Cuba

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  • Case closed?

    A new book about the JFK assassination claims to finally solve the mystery.
  • The personal meets the political

    What Table Talkers are saying this week about how embargoes, elections and airport security affect their lives
  • Whose country is it, anyway?

    A Cuban journalist questions the effectiveness of new U.S. measures aimed at regime change in the island nation -- and says they will merely result in more imprisonment of dissidents.
  • "The Simple Life" goes to Guantanamo

    How will the fair and lovely American Justice cope with the unfamiliar Camp Gitmo? Let the laughs begin!
  • "I don't believe in the American dream"

    Spanish director Carles Bosch talks about his epic documentary "Balseros," which follows seven Cuban refugees who came to the U.S. by raft in 1994 -- and found their new homeland to be something less than paradise.
  • Havana honey, Part 4

    I'm getting close to finding my father, but first I have to please my "boyfriend" who makes me wear his tightie-whities and act like a man while he wears my lingerie and acts like a woman.
  • Havana honey, Part 3

    My latest humiliation-for-money job is to deliver the Cuban Lolita -- fresh from her bikini wax -- to Richard as he gets off the plane from London.
  • Havana honey, Part 2

    He loves Cuban communism, and every part of my body, which he surveys with his tape measure. But Terence will soon be back in Canada, after one final bout in his humid hotel room.
  • Havana honey

    Flying in from the U.S., I joined the female "jockeys" who sold themselves to tourists for rum and money. But I did it to find my father. Part 1
  • Cuba confidential

    Ann Louise Bardach talks about the fading of Fidel, the end of the embargo, and the drive for democracy -- and why exile leaders aren't happy about any of it.
  • Bravo, Jimmy Carter

    His visit can't end Castro's tyranny, Cuba's poverty or the Bush administration's lame policies, but he's the first American politician who has tried to give to Cuba, not just take.
  • Confessions of a Cuban housewife

    We are not married but he calls me his wife. He is not faithful but his lips make me believe. I could go home to America anytime I want, but the heat between us keeps me in the torrid zone.
  • The price of milk (and sex) in Cuba

    What is it about these poor countries? What savor do they offer us? Is it just the perfume of misery that makes us appreciate our own lives?
  • Tourism apartheid in Cuba

    Many of the island nation's most beautiful areas are off limits to its citizens. Will Fidel's tourist policy be his undoing?
  • Havana online

    In Cuba, black market Internet access makes it easier for prostitutes to get connected than doctors.
  • "Before Night Falls"

    Julian Schnabel's tale of a gay Cuban poet smolders with vivid sensuality. Plus: Johnny Depp in drag.
  • The people's Cuba

    Thierry Le Gouès' new collection of photos, "Popular," reveals Castro's lush and decaying secret.
  • Whorehouse of the Caribbean

    Castro promised to clean up Cuba, but the new poverty has driven many to sell what they can, including their bodies.
  • Honey in the vagina

    An elderly Cuban woman reveals her herbal techniques for restoring virginity, inducing pregnancy and curing pimples and diarrhea.
  • Josi Latour

    "Outcast"
  • The U.N.'s millennium bash

    President Clinton shakes Fidel Castro's hand and sits in on a speech by Iran's president at the organization's P.R. bonanza.
  • Adiss, Elian

    Now that your telenovela is over, perhaps your normal childhood can begin again.
  • Elian, politics and the Roman Empire

    Readers write about the Gonzalez family's telenovela temperament; the cognitive dissonance of liberals; and Diocletian and that damned horse.
  • "I never made myself famous"

    Donato Dalrymple defends his role in the ongoing Elian Gonzalez saga.
  • What Elian learned in Georgetown

    Unlike Cuban homes, American houses have swimming pools in the basement.
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