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Turns Out, Snakes Can Hunt in Packs, So Let’s Just All Move to Antarctica
Snake hive mind. Cuban boas coordinate their strikes from cave ceilings. By Peter Dockrill.
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Cuba Holds First Ever Mass with Transgender Pastors
"This is not only a first of its kind event for Cuba, but certainly one of the very first ever to be held anywhere in the world," said a trans reverend. Amid the Cuban Assembly Against Homophobia and Transphobia’s two-week long event against sexual and gender discrimination, Cuba hosted the first mass of its kind anywhere in the world, with three transgender people as pastors.
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Google Just Became The First Foreign Internet Company To Launch In Cuba
Google’s servers in Cuba went live on Wednesday, making the internet giant the first foreign internet company to host content within the long cut-off country. The servers are part of Google’s global network of caching servers, called GGC nodes, the servers work by storing popular content — like a viral YouTube video — on a local server. Instead of having to travel the long distance through a submarine cable, which currently connects Cuba to the internet through Venezuela, Cubans will now be able to access content through the nearest Google server in their country.
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Watering down a revolution: Cuba's struggle for water
Cubans face a daily battle for drinking water as the country experiences one of its worst droughts in 100 years.
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Cubans anxious about change in US relations
As US President Donald Trump lashes out at US enemies and allies alike, many Cubans wonder which Trump they will face. Will it be the businessman who said he wanted to open hotels on the communist-run island? Or will it will be the presidential candidate who, during his campaign, appealed to anti-Castro Cuban-Americans by promising to get tough on Cuba, even if that meant withdrawing the newly reopened US Embassy in Havana?
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Can the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Be Found in Cuba?
A birder, ornithologist, writer, and photographer set off on an extreme adventure through the muck and memories of eastern Cuba. By Mac McClelland.
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What Havana’s growing WiFi revolution looks like
After years of disconnection, Cuba's government has introduced WiFi hotspots across the country, providing outdoor hubs that offer a portal to other worlds.
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Cuba sees explosion in internet access as ties with US grow
Two days before Christmas, Luis Gonzalez received a little Chinese modem from Cuba's state-owned telecommunications company. The 55-year-old theater producer connected the device to his phone and his laptop computer, which instantly lit up with a service unimaginable in the Cuba of just a few years ago — relatively fast home internet. "It's really easy to sit and find whatever you need," Gonzalez said as he sat in his living room updating his Facebook account...
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George Plimpton and Papa in Cuba
When Ernest Hemingway agreed to his famous Paris Review interview, he had no idea he’d be helping the CIA. By Joel Whitney.
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Cuba Proposes to Use Rum to Pay Back Czech Debt
The Czech Finance Ministry says Cuba has offered an unusual way of repaying its Cold War-era debt — its trademark rum. Finance Ministry spokesman Michal Zurovec said Thursday that Cuban authorities have proposed to pay back $276 million to the Czech Republic from the time both countries were part of the communist bloc.
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Cuba offers to pay back £222m of Cold War-era debt to the Czech Republic in rum
It has long been immortalised as the tipple of gold-hungry pirates.
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Raul Castro: Cuba will ban naming of monuments after Fidel
After a week of national mourning that reached near-religious peaks of adulation, Cuban President Raul Castro announced Saturday that his government would prohibit the naming of streets and monuments after his brother Fidel and bar the construction of statues of him in keeping with the former leader's desire to avoid a cult of personality.
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Intimate Pictures Show Cuba Through the Eyes of Its Youth
Days before Fidel Castro’s death, National Geographic Photo Camp asked students in Havana what it means to be Cuban. This was their response. By Kirsten Elstner.
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R.i.P Fidel by Venom
Soaking wet feet and freezing my ass off. Totally worth it. :-)
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I Dialed a Wrong Number and Stumbled Into International Phone Fraud
It started when I was trying to call Cuba.
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‘Spy vs. Spy’ Was The Subversive Brainchild of An Exiled Cuban Illustrator
One day a Cuban illustrator walked unannounced into the MAD Magazine offices, and the rest is history. By Eric Grundhauser.
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Looking Back at Fidel Castro’s 1985 Playboy Interview
He led a one-party communist state by himself. He participated in leading the world to near nuclear crisis. He was in power for quite a long time and the feelings are mixed about him, but one thing is certain: Few world leaders, living or dead, have occupied history’s center stage as long as Fidel Castro, whose death shocked the world today. He dictated over Cuba for nearly half a century.
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Fidel Knew the 'Cuban Model' Couldn't Last Forever
If these were ordinary times, I might argue that the death of Fidel Castro, the revolutionary who brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation, the dictator who outlasted 10 U.S. presidents and nearly outlasted an 11th, marks the symbolic end not only of the Cold War but of the 20th century itself. But these are not ordinary times, and I suspect that El Commandante, if he was in command of any of his faculties in his final months, was watching the machinations and manipulations of Vladimir Putin, the ex-KGB man and current dictator of Russia, with some wonder, and more than a little envy.
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Fidel Castro condemned as 'dictator' who killed and abused his own people
As Cuba embarks on nine days of national mourning for Fidel Castro, dissidents and exiles around the world labelled the revolutionary a dictator whose “crimes against his own people” must not be forgotten. “History will absolve me,” he once told judges of the regime he would eventually overthrow, transforming Cuba into a Communist state and incurring the wrath of the US and its punishing trade embargo.
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Covert CIA plot to wait until Fidel Castro dies of old age successful
Langley, VA - A decades-long plot to get Cuban dictator Fidel Castro to pass away peacefully in his sleep has come to fruition, according to a statement from the CIA.
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