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Seville: Cuba, communists and anticapitalists for the elections!

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:59:50 -0000

Spotlight on the epicentre of southern Spain, whose ruling socialist-communist government leans more towards Cuba than Europe. In the land of the mileuristas - so-called '1000 euros a month-ers' - the rude gap is being bridged with an increasingly politically alternative feeling before the European elections in June 2009

Martha Roque: ‘The European Union treats Cuban opposition like dirt’

('Lydia Bigos',) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:17:20 -0000

The tiny Caribbean island has again become the centre of attention throughout the world after the US detention facility Guantanamo Bay was closed on 21 January. President Raul Castro is due in Russia on 28 January. Interview with the economist and dissident

Cuba: backstreet with an escape route

('Erin Woycik',) — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:00:00 -0000

In the first of our ‘rock and backpack’ series, we discover Havana - the cultural centre of a Cuba in which everyone has the ability to produce something, but few express themselves

Photos: Cuba as Castro retires at 81

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:00:00 -0000

Post-election images from the provincial tourist town of Viñales in the west, to the semi-tropical cacao plantations of Baracoa in the east. The Cuban leader will not run again as president at the National Assembly on 24 February

'Were the US to go under, the world would turn to the Euro'

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0000

The five-year-old Euro may be trading above the dollar, but a stronger currency can damage Europe

Carlos Malamud: 'Europe’s policy is ‘wait and see'

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0000

In Cuba, the Castro administration is on the verge of ‘going to a better place’

Martha Beatriz Roque, standing up to Castro

('Sarah Turpin',) — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:31:00 -0000

As Fidel’s poor health forces him to hand over power to his brother Raúl, the sixty-year-old Roque denounces the neglect of her people and the regime of ‘apartheid’ enforced in Cuba. This is her story, told in very special circumstances.