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Cuba’s capital cleans up from Tropical Storm Paula (AP)

October 15th, 2010

Waves break against Havana's coast in the  aftermath of Tropical Storm Paula, Cuba, Friday, Oct. 15, 2010. Paula has weakened to a tropical depression near the northern coast of central Cuba after dumping heavy rains on Havana. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Much of Cuba’s capital remained without power early Friday following a direct hit from Tropical Storm Paula, as cleanup crews carried away fallen trees and swept up chunks…

Cuba’s Coming Layoffs: Even the Party Faithful Shudder (Time.com)

September 16th, 2010

Time.com - The Castro regime’s decision to lay-off 500,000 state workers is testing the faith of loyal Communists

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Fidel latest to say Cuba’s communism doesn’t work (AP)

September 9th, 2010

Cuba's leader Fidel Castro greets students before delivering a speech outside Havana's University in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Castro dusted off his military fatigues for the first time since stepping down as president four years ago, a symbolic act in a Communist country where little signals often carry enormous significance.(AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Cuba’s communist economic model has come in for criticism from an unlikely source: Fidel Castro.


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Fidel absent, Raul silent at Cuba’s Revolution Day (AP)

July 26th, 2010

Cuba's President Raul Castro, front left, and Venezuela's Vice-President Rafael Ramirez applaud during a rally marking the Cuba's Revolution Day in Santa Clara, Cuba, Monday, July 26, 2010. Monday's celebrations commemorate the date in 1953 when the Castros led an attack on the Moncada army barracks in the eastern city of Santiago and a smaller military outpost in the nearby city of Bayamo. The operation failed but Cubans consider it the beginning of the revolution that culminated with dictator Fulgencio Batista's ouster on New Year's Day 1959. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - A B-team of socialist speakers spent Cuba’s Revolution Day bashing the United States for everything from its drug consumption to the war in Iraq to its military support…

Hundreds of thousands march to mark Cuba’s May Day (AP)

May 2nd, 2010

People march to commemorate Labor Day near Revolution Plaza in Havana, Saturday, May 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Miguel Guzman Ruiz)AP - Hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched through the sprawling, concrete expanses of Revolution Plaza on Saturday in annual May Day celebrations that the government said prove the island…

Cuba’s ‘Ladies in White’ march blocked again (AP)

April 25th, 2010

Cuban government supporters demonstrate against members of Ladies in White, a group of female dissidents, in Havana, Sunday, April 18, 2010. Cuban security agents denied the wives and mothers of jailed dissidents permission to hold their weekly march Sunday, setting off a standoff under the sun that ended with the women being led away by officials. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - A small group of carefully choreographed government supporters shouted down an even smaller contingent of wives and mothers of jailed opposition activists Sunday, preventing their traditional march for…

Cuba’s Catholic cardinal says country in crisis (AP)

April 19th, 2010

In this photo taken March 28, 2010, Cuba's Cardinal Jaime Ortega delivers a speech during Palm Sunday mass in Havana. Ortega said the country is in one of its worst crises in recent times and that its people are demanding political and economic changes sooner rather than later. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Cuba’s Roman Catholic cardinal says the country is in one of its worst crises in recent times, with its people demanding political and economic changes sooner rather than…

Police bar Cuba’s ‘Ladies in White’ from marching (AP)

April 11th, 2010

AP - Police broke up a weekly march by wives and mothers of imprisoned Cuban opposition leaders Sunday, forcing them onto a bus and driving them home as a pro-government…