Musical Dialogue Beyond Embargoes

<p style="text-align: justify;">By LARRY ROHTER. Published: March 24, 2011. Among the festival schedule’s highlights are appearances by Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, who have not performed in New York since 2002 and are considered Cuba’s greatest rumba ensemble, and the Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Piñeiro, the group that claims to have invented salsa nearly 80 years ago. So now might be the perfect time to get acquainted with the terminology and the various styles of Cuban music. Read More

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Jazz master brings incomparable pizzazz to Edmonds

<p style="text-align: justify;">Published on Thu, Mar 24, 2011. Savor the many flavors of jazz with jazz legend Arturo Sandoval, Friday March 25 at 7:30 p.m., at Edmonds Center for the Arts.&nbsp; Arturo Sandoval is fluent in at least four musical languages.He can burn through an Afro-Cuban groove, tear up a bebop tune, soar over a Mozart concerto and soothe with a luscious ballad. Read More

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U.S. rests its case in ex-CIA agent Posada's trial

<p style="text-align: justify;">BY ALFONSO CHARDY.ElNuevoHerald.com. EL PASO, Texas -- The prosecution rested its case Thursday in the Luis Posada Carriles perjury trial after 11 weeks and 23 witnesses.“The United States has concluded its case in chief and, at least for now, the government rests,’’ lead prosecutor T. J. Reardon III told the jury and U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone, the federal judge presiding over the case. Read More

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First boxing card at Cosmo to feature undefeated Cuban fighter

<p style="text-align: justify;">Erislandy Lara has knocked out his last four opponents in the first round; could be headed for stardom. By Ray Brewer. Thursday, March 24, 2011 . Image. Courtesy Warriors Boxing. Erislandy Lara’s last four fights have ended with first-round knockouts. Read More

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Cuba tries former official, Chilean businessman for corruption

<p style="text-align: justify;">Published March 24, 2011. | EFE. Havana –&nbsp; A Cuban court is now weighing its verdict in a corruption case against former government minister Alejandro Roca Iglesias and Chilean businessman Max Marambio, Communist Party daily Granma said Thursday.Marambio, who boycotted the investigation and prosecution, was tried in absentia. Read More

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Cuban Commission for 2012 National Population and Housing Census Established

<p style="text-align: justify;">2011.03.24 - / radiorebelde.Cuba: Commission for 2012 National Population and Housing Census Established. HAVANA, CUBA.- The Coordination Commission for the 2012 National Population and Housing Census was officially established on Wednesday during a ceremony in Havana. Read More

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Danza Contemporanea at Strand Theatre in Dorchester

<p style="text-align: justify;">A dynamic contemporary ensemble from Cuba has added Boston to its first US tour, thanks to a Wellesley resident. For nearly 50 years, Danza Contemporanea De Cuba, Cuba’s premier contemporary dance company, practiced and performed in a country cut off from the rest of the globe, all but untouched by the outside dance world.DANZA CONTEMPORANEA DE CUBA Grand Finale of US Tour Strand Theatre. 543 Columbia Road, Dorchester. May 26, 7:30 p.m. Read More

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How the Cuban Sandwich Arrived in Tampa Bay

<p style="text-align: justify;">How the Cuban Sandwich Arrived in Tampa Bay View Gallery. Chef Anne gives us some background on how the Cuban sandwich landed on the shores of Tampa Bay and shares her recipe for this very popular sandwich.I’ve got a delicious and easy recipe for a hot, pressed Cuban sandwich that I make at my restaurant. But first, a short history of how the Cuban sandwich made its way to Tampa Bay. Read More

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A Cuba story

<p style="text-align: justify;">Published: Wednesday, March 23, Putting Down Roots, by Cliff Johnson. I was in junior high school when Fidel Castro led a guerrilla army through the mountains, towns and sugarcane fields of Cuba to defeat the corrupt Batista government. Since that successful revolution in the late 1950s, Americans haven't had much of a view into this 750-mile-long island just 90 miles south of Miami.I spent eight days in Cuba in mid-February, traveling more than 1,000 miles by bus, and met hundreds of Cuban people. Read More

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Leonard Weinglass (1933-2011)

<p style="text-align: justify;">by John Mage. Leonard Weinglass, a leading leftwing lawyer in the United States with an international perspective, died in the early evening on March 23, 2011.&nbsp; Len, who died on his 78th birthday, fell ill in late January while in Cuba.&nbsp; In the first days of February exploratory surgery at Montefiore Hospital discovered that he had inoperable cancer of the pancreas. Read More

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