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Cuban-American filmmaker Luis Moro shot a film in Havana without permission to protest against blockade 30 May 2006 New York 30 May: Cuban-American filmmaker Luis Moro made a protest against the long-standing US trade and travel blockade against Cuba by making a film there. Moro’s “Love and Suicide” was showing last week in East New York, New Jersey, after screenings last year in Los Angeles, Miami Beach and the Bahamas. It’s linked to a personal crusade against the US blockade and it has led US officials to investigate Moro for breach of US laws that make it almost impossible for most Americans to legally ... Read Full Story

When you go on holiday it’s hard to know exactly where to go and where to stay once you are there. Sometimes holidays can even get a bit repetitive as it’s normally always the same – beaches and hot weather. Whilst Bayamo in Cuba does offer these two things, it also has so much more that will liven up your Cuba holidays .     Bayamo is located in south - eastern Cuba on the Bayamo River and has plenty to be proud of. It is a leading transportation, manufacturing and commercial centre, copper and magnesium are mined there and they are known for ... Read Full Story

Cuba’s Tourism Apartheid and Huevo Cartoons This article ‘Tourism apartheid in Cuba’ in Salon.com’s February ’02 publication talks of one of the biggest ironies in the Castro regime and resonates during a time when the world’s eyes are on Cuba... Read Full Story

Democracy Cuban Style At a conference on democracy in Cuba, the former Presidents of the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, wrote in a joint statement that 'freedom, democracy, and prosperity in Cuba depend on the support for Cuban dissidents, the better the chances for a future peaceful transition of the Cuban society to democracy.' In response to Václav Havel, Arpád Goncz and Lech Walesa's comments, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that 'what you have in Cuba is a very specific model of revolution. In the grassroots in Cuba, there are constant elections that take place.' Similarly, political scientists have taken sides on the issue ... Read Full Story

When you go on holiday it’s hard to know exactly where to go and where to stay once you are there. Sometimes holidays can even get a bit repetitive as it’s normally always the same – beaches and hot weather. Whilst Bayamo in Cuba does offer these two things, it also has so much more that will liven up your Cuba holidays . Bayamo is located in south - eastern Cuba on the Bayamo River and has plenty to be proud of. It is a leading transportation, manufacturing and commercial centre, copper and magnesium are mined there and they are known for their food, ... Read Full Story