated by the US. They had no intention whatsoever of carrying through the tasks of the bourgeois revolution (distribution of the land; fight for national independence) because that would have meant dealing a mortal blow to themselves.\n\nThe Cuban Communist Party in its search for a non-existent \u201cprogressive national bourgeoisie\u201d discovered Batista to be the representative of this class and decided to support him. In exchange, the CP was legalised during the Batista dictatorship and even got two cabinet ministers in 1942.\n\nBatista was replaced by the corrupt civilian government of Grau San Mart\u00edn which in turn was overthrown by Batista in a second military coup in 1952. A succession of corrupt governments and military coups \u2013 with the real power in the island remaining firmly in the hand of the US and their local crooks \u2013 created widespread discontent amongst the population, including the petit-bourgeois layers.\n\n## 26th of July Movement\n\nIn 1953, a group of students and intellectuals decided to do something to put an end to this state of affairs. With a handful of followers, this group launched an assault on the Moncada barracks on 26th July. Amongst them were Fidel Castro and his brother Raul.\n\nThey were defeated and jailed, but as soon as they were released they went to Mexico where they set themselves the task of organising a guerrilla group: the July 26th Movement (M-26J). They landed back in Cuba in 1956.\n\nThe programme of this movement was that of the revolutionary petit-bourgeoisie: distribution of land plots of more than 1,100 acres with compensation for the owners; a profit-sharing scheme for the workers aimed at expanding the domestic market; and the end of the quota system, under which the US controlled sugar cane production.\n\nThe 1956 Programme Manifesto of the M-26J defined itself as *\u201cguided by the ideals of democracy, nationalism and social justice \u2026 of Jeffersonian democracy\u201d.* The same document also stated their aim to reach a *\u201cstate of solidarity and harmony between capital and workers in order to raise the country\u2019s productivity\u201d.*\n\nThey launched a heroic three year long guerrilla struggle, which won the overwhelming support of the Cuban people \u2013 with the obvious exception of the tiny handful of people directly linked to the landlords and US imperialism.\n\nThe main base of the movement during the fighting itself were the landless peasants and small producers in the countryside, for whom the only way of solving their problems was the expropriation of the landlords. Batista\u2019s army, itself made up mainly of peasants, rapidly began to disintegrate during the fighting.\n\n## General strike\n\nOn 31st December 1958, Batista met with a small number to celebrate New Year\u2019s Eve at the Columbia military camp. The dictator appointed general Cantillo as supreme chief of the armed forces and then fled to the Dominican Republic.\n\nThe manoeuvre by the henchmen of the dictatorship and imperialism was clear: to allow Batista to leave the country safely and install a military junta led by Cantillo; to appear to introduce change, so that nothing would really change.\n\nAbove all, US imperialism wanted to defend its interests on the island and that required a change of personnel. The M-26J replied with a call for a general strike. The message by Fidel Castro, broadcast by Radio Rebelde (Rebel Radio), in the early hours of January 1, 1959, was clear:\n\n\u201cRevolution yes, military coup no! To steal the victory from the people will only make the war longer! (\u2026)\n\n\n\u201cThe people and particularly the workers of the Republic must remain alert and follow Radio Rebelde, and urgently prepare in all workplaces for the general strike, which will begin as soon as the order is given, if necessary, to counter any attempt at a counter-revolutionary coup\u201d.\n\n\nThe call for a revolutionary general strike was broadcast a few minutes later.\n\nIn Havana, the masses went out on the streets to celebrate the flight of the hated dictator and \u2013 together with the revolutionaries who had mutinied in the Castillo del Principe jail \u2013 took over key points in the city, official buildings, police stations, etc.\n\nThe forces of guerrilla commanders Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos were still some distance from the capital, in Las Villas. But the apparatus of the dictatorship was collapsing like a house of cards with its henchmen fleeing as fast as they could.\n\nAt the end of the day, Fidel Castro addressed the crowds in Santiago de Cuba, after the surrender of the troops stationed in the city. A new government was sworn in, presided over by Manuel Urrutia.\n\nOn 2nd January, Che and Cienfuegos made a triumphal entry in Havana and the Cantillo military junta fell. The general strike lasted from 1st January until the 4th, guaranteeing revolutionary victory and the final collapse of the rotten apparatus of the Batista dictatorship.\n\n## Permanent revolution\n\nThe revolution that won 60 years ago in Cuba had an advanced democratic programme \u2013 for national liberation and agrarian reform, with a strong social content \u2013 but one which did not raise the issue of the abolition of capitalism in order to carry out these tasks.\n\nAnyone who reads the speeches of the leaders of the revolution in those initial months of euphoria, the decrees they passed, the measures that were taken, can easily see that socialism was not on the agenda (although it is also true that there were some in the revolutionary leadership who already considered themselves socialists or communists).\n\nSoon after seizing power Castro went to the US on a goodwill tour declaring in New York: *\u201cI have clearly and definitely stated that we are not Communists\u2026The gates are open for private investment that contributes to the development of Cuba\u201d.*\n\nThe problem was that even a limited programme of progressive reforms clashed head on with the interests of the big landlords and the US multinationals. In other words, to carry through the programme of the democratic bourgeois revolution in a backward country in the epoch of imperialism meant to challenge capitalism and imperialism itself. This had already been proved by the practical experience of the Russian Revolution in 1917.\n\nThe Bolsheviks had argued that the national democratic revolution could only be led in a backward country like Russia by the working class, which represented no more than 10% of the population at that time.\n\nThe workers, having taken power at the head of the other oppressed classes, especially the peasantry, would then proceed to carry through the tasks of the socialist revolution as the only way to ensure the survival of the revolution.\n\nBut, as the national democratic revolution also challenged the interests of imperialism, in order to survive, the revolution had to spread internationally, seeking the help of the mighty working class in the advanced capitalist countries.\n\nLeon Trotsky was the first one to give a full theoretical explanation of this theory. This is known as the theory of permanent revolution. The revolution in a backward country, therefore, has to be \u201cpermanent\u201d in two regards: because it starts with the national democratic tasks and continues with the socialist ones; and because it starts in one country, but has to spread internationally in order to succeed.\n\n## Embargo\n\nThe events which followed Castro\u2019s seizure of power in Cuba are a remarkable confirmation of this theory, which is even more striking because of the fact that Castro was forced to act in the opposite way to what he intended.\n\nAs soon as the new government started to seize the land owned by the big landlords (some of them US companies) they tried to organise resistance against these measures and were backed by the US. The masses, aroused by the revolutionary takeover, were also putting enormous pressure on the government with a wave of land seizures and factory occupations and strikes.\n\nThe conflict came to a head in 1960 when the three oil companies on the island (all of them US-owned) refused to refine a delivery of Russian oil to Cuba. The Cuban government then \u201cintervened\u201d placing them under government supervision. The US retaliated by cutting the quota for Cuban sugar, but Russia offered to buy it.\n\nThen the Cuban government decided to nationalise the electricity company, the telephone company, the oil refinery and the sugar mills. Afterwards all Cuban subsidiaries of US companies were also nationalised and finally the biggest Cuban companies were taken into public ownership.\n\nThe US government retaliated by putting in place a trade embargo and preparing a military intervention to overthrow the regime. In 1961, all diplomatic relations between the two countries were broken.\n\nAs we have seen, Castro and his comrades had no intention whatsoever of eliminating capitalism on the island. They were pushed to do so by a combination of the mistakes and blunders of the US, and the pressure of the Cuban masses and their willingness to carry out their own program.\n\nBut the key factor was that no fundamental change could ever be implemented in Cuba under capitalism. In the epoch of imperialism, there is no room for a small colonial country to achieve real independence and advance unless it breaks fundamentally with capitalism. And this, Castro and his comrades of the M-26J found out by their own experience.\n\n## Bureaucracy\n\nUndoubtedly, the support for the new regime was overwhelming. Two hundred thousand workers and soldiers were organised in a popular militia, with Committees for the Defence of the Revolution organised in every neighbourhood and every village. Thus when the CIA sponsored an invasion of the island in April 1961, the Cuban emigre invasion force was rapidly crushed by armed workers and peasants who \u2013 for the first time in their lives \u2013 had something to defend, something to fight and even die for.\n\nThe revolution enjoyed mass support since its advantages were there for everyone to see: an enormous advance in living standards; the eradication of illiteracy; one of the best health systems in the world, etc.\n\nBut the way the new regime had come to power was to shape the organisation of the new state. The working class is the only class that, because of its working conditions and the role it plays in production, is able to adopt a collectivist viewpoint.\n\nDuring the process of the Russian Revolution hundreds of thousands of workers, peasants and soldiers went through the school of the soviets, revolutionary committees where all decisions were taken democratically, and gained confidence in their own ability to run their own lives.\n\nBut the Cuban revolution was led by a handful of intellectuals, and in the fighting itself no more than a few hundred participated. And this situation was to remain afterwards. There were workers and peasants\u2019 militias and revolutionary committees, but their role was not to rule but only to approve decisions taken elsewhere. Hundreds of thousands gathered to listen to the speeches of the leaders, but they were not the ones taking the decisions.\n\nThe 1960s saw an open debate between the Cuban revolutionaries and the Stalinists over the direction of the movement on issues like spreading the revolution, economic policy, Marxist theory, and arts and culture. That came to an end in 1971, after the defeat of the attempts to spread the revolution, when the revolution became bureaucratised.\n\nWhen the new regime broke with capitalism, the model it had was not that of Russian soviet democracy of 1917 but that of Russia 1961, where all vestiges of workers\u2019 control had been eradicated long ago.\n\n## Which way forward?\n\nIn the 1990s, the collapse of Stalinism in the USSR left Cuba isolated. Unlike in Russia, however, here the leadership opposed any attempts to restore capitalism and the Cuban revolution resisted through the dire economic conditions of the \u201cspecial period\u201d.\n\nA debate has opened in Cuba in recent years, with growing concessions to private capitalism being made. A section of the leadership sees China and Vietnam as a model to follow.\n\nWe must be very clear: had it not been for the revolution and the abolition of the private profit motive, Cuba would be today a poor and backward country in which the majority of the population would be living in poverty, facing unemployment, illiteracy and dying of curable diseases.\n\nAny attempt to reintroduce capitalism will have disastrous consequences for the living conditions of the masses and would be a betrayal of the revolution.\n\nSocialists all over the world have the duty to defend the Cuban Revolution against the attempts of US imperialism to destroy it. But also against the attempts of big business to restore the rule of capital bit by bit.\n\nAt the same time, we have to explain that genuine socialism cannot be established unless there is real workers\u2019 democracy. And \u2013 above all \u2013 we must emphasise that socialism cannot be built on a single island.\n\nThe best contribution we can make to defend the gains of the Cuban Revolution is to fight for socialism in our own countries and internationally." + }, + { + "title": "Cuba opens its first new church since the revolution 60 years ago - CNN", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cuba opens its first new church since the revolution 60 years ago - CNN" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiZEFVX3lxTFBCU2xMbHBaajR3TlNmOGVyZkREZ055VEk5enpFajRyMFdkSzNxR09IbzhZRElmbjB0bC10eXJHY2docDJJZVhaN1FJT3FQSFNaYWhQd3dOYVZCSUNYOTdVYlZwOVQ?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/27/world/cuba-church-first", + "id": "CBMiZEFVX3lxTFBCU2xMbHBaajR3TlNmOGVyZkREZ055VEk5enpFajRyMFdkSzNxR09IbzhZRElmbjB0bC10eXJHY2docDJJZVhaN1FJT3FQSFNaYWhQd3dOYVZCSUNYOTdVYlZwOVQ", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Sun, 27 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 27, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 6, + 27, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Cuba opens its first new church since the revolution 60 years ago  CNN", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cuba opens its first new church since the revolution 60 years ago  CNN" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.cnn.com", + "title": "CNN" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Cuba opens its first new church since the revolution 60 years ago | CNN\nauthor: Patrick Oppmann\nurl: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/27/world/cuba-church-first\nhostname: cnn.com\ndescription: Parishioners wiped away tears and gave thanks to God as the first Roman Catholic church built since the 1959 Cuban revolution opened its doors on Saturday.\nsitename: CNN\ndate: 2019-01-27\ncategories: ['world']\ntags: ['belief, religion and spirituality, buildings and structures, caribbean, catholics and catholicism, christianity, churches and cathedrals, continents and regions, cuba, fidel castro, latin america, points of interest, political figures - intl, raul castro, religious buildings, religious groups, society, the americas', 'belief, religion and spirituality, buildings and structures, caribbean, catholics and catholicism, christianity, churches and cathedrals, continents and regions, cuba, fidel castro, latin america, points of interest, political figures - intl, raul castro, religious buildings, religious groups, society, the americas']\n---\nParishioners wiped away tears and gave thanks to God as the first Roman Catholic church built since the 1959 Cuban revolution opened its doors on Saturday.\n\n\u201cTo see this finished is like coming out of the night into the day,\u201d said Rev. Cirilo Castro, the Cuban priest who oversaw construction of the church. \u201cWe knew it would happen one day.\u201d\n\nThat the communist-run government allowed a new church to be built, with two more on the way, represents another milestone in the state\u2019s evolving relationship with organized religion.\n\nImmediately after Fidel Castro took power in 1959, his revolutionary government cracked down on religion. Castro viewed the Catholic Church as a particularly dangerous threat to the atheist state he envisioned for Cuba. The revolution soon closed down all parochial schools, sent priests to reeducation camps and drove organized religion underground.\n\nBut after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Fidel Castro tried to break the isolation enveloping Cuba by inviting Pope John Paul II to the island. Christmas was restored as a holiday in Cuba and slowly people of faith said they no longer feared worshiping openly.\n\nIn 2014, then Cuban President Raul Castro publicly thanked Pope Francis for aiding the secret negotiations that led to the restoration of diplomatic ties with the United States. Shortly thereafter, work began on building the church in Sandino.\n\nNearly $100,000 for the new structure was raised by the St. Lawrence Catholic Church in Tampa which after Miami has one of the largest enclaves of Cubans in Florida.\n\n\u201cIn the United States, with $90,000 you can do nothing but here yes,\u201d said Rev. Ram\u00f3n Hernandez, who left Cuba for Tampa in the 1980\u2019s and returned to Cuba to attend the opening of the new church.\n\n\u201cAll the people want to help, including people who are not exactly practicing but they want to help,\u201d he said of the effort to raise funds in Tampa for the new church.\n\nFinding building materials in Cuba itself often seems to require divine intervention, and the construction of the church dragged on for four years.\n\n\u201cFrom the day they put the first stone we have been watching it grow little by little. Patience has given us this church,\u201d said Sandino resident Aleida Padr\u00f3n Zabala, who attended the church\u2019s inaugural mass with her niece and granddaughter.\n\nThe bright yellow church \u2013 which seats 200 people \u2013 stands out among the drab Soviet-style apartment buildings that fill the remote Western Cuban town.\n\nBefore the church was built, Sandino was best known for being something akin to a Cuban Siberia, where people accused of helping anti-Castro rebels in the early 1960\u2019s were sent to live in internal exile.\n\nWhen CNN visited the town in 2015, Catholics were forced to hold mass in a converted garage that seated only a few dozen people and didn\u2019t have so much as a fan.\n\nOn Saturday, just before the mass started, Cuban government workers showed up to install an internet connection in the church.\n\n\u201cSometimes you have to overcome many obstacles but then you get to a point where things can be accomplished,\u201d said Monsignor Jorge Enrique Serpa, the bishop for the province where the church is located.\n\n\u201cThere is a new temple but the church is the people,\u201d he said." + }, + { + "title": "Huge tornado in Cuba kills 4 and injures 195 - CNN", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Huge tornado in Cuba kills 4 and injures 195 - CNN" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMidkFVX3lxTE5NeEFZYnNsWURycnk2eGVzYXB3UWt4SVZfUk5mWnktTHh4ZE0yY0NBb0k3cnM3d3U5TlhVLUNyR19mbUxHZjNDejdLM3FuX2xiazZseUlOTEJUQ2RJanVBWktNNElMUWxBcU14dTNQaktZTTVlX3c?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/28/americas/cuba-tornado-dead-scli-intl", + "id": "CBMidkFVX3lxTE5NeEFZYnNsWURycnk2eGVzYXB3UWt4SVZfUk5mWnktTHh4ZE0yY0NBb0k3cnM3d3U5TlhVLUNyR19mbUxHZjNDejdLM3FuX2xiazZseUlOTEJUQ2RJanVBWktNNElMUWxBcU14dTNQaktZTTVlX3c", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 28, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 0, + 28, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Huge tornado in Cuba kills 4 and injures 195  CNN", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Huge tornado in Cuba kills 4 and injures 195  CNN" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.cnn.com", + "title": "CNN" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Huge tornado in Cuba kills 4 and injures 195 | CNN\nauthor: Jack Guy\nurl: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/28/americas/cuba-tornado-dead-scli-intl\nhostname: cnn.com\ndescription: A rare tornado that hit the Cuban capital, Havana, on Sunday night has left four people dead and 195 injured, officials said.\nsitename: CNN\ndate: 2019-01-28\ncategories: ['world', 'americas']\ntags: ['accidents, disasters and safety, caribbean, continents and regions, cuba, havana, latin america, natural disasters, severe weather, the americas, tornadoes (weather), weather, floods and flooding, hurricanes, tropical storms', 'accidents, disasters and safety, caribbean, continents and regions, cuba, havana, latin america, natural disasters, severe weather, the americas, tornadoes (weather), weather, floods and flooding, hurricanes, tropical storms']\n---\nA rare tornado that hit the Cuban capital, Havana, on Sunday night has left four people dead and 195 injured, officials said.\n\nDramatic photos show debris covering cars and flooding in coastal zones of the city.\n\nCuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel visited emergency crews around the city overnight and wrote on Twitter that the damage from the tornado was \u201csevere.\u201d\n\nStrong winds damaged buildings and caused flooding in low-lying areas of Havana, according to a government statement, with the provinces of Pinar del R\u00edo, Artemisa and Mayabeque also affected. The AFP news agency reported winds of up to 62 miles per hour.\n\nThe Cuban Meteorological Institute will evaluate the extent of the damage and the intensity of the storm, the statement said.\n\nTornadoes in Havana and, for that matter, all of Cuba are rare. The most common such activity are water spouts that come ashore, but they tend to be much weaker than the weekend\u2019s tornado, said CNN meteorologist Taylor Ward.\n\nCuban actor Luis Silva said he was driving with his wife and children when the tornado struck.\n\n\u201cI had to avoid fallen trees, floods, strong winds. Until I was able to get home!\u201d he wrote in an Instagram post. \u201cWe had a big scare.\u201d\n\nStaff at the Hijas de Galicia maternity hospital evacuated the building because of storm damage, AFP reported.\n\nLocals said the tornado had \u201cthe sound of a jet engine,\u201d and they felt changes in environmental pressure as it hit, Armando Caymares of Cuba\u2019s Institute of Meteorology told AFP.\n\nThe island nation regularly suffers extreme weather events such as hurricanes and Atlantic storms.\n\nIt sits in the Caribbean Sea, which is vulnerable to hurricanes from June 1 to November 30.\n\nIn September 2017, 10 people died in Cuba as a result of Hurricane Irma, with seven of these deaths in Havana, according to state television.\n\nIrma made landfall in Cuba as a Category 5 storm, blasting into seaside towns and causing flooding in low-lying areas of Havana. 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Two years ago, that number was 63 percent.\nsitename: NBC News\ndate: 2019-01-10\n---\nMIAMI \u2014 There is more support for the U.S. embargo on Cuba among Cuban-Americans in Miami-Dade county than there was two years ago, according to a poll released today by Florida International University.\n\nThe vast majority of Cuban-Americans, over 80 percent, in 2016 and in the poll released today believe the embargo has not worked.\n\nYet, support for the embargo is now evenly split with 51 percent supporting the embargo and 49 percent opposing it. Around 11 percent of respondents remained undecided.\n\nJust two years ago, 63 percent of respondents opposed continuing the embargo.\n\nThe poll did find that 63 percent of people support the establishment of diplomatic relations. In addition, 65 percent support the continuation of people-to-people programs and 57 percent favor unrestricted travel by all Americans.\n\nThe shift in attitude was found among Cubans who came to the U.S. before 1980, who had a more supportive attitude towards the Obama administration rapprochement with Cuba two years ago. This group changed their minds by over 10 points.\n\nThose who came to the U.S. before 1995 are more keen on the embargo, while those who came after, as well as second and third generation Cuban-Americans, are less enthusiastic about it, the poll found.\n\nThe numbers don\u2019t say why attitudes have shifted.\n\n\u201cMy guess is that there are a variety of reasons. Part of it could be the change in national narrative,\u201d said Guillermo Grenier, Chair of the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at FIU and one of the authors of the study. \u201cPart of it is the new more hostile attitude towards Cuba. The other part could be that Obama did promise many things would change and ultimately nothing has changed.\u201d\n\nThe Obama administration restored diplomatic ties with Cuba in 2015 after two years of secret negotiations and poked holes at the embargo. Obama argued that nearly 60 years of hostility had not worked and thawing bilateral relations would catalyze reforms over a long-term period. Trump took office saying the deal was one-sided and in 2017 reversed some of those policy changes by implementing travel restrictions. The administration has also tightened sanctions. But most of the Obama-era policies have remained intact.\n\nGrenier noted another reason for the shift may be that not enough changes have taken place in Cuba after Fidel Castro died and his brother Raul Castro stepped down in April. The attitude might be \u201cnothing has changed so let\u2019s double down on the embargo,\u201d Grenier said.\n\nGrenier and Hugh Gladwin, past director for Public Opinion and Research, also noted in their poll that classifying the health incidents that took place at the U.S. embassy in Havana as \u201cattacks\u201d rather than a \u201cpublic health concern,\u201d could have also contributed to the shift in support for the embargo.\n\nThe U.S. Embassy in Havana was cut by 60 percent when staff complained about headaches, nausea, and other ailments after hearing loud noises in their homes and hotel rooms.\n\nMost respondents, 68 percent, are in favor of maintaining and expanding business relations by American companies in Cuba.\n\nGrenier, and Gladwin wrote that the community is of two minds when it comes to engaging economically with the island. \u201cOn one hand, they support the existing business relationships established during the Obama period. At the same time, there is a strong retrenchment of support for the embargo.\u201d\n\nFew expect major political changes to occur in Cuba this year. Only 12 percent said changes are occurring now or will occur within one year, while 38 percent said changes would never occur.\n\nFIU began conducting Cuba polls in 1991. The 2018 poll was conducted just after the elections, between November 14 and December 1, 2018. A total of 1,001 Cuban-Americans were surveyed by phone. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percent.\n\n\u201cYou never really know why people change their minds. There are a lot of social forces at work that make doubling down on a hard line, not irrational - even though it hasn\u2019t worked for 60 years,\u201d Grenier said." + }, + { + "title": "Animals Keep Creating Mysteries by Sounding Weird - The Atlantic", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Animals Keep Creating Mysteries by Sounding Weird - The Atlantic" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMingFBVV95cUxNUHdKU0U0WVlXYVp5bnhLVmhWanZMUlo5NDRQT2VlY1FhSFJCQkZ3eGJTaXU4ZlNoNDF0Rzd3RDdmTDZST2NBZnpfenNJYnk0YjJGT3l1eTZZMGpra0tJMkl5LWNNTHhzSDZXcW1nZFp5M25lckhuQTlmal9KT0llYk1aWVZlUXhQaWdFR09WMGM5bXlReW5ZbGlXQUk4QQ?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.dw.com/en/cuba-celebrates-60th-anniversary-of-communist-revolution/a-46921876", + "id": "CBMingFBVV95cUxNUHdKU0U0WVlXYVp5bnhLVmhWanZMUlo5NDRQT2VlY1FhSFJCQkZ3eGJTaXU4ZlNoNDF0Rzd3RDdmTDZST2NBZnpfenNJYnk0YjJGT3l1eTZZMGpra0tJMkl5LWNNTHhzSDZXcW1nZFp5M25lckhuQTlmal9KT0llYk1aWVZlUXhQaWdFR09WMGM5bXlReW5ZbGlXQUk4QQ", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Tue, 08 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 8, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 1, + 8, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Animals Keep Creating Mysteries by Sounding Weird  The Atlantic", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Animals Keep Creating Mysteries by Sounding Weird  The Atlantic" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.theatlantic.com", + "title": "The Atlantic" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Cuba celebrates 60th anniversary of revolution\nurl: https://www.dw.com/en/cuba-celebrates-60th-anniversary-of-communist-revolution/a-46921876\nhostname: dw.com\ndescription: Cuban leader Raul Castro, torch-bearing brother of the deceased revolutionary Fidel Castro, has praised the nation's path while calling for economic improvements. He laid blame for Latin America's ills on Donald Trump.\nsitename: Deutsche Welle\ndate: 2019-01-02\n---\n# Cuba celebrates 60th anniversary of revolution\n\nJanuary 2, 2019Cuba's ruling Communist Party celebrated the 60th anniversary of the nation's revolution on Tuesday, with ex-President Raul Castro making a public appearance.\n\nAlong with his late, elder brother Fidel, the Castros led a rebel band in 1959 that overthrew US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista and began a Communist experiment just 90 miles (144 kilometers) from the US.\n\nThe move set both countries on a collision course, as they engaged in decades of Cold War hostility.\n\nRaul Castro delivered a speech in a sunset ceremony at a cemetery in the southeastern city of Santiago de Cuba, where both Fidel Castro and independence hero Jose Marti are buried.\n\nCastro stepped down as president in April, 2018, but remains head of the Communist Party until 2021. He was replaced by current president Miguel Diaz-Canel.\n\n*Read more:* Cuba gets its first Twitter president\n\n\"The youth will defend the revolution,\" Diaz-Canel said in a post on his Twitter account, where he honored the rebel fighters who \"earned Cuba the title of Island of Liberty.\"\n\n**Continued confrontation with US**\n\nIn his speech, Raul Castro blasted the administration of Donald Trump for reversing course on the historic opening between the US and Cuba that he and former President Barack Obama had engineered in 2014.\n\n\"Once again, the North American government is taking on the path of confrontation with Cuba,\" Castro said.\n\n\"Increasingly, high-ranking officials of this administration are ... trying to blame Cuba for all the region's ills,\" he said, adding that Latin America's problems were instead rooted in \"ruthless neoliberal policies.\"\n\n*Read more: *Could Trump's Cuban policy switch backfire?\n\nThe 87-year old Castro said his country had proven throughout six decades of revolution that it could not be intimidated by threats. But he added that Cuba remained open to a peaceful and respectful coexistence.\n\n**Improving economic conditions**\n\nCuba's centrally planned economy, coupled with a series of external shocks, such as a decline in aid from Venezuela and devastation brought by hurricanes, have led to sluggish growth despite recent economic reforms.\n\nCastro said that improving economic conditions, what he referred to as \"the economic battle,\" was Cuba's most important issue. \"We need first of all to reduce all non-necessary expenses and to save more,\" he said.\n\n*Read more:* Cuba: New restrictions holding back the private sector\n\nTo achieve that, the 87-year-old communist party leader said the government needed to adopt \"a more proactive attitude\" and eventually become more \"coherent, systematic and precise in its implementation of economic alignments,\" he explained.\n\nIn February, the regime is slated to submit a new constitution to a referendum. The document will officially recognize private property, markets and foreign investment.\n\n*Read more:* Havana trade fair: Cuba looking East again\n\nBut the new constitution also ratifies communism as the nation's \"social goal,\" insists the country will \"never\" return to capitalism, and defines the Communist Party as by nature, single, and the \"supreme political force of state and society.\n\nThe celebration of Latin America's longest-running leftist regime comes at a time when the region has seen the rise of right-leaning governments, the debacle of Venezuela, and on the same day as the inauguration of Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.\n\njcg/kms (EFE, Reuters, AFP)" + }, + { + "title": "The Myth of Cuba\u2019s Glorious Health Care System - Foundation for Economic Education", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "The Myth of Cuba\u2019s Glorious Health Care System - Foundation for Economic Education" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMie0FVX3lxTE1lNjhuQWJBTVNTeWtReUJvcVBOR0RpRUR0S0NvU1E0bk51Wjh6MGFUYm5neU5pS2kxaVJqQl9mZ0ExZDJaaEtXYmd5MGxoQmhOclBlX3ZmRGYyc0hCVVNDUXZUaUZia0NTX0YyOVotRms5Wm9qcm04R2hhTQ?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/sound-haunted-diplomats-cuba-crickets/579637/", + "id": "CBMie0FVX3lxTE1lNjhuQWJBTVNTeWtReUJvcVBOR0RpRUR0S0NvU1E0bk51Wjh6MGFUYm5neU5pS2kxaVJqQl9mZ0ExZDJaaEtXYmd5MGxoQmhOclBlX3ZmRGYyc0hCVVNDUXZUaUZia0NTX0YyOVotRms5Wm9qcm04R2hhTQ", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 23, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 2, + 23, + 0 + ], + "summary": "The Myth of Cuba\u2019s Glorious Health Care System  Foundation for Economic Education", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "The Myth of Cuba\u2019s Glorious Health Care System  Foundation for Economic Education" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://fee.org", + "title": "Foundation for Economic Education" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Animals Keep Creating Mysteries by Sounding Weird\nauthor: Ed Yong\nurl: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/sound-haunted-diplomats-cuba-crickets/579637/\nhostname: theatlantic.com\ndescription: The Cuban cricket crisis is the latest in a long history of human-animal misunderstandings.\nsitename: The Atlantic\ndate: 2019-01-08\ncategories: ['Science']\ntags: ['science']\n---\n# Animals Keep Creating Mysteries by Sounding Weird\n\nThe Cuban cricket crisis is the latest in a long history of human-animal misunderstandings.\n\nIn late 2016, American diplomats living in Cuba started hearing a strange noise in their homes. It was high-pitched, deafening, and persistent\u2014and no one could work out where it was coming from.\n\nIn the following years, the mystery ballooned into an international incident. Many of the diplomats experienced dizziness, insomnia, hearing loss, and other troubling symptoms. A team from the University of Pennsylvania examined 21 affected people and concluded that they had \u201csustained injury to widespread brain networks,\u201d based on evidence that other neurologists said was \u201calmost unbelievably flimsy.\u201d Donald Trump, without evidence, accused Cuba of being responsible. Various parties argued that the strange noise was the result of a sonic weapon, a microwave attack, or malfunctioning eavesdropping equipment.\n\nBut when the biologist Alexander Stubbs heard a recording, uploaded by the Associated Press, he heard not mechanical bugs, but biological ones. He realized that the noise sounded like the insects he used to hear while doing fieldwork in the Caribbean.\n\nTogether with Fernando Montealegre-Z, an expert on entomological acoustics, Stubbs scoured an online database of insect recordings. As first reported by Carl Zimmer in *The* *New York Times*, they found that one species\u2014the Indies short-tailed cricket\u2014makes a call that\u2019s indistinguishable from the enigmatic Cuban recording. The duo have written a paper that describes their findings and are set to submit it to a journal for formal peer review.\n\nAfter analyzing similar recordings, the Cuban government had also pointed its finger at crickets. But they blamed the wrong species\u2014one whose song sounds very different, even to untrained ears. By contrast, the song of the Indies short-tailed cricket matches the Cuban noise in several telltale ways. Both are loudest at a frequency of 7 kilohertz, roughly an octave beyond the highest notes on a piano. Both consist of pulses that repeat 180 times a second. In both, each pulse consists of 30 oscillations, which become slightly lower in pitch as they die away.\n\nOnly one thing didn\u2019t match: The pulses in the AP recording were more erratic and variable than those of most insects. But that, Stubbs thinks, is because the cricket\u2019s call was probably echoing off the surfaces of an indoor space, creating several sound streams that interfered with one another. When he played and recorded the cricket\u2019s call indoors, the result matched the Cuban noise even more closely.\n\nCricket behavior could also help explain another mysterious detail of the Cuban incidents: Several diplomats claimed that the sound abruptly stopped when they entered a room or moved around. That\u2019s \u201cconsistent with an insect stopping a call when threatened,\u201d Stubbs and Montealegre-Z write.\n\nOf course, the diplomats could have been attacked in some other way. Or their symptoms might be the result of a mass psychosomatic illness. Diplomats in China also reported mysterious sounds and symptoms, still unexplained. But for now it seems that the noise at the heart of the Cuban incidents probably has a benign origin.\n\nSomewhat ironically, one of the first diplomats to hear the noise was tantalizingly close to the right answer. As reported by ProPublica, he blamed cicadas (which are not crickets, but do also sing). \u201cCicadas don\u2019t sound like that,\u201d his neighbor reportedly said. \u201cIt\u2019s too mechanical-sounding.\u201d But the Indies short-tailed cricket is no ordinary singing insect. It has the fastest pulse-repetition rate of any cricket in the Caribbean or North America. Have a listen. It sounds pretty mechanical!\n\nThe cricket story reminds me of a very similar saga: the Sausalito hum. Back in the 1980s, just across the bay from San Francisco, the people of Sausalito were kept awake by a loud, rumbling hum, which reverberated through the walls of their expensive houseboats. Some thought it was effluent being pumped from a sewage pipe. Others blamed a cable recently laid by an electric company. Yet others suspected Russian submarines.\n\nBut John McCosker from the California Academy of Sciences eventually showed that the hum was the love song of the male plainfin midshipman\u2014a type of toadfish. These fish attract females by vibrating their swim bladder, the same organ that keeps them afloat, to produce an extremely loud noise that sounds more like a foghorn than a fish. When many males sing en masse, the ruckus can be heard on land, in Sausalito, Seattle, Southampton, and everywhere else that toadfish are found.\n\nHere are puffins, sounding like chainsaws.\n\nCheetahs chirp, koalas and alligators bellow, barn owls make ungodly screeches, ptarmigans sound like cartoon characters.\n\nOur unfamiliarity with these calls is a boon for moviemakers, who can blend the vocal stylings of actual creatures into the calls of imagined ones. To make the hoots and rasps of the *Velociraptors* in *Jurassic Park*, sound technicians mixed together cranes, geese, dolphins (that\u2019s the scream), walruses, and ... er ... tortoises having sex. Here, incidentally, is what mating tortoises sound like:\n\nUnderwater, animal noises get even stranger. Although Jacques Cousteau once described the ocean as a \u201csilent world,\u201d it is anything but. That gentle, low hum is the sound of billions of migrating fish and jellyfish, moving up and down the water column to feed. Those crackling pops are made by the oversize claws of snapping shrimp, or perhaps by parrotfish as they crunch through coral. A few years ago, the marine biologist Denise Risch showed that the mysterious \u201cbio-duck,\u201d a quacking noise first heard by submarine sonar operators in the 1960s, is actually produced by the minke whale.\n\nThe bio-duck, the Sausalito hum, and the Cuban \u201csonic attack\u201d all represent collisions between our limited experience of nature\u2019s soundscape and its full, clamorous extent\u2014grunts, wails, thrums, mechanical whirrs. We grow up listening to the *bark*s and *meow*s of pets, the *moo*s and *oink*s of Old MacDonald\u2019s farm, and the *tweet*s and *chirp*s of dawn choruses. 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By my calculations, that means that 7,500 American kids die each year because we don\u2019t have as good an infant mortality rate as Cuba reports. \u2026a major strength of the Cuban system is that it assures universal access. Cuba has the Medicare for All that many Americans dream about. \u2026It\u2019s also notable that Cuba achieves excellent health outcomes [despite] the American trade and financial embargo\u2026 Cuba overflows with doctors \u2014 it has three times as many per capita as the United States\u2026 Outsiders mostly say they admire the Cuban health system. The World Health Organization has praised it, and Ban Ki-moon, the former United Nations secretary general, described it as \u201ca model for many countries.\u201d\n\n\nKristof admits in his piece that there are critics who don\u2019t believe the regime\u2019s data, but it\u2019s clear he doesn\u2019t take their concerns seriously.\n\nAnd he definitely doesn\u2019t share their data. So let\u2019s take a close look at the facts that didn\u2019t appear in Kristof\u2019s column.\n\nMy first recommendation is to watch Johan Norberg\u2019s video on the real truth about Cuba\u2019s infant mortality.\n\nBut there\u2019s so much more.\n\nJay Nordlinger authored the most comprehensive takedown of Cuba\u2019s decrepit system back in 2007. Here are some of the highlights:\n\nThe Left has always had a deep psychological need to believe in the myth of Cuban health care. On that island, as everywhere else, Communism has turned out to be a disaster: economic, physical, and moral. Not only have persecution, torture, and murder been routine, there is nothing material to show for it. The Leninist rationalization was, \u201cYou have to break some eggs to make an omelet.\u201d Orwell memorably replied, \u201cWhere\u2019s the omelet?\u201d There is never an omelet. \u2026there is excellent health care on Cuba \u2014 just not for ordinary Cubans. \u2026there is not just one system, or even two: There are three. The first is for foreigners who come to Cuba specifically for medical care. This is known as \u201cmedical tourism.\u201d The tourists pay in hard currency\u2026 The second health-care system is for Cuban elites \u2014 the Party, the military, official artists and writers, and so on. In the Soviet Union, these people were called the \u201cnomenklatura.\u201d And their system, like the one for medical tourists, is top-notch. Then there is the real Cuban system, the one that ordinary people must use \u2014 and it is wretched. Testimony and documentation on the subject are vast. Hospitals and clinics are crumbling. Conditions are so unsanitary, patients may be better off at home, whatever home is. If they do have to go to the hospital, they must bring their own bedsheets, soap, towels, food, light bulbs \u2014 even toilet paper. And basic medications are scarce. \u2026The equipment that doctors have to work with is either antiquated or nonexistent. Doctors have been known to reuse latex gloves \u2014 there is no choice. \u2026So deplorable is the state of health care in Cuba that old-fashioned diseases are back with a vengeance. These include tuberculosis, leprosy, and typhoid fever. And dengue, another fever, is a particular menace.\n\n\nWow, I guess shortages extend well beyond toilet paper.\n\nNext, we have some very sobering data from a 2004 article in Canada\u2019s *National Post*:\n\n\u2026a small bottle of tetracycline costs US$5 and a tube of cortisone cream will set you back as much as US$25. But neither are available at the local pharmacy, which is neat and spotless, but stocks almost nothing. Even the most common pharmaceutical items, such as Aspirin and rubbing alcohol, are conspicuously absent. \u2026Antibiotics, one of the most valuable commodities on the cash-strapped Communist island, are in extremely short supply and available only on the black market. Aspirin can be purchased only at government-run dollar stores, which carry common medications at a huge markup in U.S. dollars. This puts them out of reach of most Cubans, who are paid little and in pesos. Their average wage is 300 pesos per month, about $12. \u2026tourist hospitals in Cuba are well-stocked with the latest equipment and imported medicines, said a Cuban pediatrician, who did not want to be identified. \u2026 \u201cTourists have everything they need\u2026 But for Cubans, it\u2019s different. Unless you work with tourists or have a relative in Miami sending you money, you will not be able to get what you need if you are sick in Cuba. As a doctor, I find it disgusting.\u201d\n\n\nAnd here\u2019s some scholarly research from Katherine Hirschfeld at the University of Oklahoma (h/t: Scott Johnson):\n\n\u2026the Cuban government continues to respond to international criticism of its human rights record by citing\u2026praise for its achievements in health and medicine\u2026the unequivocally positive descriptions of the Cuban health care system in the social science literature are somewhat misleading. In the late 1990s, I conducted over nine months of qualitative ethnographic and archival research in Cuba. During that time I shadowed physicians in family health clinics, conducted formal and informal interviews with a number of health professionals, lived in local communities, and sought to participate in everyday life as much as possible. Throughout the course of this research, I found a number of discrepancies between the way the Cuban health care system has been described in the scholarly literature, and the way it appears to be described and experienced by Cubans themselves. \u2026After just a few months of research\u2026 it became increasingly obvious that many Cubans did not appear to have a very positive view of the health care system themselves. A number of people complained to me informally that their doctors were unhelpful, that the best clinics and hospitals only served political elites and that scarce medical supplies were often stolen from hospitals and sold on the black market. Further criticisms were leveled at the politicization of medical care\u2026 Public criticism of the government is a crime in Cuba, and penalties are severe. Formally eliciting critical narratives about health care would be viewed as a criminal act both for me as a researcher, and for people who spoke openly with me. \u2026One of the most readily apparent problems with the health care system in Cuba is the severe shortage of medicines, equipment, and other supplies. \u2026Many Cubans (including a number of health professionals) also had serious complaints about the intrusion of politics into medical treatment and health care decision-making.\n\n\nThree academics at Texas Tech University also found very troubling data when they investigated the nation\u2019s health system (h/t: David Henderson):\n\nWith 11.1% of GDP dedicated to health care and 0.8% of the population working as physicians, a substantial amount of resources is directed towards reducing infant mortality and increasing longevity. An economy with centralized economic planning by government like that of Cuba can force more resources into an industry than its population might desire in order to achieve improved outcomes in that industry at the expense of other goods and services the population might more highly desire. \u2026Physicians are given health outcome targets to meet or face penalties. This provides incentives to manipulate data. Take Cuba\u2019s much praised infant mortality rate for example. In most countries, the ratio of the numbers of neonatal deaths and late fetal deaths stay within a certain range of each other as they have many common causes and determinants. \u2026Cuba, with a ratio of 6, was a clear outlier. This skewed ratio is evidence that physicians likely reclassified early neonatal deaths as late fetal deaths, thus deflating the infant mortality statistics and propping up life expectancy. Cuban doctors were re-categorizing neonatal deaths as late fetal deaths in order for doctors to meet government targets for infant mortality. \u2026Physicians often perform abortions without clear consent of the mother, raising serious issues of medical ethics, when ultrasound reveals fetal abnormalities because \u2018otherwise it might raise the infant mortality rate\u2019. \u2026The role of Cuban economic and political oppression in coercing \u2018good\u2019 health outcomes merits further study.\n\n\nThe bottom line is that Cuba is a hellhole, and statistics from a repressive regime can\u2019t be trusted.\n\nThough the real message of today\u2019s column is that we should be revolted by people who are willing to be dupes for totalitarianism.\n\nAnd I can understand why people willing to debase themselves in that way are so sensitive to criticism.\n\nP.S. The *New York Times* has a pathetic history of covering up for the crimes of communism, most notably Walter Duranty, who was given a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 even though he despicably lied in his reports to promote Stalin\u2019s horrid regime. He even covered up Stalin\u2019s holocaust of the Ukrainian people. Even though Duranty\u2019s evil actions are now public knowledge, the Pulitzer Prize Board has not revoked the award. The *New York Times*, to its credit, at least has acknowledged that Duranty lied to promote Stalin\u2019s brutal dictatorship. One wonders if the newspaper eventually will apologize for Kristof.\n\nP.P.S. I\u2019m also not impressed that a former Secretary General of the U.N. endorsed Cuba\u2019s health care system. After all, it was an official from the U.N. who praised the lack of obesity among the starving people of North Korea.\n\n*This article was reprinted with permission from International Liberty.*" + }, + { + "title": "Cue the crickets: conspiracies and headaches in Havana - Lowy Institute", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cue the crickets: conspiracies and headaches in Havana - Lowy Institute" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMikgFBVV95cUxOZzZ6Z3BMaHJCbUk2RUl0bUFsbG5XUXlDMlplcHRnYWZJTWVCSUo2VVN4MC1McWhpUS00XzdCVGszYi1ZMllkdGNyd2xwSmZZVWdSSnFWY1k4bTg1LUdPbEY4T2tiREhUOGplWUNiaWIzN0pSbmpjS0w5ZEJlM2QtZGd5Um9ZajhmNnpCNl90NzQ5dw?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/obituaries/jose-ramon-fernandez-dead.html", + "id": "CBMikgFBVV95cUxOZzZ6Z3BMaHJCbUk2RUl0bUFsbG5XUXlDMlplcHRnYWZJTWVCSUo2VVN4MC1McWhpUS00XzdCVGszYi1ZMllkdGNyd2xwSmZZVWdSSnFWY1k4bTg1LUdPbEY4T2tiREhUOGplWUNiaWIzN0pSbmpjS0w5ZEJlM2QtZGd5Um9ZajhmNnpCNl90NzQ5dw", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Tue, 15 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 15, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 1, + 15, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Cue the crickets: conspiracies and headaches in Havana  Lowy Institute", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cue the crickets: conspiracies and headaches in Havana  Lowy Institute" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.lowyinstitute.org", + "title": "Lowy Institute" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 403, + "response": "Error: HTTP 403" + }, + { + "title": "Report from Cuba: Insights from a visitor after 60 years of socialism - 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BBC", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cuba bus crash: Foreigners among seven dead - BBC" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiY0FVX3lxTE5pMm5XakN3Z3g3Rk8weGtKS3JuaEIxdTdCVk83M2JhSGRnYklLYW51RGRpSkpDbC1Feko4dnpmY2FMLWZZMkpuRnROc0dBQnhNTzNCZWFnQ0lFZW80anhsVF80cw?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/cue-crickets-conspiracies-headaches-havana", + "id": "CBMiY0FVX3lxTE5pMm5XakN3Z3g3Rk8weGtKS3JuaEIxdTdCVk83M2JhSGRnYklLYW51RGRpSkpDbC1Feko4dnpmY2FMLWZZMkpuRnROc0dBQnhNTzNCZWFnQ0lFZW80anhsVF80cw", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Fri, 11 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 11, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 4, + 11, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Cuba bus crash: Foreigners among seven dead  BBC", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cuba bus crash: Foreigners among seven dead  BBC" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.bbc.com", + "title": "BBC" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Cue the crickets: conspiracies and headaches in Havana\nauthor: Elise Thomas\nurl: https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/cue-crickets-conspiracies-headaches-havana\nhostname: lowyinstitute.org\ndescription: Few noisy bugs and heap of hype is telling of the conspiratorial flavour in contemporary international politics.\nsitename: Lowyinstitute\ndate: 2026-03-25\n---\nA recording of an alleged \u201csonic attack\u201d on US diplomats in Cuba has been analysed by scientists and found to be \u2026 crickets.\n\nRumours of a mysterious attack on staff at the US embassy in Havana first surfaced in 2016 after diplomats reported hearing loud, piercing noises at night and experiencing strange symptoms including headaches, hearing loss, and problems with memory and concentration. Medical studies conducted by the US government and several US universities concluded that some embassy staff were showing neurological symptoms from unknown causes.\n\nAt no point was there any solid evidence that the symptoms experienced by US embassy staff were due to a targeted attack, let alone evidence of the existence of a \u2018sonic weapon\u2019.\n\nThe incident caused a major rupture in fragile US-Cuba relations. While stopping short of blaming the Cuban government directly, the US pulled more than half of its staff out of the embassy in Havana and expelled 17 Cuban diplomats. In January 2018, special hearings were held by the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations into \u201cAttacks on US Diplomats in Cuba.\u201d\n\nThe emergence of apparently similar symptoms in US diplomatic staff in China in June 2018 was treated as further confirmation that US diplomats not just in Cuba but around the world were being targeted by some unknown technology, leading to more evacuations and the creation of a specialised task force to investigate the \u201chealth attacks\u201d.\n\nThe Cuban government has loudly and consistently denied any knowledge or involvement, calling it \u201cscience fiction\u201d and accusing the Trump administration of seeking an excuse to derail the diplomatic thaw initiated under president Barack Obama. Despite devoting thousands of its own personnel to investigating the phenomenon, none of the Cuban government\u2019s efforts were enough to quash swirling rumours about the possibility of a hypothetical \u201csonic weapon\u201d, or possibly weaponised microwaves. The Chinese and Russian governments were also publicly floated as possible culprits.\n\nHowever, new analysis of a recording of the alleged attack (provided by US diplomatic personnel in Cuba and published this month by the Associated Press) has found that, far from being a ground-breaking new piece of military technology, it is, in fact, the calling song of the Indies short-tailed cricket.\n\nThe really awkward thing about this case is how obvious it all is in hindsight. Crickets are a recurring theme even in the earliest coverage of the \u201cattacks\u201d. The sounds heard by diplomats are described as \u201cchirping,\u201d \u201cbuzzing,\u201d and \u201cwhistling\u201d, and the timeline of \u201cattacks\u201d coincide with cricket mating season. \u201cIt sounds sort of like a mass of crickets,\u201d wrote the Associated Press when it published the recordings in 2017. ProPublica reports that in early 2016 the diplomats themselves discussed whether the noises were cicadas. A group of Cuban scientists even submitted a report to the US government in 2018 suggesting that the attack might be crickets, albeit a different species from the crickets identified by the latest study.\n\nIt appears that major diplomatic decisions were taken \u2013 and the entire US-Cuba rapprochement thrown wildly off-track \u2013 on the basis of a few noisy bugs, a handful of questionable medical studies, and a lot of hype.\n\nBeyond just being egg on the face of the US administration, what this entomological episode highlights is the current febrile atmosphere for politically charged conspiracy theories, in which the most bizarre and convoluted theories are amplified (all puns intended) while more mundane explanations are pushed aside.\n\nAt no point was there any solid evidence that the symptoms experienced by US embassy staff were due to a targeted attack, let alone evidence of the existence of a \u201csonic weapon\u201d. Numerous experts attempted to pour cold water on the fevered speculation, pointing out that the medical studies conducted on diplomatic staff were significantly flawed and the symptoms themselves could well be the result of individual causes or a mass psychogenic illness rather than due to shared external factors.\n\nEven parts of the story which should have been cause for doubt were instead treated as confirmation, for example, the apparent spread of the \u201cattack\u201d from Havana to Guangzhou. Is it more likely that Cuba and China teamed up to mount a shared attack using heretofore-unseen sonic military technology to make US embassy staff moderately unwell \u2013 or that embassy staff in China read about what was supposedly happening to their colleagues in Cuba and jumped to conclusions about a link with their own, unrelated, health symptoms?\n\nThe haste and credulity with which the \u201csonic attack\u201d narrative came to be accepted and asserted as fact by the media and high-ranking US officials alike reflects the broader rise of a kind of conspiratorial populism, in which what matters is less whether something is proven true than that it can\u2019t be proven to *not* be true.\n\nWhy let a pesky thing like the absence of evidence spoil a compelling and politically expedient narrative?\n\nThe conspiratorial flavour in contemporary international politics can, of course, at least partially be traced back to the Trump administration.\n\nTrump\u2019s political ascendance was fuelled by his promotion of the Obama birther conspiracy, and in office, he has repeatedly encouraged conspiracy theories when in his interests to do so. Other world leaders including Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orban, the Philippines\u2019 Rodrigo Duterte and Brazil\u2019s Jair Bolsonaro have also actively promoted conspiracy theories.\n\nPolitical leaders willing to play fast and loose with the truth are only part of the picture, however.\n\nChanges in media business models and how we consume information are also major drivers. In the online war for attention, the winner is often the most interesting story rather than the most accurate. A headline about a *possible* secret sonic weapon gets more clicks than one about a *probable* cricket infestation, and once enough headlines accumulate the narrative rapidly takes on a momentum of its own.\n\nThe role of algorithms in news discovery takes that tendency and dials it up to eleven.\n\nWhen left to their own devices, the algorithms on platforms including Youtube and Facebook will automatically direct users towards conspiracy theories and extremist content. As more and more people get their information from these platforms, and as traditional media continue to experiment with algorithms, this cycle is only likely to get more vicious.\n\nAs the saying goes, a lie can get halfway around the world in the time it takes the truth to put its shoes on \u2013 in 2019, conspiracy gets there and back and steals the truth\u2019s shoes on the way past." + }, + { + "title": "Havana tornado: Cuba's capital hit by rare twister - BBC", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Havana tornado: Cuba's capital hit by rare twister - BBC" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiY0FVX3lxTE9kRGppWmJkLUItclUzZzRFcVJjTFA0dVh6Zllabi1Bd3oxOVBUN1FrUE8yREZVaVFNd1BzbWxVbDlSZFBnMUJvS2lsaHJlTFpyd284VTRBcGV1QlhtZzZSSEFmTQ?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-46842861", + "id": "CBMiY0FVX3lxTE9kRGppWmJkLUItclUzZzRFcVJjTFA0dVh6Zllabi1Bd3oxOVBUN1FrUE8yREZVaVFNd1BzbWxVbDlSZFBnMUJvS2lsaHJlTFpyd284VTRBcGV1QlhtZzZSSEFmTQ", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 28, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 0, + 28, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Havana tornado: Cuba's capital hit by rare twister  BBC", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Havana tornado: Cuba's capital hit by rare twister  BBC" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.bbc.com", + "title": "BBC" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Cuba bus crash: Foreigners among seven dead\nurl: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-46842861\nhostname: bbc.com\ndescription: Citizens from Argentina, France and Germany are among the seven dead while dozens others are injured.\nsitename: BBC News\ndate: 2019-01-11\n---\n# Cuba bus crash: Foreigners among seven dead\n\n**A bus crash in eastern Cuba has left at least seven people dead, including four foreigners, and dozens others injured, local media say.**\n\nTwo of the foreigners were from Argentina while one was from France and another from Germany.\n\nSome 33 people were injured, including citizens from the UK, the US, Canada, France, the Netherlands and Spain.\n\nThe bus was travelling from Baracoa to the capital, Havana, when it crashed near Guant\u00e1namo on Thursday.\n\nThe driver told local media that he was driving slowly and lost control due to a wet road at around 15:00 local time (20:00 GMT). Witnesses said he had tried to overtake another vehicle.\n\nThe bus from the state-owned company Viazul was carrying 40 people, including 22 foreigners.\n\nThe victims included two Argentinean women, aged 35, a 59-year-old German woman and a 67-year-old Frenchman, according to a list published by Radio Guant\u00e1namo.\n\nThe Cubans were two men, aged 32 and 47, and a 34-year-old woman.\n\nMeanwhile, five of the injured were said to be in critical condition in hospital. Their ages range from 42 to 74.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said in a statement it was continuing to seek further information from the Cuban authorities and was providing assistance to two British nationals who were injured.\n\nViazul is run by the military's tourism wing and is one of the preferred ways for visitors to travel the island, the BBC's Will Grant in Havana reports.\n\nCuba's roads are notoriously poor with many of them badly-lit and poorly maintained, especially in that region of the country, our correspondent adds.\n\nTraffic accidents are common in Cuba and have resulted in some 4,400 deaths since 2012, according to official data." + }, + { + "title": "Cuba celebrates 60 years since Castro\u2019s communist revolution - Al Jazeera", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cuba celebrates 60 years since Castro\u2019s communist revolution - Al Jazeera" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMioAFBVV95cUxNQmZhWEtYcGMtNHJWdEk3dTlfTzI0bHY0SmNsRGNYZjU0QTZrY2ZHbmxnRHNkaS0xSUNsSDJ0MzB3MTJuQmpmQURrNXN0a2xEdzBuSGNsYjZfRzN0QnNRQ0ZjQ21PQjRZMFBVaHk3UktSemRQMXFHd2o3YTFRZjVLanl4VXg4WVdjU0tKc3hHSDhRcXROel9idjFlRXFLWXVB0gGmAUFVX3lxTE9rWXdGdTFrcTNZX0tIZVF1dXVObmFrSUY5V0xpV0dHcFRvUTBSNUVnbzhFUjB1bU5lSW9VbXhmOUxhTF80c2tLQ19aNlZwVVE3ZnJmNmRqSEtJbnMteUp1eTJhSXJUVlN6a1hDUUlNaHhKN3hWOEtlNTZ0cnBMRl9tb3hOcFUwVVpDcC1XaDc5SUdFOHRTQUQ1UWZaQUhUcHpDNUFwcUE?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47025852", + "id": "CBMioAFBVV95cUxNQmZhWEtYcGMtNHJWdEk3dTlfTzI0bHY0SmNsRGNYZjU0QTZrY2ZHbmxnRHNkaS0xSUNsSDJ0MzB3MTJuQmpmQURrNXN0a2xEdzBuSGNsYjZfRzN0QnNRQ0ZjQ21PQjRZMFBVaHk3UktSemRQMXFHd2o3YTFRZjVLanl4VXg4WVdjU0tKc3hHSDhRcXROel9idjFlRXFLWXVB0gGmAUFVX3lxTE9rWXdGdTFrcTNZX0tIZVF1dXVObmFrSUY5V0xpV0dHcFRvUTBSNUVnbzhFUjB1bU5lSW9VbXhmOUxhTF80c2tLQ19aNlZwVVE3ZnJmNmRqSEtJbnMteUp1eTJhSXJUVlN6a1hDUUlNaHhKN3hWOEtlNTZ0cnBMRl9tb3hOcFUwVVpDcC1XaDc5SUdFOHRTQUQ1UWZaQUhUcHpDNUFwcUE", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Wed, 02 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 2, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 2, + 2, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Cuba celebrates 60 years since Castro\u2019s communist revolution  Al Jazeera", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cuba celebrates 60 years since Castro\u2019s communist revolution  Al Jazeera" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.aljazeera.com", + "title": "Al Jazeera" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Havana tornado: Cuba's capital hit by rare twister\nurl: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47025852\nhostname: bbc.com\ndescription: The first twister to hit Havana in decades leaves at least three people dead and almost 200 injured.\nsitename: BBC News\ndate: 2019-01-28\n---\n# Havana tornado: Cuba's capital hit by rare twister\n\n**Three people are dead and more than 172 injured after a rare tornado ripped through Cuba's capital, Havana.**\n\nWith wind speeds of up to 100km/hr (60 mph), the first tornado to hit the city in decades uprooted trees and cut power in poor areas late on Sunday.\n\nPresident Miguel Diaz-Canel met emergency crews on the streets before dawn on Monday, and tweeted that the damage was \"severe\".\n\nPictures posted on Twitter showed homes destroyed and trucks overturned.\n\nStaff at the Hijas de Galicia maternity hospital had to evacuate.\n\nPhotographers for the AFP news agency said parts of a balcony had been torn off one building in the Luyano neighborhood.\n\nResident Julio Menendez, 33, told AFP news agency: \"We heard a noise like an airplane falling out of the sky. The first thing I did was go hug my daughters.\"\n\nPresident Miguel Diaz-Canel tweeted: \"We are touring areas affected by the atmospheric phenomenon of great intensity.\"\n\nHe added that \"several brigades [are] already working on the restoration.\"\n\nCuba's state media had forecast high winds and thunderstorms in the west of the country.\n\n\"Those of the island accustomed to these warnings did not suspect the magnitude of what was coming,\" state-run newspaper Granma said." + }, + { + "title": "25 Best Things To Do In Havana For 2024 (Cuba Bucket List) - Expert Vagabond", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "25 Best Things To Do In Havana For 2024 (Cuba Bucket List) - Expert Vagabond" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiYkFVX3lxTE1MLTAzUnM2dGZnblZVMExQVkVmRFJuelVIcGlHSmlkcVhhX0t5Vy1tcnlCc09fdFFRRC1vQzVZSloxX1N0azFZaFdQZEw5ZWJySkd5SzR6YVkzRDBSNVhnSkV3?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/1/2/cuba-celebrates-60-years-since-castros-communist-revolution", + "id": "CBMiYkFVX3lxTE1MLTAzUnM2dGZnblZVMExQVkVmRFJuelVIcGlHSmlkcVhhX0t5Vy1tcnlCc09fdFFRRC1vQzVZSloxX1N0azFZaFdQZEw5ZWJySkd5SzR6YVkzRDBSNVhnSkV3", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Tue, 22 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 22, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 1, + 22, + 0 + ], + "summary": "25 Best Things To Do In Havana For 2024 (Cuba Bucket List)  Expert Vagabond", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "25 Best Things To Do In Havana For 2024 (Cuba Bucket List)  Expert Vagabond" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://expertvagabond.com", + "title": "Expert Vagabond" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Cuba marks 60th anniversary of its leftist revolution\nauthor: News Agencies\nurl: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/1/2/cuba-celebrates-60-years-since-castros-communist-revolution\nhostname: aljazeera.com\ndescription: Decades after his brother overthrew Cuba's US-backed leader, Raul Castro slams Washington for return to confrontation.\nsitename: Al Jazeera\ndate: 2019-01-02\ntags: ['Raul Castro', 'News, Raul Castro, Cuba, Latin America']\n---\n# Cuba celebrates 60 years since Castro\u2019s communist revolution\n\n*Decades after his brother overthrew Cuba\u2019s US-backed leader, Raul Castro slams Washington for return to confrontation.*\n\nCuba has celebrated the 60th anniversary of its communist revolution with its leader Raul Castro criticising the United States for returning to an outdated path of confrontation with the island nation.\n\nCastro, who stepped down as president in April but remains the leader of the Communist Party until 2021, spoke on Tuesday in Santiago de Cuba at the grave of his brother Fidel Castro, Cuba\u2019s revolutionary leader who died in 2016.\n\n\u201cIncreasingly, senior officials of [US President Donald Trump\u2018s] administration, with the complicity of some lackeys, disseminate new falsehoods and once again seek to blame Cuba for all the ills of the region,\u201d he said in the presence of Cuba\u2019s current President Miguel Diaz-Canel.\n\nAfter the restoration of diplomatic ties and a friendlier tone under the former administration of US President Barack Obama, \u201conce again the US government seems to take the course of confrontation with Cuba\u201d, he said.\n\nClad in military fatigues and cap, the 87-year-old Castro said that Cuba had proven throughout six decades of revolution it could not be intimidated by threats. 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Changes were seen in everything from education to health care, politics to the arts. The country became a site for social experimentation in all aspects of life \u2013 including cinema.\n\nThe formation of the the Cuban Film Institute (Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematogr\u00e1ficos, or ICAIC) on March 24, 1959 was the first of many new institutes designed to take back control of all Cuban life. Before the revolution, Cuba\u2019s film industry was very small with a few notable successes, such as El Capit\u00e1n Mamb\u00ed (1914). But it was always dominated by large North American studios such as MGM and Warner Bros, who had a virtual monopoly over film production and distribution throughout Latin America.\n\nIt was never the aim of the ICAIC to try and replicate this silver screen success, however. It was set up to produce and disseminate a new culture, one designed to decolonise the island from its long history of Spanish and US dominance.\n\nCuban filmmakers found a variety of new aesthetics inspired by Soviet socialist realism, French nouvelle vague and Italian neorealism. They mixed documentary and fiction styles to deliberately blur the boundaries between fiction and reality. They went far beyond either Hollywood or European influences to write a new history of the island in celluloid.\n\nMany of these films gained international recognition. 1968\u2019s Memories of Underdevelopment, directed by Tom\u00e1s Guti\u00e9rrez Alea, is recognised as one of the top 100 films of all time by leading critics and continues to divide opinion as to its meaning. Radical, densely layered and complex, the film examines one man\u2019s struggle to come to terms with the new Cuba in the early 1960s. A Cuba in which each citizen was asked to question their own subjective consciousness, their place and meaning in the new society.\n\nIf the 1960s was the decade of experimentation, the 1970s proved to be a problematic decade for Cuban culture generally. But while literature and theatre suffered from censorship and the imprisonment or exile of a number of prominent artists, cinema largely escaped the censors\u2019 harsh cutting knife. Films with critical voices \u2013 such as Portrait of Teresa (1979) and One Day in November (1971) \u2013 continued to be released due to the revolutionary nature of the filmmakers themselves, as well as the nature of the medium, which was often difficult to interrogate from a political point of view.\n\n## Avant garde seriousness\n\nCuban filmmakers avoided Hollywood\u2019s frivolities and focused on re-writing the country\u2019s history in films that tackled serious subjects in often avant garde ways. They dealt with the island\u2019s history of slavery, gender and machismo and more contemporary issues such as housing, generational differences, and exile and emigration.\n\nAs experimental cinema mostly has a limited audience, a more popular aesthetic was sought during the 1980s. Filmmakers tried to combine the seriousness of using cinema as an art form, and not simply for entertainment, with content that would speak to the average Cuban. Social satire became commonplace and films such as Plaf! Or Too Afraid of Life (1988) and Up to a Certain Point (1983) reached audiences of up to two million, at a time when the island\u2019s population was 9.7 million. The 1990s was a difficult decade for Cuba generally. The collapse of the Soviet Union brought to an end the economic and ideological support that had helped sustain the revolution for 30 years. Many predicted the end of the revolution itself, but it survived through what was euphemistically called the \u201cSpecial Period in Peacetime\u201d. The Cuban film institute lived on too \u2013 but with some changes, mainly linked with the necessity for co-productions with foreign production companies.\n\nCuba\u2019s colonial past and the Communist revolution have left a lasting imprint on the country\u2019s society. Yet there is a tangible sense of change on the island again, since President Miguel D\u00edaz Canel was elected in April 2018. This has been reflected in the national cinema too. Cuba is moving into the digital age and film is one of the drivers of this progress.\n\nInternet access is still limited but cheaper digital production methods have supported the efficacy and global reach of Cuban filmmakers. Their work, somewhat in lieu of adequate distribution and traditional screening facilities, is often disseminated via \u201cflash\u201d (USB memory sticks). This DIY attitude is typical of the resourcefulness of a people who have lived through years of economic challenges.\n\nTaking advantage of the digital world, Cuban cinema today, while still having strong roots within the national film institute, is still a source of social criticism. Films do sometimes still suffer at the hands of the censors, and there is the constant struggle between the government and the filmmakers to officially allow independent production on the island. But while all this goes on Cuba\u2019s filmmakers keep on making and somehow \u2013 any how \u2013 distributing their films. 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Well explained and provenly accurate, reality is, nevertheless, even more generalized and atrocious.\n\nSen. Bob Men\u00e9ndez, a Democrat, and Republican Marco Rubio, indicated that \u201c*this form of forced labor should not go unnoticed by the international community.\u201d We must confront the regime\u2019s modern slavery scheme and support doctors seeking justice after serving in these regimes. called international medical missions* \u201c, in an interview for Diario de Cuba.\n\nIn countries like Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Brazil before the triumph of Jair Bolsonaro, Haiti and other more than 100 states, as the Cuban regime declares, the leaders in turn, with full awareness of the crime or absolute indolence in the protection of the rights for Cuban professionals, have hired them for these \u201cmissions\u201d that have been developed under a clear slavery status, and have constituted a heavy yoke for thousands of Cubans for years.\n\nThis is the salary of the Cuban workers and the amount charged by Cuba in the \u201cmission\u201d of Brazil \u201cMais M\u00e9dicos\u201d (extracted from the study of the Court of Auditors of Brazil -textual- and linked in in TC 027.492/2013-3 and TC n\u00ba 003.771/2014-8):\n\nCuban doctors earned 10.5% of the total of 4,276.25 dollars a month Brazil paid for them, 450 dollars in hand (400 them and 50 their family), and another 550 dollars that Cuba held for 3 years until they had to return to Cuba, tying with one more variable the return of its slave labor.\n\nBut furthermore, as in the case of forced prostitution, professionals were being retained their passports after passing customs, impeded from legalizing their university degrees and experience, prohibited of speaking with \u201cnative\u201d population, denied social or sentimental relationships, or kept crowded living in degrading conditions, and forced away from their families, threatened every day.\n\nWe stand in solidarity with the brave Cuban doctor and mother who, when declaring she was staying in Brazil, had this response from the Cuban State Security agent, disguised as a \u201cconsultant\u201d of the Pan American Health Organization, whose maximum leader in Brazil, **Joaqu\u00edn Molina**, is a Cuban closely related to the apparatus of power in the island. \u201cTorture will be kept hidden, as always!\u201d, they would think. But the words from **Leoncio Fuentes Correa**, a \u201cdisguised\u201d PAHO consultant, were being recorded:\n\n*\u201cAre you going to stay here? Think about it, I only suggest that. And in the end if you stay here you know that you will not come back more, you will not enter Cuba for 8 years, for 8 years. And you have family in Cuba. You have your family. And if, unfortunately \u2013 I wish it did not happen \u2013 something happened to a member of your family, you will not be able to enter the country. Whether it is fair or unfair! But it is a very big sacrifice, because you are leaving your family, which is the most important thing that a human being has. You have the evaluation and I, if the day of the flight you do not ride in, I\u2019ll report you as a job abandonment and you, when I do the file, you will not return in 8 years. That\u2019s clear!\u201d*\n\nIn other cases, companies such as Cura\u00e7ao Dry Dock Company, had a final judgement that, by using Cuban slave labor with the objective of recovering Cuban debts in the aforementioned company the only way Cuba would pay, now accumulates more than 100 millions of dollars in convictions of principal and interests for compensation to only a few victims who risked their lives managing to escape from a practice that represents one of the greatest atrocities in the Western world, but with which live the people of Cuba every day.\n\n**And Pedro S\u00e1nchez, Spain\u2019s President, what does Pedro S\u00e1nchez say about this?**\n\nMeanwhile, by the way, **Pedro S\u00e1nchez, President of the Spanish Government**, was traveling to spend time with Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel to show Europe that the regime \u201cdeserves an opportunity\u201d, while \u201ctrading\u201d with merchandise made from the blood and the pain of a whole country, gave orders to his party to vote against for a condemnation of the European Chamber to Cuba for the flagrant violation of Human Rights. Sanchez traveled to a slave plantation, he conversed with the foreman in the main country house, while millions of people suffer violations of their rights and fundamental freedoms. The Head of the Spanish Government did not want to meet with the defenders of the human rights of those millions of modern slaves.\n\n**Forced exile for 8 years**\n\nThousands of doctors and other Cuban professionals are forbidden for eight years to enter Cuba to see their families (minor children, women, husbands, parents, friends \u2026) for the mere fact of having sought asylum in other countries with the intention of enjoying the freedom and the opportunities that deny them in their captive homeland. With their effort in exile, these professionals \u201cdeserters\u201d support their families by sending foreign currency to the Island. Money that ends up in the coffers of the exploiting State. Family remittances represent net income higher than tourism.\n\nAs if this would sound as a little punishment, it is enough to read article 135 of the Criminal Code from Cuba in which the penalties for not returning to Cuba after completing one of the so-called collaboration \u201cmissions\u201d are punishable with up to 8 years of prison. Or enough is to read that the one who \u201cperforms actions tending to leave\u201d the island has sentences of 3 years in jail or, if he ruins any material good in the attempt (\u201cforce in things\u201d) he has a sentence of 8 years in prison ( Article 216 of the Criminal Code).\n\nThis is the tragedy of Cuba, a country enslaved within its borders, and outside of them. A country with millions of separated families, where more than half of its population lives in the most absolute misery and the other survives with great difficulty thanks to the emigrant relatives who remit them the money necessary to survive. A country where the average salary is just over 20 dollars a month and the liter of bottled milk costs more than two dollars.\n\nA country where more than 100,000 prisoners languish in prisons for crimes such as **pre-criminal social dangerousness** (\u201c*special proclivity in which a person is found to commit crimes, demonstrated by the behavior observed in manifest contradiction with the rules of socialist morality*\u201c, Article 72 of the Criminal Code from Cuba), punishable with jail up to 4 years (articles 76 to 84 of the Criminal Code from Cuba), and that is used to arrest critics, discontents, and opponents to the regime. The more than 100 political prisoners of the opposition in Cuba are, by number, an anecdotal number of prisoners if we compare them with the thousands who are convicted of pre-criminal dangerousness in Cuba. Nobody knows their names, nobody knows where they are, nobody knows about them, we can only estimate them by estimations in the prisons where we have been, those, we, that still are few but strongly growing opposition in a poor country in which, to oppose, it\u2019s imperative to assume loose a job and stop eating, go to jail and to be of course subjected to the most varied tortures.\n\n**FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT THE PATRIOTIC UNION OF CUBA (UNPACU):**\n\nJos\u00e9 Daniel Ferrer, Cuba, General Coordinator\nEmail: unpacu@gmail.com\n|\nTweeter from Jos\u00e9 Daniel Ferrer:\n@jdanielferrer https://twitter.com/jdanielferrer\n|" + }, + { + "title": "Army Reserve-Puerto Rico Soldiers return home from Cuba - usar.army.mil", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Army Reserve-Puerto Rico Soldiers return home from Cuba - usar.army.mil" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMitwFBVV95cUxPS0h5anEtNE1zX1l3OGVsMGNMMlVCMGN3REpfZXJLbHdGOXhLU3dXMndpVndHQ2g4aVd0ZlJRaGdkR05kemQzT0x4WFByVDBMMGhFYkJ2bGJTUFU5Vi1ueU9NRFRTM2xOVU1aMEVIVlMzRDFzTmNXU0djT3J6bVJpYmh1X2cxWDVfU1Y2QWlqaXk0a3B2Sng3di1YVmhWRm55Mm1zU2xtMUw0REFDeHRuMGE1Z0NOQlU?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://havanatimes.org/diaries/veronica-vegas-diary/zoosadism-in-cuba-something-normal/", + "id": "CBMitwFBVV95cUxPS0h5anEtNE1zX1l3OGVsMGNMMlVCMGN3REpfZXJLbHdGOXhLU3dXMndpVndHQ2g4aVd0ZlJRaGdkR05kemQzT0x4WFByVDBMMGhFYkJ2bGJTUFU5Vi1ueU9NRFRTM2xOVU1aMEVIVlMzRDFzTmNXU0djT3J6bVJpYmh1X2cxWDVfU1Y2QWlqaXk0a3B2Sng3di1YVmhWRm55Mm1zU2xtMUw0REFDeHRuMGE1Z0NOQlU", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Fri, 18 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 18, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 4, + 18, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Army Reserve-Puerto Rico Soldiers return home from Cuba  usar.army.mil", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Army Reserve-Puerto Rico Soldiers return home from Cuba  usar.army.mil" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.usar.army.mil", + "title": "usar.army.mil" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Zoosadism in Cuba: Something Normal? - Havana Times\nauthor: Veronica Vega\nurl: https://havanatimes.org/diaries/veronica-vegas-diary/zoosadism-in-cuba-something-normal/\nhostname: havanatimes.org\ndescription: It\u2019s a well-known fact that serial killers start out by experimenting their barbaric acts on animals, domestic animals a lot of the time. Astonishingly, the danger of this psychological profile hasn\u2019t been argument enough for zoosadism to be criminalized in our country.\nsitename: Havana Times\ndate: 2019-01-29\ncategories: [\"Veronica Vega's diary\"]\n---\n# Zoosadism in Cuba: Something Normal?\n\n**Veronica Vega**\n\nHAVANA TIMES \u2013 It\u2019s a well-known fact that serial killers start out by experimenting their barbaric acts on animals, domestic animals a lot of the time.\n\nAstonishingly, the danger of this psychological profile hasn\u2019t been argument enough for zoosadism to be criminalized in our country.\n\nDecisive proof of this has been people\u2019s silence when collecting signatures in protest of the puppy burned alive in Manzanillo in May 2017, and now the release of dog rapist and torturer Ruben Marrero Pernas, who uploaded videos and photos onto an underground network of zoophiles, Beast Forum.\n\nA group of animal defenders met in the Monterrey neighborhood in San Miguel de Padron on Saturday January 19th. This is the park and WIFI hotspot where this sadistic character normally sits to connect up to the Internet, walking scot free. With a shortage of official reports, it isn\u2019t known whether his trial is still pending and, more importantly, whether he continues to perpetrate these crimes.\n\nThe call for this gathering of animal defenders came from the ATAC (Supporting and Moving Stray Animals) project, mostly made up of young people who provide parasite treatment for stray dogs or dogs brought by their owners. The objective? Make it clear that there are people in Cuba who are outraged by these events.\n\nThe creatures that he abused continue to be in the same helpless state. There isn\u2019t a single law in their favor, and animal rape or abuse isn\u2019t a particularly scandalous issue in Cuban society.\n\nIt\u2019s \u201cnormal\u201d in rural communities for men to rape young goats, pigs, chickens. It\u2019s a kind of open secret, a salacious and consensual bit of mischief. Animals rely on human beings to defend their rights. That\u2019s why Jeannette Ryder, a foreign philanthropist who defended the defenseless on this island, used to say: \u201cWe speak for those who don\u2019t have a voice of their own.\u201d\n\nWidespread practice of the Yoruba religion, under the pretext of bringing \u201chealth and prosperity\u201d (!!) has legitimized animal sacrifices of pigeons, fowl, young goats, rams\u2026 without the slightest bit of concern for their suffering. Their mutilated bodies are put on display in our streets, parks, beaches, in the plain sight of children, as archetypes of barbarism.\n\nThis is why the reaction of Ruben Marrero\u2019s neighbors doesn\u2019t come as a surprise, who have a mostly passive, indifferent or complicit attitude. One of them remarked: \u201cThey really went after him. I thought it was for something else.\u201d\n\nThat is to say, raping and torturing dogs isn\u2019t a serious matter. In short, according to somebody else, \u201che\u2019s been doing this\u201d (sadistic acts with animals) \u201cever since he was a child.\u201d Somebody claimed that the criminal\u2019s mother is sick and, ashamed of her son\u2019s acts, avoids going outside.\n\nThe Monterrey neighborhood is full of houses surrounded by gardens, with dogs inside nearly every fence, yet its inhabitants prefer to ignore the murderer. Somebody said that they had seen him pass by recently, \u201cheading towards the hill, with a yellow-colored dog.\u201d\n\n\u201cPoor animal,\u201d everyone in the group said.\n\nThe hill is a green space where a dirty river runs, and we saw the swollen corpse of a dog with its paws tied together. Who was responsible? Standing in front of this polluted landscape, full of a build-up of waste and humans\u2019 sordid indifference, you feel like anyone could be responsible.\n\nHowever, the parasite treatment campaign did raise eyebrows. First, a policeman came along and then a government representative. Both of them made it clear that these kinds of actions couldn\u2019t be repeated without an official license. Posters against animal abuse, put up on trees and the backs of benches, mysteriously disappeared.\n\nAccording to the policeman, somebody had phoned to report the presence of a group of activists. The contrast in this swift response after finding out about this charitable activity and its censorship was really telling, yet, how many animals have had to suffer and die at Ruben Marrero\u2019s hands before this case came to light? By the way, official media hasn\u2019t covered this news.\n\nSitting on a bench and watching everything, two men nobody knew, who weren\u2019t using the Wi-Fi internet either, reminded us that protesting, even if it were to protest the impunity of a murderer, could work against us.\n\nIt doesn\u2019t matter if the people protesting are citizens doing the right thing. It doesn\u2019t matter whether the protest is trying to keep the majority safe.\n\nOnce again, reality has proven that power here in Cuba doesn\u2019t work in favor of justice. It only works in the favor of those who defend this power, or don\u2019t question it. Every protest can be politicized and distorted.\n\nThe group of animal defenders is made up of groups which have been created in response to the uncontrolled births of dogs and cats, to their visible agony; to the shame that this implies for a society that claims to be civilized; to the awful image we give tourists.\n\nWe work out of love and with hardly any resources. We need to become established, not allow ourselves to be intimidated, confused or divided.\n\nWe urgently need to defend not only animal rights, but the right of every Cuban to improve our surroundings, for compassion to be validated as an example for future generations, for the rape, torture and mutilation of a living being to be criminalized.\n\nWe can\u2019t make any moral headway if we ignore something as basic as this.\n\nFor over 20 years in the U.S. I directed secure residential treatment programs for violent juvenile offenders. One of those programs focused exclusively on juveniles who had raped strangers, and, much to my surprise, in that program a judge placed a youth who had been adjudicated for raping a dog. Unprepared for that placement, I spent hours reading any research I could find about sex with animals and bestiality.\n\nAt that time, much attention was given to a triad assumed to predict violent and aggressive behaviors. That triad was childhood: 1) bedwetting; 2) fire setting; and, 3) cruelty to animals. Some people still believe that triad predicts violence but, generally, today that triad is considered more as evidence of severe childhood abuse. Such certainly was the case with many youths placed in my programs.\n\nAggressive and violent behaviors are very complex and have varied origins, which has been very frustrating for programs working with violent and aggressive people. Regretfully, the one apparent universal truth is that the best predictor of any future behavior, including violent and aggressive behavior, is past behavior. Such is strong justification for not ignoring unacceptable behaviors.\n\nMy research regarding sexual abuse of animals lead me in many directions. Out of curiosity, I attempted to research official or legal attitudes regarding sex with animals, primarily because in one of my programs was a juvenile offender whose father was incarcerated as a result of sexually assaulting a cow.\n\nI cannot reference my findings from years ago but I found the following Wikipedia article that closely parallels what I found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bestiality_by_country_or_territory.\n\nIf you look in that article at the world map and list of policies by country, you may be surprised by the variety of world attitudes. In fact, you will note some U.S. states still do not have laws against sex with animals or bestiality. After all these years I remain mystified by related passive or dismissive attitudes. The problem is pervasive far beyond Cuba.\n\nFrom my years of experiences working to reduce violent and aggressive behaviors, I am convinced all cultures or, at least, communities must develop comprehensive, systematic responses to all forms of aggression and violence. Tolerance of violence and aggression at any level is unacceptable and counter-productive. Tolerance and acceptance of any form of violence and aggression only serves to perpetuate and potentially escalate related problems.\n\nI have traveled to Cuba many times and visited every province. From my visits I have developed many close relationships with individuals I consider on the level of family or kindred spirit. As a result, I often have told people outside Cuba that some of the most civilized individuals I have met during my life are in Cuba.\n\nTherefore, it does disturb me to learn of recent increased reports of violence in Cuba, particularly against females. With individuals like you focusing attention on violence, perhaps it will be possible for Cuba or, at least, Cuban communities to proffer comprehensive, systematic responses to all forms of violence, including violence against animals. The encouraging news is that you have empirical evidence regarding what NOT to do, i.e., the U.S. is a powerful example of how not to address violence and aggression.\n\nI ardently follow your articles and am without doubt about your dedication to and love for the people of Cuba. I encourage you to continue to address the more difficult issues of your culture. I will continue to follow you with great interest.\n\nCuba has an amicable record of producing doctors that alleviate human suffering around the world. Why can\u2019t it produce veterinary doctors to serve the animals of Cuba?\n\nSpaying and neutering stray dogs and cats should be a simple municipal function. Psychological studies have shown that people who abuse animals will at some point also abuse another human. In the most extreme form this expresses itself as serial murder.\n\nI\u2019m happy to hear that you are part of a concerned group that recognizes that the compassion to prevent animal suffering is no different than compassion to end human suffering. 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In Cuba, the idea or philosophy that enjoying the small things in life is detrimental to our spirit\u2019s prestige and willingness to resist, has become widespread.\nsitename: Havana Times\ndate: 2019-01-30\ncategories: ['Opinion']\n---\n# What\u2019s the Deal with Raisins in Cuba?\n\n**By Julio Antonio Fernandez Estrada ** (El Toque)\n\nHAVANA TIMES \u2013 This article could also have the sub-heading: Ten items that you don\u2019t need to live but make life worth living.\n\nIn Cuba, the idea or philosophy that enjoying the small things in life is detrimental to our spirit\u2019s prestige and willingness to resist, has become widespread.\n\nI haven\u2019t read this in any manual about how to make citizens\u2019 souls determined (going further than Lycurgus did in Sparta and Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia did in Paraguay, separated by milennia), but you can see it when you take a look at Cuban everyday life.\n\nNobody would have been able to predict that this stoic philosophy would be widely accepted in Cuba, and that our apparent zeal for life or excessive happiness could be caused by anything other than reggaeton and Laritza Bacallao\u2019s carnival songs.\n\nWe Cubans seem to be condemned to being the beacon of America and the Third World, not letting ourselves be carried away by the tide of consumption and by consumerism in particular, even though people here have been mocking our misery for decades saying that we do have consumerism: consumerism trousers, consumerism pair of shoes, etc.\n\nAs we are the only country in the Americas [besides Venezuela] without supermarkets stocked with \u201ceverything\u201d (as we say here in Cuba), not because this is what the people want but because some government officials have decided it for us, then we have something that others don\u2019t: the desire to fill a shopping cart, even if it\u2019s to leave it parked at the supermarket entrance, just so we can practice.\n\nI propose that when the referendum comes along for us to pass the new Family Code or not, another ballot paper be included with other questions, one of which could be whether the Cuban people want to always live without raisins; olive oil; Swiss cheese; liquid milk; beef; butter but real butter that tastes of butter; apples and pears or at least loquats and cashews, that don\u2019t cost the same as Snow White\u2019s apple; fish without whiskers and slime, like the kind they used to sell when we were silly and got tired of eating hake and squid; ham, notice how I\u2019m not saying serrano ham, or pata negra ham, nothing like that, no, just ham, 6-peso ham, like we used to affectionately call it back in the \u201880s.\n\nAnd I\u2019m going to stop there because this list could be way longer and because the shame I spoke to you about before at the beginning of this article is beginning to settle in. I can\u2019t not be ashamed of having these desires when I know that half of the world\u2019s population goes hungry, are worse off than us, even more desperate, more exposed to war and being unsafe.\n\nBut, this is why I also want to reclaim our right to be less meager or, at least, decide this as a nation. I believe that socialism can be a stream of wealth, like poor Karl Marx said, I believe that dipping our Cuban bread in olive oil produced in some Mediterranean country doesn\u2019t make us less revolutionary.\n\nWe deserve to enjoy the small things in life, like the imperfect humans we are and can even go and march in Revolution Square with our tummies full of Cuban-produced mayonnaise, and attack the enemy from a trench, thinking about the love we have left at home and the vivid memory of a party we had as a family one day, when we ate grilled meat." + }, + { + "title": "Siri, it seems, doesn\u2019t know everything. 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Today it is nearly empty. In late 2016, diplomats started hearing a loud, piercing noise. Two dozen of them reported symptoms such as ear pain and dizziness, and were diagnosed with injuries consistent with a concussion. Suspicions of politically motivated \u201csonic attacks\u201d soon followed.\nsitename: Newswise\ndate: 2019-01-04\ncategories: ['Science News']\ntags: ['Newswise, Cricket;International Relations;US;Cuba,Cell Biology, Wildlife, Hidden - Virginia, Hidden - DC Metro, Scientific Meetings, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)']\n---\nNewswise \u2014 Just two years ago, the U.S. Embassy in Havana was bustling with U.S. personnel sent by the Obama Administration to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba. Today it is nearly empty. In late 2016, diplomats started hearing a loud, piercing noise. Two dozen of them reported symptoms such as ear pain and dizziness, and were diagnosed with injuries consistent with a concussion. Suspicions of politically motivated \u201csonic attacks\u201d soon followed. The U.S. State Department recalled most personnel from Cuba and reduced its embassy staff in Havana to a skeleton crew. Cooperative measures between the two governments stalled amidst conspiracy theories of high-tech attack. Despite ongoing investigations by American and Cuban government agencies, and extensive coverage of the study by major news outlets, the source of the strange noise provoking the crisis has remained an enigma.\n\nBut a new study indicates that the culprit behind this debacle is in fact\u2026 a cricket. According to Alexander Stubbs, a scientist in the Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley, the mysterious noise is actually the echoing call of the Indies short-tailed cricket (*Anurogryllus celerinictus*). Stubbs will present his findings this week at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Tampa, Florida, based on a paper that was just released through the bioArxive online database.\n\nThe suspicious noise had been recorded by U.S. personnel stationed in Cuba. One of these recordings was released to the public through the Associated Press (AP). Stubbs listened to the recording and was reminded of insect calls that he had heard while doing field work in the Caribbean. He decided to investigate further, reasoning that if an insect were responsible for the noise, it should be possible to identify the particular species based on the unique acoustic signature of its call.\n\nStubbs analyzed the acoustic power of the mysterious noise as a function of frequency. Using publicly available field recordings, Stubbs did the same analyses for hundreds of insects and found a few potential matches. But the nuances of the pulse structure in the AP recording did not perfectly match any of the insect recordings made in the field.\n\nThen Stubbs realized that the U.S. diplomats may have made the recordings indoors, with the pulses of sound echoing off the walls. To mimic these conditions, Stubbs played the insect calls on indoor speakers, recorded the echoing calls, and performed the analyses again. The new results were noticeably different. Stubbs found that the echoing call of the Indies short-tailed cricket* (A. celerinictus*) was a near perfect match to the AP recording in pulse structure. Further tests in collaboration with bioacoustics expert Fernando Montealegre-Z at the University of Lincoln (UK) showed that the characteristic frequency decay within each pulse is consistent with the biomechanics of this cricket\u2019s sound production.\n\nThe possibility of an insect causing the strange noise had actually been proposed previously. A group of Cuban officials submitted a report to the U.S. government in 2018 suggesting that the noise came from the Jamaican field cricket (*Gryllus assimilis*). But the report was perhaps disregarded by U.S. officials because the short chirp of the Jamaican field cricket does not match the grating, continuous sound in the diplomats\u2019 recording from Cuba. The cricket species suspected by Stubbs and Montealegre-Z, in contrast, has a continuous call that precisely matches the echoing sound in the AP recording.\n\nWhy was the Indies short-tailed cricket not implicated before? *A. celerinictus* has only been documented in Jamaica and Grand Cayman and is not known to occur in Cuba. But it\u2019s possible that this cricket was actually in Cuba all along. *A. celerinictus* used to go by a different name: *A. muticus*, another species that is nearly identical, and that does occur in Cuba. An entomologist at the University of Florida, Thomas J. Walker, distinguished the two species from each other in 1973 based on the frequencies of their wing strokes. But the distinct geographic ranges of the two crickets went unnoticed for over 40 years \u2013 until Stubbs used Walker\u2019s field recordings of the crickets, which Walker had made available on his website, to investigate the strange recording from Havana. It is possible that the Cubans actually found the organism responsible but simply mis-identified it.\n\nThese findings add fresh intrigue to an ongoing and heated political controversy. Some factions still blame a hypothetical \u201csonic weapon\u201d for the jarring noise, whereas others have suggested microwave- or ultrasound-based devices. Meanwhile, several medical professionals have questioned the methods used to diagnose the afflicted U.S. personnel, raising the possibility that some or all of the reported symptoms could have been psychogenic rather than physically manifested from hearing the noise. 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At least 172 others were injured.\n\nThe tornado, which hit Havana on Sunday, was classified as EF4 with winds touching 300 kilometres per hour. It is the first tornado to hit the city in decades.\n\nThe twister uprooted trees, damaged buildings, cut power in poor areas and caused coastal flooding with heavy rains.\n\nRegla was the worst-hit borough in Havana. Almost all the buildings were damaged to some degree. Locals were seen clearing debris and packing personal belongings to seek refuge with their relatives and friends.\n\nFrancisco, a local resident, said it was the first disaster he had seen in his life.\n\n\u201cIt was like a science fiction or thriller, it\u2019s terrible. The strong wind blew away the front door and the roof. All these buildings were damaged in a flash. I fell down by the wind as it blew the door open and pushed me onto the wall. 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The Cuban capital was battered late Sunday and early Monday by powerful winds and heavy rains. A blackout hit many Havana neighborhoods around 9 p.m.\n\nEarly Monday, President Miguel Diaz-Canel posted photos of himself on Twitter with rescue workers besides what appeared to be a vehicle overturned by the storm. Little further information about the storm appeared in state media.\n\nPhotos posted by Cuban media and Havana residents on Twitter showed cars crushed by fallen light posts and trapped in floodwaters around the city. One local radio station said on Twitter that the neighborhoods of Regla and 10th of October, and the town of San Miguel de Padron, had been affected by the tornado.\n\nJulio Menendez, a 33-year-old restaurant worker, said the 10th of October borough \"looks like a horror movie.\" Menendez, who was home Sunday night when the tornado hit, said \"from one moment to the next, we heard a noise like an airplane falling out of the sky. The first thing I did was go hug my daughters,\" who are nine and 12.\n\nHe spoke Monday near the Daughters of Galicia Hospital, whose patients, all expectant mothers or mothers with newborns, were evacuated to another hospital. Many glass windows in the seven-story hospital had been sucked out of their frames by the power of the wind, leaving curtains flapping in the breeze.\n\nCBS News producer Portia Siegelbaum reported from Havana that experts were out evaluating the damage and searching for possible additional victims under rubble.\n\nThe Cuban Civil Defense, fire department, police, and health workers were all mobilized. The electric company was also out in force to try and restore service as quickly as possible to areas with downed posts and adjacent areas that did not suffer direct damage from the storm, but where electricity has been out since Sunday night.\n\nSiegelbaum said it had been 79 years since a strong tornado hit Cuba, and no one was prepared for the sudden eruption of chaos on Sunday as windows were blown out, roofs caved in and massive trees toppled onto cars.\n\nThe exact intensity of the tornado -- and the extent of the damage -- were still being evaluated." + }, + { + "title": "Cuba: Three dead, 174 injured in Havana tornado - Al Jazeera", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cuba: Three dead, 174 injured in Havana tornado - Al Jazeera" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMijwFBVV95cUxPTlpMSmpxX0hGN2ZrRUc2OEh4ZlN0WlpWb0MyeGR1c0cxQ3RlSXIwNHNOZVVRMk9jRnhkZFFvQ1FiQjd2cWhIbnFxdFlGZ0lNaFZDZ051MDEzQi0zMGxtTnNwZEhBQ1I4Y1plRTZzRUwxaUJGSVVyTUVHNnUzeENqYzRSZXBJdk5xVi1NWnZEZ9IBlAFBVV95cUxPdkxnTVlYNXRXV0RsRjVBSDhGYkJOOXZaOFhzV1NTZGlBOWV0ZHZZVHZ1TEtNTDZIV1lXNXFVMnFoZzhvVlFRSGZOd1VBWGpjQkU1ekR1VGlSeW5fdW81MFdBZ2oxRUI4d3AzVXhDSTI0RFNxS0RUVEtXcjhaNk41X18xdFJkMTRodlRhVVA5c3RhaG1i?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/1/28/cuba-three-dead-174-injured-in-havana-tornado", + "id": "CBMijwFBVV95cUxPTlpMSmpxX0hGN2ZrRUc2OEh4ZlN0WlpWb0MyeGR1c0cxQ3RlSXIwNHNOZVVRMk9jRnhkZFFvQ1FiQjd2cWhIbnFxdFlGZ0lNaFZDZ051MDEzQi0zMGxtTnNwZEhBQ1I4Y1plRTZzRUwxaUJGSVVyTUVHNnUzeENqYzRSZXBJdk5xVi1NWnZEZ9IBlAFBVV95cUxPdkxnTVlYNXRXV0RsRjVBSDhGYkJOOXZaOFhzV1NTZGlBOWV0ZHZZVHZ1TEtNTDZIV1lXNXFVMnFoZzhvVlFRSGZOd1VBWGpjQkU1ekR1VGlSeW5fdW81MFdBZ2oxRUI4d3AzVXhDSTI0RFNxS0RUVEtXcjhaNk41X18xdFJkMTRodlRhVVA5c3RhaG1i", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 28, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 0, + 28, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Cuba: Three dead, 174 injured in Havana tornado  Al Jazeera", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cuba: Three dead, 174 injured in Havana tornado  Al Jazeera" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.aljazeera.com", + "title": "Al Jazeera" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Cuba: Three dead, 174 injured in Havana tornado\nauthor: AFP\nurl: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/1/28/cuba-three-dead-174-injured-in-havana-tornado\nhostname: aljazeera.com\ndescription: Heavy winds overturned vehicles, uprooted trees, knocked down lamp posts, and left part of the capital in the dark.\nsitename: Al Jazeera\ndate: 2019-01-28\ntags: ['Weather', 'News, Weather, Cuba, Latin America']\n---\n# Cuba: Three dead, 174 injured in Havana tornado\n\n*Heavy winds overturned vehicles, uprooted trees, knocked down lamp posts, and left part of the capital in the dark.*\n\nA rare and powerful tornado that struck Havana killed three people and injured 174 others, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said early on Monday.\n\nDiaz-Canel, who toured the darkened streets of Havana in the pre-dawn hours visiting emergency crews, wrote on Twitter that damage to the Cuban capital from tornado that struck late on Sunday was \u201csevere\u201d.\n\nThe tornado overturned vehicles, uprooted trees, knocked down lampposts, and left part of the city in the dark.\n\nIn the city\u2019s Luyano neighbourhood, storm debris, including parts of a balcony ripped off an old building, blocked the streets, AFP photographers reported.\n\nAs emergency sirens blared across the city, firefighters and ambulances rushed about on rescue missions, their flashing lights giving light to blacked out areas.\n\n\u201cAs of now we mourn the loss of three human lives and 174 injured people are receiving aid,\u201d Diaz-Canel tweeted.\n\nHe added several emergency teams were working hard to restore power to blacked-out areas.\n\nAt the Hijas de Galicia maternity hospital staff were forced to evacuate the building because of storm damage.\n\nThe tornado, spawned by a powerful storm that originated in the Gulf of Mexico, hit western Cuba with winds of up to 100 kilometres per hour.\n\nPeople described the tornado as having \u201cthe sound of a jet engine\u201d and reported feeling changes in the environmental pressure when it arrived, Armando Caymares with the Institute of Meteorology said.\n\nThe tornado \u201ccaught me in the street, in the car with my wife and children\u201d, actor Luis \u201cPanfilo\u201d Silva wrote on his social media account.\n\n\u201cI had to dodge fallen trees, flooded areas and strong winds until I managed to get home. We experienced great fear,\u201d he wrote." + }, + { + "title": "Mystery illness sees Canada halve its Cuba embassy staff - BBC", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Mystery illness sees Canada halve its Cuba embassy staff - BBC" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiXkFVX3lxTE9mYlZOd2pKT0RJRTNPOS1HZVFOWmExM0JxMUlGdVlLTHBxempKeUJ2ZmdfZF9hTUp5dmExSk9xS1Y0dUZWUHR1cUU1UmUwMy1WR1FoS25Tc0Vrd2dvT2c?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47066652", + "id": "CBMiXkFVX3lxTE9mYlZOd2pKT0RJRTNPOS1HZVFOWmExM0JxMUlGdVlLTHBxempKeUJ2ZmdfZF9hTUp5dmExSk9xS1Y0dUZWUHR1cUU1UmUwMy1WR1FoS25Tc0Vrd2dvT2c", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Thu, 31 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 31, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 3, + 31, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Mystery illness sees Canada halve its Cuba embassy staff  BBC", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Mystery illness sees Canada halve its Cuba embassy staff  BBC" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.bbc.com", + "title": "BBC" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Mystery illness sees Canada halve its Cuba embassy staff\nurl: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47066652\nhostname: bbc.com\ndescription: A 14th employee at Canada's embassy in Havana falls ill, and the country cuts staff there by half.\nsitename: BBC News\ndate: 2019-01-31\n---\n# Mystery illness sees Canada halve its Cuba embassy staff\n\n**Canada will cut its embassy staff in Cuba by up to half after a mystery illness affected another person there, authorities in Ottawa have said. **\n\nMedical testing after the reappearance of unusual symptoms in November saw a 14th Canadian affected.\n\nCanada's foreign office said the number of staff will now be cut by up to half as a result.\n\nUS staff have also been affected by the illness, which causes dizziness, nausea and difficulty concentrating.\n\nCanada has discounted the idea of a \"sonic attack\" being the cause - a theory previously put forward by the US state department last year.\n\nA statement released by Global Affairs Canada said \"employees, spouses and dependents\" at the embassy were among the affected, and all were receiving ongoing medical treatment.\n\nWhile the embassy would remain open and continue to provide full consular services, some functions could be affected in the future, senior Canadian officials told journalists.\n\nStaff numbers will now drop from about 16 to up to eight.\n\nCanada recalled diplomatic families from Havana in April after some minors started showing the symptoms.\n\nMore than a million Canadians visit Cuba each year, but there is no evidence they are at risk.\n\nCuba has repeatedly denied its involvement. 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Miguel Diaz-Canel, 58, took over in April as president from Raul Castro, who retains significant influence.\n\n\"Today the date is with Raul in Santiago,\" wrote Diaz-Canel on Twitter.\n\n\"The brave and noble people of Cuba\" will be honored \u2014 with Fidel, Raul and \"all those who have fought, and fight, to keep the homeland free, sovereign and happy.\"\n\nThe streets of Santiago were adorned with flags and posters. In one, a vigorous Fidel raises a rifle next to Raul, with the legend \"60 years of victories.\"\n\nConcerts and dances were held across the island on New Year's Eve, and a 21-gun salute rang out across Havana Bay to usher in the anniversary of the revolution.\n\nDiaz-Canel wasn't even born when Fidel Castro declared victory for his revolution on Jan. 1, 1959.\n\nU.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista had fled the country earlier that day, opening the way for Castro to install a one-party communist system.\n\nLast week, a defiant Diaz-Canel wrote on Twitter: \"The Cuban revolution is invincible, it grows, it lasts.\"\n\nBut not everyone is convinced.\n\nDissident Vladimiro Roca, whose father Blas Roca served as a high-ranking official under Fidel Castro, insists that \"the revolution died a long time ago.\"\n\nAbroad, Cuba's government has faced heavy criticism for its authoritarian nature, intolerance of opposition and persecution of detractors. Vladimiro Roca was jailed from 1997 to 2002 for his protests.\n\nAnd while U.S.-Cuba relations thawed under Barack Obama, the Caribbean island of 11 million people has had to contend with an increasingly hostile administration under President Donald Trump these last two years.\n\nChange is coming, though.\n\nIn February, the communist regime is to submit to referendum a new constitution that will officially recognize private property, markets and foreign investment.\n\nHowever, the document also ratifies communism as the nation's \"social goal,\" insists the country will \"never\" return to capitalism, and defines the Communist Party as by nature, single, and the \"supreme political force of state and society.\"\n\n**'A new cycle'**\n\nEconomic changes are coming as well. One deal, between Major League Baseball in the U.S. and the Cuban Baseball Federation, will allow the island's top talents to sign multimillion-dollar deals with MLB clubs.\n\n\"For sure, a new cycle is being opened. This cycle is continuity and change,\" academic Arturo Lopez-Levy, from Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota, told AFP.\n\nThat's not the view of Jorge Duany, director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University.\n\n\"For now, it looks like Castrism without a Castro\" in power, he said.\n\nVladimiro Roca, for his part, believes the revolution \"will blow itself out\" due to the indifference of the new generations and a lack of outside support.\n\nRussia and China remain allies, but neither has shown willingness to subsidize the country's economy in the way the former Soviet Union did for 30 years.\n\nDiaz-Canel has repeatedly said that the \"most important battle is the economy,\" which has grown barely one percent in recent years, not enough to support its population.\n\n**Squaring the circle**\n\nFor many Cubans, their hopes for an improved life depend \"on whether they can work for themselves or emigrate,\" said Duany.\n\nOnce the world's primary exporter of sugar, Cuba recently had to import that commodity from France, while over the last few weeks, eggs, rice and flour have disappeared from supermarket aisles.\n\nIt leaves \"Diaz-Canel and his team with the challenge of applying a contradictory policy,\" said Lopez-Levy.\n\nThe country is institutionalizing the revolution in a time of economic crisis, while the Communist Party creates a market economy allowing inhabitants to get rich in a society based on egalitarian principles.\n\n\"The challenge is to square the circle in order to avoid sinking,\" said Lopez-Levy.\n\nIt's not a hopeless dream, though, in a country that has resisted a U.S.-led embargo since 1962 by showing \"its ability to adapt, identifying and applying policies that manage to meet the challenges,\" he said." + }, + { + "title": "Cuba Gooding Jr. hits the NYC theater scene - Page Six", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cuba Gooding Jr. hits the NYC theater scene - Page Six" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMif0FVX3lxTFBfN0ttMXlMOFZ2eGM5OGhOX3lkNDUxeTBldlpreGNya3RSb0Y5ZDBBdHRTRFVIQUt4UGpWRTRyc093Vm52ZE04ZWxwQUtRNkJaandFNGNmdkRsZkEtOU9jenEtOFg1RXVaR3BFM0ItOTBVMXlCdEFHeFlQRzlyOW8?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://pagesix.com/2019/01/26/cuba-gooding-jr-hits-the-nyc-theater-scene/", + "id": "CBMif0FVX3lxTFBfN0ttMXlMOFZ2eGM5OGhOX3lkNDUxeTBldlpreGNya3RSb0Y5ZDBBdHRTRFVIQUt4UGpWRTRyc093Vm52ZE04ZWxwQUtRNkJaandFNGNmdkRsZkEtOU9jenEtOFg1RXVaR3BFM0ItOTBVMXlCdEFHeFlQRzlyOW8", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Sat, 26 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 26, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 5, + 26, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Cuba Gooding Jr. hits the NYC theater scene  Page Six", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cuba Gooding Jr. hits the NYC theater scene  Page Six" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://pagesix.com", + "title": "Page Six" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Cuba Gooding Jr. hits the NYC theater scene\nauthor: Carlos Greer\nurl: https://pagesix.com/2019/01/26/cuba-gooding-jr-hits-the-nyc-theater-scene/\nhostname: pagesix.com\ndescription: The \u201cJerry Maguire\u201d star was spotted at Feinstein\u2019s/54 Below.\nsitename: Page Six\ndate: 2019-01-26\ncategories: ['celebrity-news']\ntags: ['Celebrity News,54 below,cuba gooding, jr.,theater']\n---\nCuba Gooding Jr. attended model Cory Alexander\u2019s debut performance at Feinstein\u2019s/54 Below Thursday night.\n\nThe \u201cJerry Maguire\u201d star was among \u201ctons of fashion elite\u201d at David Bowie doppelg\u00e4nger Alexander\u2019s performance.\n\n\u201cHe is a reincarnation of Bowie. 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The AFP news agency reported winds of up to 62 miles per hour.\n\nThe Cuban Meteorological Institute will evaluate the extent of the damage and the intensity of the storm in the next few hours, the statement said.\n\nCuban actor Luis Silva said he was driving with his wife and children when the tornado struck.\n\n\"I had to avoid fallen trees, floods, strong winds. Until I was able to get home!\" he wrote in an Instagram post. \"We had a big scare.\"\n\nStaff at the Hijas de Galicia maternity hospital evacuated the building because of storm damage, AFP reported.\n\nLocals said the tornado had \"the sound of a jet engine,\" and they felt changes in environmental pressure as it hit, Armando Caymares of Cuba's Institute of Meteorology told AFP.\n\nThe island nation regularly suffers extreme weather events such as hurricanes and Atlantic storms.\n\nIt sits in the Caribbean Sea, which is vulnerable to hurricanes from June 1 to November 30.\n\nIn September 2017, 10 people died in Cuba as a result of Hurricane Irma, with seven of these deaths in Havana, according to state television.\n\nIrma made landfall in Cuba as a Category 5 storm, blasting into seaside towns and causing flooding in low-lying areas of Havana. 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It is an island country comprised of the main island of Cuba and a series of other smaller islands. The country occupies a total area of approximately 42,800 square miles. From above, the country\u2019s main island appears to be in the shape of a crocodile, hence its Spanish name *\"El cocodrilo.\" *The island of Cuba is the largest island by land area in the Caribbean region. The Caribbean country is governed through a socialist system of governance. The Cuban government owns and operates most of the companies and resources in the country. Cuba has plenty of natural resources such as nickel, cobalt, petroleum, arable land, forests, incredible landscapes, and rich biodiversity.\n\n## Natural Resources of Cuba\n\n**Nickel**\n\nCuba has nickel as its leading natural resource. The mineral is a useful component in making coins, rechargeable batteries, plumbing fixtures, and production of stainless steel among other products. Due to its anti-corrosive properties, nickel is used in making most alloys, and it is the top foreign income earner in Cuba. The nation is among the ten highest producers of nickel in the world. The nickel deposits exist in large quantities in the island country of Cuba. The mines are mainly found in the northeastern part of the country. Cuba produces an average of 50,000 tons of nickel annually. The Caribbean nation exports its nickel to China, Venezuela, Canada, Netherlands, and Italy. The nickel mining industry in Cuba is important because it provides jobs to many citizens of Cuba.\n\n**Cobalt**\n\nCuba has cobalt as one of its natural resources. The island country is among top producers of cobalt in the world. It is estimated that Cuba has the third largest cobalt deposits on earth. In 2017, the country produced 4,200 metric tons of cobalt. Cobalt is experiencing a sharp increase in demand particularly in the electric car industry. The mineral is a key component in making lithium-ion batteries used in electric cars. The mineral is also used in making parts of aircraft engines. Cuba\u2019s cobalt is exported to Canada and other European countries. Cobalt exports contribute to the national income and provide jobs to Cubans.\n\n**Oil and Natural Gas**\n\nCuba has offshore oil and natural gas reserves in the northern part of the country. The oil is an important source of energy in the country. As of 2013, the country had an estimated 124 million barrels of oil in the reserves. Researchers claim that more unexplored oil deposits exist in the country. Cuba has three oil fields which produce about 80,000 barrels of oil daily. The oil produced in Cuba meets half of the oil demand in the country. The Caribbean country has partnered with international companies from Australia, China, Brazil, Norway, India, Venezuela, and Canada in exploring its vast oil reserves. Besides providing energy to Cuba, the oil industry employs many Cuban nationals and generates income for the country. The natural gas extracted in Cuba is used to power machines in the nickel and cobalt industries. Natural gas is a good source of energy as it is clean and safe to use. Cuba\u2019s natural gas production is estimated at 305 million gallons every year.\n\n**Arable Land**\n\nCuba has a large size of arable land, and it is estimated that 33% of land in Cuba is used for farming. The country experiences tropical climate which supports agricultural activities in Cuba. Since the mid-20th century, all land was owned by the government. Therefore, the government managed all agricultural ventures in Cuba. In the past decade, the constitution was amended to allow for private ownership of land. Cuba practices large-scale farming and applies modern farming techniques on most of its land. Sugarcane has been Cuba\u2019s main cash crop since the start of the 18th century. It is grown in the expansive low plains in the country. Tobacco is the country\u2019s second largest export crop. Cuban sugar and tobacco are exported to Europe, South America, and Asia. The crops are also used in the country\u2019s manufacturing sector. Other crops commonly grown in the country are bananas, citrus fruits, corn, vegetables, potatoes, rice, and cotton. The country also has a big livestock sector where animals like cattle, poultry, and pigs are reared. Close to 15% of the Cuban workforce is engaged in the agricultural sector. The industry contributes 10% of the country\u2019s national income.\n\n**Forests**\n\nCuba was once covered with forest, but currently, only 16% of the land is covered with forests. Cuba has an active forestry industry supported by the country\u2019s natural forests. The forests have old hardwood trees such as pines, mahogany, ebony, and ciders. The forests are a source of beauty to the island nation of Cuba. Additionally, the trees are used to supply timber to furniture shops, construction sites and paper factories in Cuba.\n\n**Incredible Landscapes and Biodiversity**\n\nThe islands of Cuba have beautiful and diverse landscapes. The terrain is comprised of rugged jungles, mountain ranges, low plains, forests, grasslands, coastal areas, and arid areas. These varied landscapes have different ecosystems. As a result, Cuba is home to some of the most diverse plants and animals. The country host rare animal species like the bee-humming bird which is the world\u2019s tiniest bird. Cuba also has some unique plants. The stunning landscapes and diverse wildlife bring numerous tourists to Cuba. Tourism is a major industry in Cuba that receives more than 2 million visitors annually. Therefore, the country\u2019s beautiful landscapes bring income to the nation through tourism.\n\n**Impact of Cuba\u2019s Natural Resources**\n\nCuba heavily depends on its natural resources to run its economy. Different government agencies exist to manage the country\u2019s natural resources. The income earned from these resources is redistributed to the citizens through subsidies and other government services. Mineral resources from Cuba such as nickel and cobalt suffer price fluctuations in the international market. As a result, economic performance in Cuba is largely determined by the international price of its export goods. The country\u2019s economy suffered significantly after the United States stopped trading with Cuba in the mid-20th century. Before the ban on trade, the United States had been a major trade partner with Cuba where Cuba sold most of its export items." + }, + { + "title": "\u2018He will be missed\u2019: Juan Cuba resigns as Miami-Dade Democratic Party chair - Florida Politics", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "\u2018He will be missed\u2019: Juan Cuba resigns as Miami-Dade Democratic Party chair - Florida Politics" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiuAFBVV95cUxPTGQ0LWNtODZqS1ozOUN6Z0laYWgyaXZwUmZRSWJGNlZhYk1sWWhtSkNUOHkwX1hidkc1TV9oaGQydDJEQXUwUVdBRTBYQXl3ZkdReHlXNnJzblhUcTVZdmQxUEtZaXM1WVFxY1dwWmxXSERrQTlxeXNiT3FTMGxyR2xXYW1UZjRtZ1pjakxCcUhnZTUyVzZCZXdFdlVNZDZtckJEOWIxQTlkOE1sc1IxeWZaQzNncXlQ?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://floridapolitics.com/archives/286777-he-will-be-missed-juan-cuba-resigns-as-miami-dade-democratic-party-chair/", + "id": "CBMiuAFBVV95cUxPTGQ0LWNtODZqS1ozOUN6Z0laYWgyaXZwUmZRSWJGNlZhYk1sWWhtSkNUOHkwX1hidkc1TV9oaGQydDJEQXUwUVdBRTBYQXl3ZkdReHlXNnJzblhUcTVZdmQxUEtZaXM1WVFxY1dwWmxXSERrQTlxeXNiT3FTMGxyR2xXYW1UZjRtZ1pjakxCcUhnZTUyVzZCZXdFdlVNZDZtckJEOWIxQTlkOE1sc1IxeWZaQzNncXlQ", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Tue, 29 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 29, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 1, + 29, + 0 + ], + "summary": "\u2018He will be missed\u2019: Juan Cuba resigns as Miami-Dade Democratic Party chair  Florida Politics", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "\u2018He will be missed\u2019: Juan Cuba resigns as Miami-Dade Democratic Party chair  Florida Politics" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://floridapolitics.com", + "title": "Florida Politics" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: 'He will be missed': Juan Cuba resigns as Miami-Dade Democratic Party chair\nauthor: Ryan Nicol\nurl: https://floridapolitics.com/archives/286777-he-will-be-missed-juan-cuba-resigns-as-miami-dade-democratic-party-chair/\nhostname: floridapolitics.com\ndescription: Cuba cited personal reasons for the decision.\nsitename: Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.\ndate: 2019-01-29\ncategories: ['South Florida']\n---\n**Miami-Dade Democratic Party** Chair **Juan Cuba** says personal reasons are behind his decision to step down after more than two years of leading local Democrats.\n\n\u201cI will remain involved in our local and state politics,\u201d Cuba said in a statement on his resignation. \u201cIt\u2019s simply time to prioritize my family, friends, and professional career without the burden of party leadership. It\u2019s also time to give someone else an opportunity to lead.\u201d\n\nCuba was elected as party chairman in late 2016 after serving as its executive director.\n\nDemocrats in the area were able to flip several seats during Cuba\u2019s tenure. U.S. Reps. **Debbie Mucarsel-Powell** and **Donna Shalala**, state Reps. **Javier Fernandez** and **Cindy Polo**, and state Sen. **Annette Taddeo** all grabbed seats previously held by the GOP.\n\nTaddeo, who previously served as chair of the Miami-Dade Democrats, also released a statement on Cuba\u2019s departure.\n\n\u201cAs a past chair, I know the challenges this role entails, and Juan has successfully worked with our community to elect Democrats up and down the ballot, and has taken the local party to the next level,\u201d Taddeo said. \u201cHe will be missed.\u201d\n\nThe party under Cuba was also successful at the local scene, with **Eileen Higgins** **scoring a surprise win** to sit on the **Miami-Dade County Commission**. Higgins argued Cuba\u2019s leadership was integral to her victory.\n\n\u201cJuan\u2019s leadership transformed the local party into one that is mobilized 365 days a year rather than just during presidential elections,\u201d Higgins said.\n\nCuba also was not afraid of controversy.\n\nHe **directly challenged plans** by the **Democratic National Committee** (DNC) to **hold its 2020 convention inside Miami-Dade**. **Cuba cited cooperation** between Mayor **Carlos Gimenez** and **U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement** to detain suspected undocumented immigrants.\n\nCuba argued the county should change its policy or be denied the hosting gig, though Miami remains one of the finalist cities for the convention. A decision by the DNC on the 2020 host is expected early this year.\n\nWith Cuba\u2019s resignation, First Vice Chair **Maria Elena Lopez** will lead the party as acting chair. An election to find Cuba\u2019s permanent replacement will be held at the Miami-Dade Democrats\u2019 next meeting on Feb. 18 in Doral.\n\n\u201cIn the last two years, we have won three special elections, taken back two congressional seats, and have done a tremendous amount of infrastructure building, leadership development, and issue work,\u201d Cuba said of his tenure.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s been an honor and a privilege to serve as the Chair of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party.\u201d" + }, + { + "title": "Ex-Cuban VP, Bay of Pigs Commander, Dies At 95 - VOA - Voice of America English News", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Ex-Cuban VP, Bay of Pigs Commander, Dies At 95 - VOA - Voice of America English News" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiiwFBVV95cUxNeU5LaFNTV0NUQlBmUVM3X2pacDd4TW5GcmhJYkZDZ093X2NveEhDZzQ5SFJBNV9sMUVjX0ZsSHgwSjVGTlh4dlpKMW9PdWU1TzMycDQtbXIwNldIWmMzYnJPcnpKcEp2a0ZuN0JIWnFKazZ6SUxPdmtfR0NNRFpGNlNUanluZkdweDBF0gGOAUFVX3lxTE0zZEFET1ZrR1o3aVBJYl8wQnVBN1NMY1FqSDBpQktLd1Fvb2ZaYldTLVpYS3lzaS1teHd5WHlJQ2VQSUc0YWRPZDJuaU9yVDNfQ3lqTVhGMS12QXlkODdCOHlWamJ5emRkRnNJWjNyeEtPOEg5UVg1d0hxMG9fMF83MmN3RkhqZ0NtOGtXZEE?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.voanews.com/a/ex-cuban-vice-president-fernandez-dies-at-95/4731513.html", + "id": "CBMiiwFBVV95cUxNeU5LaFNTV0NUQlBmUVM3X2pacDd4TW5GcmhJYkZDZ093X2NveEhDZzQ5SFJBNV9sMUVjX0ZsSHgwSjVGTlh4dlpKMW9PdWU1TzMycDQtbXIwNldIWmMzYnJPcnpKcEp2a0ZuN0JIWnFKazZ6SUxPdmtfR0NNRFpGNlNUanluZkdweDBF0gGOAUFVX3lxTE0zZEFET1ZrR1o3aVBJYl8wQnVBN1NMY1FqSDBpQktLd1Fvb2ZaYldTLVpYS3lzaS1teHd5WHlJQ2VQSUc0YWRPZDJuaU9yVDNfQ3lqTVhGMS12QXlkODdCOHlWamJ5emRkRnNJWjNyeEtPOEg5UVg1d0hxMG9fMF83MmN3RkhqZ0NtOGtXZEE", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Sun, 06 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 6, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 6, + 6, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Ex-Cuban VP, Bay of Pigs Commander, Dies At 95  VOA - Voice of America English News", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Ex-Cuban VP, Bay of Pigs Commander, Dies At 95  VOA - Voice of America English News" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.voanews.com", + "title": "VOA - Voice of America English News" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Ex-Cuban VP, Bay of Pigs Commander, Dies At 95\nauthor: Associated Press\nurl: https://www.voanews.com/a/ex-cuban-vice-president-fernandez-dies-at-95/4731513.html\nhostname: voanews.com\ndescription: In famed Cold War battle, Jose Ramon Fernandez, helped command Cuba's nascent militia forces in their victory over invading exile forces\nsitename: Voice of America (VOA News)\ndate: 2019-01-07\ncategories: ['Americas']\ntags: ['Americas']\n---\nJose Ramon Fernandez, a retired Cuban brigadier general who was key in forming the communist country's new army and commanded Cuban defenses at the Bay of Pigs, died on Sunday, state media reported. He was 95.\n\nTall and spindly with the rigid posture of a military man, Fernandez in his final years remained a legendary figure and served for a time as a vice president on Cuba's Council of Ministers, or Cabinet. A founding member of the Communist Party of Cuba, he was reelected to the party's ruling Central Committee in 2011 \u2014 at the age of 87.\n\nFernandez ran a cadet school that trained officers after the revolutionary triumph of Jan. 1, 1959, laying the foundation of the communist country's new army.\n\nHe also played a leading role in one of the great battles of the Cold War, helping command Cuba's nascent militia forces in their victory over invading exile forces at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961.\n\nCuba won the Bay of Pigs battle because of \u201cthe firmness and decision of this people, not because of a professional army,\u201d Fernandez told The Associated Press in an April 2001 interview. Fernandez made fewer and fewer public appearances as the years went by.\n\nHe also was president of the Cuban Olympic Committee since 1997, helping organize his country's delegations to the 2004 summer games in Athens and the 2008 games in China.\n\nFernandez, nicknamed \u201cEl Gallego\u201d - \u201cThe Galician\u201d - for his Spanish parentage, was born in the eastern Cuban city of Santiago on Nov. 4, 1923.\n\nHe got a college degree in the social sciences before opting for a military career. He graduated from Cuba's School of Cadets in 1947 and went on to study artillery at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.\n\nIn the mid-1950s, he joined the \u201cMovement of the Pure,\u201d a group of young military officers determined to clean up corruption in the government of dictator Fulgencio Batista, who seized power in a coup.\n\nFernandez was arrested for his activities in 1956 and imprisoned on the Isle of Pines, later renamed the Isle of Youth, off the main island's southwestern coast. He remained behind bars until the revolution triumphed three years later.\n\nOn Jan. 12, 1959, less than two weeks after Batista fled the country, revolutionary leader Fidel Castro called Fernandez to a gathering of more than 100 former government officials imprisoned for opposition to the old regime.\n\nCastro \u201casked me what I would like\u201d in his new government, Fernandez recalled.\n\nAlthough Fernandez already had found a job at a sugar production plant, Castro asked him to run a new cadet school. However, Castro said he could not match the salary of 1,100 Cuban pesos a month \u2014 then worth US$1,100 \u2014 that the sugar plant was paying.\n\nFernandez didn't know what to say.\n\n\u201cYou are right,\u201d Fernandez recalled Castro as saying. \u201cI'll go write a book about the Sierra Maestra, you go to the sugar plant, and the revolution can go to hell.\u201d\n\n\u201cFidel could be very persuasive, sometimes very rock-like,\u201d Fernandez said. \u201cI thought about it for five seconds, and two hours later I was at the school for cadets.\u201d\n\nTwo years later, with 1,900 troops under his command at the school, Fernandez received an urgent call from Castro: enemy troops had entered the Bay of Pigs off Cuba's southern coast.\n\nFernandez commanded militia troops in the battle against about 1,500 Cuban exiles trained and armed by the CIA with the aim of overthrowing the new government.\n\nWashington worried that Castro's leftist government would help the Soviet Union establish a beachhead just 145 kilometers (90 miles) from American shores.\n\nThree days later, on April 19, Fernandez arrived at Playa Giron on the bay and Cuba declared victory. Fernandez remained with the army and assumed the post of vice defense minister in 1966.\n\nHe later traded in his uniform for civilian clothes and worked in the Education Ministry from 1970-90." + }, + { + "title": "Juan Cuba: Stepping Down as Chair of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party - Miami-Dade Democratic Party", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Juan Cuba: Stepping Down as Chair of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party - Miami-Dade Democratic Party" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMie0FVX3lxTE5fUE04YVpmMk83Y1ZOaEVqWXVqN0ZGZDR2d0tfRnQ2MkVIVmFWUHNJdmRLYWd0ZS1uRGY2dmRoOVBIb3BwUzlWclRhU3ZxRW9mb3hVc2FuN0c3TkpyNlNKb2YwZVRyNlZySmpOeGVmeFhGVUZjbDNSdTM1WQ?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.miamidadedems.org/juan_cuba_steps_down_miami_dade_democrats", + "id": "CBMie0FVX3lxTE5fUE04YVpmMk83Y1ZOaEVqWXVqN0ZGZDR2d0tfRnQ2MkVIVmFWUHNJdmRLYWd0ZS1uRGY2dmRoOVBIb3BwUzlWclRhU3ZxRW9mb3hVc2FuN0c3TkpyNlNKb2YwZVRyNlZySmpOeGVmeFhGVUZjbDNSdTM1WQ", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Tue, 29 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 29, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 1, + 29, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Juan Cuba: Stepping Down as Chair of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party  Miami-Dade Democratic Party", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Juan Cuba: Stepping Down as Chair of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party  Miami-Dade Democratic Party" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.miamidadedems.org", + "title": "Miami-Dade Democratic Party" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 403, + "response": "Error: HTTP 403" + }, + { + "title": "Strongest tornado in 8 decades hits Cuba; 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Happily those days are over, and the current secretary-general, Luis Almagro, a former foreign minister of Uruguay, [\u2026]\nsitename: Council on Foreign Relations\ndate: 2019-01-09\n---\n# The OAS Secretary General Tells the Whole Truth About the Cuban Regime\n\nFor many years the Organization of American States was a dictators\u2018 club, where the rule was \u201cyou don\u2019t criticize my human rights abuses and I won\u2019t criticize yours.\u201d And the secretaries-general of the organization went along with this.\n\nHappily those days are over, and the current secretary-general, Luis Almagro, a former foreign minister of Uruguay, has been a stalwart defender of human rights. At the beginning of this year he delivered a superb speech exposing the dictatorship in Cuba, and it is available on YouTube (in Spanish). Almagro pulled no punches; he told the brutal truth about the \u201cCuban revolution.\u201d I\u2019ve tried my hand at translating his speech, and with apologies to Sr. Almagro for any errors, here it is:\n\nThe dictatorship present in Cuba is probably the most perfect example of the mythology of misery and human rights violations. That the people of Cuba regain sovereignty is fundamental in a continent that should definitely not host dictatorships, crimes against humanity, or unsustainable social conditions for its people. The end of the dictatorship implies that the process of the revolution that introduced an unsuccessful system must give way to new opportunities for people to enjoy their rights, must give way so that people can be free, without total control of public and private life by a totalitarian and corrupt state.\n\nThe Cuban dictatorship has failed in access to rights and equity, its productive system has failed, its financial management has failed, its management of the economy has failed and the only way to melt away its social deficiencies is to push its people into exile; it is a system that is incapable of giving dignified and honest work to its people, that is unable to open its youth to enterprise, unable to generate a competitive productive system and unable to achieve solutions for the simplest financial issues such as the operation of a real exchange rate.\n\nThe Castro revolution has survived on the basis of its parasitism, first of the Soviet Union and second of Venezuela. It is an extreme parasitism because even after having, for example, killed the Bolivarian revolution they continue to feed off it for their benefit. It is the fundamental concept of the prostituted revolution, to live on what they take from others even in the most sordid way, even providing the most infamous services such as suppression, conducting repressive internal intelligence activities or torture\n\n.It is essential that the dictatorship fall because that is the only way to end impunity in terms of corruption, violations of human rights and crimes against humanity on the island. It is the only way to demonstrate their lies and the facade they try to present to the world, such as the past fraudulent elections, or the illegitimate constitutional referendum, whose results will be illegitimate, without guarantees of political and civil rights.\n\nIt is necessary to end a revolution that cost the lives of tens of thousands of people shot. Executed for having a different political opinion. The Castro revolution in its six decades has never allowed Cuban men and women to think, choose, and decide freely. The most basic individual freedom is nonexistent on the island.\n\nIt is a system that maintains its internal repression even against the most peaceful and pacifist movements of all, the Ladies in White; through punishment and imprisonment of opponents, from political intimidation through threats and torture. It is a regime that does not admit to being judged and does not admit the least scrutiny by its own people, because to silence dissident voices is the way to sustain the impunity of dictators. Dictatorships contaminate, they\n\ncontaminate democratic political systems with authoritarian practices in politicians, political parties, pressure groups and unions. They pollute with corruption, pushing the spurious financial logic of campaigns and parties to an extreme. It was the first dictatorship in the continent that involved itself in drug trafficking and organized crime\u2014you will remember the execution of General Ochoa, [whether he is] a martyr of the revolution or a champion of Castro\u2019s drug trafficking.The legacy of this dictatorship is disastrous. It leaves us thousands of drowned and disappeared in the sea, the Marielitos, and also leaves us several failed revolutionary attempts in all of Latin America with a very high cost of deaths, human rights violations, and suffering of the people.\n\nIts great legacy is people dying in the sea. Its legacy is the executions, the victims of torture, extrajudicial killings and arbitrary detentions in the American continent, the distribution of misery, the absolute lack of freedoms and fundamental guarantees.\n\nWe don\u2019t want any of this. We don\u2019t wish any of it on the Cuban people. We wish that they can finally be a democracy, that every Cuban has the possibility of dignified work, that every Cuban can enjoy his fundamental rights no matter what he thinks politically, that every Cuban can hope and decide for a better life without the interference of a totalitarian state in his way.\n\nThe Cuban people lived the hope of change. Their revolution, the comandantes\n\ndid not do it, all Cubans did, it was done by everyone and not just a few.The true sovereign, the Cuban people, never chose that destiny. The true sovereign, the people who seek to survive day by day with the little they receive, who preserve their dignity despite so many years of deception and deprivation of their civil and political rights, did not choose to replace one dictatorship with another.\n\nThat sovereign deserves to recover and never lose again its right to vote and to be elected, to express themselves freely and without fear of repression, to be truly free, to make their individual revolution every day without resigning themselves to what is provided to them. They do not deserve to continue subordinating their future to the decision of the privileged, who stopped a long time ago fighting for the interests of their people.\n\nThe Cuban people, the sovereign, deserve the opportunity to choose their destiny, to exercise their right to democracy. That is too great to continue being subjugated to oppression." + }, + { + "title": "Exclusive: Cuba failed to report thousands of Zika virus cases in 2017 - New Scientist", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Exclusive: Cuba failed to report thousands of Zika virus cases in 2017 - New Scientist" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMitgFBVV95cUxObWVGVHBxeVJWZ3pxcUl2WWo5Tnh6V3pPYnItOTVhVmpzSWtVVUtydU92RzBxLThqMzcwNEQtQmk5NVZQcWhCUFpuM3MtX0loVm9nOEVrWnhXYzdNbHNwZE5FbUNGMmJjYnljX0xjRVhqTVpQeFQ1emJKRDVFSkFseFNfRHdDSlJ4cE16UmhGQmM3TGR2MV9Xb29ZQ3I5dW84SXlOQzhIT0I1Rk5oQjV4bk5pRnBzZw?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.newscientist.com/article/2190001-exclusive-cuba-failed-to-report-thousands-of-zika-virus-cases-in-2017/", + "id": "CBMitgFBVV95cUxObWVGVHBxeVJWZ3pxcUl2WWo5Tnh6V3pPYnItOTVhVmpzSWtVVUtydU92RzBxLThqMzcwNEQtQmk5NVZQcWhCUFpuM3MtX0loVm9nOEVrWnhXYzdNbHNwZE5FbUNGMmJjYnljX0xjRVhqTVpQeFQ1emJKRDVFSkFseFNfRHdDSlJ4cE16UmhGQmM3TGR2MV9Xb29ZQ3I5dW84SXlOQzhIT0I1Rk5oQjV4bk5pRnBzZw", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Tue, 08 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 8, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 1, + 8, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Exclusive: Cuba failed to report thousands of Zika virus cases in 2017  New Scientist", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Exclusive: Cuba failed to report thousands of Zika virus cases in 2017  New Scientist" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.newscientist.com", + "title": "New Scientist" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Exclusive: Cuba failed to report thousands of Zika virus cases in 2017\nauthor: Author Fullname; Chris Baraniuk\nurl: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2190001-exclusive-cuba-failed-to-report-thousands-of-zika-virus-cases-in-2017/\nhostname: newscientist.com\ndescription: Cuba fumigated to prevent the spread of Zika in 2016 THOUSANDS of Zika virus cases went unreported in Cuba in 2017, according to an analysis of data on travellers to the Caribbean island. Veiling them may have led to many other cases that year. The analysis suggests that Zika infections peaked in Cuba in the second half \u2026\nsitename: New Scientist\ndate: 2019-01-08\ncategories: ['News']\ntags: ['viruses,Zika virus,zika,cuba,virus']\n---\nTHOUSANDS of Zika virus cases went unreported in Cuba in 2017, according to an analysis of data on travellers to the Caribbean island. Veiling them may have led to many other cases that year.\n\nThe analysis suggests that Zika infections peaked in Cuba in the second half of 2017, at a time when the virus was waning in mainland North and South America. Cuban authorities didn\u2019t follow the agreed practice of notifying the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) of the outbreak.\n\nCuba\u2019s first case of Zika occurred in March 2016. A PAHO report says the country stopped providing updates on Zika in January 2017. In press reports in May 2017, Cuba said that nearly 1900 infections had been detected up to that point. But Nathan Grubaugh at the Yale School of Public Health and his colleagues estimate that the total cases in 2017 alone would have been more than double that at 5700.\n\nAdvertisement\n\n\u201cOur results therefore suggest that the 2017 Zika outbreak in Cuba was similar in size to the known 2016 outbreaks in countries with similar population sizes,\u201d the authors write. They declined to comment on the work because it is under review for publication in a journal.\n\nThe team looked at the travel logs of 184 people who had contracted Zika while abroad and found that 95 per cent had been to Cuba. Such \u201chidden\u201d outbreaks can spread epidemics to other countries because travellers and health authorities are unaware of the heightened risk of infection, the authors write (bioRxiv, doi.org/czdk).\n\nThe team also sequenced the genomes of Zika viruses retrieved from nine Floridians who travelled to Cuba. This showed that the infection was distinct from Zika infections that occurred in Florida. The travel cases revealed that the strains active in Cuba at the time were related to ones previously detected in other Latin American countries.\n\nThe team\u2019s research suggests that the Cuban outbreak seems to have been caused by travellers from nearby countries bringing it in during 2016. It then persisted at low levels, before peaking late the following year.\n\nThis is an important discovery, says Duane Gubler at the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. He says Cuba has a history of not reporting epidemics until they become obvious, and Zika is only mildly symptomatic in adults.\n\n\u201cOne of the problems we have is that islands that depend on tourism are not forthcoming in immediate reporting,\u201d he says.\n\nCuba\u2019s Public Health Ministry hadn\u2019t responded to requests for comment by the time this article went to press.\n\nMore visible consequences of the outbreak would be appearing now, says Peter Hotez at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas. \u201cIt should be possible to detect a blip or increase in birth defects starting around now,\u201d he says. A fetus exposed to Zika during pregnancy risks being born with an abnormally small head, a condition known as microcephaly.\n\nElizabeth Brickley at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine says work like this could help fill in gaps in the global disease surveillance system. However, it will still be vital to confirm findings with research on the ground, she says.\n\nTopics:" + }, + { + "title": "\u2018It Was Like a Turbine\u2019: Havana Residents React to Deadly Tornado - The New York Times", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "\u2018It Was Like a Turbine\u2019: Havana Residents React to Deadly Tornado - The New York Times" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMijgFBVV95cUxQallyU0hORTZSREdtYjdaT1hSTHJoTnVrMzVzVk1hVnkzbEhnZG83T2lyU0lodWFuSElURVJxWHlocEY2c3JybXFWR2tXRHdLV3c1cFRzMVotb3VVMXJqOXMtOU9ibnI0cWNjdDQyWHFuRWgwVFB5VTdNc2pSeGRpWUlVcUQ1d0J4SzRRWWl3?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/americas/100000006329632/havana-cuba-tornado.html", + "id": "CBMijgFBVV95cUxQallyU0hORTZSREdtYjdaT1hSTHJoTnVrMzVzVk1hVnkzbEhnZG83T2lyU0lodWFuSElURVJxWHlocEY2c3JybXFWR2tXRHdLV3c1cFRzMVotb3VVMXJqOXMtOU9ibnI0cWNjdDQyWHFuRWgwVFB5VTdNc2pSeGRpWUlVcUQ1d0J4SzRRWWl3", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 28, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 0, + 28, + 0 + ], + "summary": "\u2018It Was Like a Turbine\u2019: Havana Residents React to Deadly Tornado  The New York Times", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "\u2018It Was Like a Turbine\u2019: Havana Residents React to Deadly Tornado  The New York Times" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.nytimes.com", + "title": "The New York Times" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Video: \u2018It Was Like a Turbine\u2019: Havana Residents React to Deadly Tornado\nurl: https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/americas/100000006329632/havana-cuba-tornado.html\nhostname: nytimes.com\ndescription: \u201cIt took everything,\u201d one Havana resident said after a tornado hit Cuba\u2019s capital. Another described cars tumbling down streets and roofs falling off buildings.\nsitename: The New York Times\ndate: 2019-01-28\ncategories: ['World']\ntags: ['Havana (Cuba)', 'Fatalities;casualties,Tornado,Havana']\n---\nnew video loaded: \u2018It Was Like a Turbine\u2019: Havana Residents React to Deadly Tornado\n\n# \u2018It Was Like a Turbine\u2019: Havana Residents React to Deadly Tornado\n\n\u201cIt took everything,\u201d one Havana resident said after a tornado hit Cuba\u2019s capital. Another described cars tumbling down streets and roofs falling off buildings.By Reuters\n\nJanuary 28, 2019\n\n# Watch Today\u2019s Videos\n\n## More in Natural Disasters \u203a\n\n### Southern Plains Braces for More Wildfires While Battling Old Ones\n\n1:01\n\n### Heavy Snowfall in Japan Kills Dozens\n\n1:06\n\n### Landslide in Sicily Leaves Homes Teetering on Edge\n\n1:11\n\n### Why Have So Few Homes Been Rebuilt After the L.A. 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The first thing I did was go hug my daughters,\" who are 9 and 12, he told The Associated Press.\n\nDriver Oster Rodriguez said that amid a fierce storm, what looked like a thick, swirling cloud touched down in the central plaza of the Reparto Modelo neighborhood \"like a fireball.\" He saw a bus blown over, though he said the driver escaped unharmed.\n\nThe windows in the seven-story Daughters of Galicia Hospital had been sucked out of their frames by the wind, leaving curtains flapping in the breeze, and all the patients, new and expectant mothers, had to be evacuated. In the streets, a palm tree more than 30 feet tall had crushed a pre-revolutionary American car.\n\nPhotos posted on Twitter by Havana residents showed cars crushed by fallen light posts and cars trapped in floodwaters around the city. The neighborhoods of Regla and 10 de Octubre and the town of San Miguel de Padron had been affected by the tornado.\n\nLeanys Calvo, a restaurant cook in the 10th of October borough, said she was working Sunday night despite heavy rain and wind when she heard a rumbling noise outside and looked out to see what appeared to be a tornado touching down.\n\n\"It was something that touched down, and then took off again. It was like a tower,\" she said, describing it as displaying colors of red and green. \"It was here for two-three seconds, nothing more. They were the most frightening seconds of my life.\"" + }, + { + "title": "Deadly tornado tears through Cuba - DW.com", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Deadly tornado tears through Cuba - DW.com" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMidEFVX3lxTE5tVk01Tm9rNWEwYzM2MEJZaHBucmQ0UnJtYUtVWVhPN0hIaXROYnl6S0JDejdaam9hYTBudFBRUV84QjRxQjZLZGhmdTNJSlZrTzA5Y0dxOUZxYXRKTlp3dmdrR3dVN3pfb1o3bG1oVTZ0ODBE0gF0QVVfeXFMUE53RG1lc2lmdVF3YzMtcHNkRUpqbEs0WmZIY09NdlhKb21Cd2NqWHVOeVpJQ1AtSkljblRyeVJFNFFMZE04X0RBX2R0amxQQkRVNkEySldYUWdxTWV5RTQ1U2U3UFFXT2Q5LXJPMXJ0OXZrcXc?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.dw.com/en/deadly-tornado-tears-through-cuba/a-47261363", + "id": "CBMidEFVX3lxTE5tVk01Tm9rNWEwYzM2MEJZaHBucmQ0UnJtYUtVWVhPN0hIaXROYnl6S0JDejdaam9hYTBudFBRUV84QjRxQjZLZGhmdTNJSlZrTzA5Y0dxOUZxYXRKTlp3dmdrR3dVN3pfb1o3bG1oVTZ0ODBE0gF0QVVfeXFMUE53RG1lc2lmdVF3YzMtcHNkRUpqbEs0WmZIY09NdlhKb21Cd2NqWHVOeVpJQ1AtSkljblRyeVJFNFFMZE04X0RBX2R0amxQQkRVNkEySldYUWdxTWV5RTQ1U2U3UFFXT2Q5LXJPMXJ0OXZrcXc", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 28, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 0, + 28, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Deadly tornado tears through Cuba  DW.com", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Deadly tornado tears through Cuba  DW.com" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.dw.com", + "title": "DW.com" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Deadly tornado tears through Cuba\nurl: https://www.dw.com/en/deadly-tornado-tears-through-cuba/a-47261363\nhostname: dw.com\ndescription: Three people have been killed and 172 injured after a tornado struck the capital Havana. Although the extent of the damage is not yet known, the Cuban president has described it as \"severe.\"\nsitename: Deutsche Welle\ndate: 2019-01-28\n---\n# Deadly tornado tears through Cuba\n\nJanuary 28, 2019At least three people have been killed and 172 injured after a tornado swept the Cuban capital of Havana Sunday night.\n\nAlthough the extent of damage is not yet known, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has described it as \"severe.\" He toured the city in the aftermath of the disaster with emergency crews and took to Twitter to share pictures of overturned vehicles and rescue teams at work.\n\n\"As of now we mourn the loss of three human lives and 172 injured people are receiving aid,\" Diaz-Canel wrote.\n\nThe tornado struck western Cuba with winds of up to 100 kilometers (60 miles) per hour. AFP photographers reported seeing parts of a balcony torn off an old building.\n\nAccording to one Havana resident, \"a large part of Havana is without electricity. The hospitals are saturated.\" Photos show cars missing panels, hollowed out buildings and debris littered throughout the streets.\n\nRescue efforts are underway, and teams are working to restore power to blacked-out areas.\n\nnn/ng (AFP, dpa)" + }, + { + "title": "\u2018What does Cuba teach? That revolution is possible\u2019 - The Militant", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "\u2018What does Cuba teach? 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Well, not just celebrating it but joining in on the fun and suggesting that Cuba build on this record to raise its global stature. The piece, by Che Guevara biographer Jon Lee Anderson reaches its apogee with this paragraph:\n\nAt a time when the United States can no longer lay claim to being the democratic bastion it once was, Cuba has an opportunity to compete, albeit on a much smaller scale. In much of the world, and for all its faults, Cuba is respected for its pluck in standing up to the American behemoth over the last half-century. Cuba is also beloved and admired for its international medical assistance program, for its prowess in music and dance, in art and in athletics. But such achievements are not enough to keep the island going.\n\nAh, yes, Cuba\u2019s \u201cachievements\u201d: salsa, mambo, and Soviet-sponsored destabilization. Amazingly, those alone aren\u2019t enough to ensure Cuba\u2019s future. Anderson suggests that Cuba\u2019s leaders \u201cavoid taking sides in a newly polarized world.\u201d\n\nAnderson makes a series of unconvincing claims about the Cuban regime\u2019s post-Castro evolution toward democracy. Next month, Cubans will vote on a new constitution (that \u201cdescribes Cuba\u2019s ultimate political goal as \u2018advancing toward communism.\u2019\u201d) According to a new draft law, \u201cstate regulators will decide what property can be owned [by Cubans] case by case.\u201d The government will \u201cstep back aspects\u201d of a law censoring cultural performances. And 13 percent of the population\u2014according to Anderson\u2019s citing of Cuba\u2019s official Communist Party\u2014is now self-employed (although the government is trying to slow this down).\n\nWhat Anderson doesn\u2019t mention is that Cuban Ambassador to the UN, Pedro Luis Pedroso Cuesta, told the UN Human Rights Council in September that \u201cour country will not accept monitors,\u201d He added, \u201cAmnesty International will not enter Cuba, and we do not need their advice.\u201d In October, according to the *Miami Herald*\u2019s John Suarez, \u201cCuban diplomats led an \u2018act of repudiation\u2019 at the UN to prevent a discussion on political prisoners in Cuba,\u201d and Cuban artists continue to be arrested for protesting a dystopian law restricting artistic freedoms. In these and countless other ways, Cuba is still simply a brutal dictatorship that makes life hell for its prisoner-citizens.\n\nWe\u2019re all trolls now. From the president on down, we say things that are deliberately ugly and absurd to make political adversaries crazy. But Anderson\u2019s *New York Times* article isn\u2019t trolling. It\u2019s something worse\u2014sincere institutional praise for a morally reprehensible regime. It\u2019s an effort to establish Cuba as a morally sound player on the world stage, to boost its image while downgrading America\u2019s claim to global legitimacy.\n\nThere\u2019s an eager audience for this kind of thing on the American left. Any country that gives the U.S. a hard time, so the thinking goes, can\u2019t be all that bad. Never mind what its own citizens have to endure. The idea that the U.S. unnecessarily demonizes its antagonists was partly behind President Barack Obama\u2019s restoration of full diplomatic relations with Cuba in 2014. Since that decision, leftist liberals have been engaging in happy talk about Cuban progress. But the best hope for Cubans was and still is the end of the island\u2019s Communist regime. When revered American institutions push propaganda of this sort, that end can seem another 60 years off." + }, + { + "title": "Trolling for Communism - Commentary Magazine", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Trolling for Communism - Commentary Magazine" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiZkFVX3lxTE83RkxFckpkSHc0QmtFT245a3V3MnVhTVhnMURCY2hHbmxra1FiQnRZcFc1Vl95ODdRMEx3RUNNOHhIM2lSaVJEMTRLVjlvM3p2aWdJX01zenF6Nkp0SFN1ek1XYUd1Zw?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/tornado-hits-havana-cuban-president-says-3-dead-174-hurt/", + "id": "CBMiZkFVX3lxTE83RkxFckpkSHc0QmtFT245a3V3MnVhTVhnMURCY2hHbmxra1FiQnRZcFc1Vl95ODdRMEx3RUNNOHhIM2lSaVJEMTRLVjlvM3p2aWdJX01zenF6Nkp0SFN1ek1XYUd1Zw", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Fri, 11 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 11, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 4, + 11, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Trolling for Communism  Commentary Magazine", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Trolling for Communism  Commentary Magazine" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.commentary.org", + "title": "Commentary Magazine" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Strongest tornado in 8 decades hits Cuba; 3 dead, 172 hurt\nauthor: MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN\nurl: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/tornado-hits-havana-cuban-president-says-3-dead-174-hurt/\nhostname: seattletimes.com\ndescription: HAVANA (AP) \u2014 Neighborhood brigades and teams of government workers hacked at fallen trees and hauled chunks of concrete out of collapsed homes Monday as the Cuban capital attempted to recover from what officials called the strongest tornado to hit...\nsitename: The Seattle Times\ndate: 2019-01-28\n---\nHAVANA (AP) \u2014 Neighborhood brigades and teams of government workers hacked at fallen trees and hauled chunks of concrete out of collapsed homes Monday as the Cuban capital attempted to recover from what officials called the strongest tornado to hit Cuba in nearly 80 years.\n\nThree people were dead and hundreds injured, at least 12 in critical condition, after the tornado touched down with estimated winds of 200 mph (320 kph) in three neighborhoods across eastern Havana.\n\nMembers of the Provincial Defense Council of Havana said 90 homes collapsed completely and 30 suffered partial collapse.\n\nA quarter of the city\u2019s roughly 2 million people were without power Monday afternoon and more than 200,000 people had lost water service because of a broken main and power cuts that left pumps out of service. Some 100 underground cisterns close to the coastal section of Havana were contaminated by seawater.\n\n### Most Read Nation & World Stories\n\nThree electric substations were knocked out by the tornado, the strongest to hit Cuba since Dec. 26, 1940, when a Category F4 tornado hit the town of Bejucal, in what is now Mayabeque province, officials said. It also appeared to be the first tornado to hit the capital in at least as many years.\n\nResidents of the three relatively poor boroughs hit by the tornado were bracing for further calamity once the tropical sun started to dry sodden buildings, which can often lead to structures shifting and collapsing.\n\nJulio Menendez, a 33-year-old restaurant worker, said his neighborhood in Havana\u2019s 10 de Octubre district looked \u201clike a horror movie.\u201d\n\n\u201cFrom one moment to the next, we heard a noise like an airplane falling out of the sky. The first thing I did was go hug my daughters,\u201d who are 9 and 12, he told The Associated Press.\n\nDriver Oster Rodriguez said that amid a fierce storm, what looked like a thick, swirling cloud touched down in the central plaza of the Reparto Modelo neighborhood \u201clike a fireball.\u201d He saw a bus blown over, though he said the driver escaped unharmed.\n\nMiguel Angel Hernandez of the Cuban Center for Meteorology said the tornado was a Category F3, with winds between 155 and 199 miles per hour, produced when a cold front hit Cuba\u2019s northern coast. Other meteorologist told state media that the tornado may have been even stronger.\n\nSome of the heaviest damage from Sunday night\u2019s rare tornado was in the eastern borough of Guanabacoa, where the twister tore the roof off a shelter for dozens of homeless families.\n\nCubans enduring long waits for government housing often live in such multifamily shelters for years.\n\nDianabys Bueno, 31, was living in the shelter with her husband and son after they were forced to relocate by the collapse of their home in Central Havana. Much of the housing in Havana is in dire condition due to years without maintenance, and building collapses are routine even in ordinary storms.\n\n\u201cThis has already happened to us once,\u201d Bueno said. \u201cI\u2019m not going anywhere.\u201d\n\nAround Havana, cars were crushed by fallen light posts and vehicles were trapped in floodwaters.\n\nLeanys Calvo, a restaurant cook in the 10th de Octubre borough, said she was working Sunday night despite heavy rain and wind when she heard a rumbling noise outside and looked out to see what appeared to be a tornado touching down.\n\n\u201cIt was something that touched down, and then took off again. It was like a tower,\u201d she said, describing it as displaying colors of red and green. \u201cIt was here for two-three seconds, nothing more. They were the most frightening seconds of my life.\u201d\n\nThe tornado tore the concrete roof off an apartment building in the Regla section of Havana and dumped it into an alleyway, briefly trapping residents in their homes.\n\nMarlene Marrero Garcia, 77, said she was in her ground-floor apartment with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren Sunday night when she heard electrical transformers begin to explode. Then the tornado passed.\n\n\u201cIt looked like fire, everything was red, then everything began to fall,\u201d she said.\n\nMarrero said she and her family were trapped by debris for about half an hour before firefighters arrived.\n\n____\n\nMichael Weissenstein on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mweissenstein" + }, + { + "title": "Strongest tornado in 8 decades hits Cuba; 3 dead, 172 hurt - The Seattle Times", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Strongest tornado in 8 decades hits Cuba; 3 dead, 172 hurt - The Seattle Times" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiqgFBVV95cUxNcE5CYjA2R2FOSXdDdlBLcGpDQVFsSEJOMTVWdXBpWXBGY3NYaFdJWW9lYkp2b2wza1dKLXRjQjc0ZlFGSml3dVMyVkFTMGV5UmNIOHdqbmpsZHdRSVVpV3ptcHMwNUNGbFlJWlFNcjRmUGs4ZkNUVzRRUVJiZUc5LWZEdV9wN1JqLUxhWUZZWUNpUllvUFR4VWZFMFNKVGxVYU93c3dvakJ3QQ?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://havanatimes.org/interviews/recycling-in-cuba-as-a-means-of-survival/", + "id": "CBMiqgFBVV95cUxNcE5CYjA2R2FOSXdDdlBLcGpDQVFsSEJOMTVWdXBpWXBGY3NYaFdJWW9lYkp2b2wza1dKLXRjQjc0ZlFGSml3dVMyVkFTMGV5UmNIOHdqbmpsZHdRSVVpV3ptcHMwNUNGbFlJWlFNcjRmUGs4ZkNUVzRRUVJiZUc5LWZEdV9wN1JqLUxhWUZZWUNpUllvUFR4VWZFMFNKVGxVYU93c3dvakJ3QQ", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 28, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 0, + 28, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Strongest tornado in 8 decades hits Cuba; 3 dead, 172 hurt  The Seattle Times", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Strongest tornado in 8 decades hits Cuba; 3 dead, 172 hurt  The Seattle Times" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.seattletimes.com", + "title": "The Seattle Times" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Recycling in Cuba as a Means of Survival - Havana Times\nauthor: Circles Robinson\nurl: https://havanatimes.org/interviews/recycling-in-cuba-as-a-means-of-survival/\nhostname: havanatimes.org\ndescription: Finding value in something that has passed its expiry date and has no more wear and tear is part of the recycling process in Cuba. There are different mechanisms to ensure this: raw material collectors are one of them. Ernesto Rodriguez de la O (67 years old) forms part of this broad framework.\nsitename: Havana Times\ndate: 2019-01-19\ncategories: ['Interviews']\n---\n# Recycling in Cuba as a Means of Survival\n\n**By Ivett de las Mercedes**\n\nHAVANA TIMES \u2013 Finding value in something that has passed its expiry date and has no more wear and tear is part of the recycling process in Cuba. There are different mechanisms to ensure this: raw material collectors are one of them. Ernesto Rodriguez de la O (67 years old) forms part of this broad framework.\n\n**HT: How did you start collecting cans?**\n\n**Ernesto Rodriguez:** After retiring, I began to take it up more seriously, although I would collect them back when I worked at the garbage dump on 100th street.\n\n**HT: Ok, so tell me a little about your job at the dump first.**\n\n**ER:** We worked in shifts at the dump; there were four of us at mine. We would sort through everything that came in the trucks and then take it to the recycling plant. I don\u2019t know if it still exists, but I can assure you that it was really beneficial; it turned waste into organic fertilizer and biogas. That\u2019s exactly why I had to retire.\n\nWorking at the dump helped me learn what products were better paid. As my wages weren\u2019t very much, I used to sell already sorted raw materials to dumpster divers (collectors without a license). Of course, that\u2019s illegal and if the police catch someone with a bag of cans in the dump, you can expect a fine at the very least. We all know that this propogates diseases, but anything goes when you have to provide for a family.\n\nI now collect cans out on the street and sell them to the raw materials office and have some daily income. There\u2019s a \u201craw material collector\u201d license for this job, but I haven\u2019t got it. I only collect enough to get me by, not to pay taxes, if only I were because then I wouldn\u2019t be looking over my shoulder all the time and worrying about receiving a 1500 peso fine.\n\n**HT: Did your job at the dump make you sick?**\n\n**ER: **Yes, methane gas is everywhere. The tons of garbage that come in are thrown into a well-like hole, which is then covered with soil to stop the gas from reaching the atmosphere and contaminating the environment, or causing a fire if it reacts with oxygen. Nobody can imagine how long it would take for a fire in a dump to die out if that were to happen. 14 or 15 square meters of waste are deposited there every day. I started coughing a lot and having constant pulmonary emphysemas because I didn\u2019t wear a face mask.\n\n**HT: Did you carry on working even though you were sick?**\n\n**ER:** I had to carry on because if I didn\u2019t, I would have starved to death. I also worked as a guard at night. The manager let me stay in his office, so I wouldn\u2019t have to go home. I became a slave to my work, I didn\u2019t have a choice. Back then, several cases of lung cancer were reported, especially among people who lived near the dump, and I was diagnosed with tuberculosis soon after.\n\n**HT: Different materials such as cardboard, beer bottles, plastic bottles, can be recycled. Do you only collect cans?**\n\n**ER:** Yes, cans are easier to transport and weigh less. I live in the Arroyo Naranjo municipality and I collect cans in Miramar. I only collect cans that are outside of garbage bins and dumpsters, not because I look down on those who do this, but because of my respiratory problems. When I have a full bag, I go to the park on 3rd street to crush them with a rock, or with my foot, with whatever I can; I\u2019ll collect cans for as long as they exist.\n\n**HT: What do you do after that?**\n\n**ER:** I carefully put them into a bag so I can get in as many as I can, otherwise I\u2019d just take a few. When I get home, I put it down in a corner of my living room and when I have enough, I go to the recycling office.\n\n**HT: How much raw material do you need to collect in order to cover your basic needs?**\n\n**ER:** That\u2019s a little complicated. 3.5 kilograms are 24 pesos, 4.5 kilograms are 32 pesos. Just figure how much I have to collect to get by in a single day! Add to that, transport costs and the bags I need to buy to hand these recyclables over to the collection office.\n\n**HT: Do you know anything about what these recyclable materials are used for?**\n\n**ER:** Well, recycled paper and cardboard are used to make egg cartons and toilet paper. Rum and beer bottles are obviously used in factories again. Plastic bottles, computer and car parts are used to make pipes.\n\n**HT: What do you think about this work?**\n\n**ER:** When I was young, having a decent job was the most important thing. Collecting cans is the same as working in an office in my opinion. In fact, I would say it\u2019s much better because I\u2019m my own boss, I work when I want to and nobody tells me how to do my job. Plus, I\u2019m convinced that my work helps keep the city beautiful and clean. Where there\u2019s a lazy person, that\u2019s where I am. I can even boast about my battle against mosquitoes because a beer can that has been thrown out on the street for a few days will surely have a family of yellow fever mosquitoes living by it.\n\nSo glad to read how Sr. Rodriguez has such a passion of cleaning up and recycling at the sametime. He must know that it takes 100 years for a plastic bottle to breakdown and that metal and paper are very viable for recycling. Here in the USA we have our recyclyeables picked up once a week to prevent them from being taken to a landfill.\n\nmany years ago while a student at rideau high school in ottawa canada i,d collect empty pop bottles at the side of the highway it paid for gas for my old 1949 pontiac and a few 10 cent glasses of beer over at the Cave in Hull \u2013 the good old days.\n\nErnesto Rodriguez is godsend to Cuba and a hope for the future of all Cuba. He should be rewarded as such and an example for everyone. If the rest of the world can recycle then Cuba can do the same. If the embargo was lifted then Cuba would soon be buried in litter. Recycling is critical now\n\nThe problem of unneccesary litter in Cuba is my biggest disappointment of my visit. It is appalling and sickening. How a people can be proud and yet too lazy to clean up after themselves is incomprehensible. It should be a national priority. Recycling can benefit any society\u2019s economy, pride, health, and well being." + }, + { + "title": "Ringing in the New Year in Havana, Cuba - NoHo Arts District", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Ringing in the New Year in Havana, Cuba - NoHo Arts District" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMid0FVX3lxTFBkZF83SnU3QlRNSF9QQ1pBLU5ocGhXTFpjbWVZblhpX2VDWXZkcVByNUZZLWhMQ3A4UlFLVUZpSkRYdDRCMExoQnZMSENaeGQ3N3BkVEJQUDNzb3ZDT18tVWZkY2RMYW5ucXg0NEhYcV8xb2M4VWtr?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://nohoartsdistrict.com/ringing-in-the-new-year-in-havana-cuba/", + "id": "CBMid0FVX3lxTFBkZF83SnU3QlRNSF9QQ1pBLU5ocGhXTFpjbWVZblhpX2VDWXZkcVByNUZZLWhMQ3A4UlFLVUZpSkRYdDRCMExoQnZMSENaeGQ3N3BkVEJQUDNzb3ZDT18tVWZkY2RMYW5ucXg0NEhYcV8xb2M4VWtr", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Tue, 15 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 15, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 1, + 15, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Ringing in the New Year in Havana, Cuba  NoHo Arts District", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Ringing in the New Year in Havana, Cuba  NoHo Arts District" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://nohoartsdistrict.com", + "title": "NoHo Arts District" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Ringing in the New Year in Havana, Cuba\nauthor: Jack Witt\nurl: https://nohoartsdistrict.com/ringing-in-the-new-year-in-havana-cuba/\nhostname: nohoartsdistrict.com\ndescription: Our group travelled to Havana on December 30th on American Airlines to spend a few days of culturally enriching experiences with the locals and to ring in the New Year.\nsitename: NoHo Arts District - Theatre, Food, Bars, Shopping and a buzzing community.\ndate: 2019-01-15\ncategories: ['Active Journeys with Jack Witt!']\n---\nThis past January 1st marked the 60th anniversary of when Fidel Castro\u2019s revolutionary forces marched into Havana, Cuba to officially topple the then American backed President, Fulgencio Batista.\n\nUp until that point in time, Havana was considered the ultimate destination to ring in the New Year with its alluring tropical weather, exotic beaches, beloved rum and cigars, exciting casinos (run by the American mafia), and world-class cabarets and sex clubs. Over the decades the Casino\u2019s and sex clubs all were closed down, (so the mafia left and started the Las Vegas strip) and Havana fell into some disrepair. And while the rest of the world continued to visit Havana and the rest of Cuba from then on, the American tourist sector was practically non-existent due to the economic embargo and travel restrictions instituted in the early 1960s, and of which mostly continues today. In 2015, travel restrictions between the USA and Cuba were opened up more and American tourists started flocking back to Cuba in fairly large numbers. However, in 2018 relations soured again and some restrictions were put back in place on Americans visiting Cuba. (Although it\u2019s still fairly easy for Americans to visit Cuba on a legal group tour complying with all the changing rules and regulations like we did.)\n\nHavana today is a city more or less stuck in time, but it is bouncing back and making progress on the eve of its 500th anniversary. New hotels are popping up, historic buildings are getting facelifts and oh yes those classic American cars are still everywhere, creating a charming museum in motion. One thing Havana has never lost is her unique Afro-Cuban music, award-winning rum and cigars, beautiful beaches and her good-natured and hospitable people.\n\nOur group travelled to Havana on December 30th on American Airlines to spend a few days of culturally enriching experiences with the locals and to ring in the New Year.\n\nOur first stop was the incredible artist community of Fusterlandia where the entire neighborhood is made up of colorful, whimsical mosaics. It\u2019s a street-art-extravaganza. After a wonderful lunch there we went to a workshop in Havana where they educated us and showed us how they keep all of the classic American cars up and running. They say \u201cnecessity is the mother of all invention\u201d and indeed it\u2019s true in this case. With little resources to repair the cars, especially the engines, mechanics have to rely on hand-crafting pistons and other engine parts from scratch. Sometimes it can take up to six months to replace a part in one of the classic cars. Then they took us for a ride in a couple of swanky classic convertible cars on the Malecon, the seaside road in Havana. What a treat it was.\n\nNow it was time to experience Havana and its people is up close and personal. We did a walking tour around Old Havana \u2013 a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Founded in 1519, it retains an interesting mix of Baroque and neoclassical monuments, and a homogenous ensemble of private houses with arcades, balconies, wrought-iron gates and internal courtyards. It\u2019s a lively area where there always seems to be a mix of art, music and passion around every corner.\n\nWhile I typically don\u2019 t smoke cigars and I am more or less of a wine drinker; when in Havana, there\u2019s something about the tropical breeze mixed in with the afro-Cuban music and the smiling locals that makes one want rum and cigars. So \u201cwhen in Rome\u201d as they say! We had a cigar and rum pairing in an exclusive private room on top of a local restaurant. The owner was there too interacting with us to really make it a special time.\n\nAfter visiting the hotel Ambos Mundos in Havana where Hemingway lived for a while and his favorite bar, The Floridita, where he invented the daiquiri (there\u2019s a statue of him sitting at the end of bar), it was time to get some sleep as the next day was New Year\u2019s Eve and we were all there to celebrate to the max.\n\nSo on the next day, December 31st, it was time to get up to speed in Salsa dancing so we\u2019ll be ready for the big New Year\u2019s Eve party that evening. We went to a private dance studio in Havana where each one of us in the group had a dance instructor to learn with. I started the hour class off dancing like a robot, and by the end of the hour I was dancing like a real Caribbean star (well, at least less like a robot) !\n\nParty hats, tiara\u2019s and noise maker ready, we finally set off to a local nightclub for our much anticipated NYE festivities. There was quite a feeling of excitement in the air as midnight approached in Havana. It was a mix of laughter, daiquiris and mojitos flowing around, cigars being lit, locals and tourists mixing and mingling together in international synergy. Several acts hit the stage to warm up the crowd. It was a steady build-up to the headlining act, but soon the NYE dancers and high energy afro-Cuban music hit the stage and the rhythm of the night hit us like a fast-moving tropical storm. Champagne bottles were brought out to each table in preparation for the clock striking midnight, the bottles were lit up with a firework type sparkler attached to the cork area. 12 grapes were also served to all us revelers When the countdown ends each grape is eaten, one after the other, to represent the 12 months of the New Year, with a wish made per grape.\n\nAnd then it happened \u2013 drum roll and cymbal crash please- we were in Havana, Cuba as the clock struck midnight, ringing in the new year of 2019 in the ultimate classic Caribbean style. I had a feeling come over me that Havana, in all her warm-friendly and exotic hospitality would bring all of us a very good year indeed. As the dancers on stage kept us entertained, I happened to look more closely and noticed a couple people from our group had jumped on stage to dance with them. What a fantastic joy. And they were keeping up in step just perfectly. It was so surreal, I couldn\u2019t believe my eyes. By this point, the intoxicating rhythm and passion of Havana had swept over everybody. The fun and excitement went on for hours. However, since what happens in Havana stays in Havana, I cannot elaborate any more on that NYE evening. But let me tell you, it was everything we wanted it to be! (Actually, I don\u2019t remember much past midnight, haha. I\u2019ll blame it on the Cuban rum.)\n\nThe next morning, New Year\u2019s Day we slowly came back to life with the help of some great Cuban coffee and set out to Cojimar, a fishing village that inspired Ernest Hemingway\u2019s \u201cOld man and the Sea\u201d book. We visited an organic farm, where we would use the local herbs and spices and vegetables and fruits for the ingredients in a cooking class at a local restaurant nearby. We donned our aprons at the restaurant and cooked up several tasty Cuban style dishes. We also had a drink mixing class at the bar and made some very good mojitos. (A little \u201chair of the dog\u201d was perfect on New Year\u2019s Day!)\n\nWe ended the day on the beaches of eastern Havana. Many local families were there celebrating the holiday. As the beautiful blue Pacific Ocean called me in for a swim, I gazed up at the sunny sky where a kite was dancing around, being flown by a young Cuban boy on the beach. I thought about how Americans and Cubans are kind of like long-lost cousins. We are only separated by about 90 miles of ocean, but also by 60 years of dysfunctional politics between our two nations. I made a wish that the wind that was carrying the young Cuban boy\u2019s kite on that New Year\u2019s Day, would also be the wind of change that would help bring our two countries relations back together again. Because we as long-lost cousins are family, and we will have so much catching up to do.\n\nIf you\u2019d like to celebrate New Year\u2019s Eve in Havana or visit Havana and Cuba anytime on a legal group tour, please send me an email at jack@activeworldjourneys.comfor a customized itinerary quote.\n\nCheers,\n\n**Jack Witt, MS, CPT**\n\n\n*Fitness and Health Coach*310.562.5629 Cell / 818.760.3891 Main\n\n**Hadrian\u2019s Wall Walk**\u2013 June 2019 Click here" + }, + { + "title": "The saga of the gay Mariel boatlift refugees - Philadelphia Gay News", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "The saga of the gay Mariel boatlift refugees - Philadelphia Gay News" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMifkFVX3lxTE9KVFFSb240clFXaVhiWnJ1NjF4Uk0xd3ZGaVBacVdnQkp1aE1rY0NReGJJTVR4N1Z3d3RfazlrLUtDb2FzT2RGdlRud1kza1ZfUS1lWkJjZnRKQ0tmdnQzeGVFU0dabWx3NTBPOHIwRy1lR2k0R095Q0NYaTB6UQ?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/28/world/americas/havana-cuba-tornado.html", + "id": "CBMifkFVX3lxTE9KVFFSb240clFXaVhiWnJ1NjF4Uk0xd3ZGaVBacVdnQkp1aE1rY0NReGJJTVR4N1Z3d3RfazlrLUtDb2FzT2RGdlRud1kza1ZfUS1lWkJjZnRKQ0tmdnQzeGVFU0dabWx3NTBPOHIwRy1lR2k0R095Q0NYaTB6UQ", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Thu, 31 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 31, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 3, + 31, + 0 + ], + "summary": "The saga of the gay Mariel boatlift refugees  Philadelphia Gay News", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "The saga of the gay Mariel boatlift refugees  Philadelphia Gay News" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://epgn.com", + "title": "Philadelphia Gay News" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 403, + "response": "Error: HTTP 403" + }, + { + "title": "Cuba Resident: Havana looks like \"a horror movie\" after tornado - 6abc Philadelphia", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cuba Resident: Havana looks like \"a horror movie\" after tornado - 6abc Philadelphia" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMijwFBVV95cUxPc19POVlpVDNHWk9mVzdhU0NyU1BaWEUyRnAzWWp3bjk2UzNvZmRUZ2tmQ0l5REVzV2tfTUUzZkRpQ2k1NzVBVHhONmN0c3dhUEpoMHRBbGl1bk5Da2FVeEoyOWxvZ1U5a1Z4VFpQRGZhZk9weTY1dTlXdHR6ZGhlcGx5UklMRnNJcmtvVFRwVdIBlAFBVV95cUxNTGNqSXhCWFNTT2l4MXp4MjIyYjRybHBzbHBfNkRUc0hER0dDSHJwMDRSWTROWG9TZ18wUERBaUlLZTIxcjhaX25QdzNGSmc1RmYwOWtLYWxBRFVhSTRJRDh5VUFaN2hjQVN4Z2ZKUTRDUjludGgxbjJYODc0bFI3akVSU3dmdE5jTXFMdWZuWVlPNWp0?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://epgn.com/2019/01/31/the-saga-of-the-gay-mariel-boatlift-refugees/", + "id": "CBMijwFBVV95cUxPc19POVlpVDNHWk9mVzdhU0NyU1BaWEUyRnAzWWp3bjk2UzNvZmRUZ2tmQ0l5REVzV2tfTUUzZkRpQ2k1NzVBVHhONmN0c3dhUEpoMHRBbGl1bk5Da2FVeEoyOWxvZ1U5a1Z4VFpQRGZhZk9weTY1dTlXdHR6ZGhlcGx5UklMRnNJcmtvVFRwVdIBlAFBVV95cUxNTGNqSXhCWFNTT2l4MXp4MjIyYjRybHBzbHBfNkRUc0hER0dDSHJwMDRSWTROWG9TZ18wUERBaUlLZTIxcjhaX25QdzNGSmc1RmYwOWtLYWxBRFVhSTRJRDh5VUFaN2hjQVN4Z2ZKUTRDUjludGgxbjJYODc0bFI3akVSU3dmdE5jTXFMdWZuWVlPNWp0", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 28, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 0, + 28, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Cuba Resident: Havana looks like \"a horror movie\" after tornado  6abc Philadelphia", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cuba Resident: Havana looks like \"a horror movie\" after tornado  6abc Philadelphia" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://6abc.com", + "title": "6abc Philadelphia" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: The saga of the gay Mariel boatlift refugees - Philadelphia Gay News\nauthor: Gary L Day\nurl: https://epgn.com/2019/01/31/the-saga-of-the-gay-mariel-boatlift-refugees/\nhostname: epgn.com\ndescription: Most people know about the Mariel Boatlift in 1980. But many don\u2019t realize that large number of the more-than 120,000 Cuban refugees that made the dramatic trek to Florida that year were gay. The stories of how these gay Cuban refugees made their way to this country, and what happened to them once they got [\u2026]\nsitename: Philadelphia Gay News\ndate: 2019-01-31\ncategories: ['Local']\n---\nMost people know about the Mariel Boatlift in 1980. But many don\u2019t realize that large number of the more-than 120,000 Cuban refugees that made the dramatic trek to Florida that year were gay.\n\nThe stories of how these gay Cuban refugees made their way to this country, and what happened to them once they got here, are the focus of a new exhibition at William Way LGBT Community Center called \u201cWith Open Heart and Open Arms.\u201d\n\n\nThe genesis of what has become known as the Mariel Boatlift has its roots in the complicated diplomatic relationship between the United States and Fidel Castro\u2019s Cuba, a connection that had been frozen in hostility and suspicion since Castro came to power in 1959. Attempting to improve the longstanding impasse between the U.S. and communist Cuba, President Carter began loosening some of the travel restrictions to the island in the late 1970s. This was a one-way deal, however, since Castro would not permit Cubans to migrate.\n\nPartly because of Carter\u2019s overtures and also due to severe economic downturn, massive numbers of Cubans began seeking asylum; at one point more than 10,000 aspiring immigrants were taking refuge in the Persian Embassy.\n\nAfter several months of hostile exchanges between the Cuban government and the various embassies involved, Castro relented. He stated that the port of Mariel would be opened to all who wanted to leave, provided someone was there to take them away. The result was a mass migration.\n\nHowever, Castro decided to take advantage of the situation to clean house socially, as it were. He dumped thousands of hardened criminals, political prisoners and mental-health patients into the migration, including large numbers of gay Cubans. The Castro regime was, unsurprisingly, virulently homophobic, considering homosexuals to be social pariahs and antithetical to the Revolution. Most gay people, once discovered, were imprisoned.\n\nWhen word got out about the large number of gay people taking part in the Boatlift, many American LGBT activists and philanthropists stepped up to help with resettlement efforts. \u201cWith Open Heart\u201d documents some of these stories.\n\nOrganized by John Anderies of William Way\u2019s John J. Wilcox Jr. Archives, the exhibition is structured to provide maximum information with a minimum of academic fussiness. There are a fair number of period photographs documenting the lives of some of the Mariel gay refugees, many of whose faces shine with optimism at the prospect of living free and uncloseted in their new home.\n\nGiven the complicated politics of gay immigration at the time, officials were not allowed to use the term \u201crefugees\u201d in reference to the Boatlift\u2019s homosexual participants. The term \u201cMarielita\u201d was coined, often used as a pejorative, but like the term \u201cqueer\u201d before it, some Marielitas claimed the term as a badge of pride.\n\nThe estimates of the final tally of the gay Cubans who made their way to the United States during the Boatlift vary widely, ranging from a low of 1,000 to upwards of 20,000. There were a number of resettlement camps set up to accommodate the influx of people. The one set up near Philadelphia was at Fort Indiantown Gap outside of Harrisburg. The camps were originally managed by FEMA, and later were taken over by the newly formed Cuban-Haitian Task Force, which had been set up to help deal with the ongoing issue of migration from the troubled Caribbean islands.\n\nThe Philadelphia branch of the Metropolitan Community Church initiated much of the resettlement efforts for the gay Cubans. MCC helped lead the search for community sponsors to assist the immigrants in becoming official U.S. residents. Many of the immigrants settled in the Cuban neighborhoods of North Philadelphia\u2019s Fairhill section.\n\nThis information, and much more, is provided in short historical summaries interspersed with the photographic exhibit. These summaries are presented in both English and Spanish.\n\nThese historical summaries also provide interesting follow-up information on what happened to some of the gay Cuban immigrants after they settled into their new lives. For many, resettlement was not an easy process.\n\nOne distressing point of information is that the Marielita were hard-hit when the AIDS epidemic reared its ugly head just a few years after the Boatlift. Subsequent research with blood samples taken during the resettlement process showed that many of the gay Cubans had already been infected with HIV at the time of the resettlement in 1980. This proved that HIV had already spread worldwide before it was first diagnosed in the U.S. in the early 1980s.\n\nThe exhibition also contains numerous clippings of the press coverage of the Boatlift and its aftermath. Early issues of PGN (then simply called \u201cGay News\u201d) and its then-rival newspaper Au Courant also devoted much effort to covering the story.\n\nOne more important component of the exhibition is the video presentation. The archivists personally interviewed and recorded some still-living survivors of the Boatlift and subsequent resettlement. These survivors provide fascinating and intimate first-person narratives, giving us a glimpse of what it was like to live through such tumultuous times. The video interviews are on a repeating loop, and can be listened to privately on individual headsets.\n\n\u201cWith Open Heart and Open Arms\u201d will remain on display through April 27 at William Way, 1315 Spruce St. The exhibition is free and open to the public, and is presented in both English and Spanish translations. For information about gallery hours, visit waygay.org." + }, + { + "title": "Cuba Gooding Jr. Returns to Broadway's Chicago January 7 - Playbill", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cuba Gooding Jr. Returns to Broadway's Chicago January 7 - Playbill" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiiwFBVV95cUxQN0RDNmdteFlXUnIyMmxSZnozbU55ZHQ2d3kzV09Ic0lzVlptVjZwVWQ3S19hc3czb2xDZnVFN3VuX09MT1c1VVNNQTN6Z21WSmhTYjhmeWhPVi12Smdud05IQ053aDBzR3ZGaUlDWGdWQUYzMkZPTnNLQktXeEJkZk1PRS1KelVnN1dV?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://playbill.com/article/cuba-gooding-jr-returns-to-broadways-chicago-january-7", + "id": "CBMiiwFBVV95cUxQN0RDNmdteFlXUnIyMmxSZnozbU55ZHQ2d3kzV09Ic0lzVlptVjZwVWQ3S19hc3czb2xDZnVFN3VuX09MT1c1VVNNQTN6Z21WSmhTYjhmeWhPVi12Smdud05IQ053aDBzR3ZGaUlDWGdWQUYzMkZPTnNLQktXeEJkZk1PRS1KelVnN1dV", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Mon, 07 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 7, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 0, + 7, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Cuba Gooding Jr. Returns to Broadway's Chicago January 7  Playbill", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cuba Gooding Jr. Returns to Broadway's Chicago January 7  Playbill" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://playbill.com", + "title": "Playbill" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Cuba Gooding Jr. Returns to Broadway's Chicago January 7\nauthor: Andrew Gans\nurl: https://playbill.com/article/cuba-gooding-jr-returns-to-broadways-chicago-january-7\nhostname: playbill.com\ndescription: The Oscar winner again steps into the role of Billy Flynn for five weeks.\nsitename: Playbill\ndate: 2019-01-07\ncategories: ['Broadway News']\n---\nOscar winner and Emmy nominee Cuba Gooding Jr. returns to the Broadway company of the Tony-winning revival of Chicago beginning January 7 at the Ambassador Theatre.\n\nThe stage and screen veteran again plays smooth-talking lawyer Billy Flynn for five weeks through February 10.\n\nGooding Jr. previously played Billy Flynn on Broadway in October 2018 and also in London at the Phoenix Theatre.\n\nThe Broadway production currently stars Charlotte d\u2019Amboise as Roxie Hart, Amra-Faye Wright as Velma Kelly, Evan Harrington as Amos Hart, Raena White as Matron \u201cMama\u201d Morton, and R. Lowe as Mary Sunshine.\n\nWith a book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, Chicago is now the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. 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Some said the condition started after they heard a strange noise.****This prompted speculation about potential \"sonic weapons****.\" The US eventually cut its Cuban embassy staff by 60%.****But a team of zoologists and biologists has concluded that the sound diplomats and their families heard is very similar to that of an Indes short-tailed cricket.****The new finding is the latest in a string of conflicting hypotheses about what might have happened in Cuba.**\n\nForget rogue sonic attackers or microwave weapons \u2014 blame the crickets.\n\nThat's the conclusion of a group of scientists who performed a new analysis of the sounds that 24 US diplomats and their families stationed in Cuba reportedly heard in late 2016.\n\nThe noise in question \u2014 which only some of the affected American and Canadian diplomats reported hearing \u2014 was thought to be connected to physical symptoms they experienced, including hearing loss, speech problems, balance issues, nervous-system damage, headaches, ringing in the ears, nausea, and even some signs of mild traumatic brain injury.\n\nThat led to speculation about a \"sonic attack\" from some unknown weapon. Previous studies of the sounds suggested there might be a mysterious and dangerous brain-injuring force at work. Others mentioned the possibility that the chirps were produced by weapons that use microwave radiation.\n\nBut the new analysis suggests that, based on the recording of the noise released by the Associated Press (AP), the sound was likely nothing more than a cricket.\n\n\"The calling song of the Indies short-tailed cricket (*Anurogryllus celerinictus*) matches, in nuanced detail, the AP recording in duration, pulse repetition rate, power spectrum, pulse rate stability, and oscillations per pulse,\" insect researchers wrote in a scientific paper currently under review, published online as a preprint in bioRxiv on January 4.\n\nThough the recording the AP released isn't exactly like the sounds bug-watchers hear in the field, the scientists think that the sound of crickets, when recorded indoors as it ricochets off walls, floors, and ceilings, is the culprit. To verify this, the scientists played an *A. celerinictus* field recording \"on a high-fidelity loudspeaker\" indoors. When they did, the pulse structures of the two recordings matched up almost perfectly.\n\n\"All I can say fairly definitively is that the AP-released recording is of a cricket, and we think we know what species it is,\" lead study author Alexander Stubbs from the University of California, Berkeley told The New York Times.\n\nThe authors noted, however, that \"the fact that the sound on the recording was produced by a Caribbean cricket does not rule out the possibility that embassy personnel were victims of another form of attack.\"\n\n## Reports of mysterious chirping sounds\n\nIn their reports about the experience, some diplomats said the noise they heard was like a \"loud ringing or a high-pitch chirping, similar to crickets.\"\n\nThe first person who came forward in Cuba complaining of health issues said that the noise he heard stopped abruptly when he opened his front door. Others said the sound stopped when they moved to a different area in the house. These changes could be related to the way crickets hush up if they sense danger.\n\nOther reports about the bizarre sounds suggested that they waxed and waned with the seasons. (A cricket's chirping tends to get louder and faster as temperatures rise.) What's more, many diplomats complained they heard the sounds at night, which is a cricket's favorite singing time.\n\n\nThe idea that the sounds could come from crickets wasn't new. One Cuban government report had previously suggested that a Jamaican field cricket might be responsible for the sound. But the scientists behind this new report say the Jamaican cricket call \"would sound qualitatively different, even to non-experts,\" since the Jamaican cricket's chirp isn't continuous.\n\n\"It is understandable that US authorities met this explanation with skepticism,\" the scientists wrote in their report.\n\n## Diplomatic consequences\n\nNot all the diplomats in Cuba described the same sound, however. One diplomat reported a \"blaring, grinding noise\" that woke him up, according to the AP, while others said they could walk \"in\" and \"out\" of loud noises that were audible only in specific spots. Some said they didn't remember seeing or hearing anything out of the ordinary at all before their symptoms started.\n\nThe US State Department eventually determined that the incidents were \"specific attacks\" and cut its Cuban embassy staff by 60%, despite Cuba's fervent denials of wrongdoing.\n\n\"Cuba has never, nor would it ever, allow that the Cuban territory be used for any action against accredited diplomatic agents or their families, without exception,\" the Cuban government previously said in a statement.\n\nThe US government also commissioned a team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Brain Injury and Repair to evaluate 21 of the patients who'd been in Cuba. The findings, published in March 2018, suggested that three months after the experience, 81% of people still had cognitive issues, 71% had balance problems, 86% had vision issues, and about 70% still reported hearing problems and headaches. Several doctors pointed out major flaws in that study, however.\n\nA few months later, several US embassy workers in Guangzhou, China were diagnosed with similar brain injuries after reportedly hearing mysterious sounds, and at least nine were evacuated, according to a July 2018 report from the Wall Street Journal. (The cricket hypothesis doesn't immediately explain why diplomats in China reported eerily similar symptoms.)\n\n## The cricket is an incessant, ceaseless insect\n\nAlthough many questions linger about why dozens of diplomats reported strange symptoms and where they came from, what's not in dispute is that the calls of short-tailed crickets can be nasty buzzing, ringing sounds to hear. The songs of *A. muticus, *which chirps around the Dominican Republic, were described by scientist H.A. Allard in 1957 as \"powerful, penetrating, buzzing, almost ringing noises.\"\n\nThat short-tailed male's wing-rubbing creates, \"a continuous ringing z-z-z-z-z-z- of tremendous volume and penetration which practically fills a room,\" he said.\n\n(In case you were wondering, nature's loudest recorded insect is not a cricket, it's the North American *Tibicen walkeri *cicada.)\n\nHere's the AP's original recording of the sound heard in Cuba:\n\nAs the bug researchers note, this isn't the first time we've confused nature's oddities for a human menace. A \"yellow rain\" that descended from the skies after the Vietnam War, for example, was at first thought to be a chemical weapon from the Soviet Union. But it turned out to be Southeast Asian honey bee poop falling from above.\n\n\n*Correction: A previous version of this story mistakenly referred to the Caribbean short-tailed cricket as the loudest North American insect. 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Some 100 underground cisterns close to the coastal section of Havana were contaminated by seawater.\n\n\nThree electric substations were knocked out by the tornado, the strongest to hit Cuba since Dec. 26, 1940, when a Category F4 tornado hit the town of Bejucal, in what is now Mayabeque province, officials said. It also appeared to be the first tornado to hit the capital in at least as many years.\n\nResidents of the three relatively poor boroughs hit by the tornado were bracing for further calamity once the tropical sun started to dry sodden buildings, which can often lead to structures shifting and collapsing.\n\n\nJulio Menendez, a 33-year-old restaurant worker, said his neighborhood in Havana's 10 de Octubre district looked \"like a horror movie.\"\n\n\n\"From one moment to the next, we heard a noise like an airplane falling out of the sky. The first thing I did was go hug my daughters,\" who are 9 and 12, he told The Associated Press.\n\nDriver Oster Rodriguez said that amid a fierce storm, what looked like a thick, swirling cloud touched down in the central plaza of the Reparto Modelo neighborhood \"like a fireball.\" He saw a bus blown over, though he said the driver escaped unharmed.\n\n\nMiguel Angel Hernandez of the Cuban Center for Meteorology said the tornado was a Category F3, with winds between 155 and 199 miles per hour, produced when a cold front hit Cuba's northern coast. Other meteorologist told state media that the tornado may have been even stronger.\n\n\nSome of the heaviest damage from Sunday night's rare tornado was in the eastern borough of Guanabacoa, where the twister tore the roof off a shelter for dozens of homeless families.\n\n\nCubans enduring long waits for government housing often live in such multifamily shelters for years.\n\nDianabys Bueno, 31, was living in the shelter with her husband and son after they were forced to relocate by the collapse of their home in Central Havana. Much of the housing in Havana is in dire condition due to years without maintenance, and building collapses are routine even in ordinary storms.\n\n\n\"This has already happened to us once,\" Bueno said. \"I'm not going anywhere.\"\n\n\nAround Havana, cars were crushed by fallen light posts and vehicles were trapped in floodwaters.\n\n\nLeanys Calvo, a restaurant cook in the 10th de Octubre borough, said she was working Sunday night despite heavy rain and wind when she heard a rumbling noise outside and looked out to see what appeared to be a tornado touching down.\n\n\n\"It was something that touched down, and then took off again. It was like a tower,\" she said, describing it as displaying colors of red and green. \"It was here for two-three seconds, nothing more. 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Then the tornado passed.\n\n\n\"It looked like fire, everything was red, then everything began to fall,\" she said.\n\n\nMarrero said she and her family were trapped by debris for about half an hour before firefighters arrived." + }, + { + "title": "Strongest Tornado in 8 Decades Hits Cuba; 3 Dead, 172 Hurt - VOA - Voice of America English News", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Strongest Tornado in 8 Decades Hits Cuba; 3 Dead, 172 Hurt - VOA - Voice of America English News" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMib0FVX3lxTE1QbU4tUDlMYS1sYzVMNUppaXJoenhRZWJyQVpQenNacmhPRUJMNXVTRGRSSVJmYWhsR3JKMmlFbmJzY2txZzB3QUNWal9nbG56RTBwNHd3X0RnWmcyUmRjOTZKMVhQZ3RlLS1hTnpfY9IBckFVX3lxTFBXNlUzYWJiRndWQ01WQnpqTGdET0lVYVY0eTdaMGNsak1QVU9mM2o1d3ZOWWREV0hTc3lfYk5uNjRaMW40Ry1Rajhsb0hZODhEenVPd2doOVEzWTdQc1NIS1ptMzZfRnpJbzg5M3BLb0cyZw?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.dvidshub.net/image/5064892/602nd-military-police-company-demobilizes-cuba-mission", + "id": "CBMib0FVX3lxTE1QbU4tUDlMYS1sYzVMNUppaXJoenhRZWJyQVpQenNacmhPRUJMNXVTRGRSSVJmYWhsR3JKMmlFbmJzY2txZzB3QUNWal9nbG56RTBwNHd3X0RnWmcyUmRjOTZKMVhQZ3RlLS1hTnpfY9IBckFVX3lxTFBXNlUzYWJiRndWQ01WQnpqTGdET0lVYVY0eTdaMGNsak1QVU9mM2o1d3ZOWWREV0hTc3lfYk5uNjRaMW40Ry1Rajhsb0hZODhEenVPd2doOVEzWTdQc1NIS1ptMzZfRnpJbzg5M3BLb0cyZw", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 28, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 0, + 28, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Strongest Tornado in 8 Decades Hits Cuba; 3 Dead, 172 Hurt  VOA - Voice of America English News", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Strongest Tornado in 8 Decades Hits Cuba; 3 Dead, 172 Hurt  VOA - Voice of America English News" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.voanews.com", + "title": "VOA - Voice of America English News" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: 602nd Military Police Company demobilizes from Cuba mission\nurl: https://www.dvidshub.net/image/5064892/602nd-military-police-company-demobilizes-cuba-mission\nhostname: dvidshub.net\ndescription: FORT BLISS, Texas \u2013 More than 100 Army Reserve Soldiers from the 602nd Military Police Detention Company, Bossier City, Louisiana, arrive at the Silas L. 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The first thing I did was go hug my daughters\" - who are nine and 12.\n\nThe Cuban capital was battered late Sunday and early Monday by powerful winds and heavy rains that downed many power lines. Cuba's president says the tornado killed three people and injured 174 others.\n\nHe spoke Monday near the Daughters of Galicia Hospital, whose patients, all expectant mothers or mothers with newborns, were evacuated to another hospital. Many glass windows in the seven-story hospital had been sucked out of their frames by the power of the wind, leaving curtains flapping in the breeze.\n\n-----\n\n** Follow us on YouTube** **Send a News Tip to Action News**\n\n**Learn More About 6abc Apps**" + }, + { + "title": "Cuba Gooding Jr. Makes a Razzle-Dazzle Return to Broadway's Chicago - Broadway Shows", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cuba Gooding Jr. Makes a Razzle-Dazzle Return to Broadway's Chicago - Broadway Shows" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMipgFBVV95cUxPUEVfX01mdEhNMlhQNkZRcVhNVmwySU5vMTRtMHRuNkdIWng1bW5xal9iRjU4QkFGdzJ4YkN1NEt1QVBjZUt5cFlxLWU2cUNUS3A1YXdNdDJVQTk5RnN5R190bnFnMlIzVWtoRU1OWktqaWpaVzZWV2tPbHJFX25TanlMaWJDY1BLeFRXX0llVTV3bWRHNUM4a05OWnpVZ3daSmJmN1NB?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/cuba-opens-first-catholic-church-in-nearly-60-years/", + "id": "CBMipgFBVV95cUxPUEVfX01mdEhNMlhQNkZRcVhNVmwySU5vMTRtMHRuNkdIWng1bW5xal9iRjU4QkFGdzJ4YkN1NEt1QVBjZUt5cFlxLWU2cUNUS3A1YXdNdDJVQTk5RnN5R190bnFnMlIzVWtoRU1OWktqaWpaVzZWV2tPbHJFX25TanlMaWJDY1BLeFRXX0llVTV3bWRHNUM4a05OWnpVZ3daSmJmN1NB", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Mon, 07 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 7, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 0, + 7, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Cuba Gooding Jr. Makes a Razzle-Dazzle Return to Broadway's Chicago  Broadway Shows", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Cuba Gooding Jr. Makes a Razzle-Dazzle Return to Broadway's Chicago  Broadway Shows" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.broadway.com", + "title": "Broadway Shows" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Cuba Opens First Catholic Church In Nearly 60 Years\nurl: https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/cuba-opens-first-catholic-church-in-nearly-60-years/\nhostname: cbsnews.com\ndescription: Cuba's first Catholic Church since the revolution opened its doors over the weekend.\nsitename: CBS Miami\ndate: 2019-01-28\ncategories: ['Local News']\ntags: ['Fidel Castro, Catholic Church']\n---\n# Cuba Opens First Catholic Church In Nearly 60 Years\n\n**Follow CBSMIAMI.COM:** __Facebook__** | Twitter**\n\nMIAMI (CBSMiami) \u2013 Cuba's first Catholic Church since the revolution opened its doors over the weekend.\n\nFor decade, Cubans who were religious suffered from discrimination at the hands of the officially atheist government of Fidel Castro.\n\nA converted garage in the small Cuban town of Sandino is where mass used to be held.\n\nThe communist-run government wouldn't let the Catholic Church build a new house of worship in Sandino, or for that matter anywhere else.\n\nCubans of faith made do with what they had.\n\nUntil now.\n\nOn Saturday, Catholics in Sandino celebrated the first mass at their new church, the first to be built on the island since the 1959 revolution.\n\n\"To see this finished is like coming out of night into the day,\" said Rev. Cirilo Castro, the Cuban Catholic priest who oversaw the construction. \"We knew it would happen one day.\"\n\nDespite the rain that fell most of the weekend, people from the town and surrounding villages filled the church.\n\nThey had been waiting a long time for this day.\n\nEven a local dog or two come in to see what the fuss was all about.\n\nThe church was built with nearly $100,000 in donations from a sister diocese in Tampa.\n\nFather Ramon Hernandez left Cuba for Tampa almost forty years ago and came back to see the church open.\n\n\"In the United States, with $90,000 you can do nothing -but here yes,\" said Rev. Hernandez.\n\nSoon after taking power, Fidel Castro suspected the Catholic Church was conspiring against his officially atheist state.\n\nChurches were shut down, priests thrown into re-education camps.\n\nA dark history that the town of Sandino knows all too well.\n\nIn the early days of the Cuban Revolution, the remote town became notorious as a place where Cubans accused of engaging in anti-government activity were sent to live in internal exile, a kind of Cuban Siberia.\n\nNow it will finally be famous for something else.\n\nThe Cuban Catholic Church says times have changed and they no longer face the same discrimination they once did.\n\n\"If there was a problem once between the Church and the state, than those things have been overcome, thanks to God,\" said Rev. 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Oscar winner and main-stem alum Cuba Gooding Jr. reprises his recent Broadway turn as \u2026\nsitename: Broadway.com\ndate: 2019-01-07\n---\nAll he cares about is love...and heading back to Broadway! Oscar winner and main-stem alum Cuba Gooding Jr. reprises his recent Broadway turn as smooth-talking lawyer Billy Flynn in the award-winning revival of Kander & Ebb's *Chicago* beginning on January 7. Gooding succeeds Tom Hewitt, who played his final performance at the Ambassador Theatre on January 5.\n\n\nCuba Gooding Jr.'s breakthrough role was as Tre Styles in *Boyz n the Hood* (1991), followed by *A Few Good Men* (1992), before winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in *Jerry Maguire* (1996). In 2016, he portrayed O.J. Simpson in the FX series *The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story*, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. 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The production features direction by Walter Bobbie and choreography by Ann Reinking in the style of Fosse.\n\n\nGooding will play a five-week limited run through February 10.\n\nHear from the star himself in the *Broadway.com Show* segment below." + }, + { + "title": "Photographing the everyday lives of Havana\u2019s future boxing champions - Document Journal", + "title_detail": { + "type": "text/plain", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Photographing the everyday lives of Havana\u2019s future boxing champions - Document Journal" + }, + "links": [ + { + "rel": "alternate", + "type": "text/html", + "href": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMirAFBVV95cUxNX3JRZTY1Q1VwZndwOFcxRGp1UXNBaXo2VUlSVGZ2QmYxM191MjBaM0RXNktSNUJOZnFIOU5CbGJSRG9fd1BSR0gxNW9IUkRScWZhNzRhdEtMR3lncDJPRWE5WkxTaUZMSm5LLVN5eDdYb2VyYVEwczFIVmFuSW8zVkkwMHRNTEtxb3JZVmswREtiZmNpSURDUnNqMHdtMHBDRmZkdGlkdFdCWFhh?oc=5" + } + ], + "link": "https://havanatimes.org/news/cuba-100-behind-maduro-says-diaz-canel/", + "id": "CBMirAFBVV95cUxNX3JRZTY1Q1VwZndwOFcxRGp1UXNBaXo2VUlSVGZ2QmYxM191MjBaM0RXNktSNUJOZnFIOU5CbGJSRG9fd1BSR0gxNW9IUkRScWZhNzRhdEtMR3lncDJPRWE5WkxTaUZMSm5LLVN5eDdYb2VyYVEwczFIVmFuSW8zVkkwMHRNTEtxb3JZVmswREtiZmNpSURDUnNqMHdtMHBDRmZkdGlkdFdCWFhh", + "guidislink": false, + "published": "Thu, 24 Jan 2019 08:00:00 GMT", + "published_parsed": [ + 2019, + 1, + 24, + 8, + 0, + 0, + 3, + 24, + 0 + ], + "summary": "Photographing the everyday lives of Havana\u2019s future boxing champions  Document Journal", + "summary_detail": { + "type": "text/html", + "language": null, + "base": "", + "value": "Photographing the everyday lives of Havana\u2019s future boxing champions  Document Journal" + }, + "source": { + "href": "https://www.documentjournal.com", + "title": "Document Journal" + }, + "sub_articles": [], + "status_code": 200, + "response": "---\ntitle: Cuba 100% Behind Maduro, says Diaz Canel - Havana Times\nauthor: Circles Robinson\nurl: https://havanatimes.org/news/cuba-100-behind-maduro-says-diaz-canel/\nhostname: havanatimes.org\ndescription: As expected, Cuba is fully behind its chief economic and political ally, the Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro, in the stepped-up tension in the South American country, amid renewed massive protests and pressure from the USA, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, Argentina and several other Latin American countries. Aside from Cuba, Maduro has support from Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Bolivia and Nicaragua.\nsitename: Havana Times\ndate: 2019-01-25\ncategories: ['Latin America', 'News']\n---\n# Cuba 100% Behind Maduro, says Diaz Canel\n\n**HAVANA TIMES** \u2013 As expected, the government of Cuba is fully behind its chief economic and political ally, the Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro, in the stepped-up tension in the South American country, amid renewed massive protests and pressure from the United States and its allies.\n\nCuba receives the vast majority of its needed fuel imports on highly favorable terms from Venezuela and has tens of thousands of doctors, health technicians, educators and sports trainers working in Venezuela, under contracts where most of the funds derived go to the Cuban government.\n\nOn Wednesday, the National Assembly of Venezuela, controlled by the opposition, installed legislator Juan Guaido as the country\u2019s interim president, deposing Maduro for being reelected in last May\u2019s elections under what they considered a fraudulent process. Maduro celebrated the inauguration of his new 6-year term on January 10th.\n\nThe following statement is from the Communist Party\u2019s official organ, Granma.\n\n**Revolutionary Government Declaration: Aggression against Venezuela must cease**\n\nThe Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba condemns and energetically rejects the attempt to impose a coup d\u2019etat, a puppet government at the service of the United States in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and expresses its unwavering solidarity with the government of Constitutional President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro Moros\n\nThe Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba condemns and energetically rejects the attempt to impose a coup d\u2019etat, a puppet government at the service of the United States, in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and expresses its unwavering solidarity with the government of Constitutional President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro Moros.\n\nThe true objectives of actions against Venezuela are to control the vast resources of this sister nation and destroy the value of its example, as an emancipatory process defending the dignity and independence of Our America.\n\nAs President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel Berm\u00fadez said: \u201cThe sovereignty of our peoples is expressed today in one\u2019s attitude toward Venezuela. To support the legitimate right of the sister nation to define its own destiny is to defend the dignity of all.\u201d\n\nOther coup attempts should not be forgotten, such as the military coup of 2002 and the 2003 oil lockout; the aggressive U.S. Executive Order describing Venezuela as \u201can unusual and extraordinary threat to national security and foreign policy\u201d of the superpower; unilateral coercive measures; the call for a military coup against the constitutional government of Venezuela; the President of the United States\u2019 threat to use \u201ca possible military option\u201d and the August 4 assassination attempt against President Maduro.\n\nThe acts of a group of countries and the shameful role of the OAS constitute a new, desperate attempt to implement an unsuccessful policy of regime change, which has not been imposed due to the unwavering resistance of the Venezuelan people and their determination to defend national sovereignty." + }, + { + "title": "Tornado Strikes Havana, Killing at Least 3 (Published 2019) - 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It was an explanation that appeared to gain weight when an audio recording of a persistent, high-pitched drone made by US personnel in Cuba was released to the Associated Press.\n\nBut a fresh analysis of the audio recording has revealed what scientists in the UK and the US now believe is the true source of the piercing din: it is the song of the Indies short-tailed cricket, known formally as Anurogryllus celerinictus.\n\n\u201cThe recording is definitively a cricket that belongs to the same group,\u201d said Fernando Montealegre-Zapata, a professor of sensory biology at the University of Lincoln. \u201cThe call of this Caribbean species is about 7 kHz, and is delivered at an unusually high rate, which gives humans the sensation of a continuous sharp trill.\u201d\n\nAs a child growing up in South America, Montealegre-Zapata recalls collecting crickets of a similar species and keeping them in cages in his room. One night he woke to a penetrating sharp sound. The culprit was one of the males calling out for mates. The offender was banned from the room but Montealegre-Zapata could still hear the cricket singing for females.\n\n\u201cI am not surprised that this call could disturb people who are not familiar with insect sounds,\u201d he said.\n\nThe identification of the sound source does not mean that an attack of some sort did not happen, but it casts doubt over the sound being responsible for the diplomats\u2019 health problems. The cause and nature of their illnesses remains unclear.\n\nThe spate of unexplained health problems among the US diplomats led doctors at the University of Pennsylvania to run tests on almost two dozen embassy staff. In March last year, the team concluded the diplomats had suffered concussion-like injuries, but other medical professionals have challenged the conclusions, claiming the doctors misinterpreted the test results.\n\nNot all of the affected diplomats reported unusual sounds when they fell ill, and descriptions of any noises differed from person to person. Some recalled grinding or cicada-like sounds, while others experienced buffeting like that caused by an open car window.\n\nIn the new study, Montealegre-Zapata and Alexander Stubbs at the University of California searched a scientific database for insect sounds that matched the Cuban recording. The call of the Indies short-tailed cricket turned out to be remarkably similar, they found, with acoustic pulses repeated at the same rate, and specific frequencies being louder than others.\n\nBut the cricket\u2019s mating call and the Cuban recording did not match up perfectly. The sound recorded in Havana had an uneven pulse structure which is not seen in calling insects.\n\nStubbs and Montealegre-Zapata realised that the discrepancy might be down to the environments in which the recordings were made. Scientists tend to record insect calls outside in the wild, while the diplomats complained of unpleasant sounds indoors. If the Cuban recording had been made in a room, the odd pulse structure might be explained by echoes off the walls, floor and ceiling.\n\nThe researchers tested the idea by playing the call of the Indies short-tailed cricket in a room through a single loudspeaker. Recordings from the room show that the sound gained the same uneven pulse structure seen in the Cuban recording. The two sounds matched even more closely.\n\nGerald Pollack, who studies how animals detect and discriminate sensory signals at McGill University in Montreal, said: \u201cThe paper shows how the cricket\u2019s song could, when echoes to be expected in an indoor setting are taken into account, produce sounds strikingly, and quantitatively, similar to that provided by the AP. I find this a completely plausible explanation.\u201d\n\nHe added that while he had no personal experience with the Indies short-tailed cricket, he had not heard of their calls ever having caused harm. \u201cSo far as I am aware,\u201d he said, \u201cexcept perhaps for an occasional sleepless night, no-one has suffered ill health as a result of cricket calls.\u201d" + } + ] +} \ No newline at end of file