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| About the Film En días como estos |
| Pedro García Espinosa, one of the pioneers of the Cuban Film Institute, describes the adventures of filming the movie “En días como estos,” which brought him a maxim he has never forgotten: “recreating reality can be more real than reality itself.” |
| Pedro García Espinosa |
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| The Cuban Five and the Eleven Russians |
| The differences and similarities of the episodes of the Cuban Five imprisoned in the United States and the eleven Russians recently deported to the European nation, show that in the hands of President Barack Obama is the possibility of immediate release of the Cuban Five antiterrorist fighters of the Caribbean nation. |
| Lorenzo Gonzalo in Miami |
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| Forgotten help |
| Cuba was decisively important to the independence of the Thirteen Colonies in North America. George Washington was able to confront and defeat the English in Yorktown, on the coast of Virginia, thanks to the money he received from Cuba and support provided by troops from Havana and from Haiti. |
| Ciro Bianchi Ross |
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| The great enemy offensive |
| Brigadier General (r) William Gálvez tells the episode of the largest offensive of Batista’s army against the Rebels commanded by Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra. |
| William Galvez |
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| The Saga of the Lecuona Cuban Boys |
| Brief story of one of the greatest Cuban musical bands of all times, the Lecuona Cuban Boys, which made several generations of Cubans dance from 1946 to 1975. |
| Rafael Lam |
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Editorial Council: |
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Ana Cairo |
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Esteban Morales |
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Rosa Miriam Elizalde |
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José Pertierra |
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Fernando Martínez Heredia |
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Gary Prevost |
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Julio García Luis |
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Guillermo Rodríguez Rivera |
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Luis A. Notario |
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Invisible Days That Are Not So Much So
Recent winner of the Ítalo Calvino literary award, Cuban author Alberto Garrandés puts to the readers’ consideration his novel Días invisibles (Invisible Days), a reading that requires an open mind, away from puritan standards, because it carries an unusual strong erotic and intimate content.
Frank Martínez Hraste
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Ernesto Juan Castellanos became a journalist motivated by his interest in making the Beatles and their influence known in Cuba.
Ivette Fernández
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Cuba: in debt to the goal
The echoes of the FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010 still resound in Cuba despite the fact that football fans in this Caribbean island aren’t happy with the performance of their national team, which is far from winning a ticket to one of the most important sports events around the globe.
David E. Braguette
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People who attend his exhibits feel different after they see them. They are caught by a world of senses that transforms them. We are talking about Cuban painter Arturo Montoto.
Alberto Dolz
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The most recent issue of the “Palabra Viva” collection, from the Pablo de la Torriente Brau Cultural Center in Havana, includes a CD with professional opinions and intimate confessions by Prima Ballerina Assoluta, Alicia Alonso, through which the future generations will hear the star herself talk about the personal and artistic history of what critics consider the best Giselle of all times.
Martha Sánchez
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