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Santeria, drinking, baseball and struggle -- glimpse Habanero life with work from G. Cabrera Infante, Ada Ferrer and the late, brave Reinaldo Arenas.
By Tony D'Souza
June 15, 2006
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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.
By Alysia Vilar
May 23, 2003
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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.
By Alysia Vilar
May 22, 2003
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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.
By Alysia Vilar
May 21, 2003
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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
By Alysia Vilar
May 20, 2003
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Castro promised to clean up Cuba, but the new poverty has driven many to sell what they can, including their bodies.
By Jonathan Lerner
January 4, 2001
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From Havana to Santiago, Cuba steps into the next millennium with hope for a new kind of revolution.
By Rachel Louise Snyder
February 24, 2000
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Our rental car wheezed through Cuba at the millennium. A new century on the horizon, Fidel's nation gathered up its last one right beneath our wheels.
By Rachel Louise Snyder
February 23, 2000
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Will we get stuck with a fumbling Bush? Given the evil eye by Hillary? Deafened by the shrill mania of gun controllers? And will Kate Winslet ever get the Oscar Helen Hunt stole from her?
By Camille Paglia
February 2, 2000
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Old passions run high over the fate of a little boy, but both Cubans and the exile community are ready to embrace a new future -- together.
By Joe Conason
December 17, 1999
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He reigns over the Timbuktu Social Club, but his distinctive, bluesy sound is reaching all around the world.
By Damien Cave
December 4, 1999
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Ry Cooder on "Buena Vista Social Club": "This record has its own rules."
By Eric Boehlert
August 20, 1999
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Our travel expert offers advice on making your way to Cuba, lost traveler's checks, pricing a Disney/Universal Studios trip and finding that Florida healing center
By Donald D. Groff
August 19, 1999
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The dance of need and desire differs from one country to another.
By Daniel Weinshenker
June 12, 1999
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Baseball and Cuba -- two hidebound institutions needing reform -- get a public relations boost from an extra-innings game in the Havana sunshine.
By Steve Kettmann
March 29, 1999
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In spite of volatile Cuban-American exile
politics, Wim Wenders' documentary 'Buena Vista Social Club' wins over Miami
By Art Levine
March 9, 1999
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A black militant's exile in Castro's Cuba
By Arthur Allen
April 6, 1996