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A Cuban Snapshot (or Three)…
The Cuban psyche is shaped, some might say warped, by four fundamental factors: 1. We’re on a slab of land you can drive across in 15 hours. Water hems us in. As on every island, there’s an intrinsic...
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Things I Miss about the U.S.A.
I like living abroad for so many reasons – being obligated to become bilingual, the different values, and the required self-reliance among them. But Havana is wholly unique, entirely distinct from...
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Why is money green? Because lawyers pick it before it’s ripe. To be fair, two of my closest friends are lawyers, which predisposes me to their ilk, but I had no clue how often I’d be relying on their...
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What Cubans Won’t Say
The mainstream media has you hoodwinked. The Beeb, Miami Herald, WSJ, CNN – whatever news profiteer you prefer, they’d have you believe Cubans are cowed, afraid to criticize the powers that be and not...
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Cuban Blockade: Cruel & Unusual
It’s time again for the international community to remind the United States how absurd and futile their blockade of Cuba is. The vote to condemn the blockade is a UN affair (equally as absurd and...
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My Digital Divide
Have you ever lost a job or revenue due to tech inequity? Watched hours of productivity get sucked into the ether by a dial up connection that poke, poke, pokes along, draining all satisfaction from...
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Cuba Contradictory
While other bloggers are making their end-of-year lists, I’m just waiting for this year to end. Loss and sorrow is what 2011 has meant for me and while a turn of the calendar page won’t cure what ails...
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