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1. The happy death of Alborada Almanza

Author

Fuentes, Leonardo Padura

Subjects
Literature/writing
Abstract

Alborada Almanza woke up gently but completely, with the keen sensation that something extraordinary was going to happen to her that day. She had barely opened her eyes when she [...]

Published
2006

2. Obama's Cuba challenge

Author

Fuentes, Leonardo Padura

Subjects
Cuba -- Economic aspects -- Social aspects, Economic reform -- Political aspects -- Social aspects -- Economic aspects, Embargoes -- Political aspects -- Social aspects -- Economic aspects, Social sciences, Foreign policy, Economic aspects, Social aspects, Political aspects
Abstract

In a few short months President Barack Obama has moved quickly on a range of important policy issues, including US-Cuba relations. The tough economic embargo imposed by the US in [...]

Published
2009

3. How radical will the changes be?

Author

Fuentes, Leonardo Padura

Subjects
Cuba -- Political aspects -- Economic aspects, Public administration, Bureaucracy, Economic conditions, Decentralization in government, Social sciences
Abstract

The plans approved at the Sixth Congress of the Cuban Communist Party in April have left people with a wide range of reactions: from hope, to scepticism, to fear, to [...]

Published
2011

4. Waiting in line

Author

Fuentes, Leonardo Padura

Subjects
Transnationalism -- Political aspects -- Social aspects, Waiting lines -- Social aspects -- Political aspects, Social sciences, Social aspects, Political aspects
Abstract

The most nettlesome and persistent institution established in Cuba over the last five decades is the queue. From the first years of the triumph of the Revolution, when scarcity started [...]

Published
2008

5. Cuban futurology

Author

Fuentes, Leonardo Padura

Subjects
Cuba -- Social aspects -- Political aspects -- Economic aspects, Authors, Cuban -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Social sciences, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Foreign policy, Social aspects, Economic aspects, Political aspects
Abstract

It would be interesting to know who first floated the idea that Cuban writers have a special gift for predicting the future. Whenever foreign journalists interview writers from the island, [...]

Published
2008

6. The joy of rereading

Author

Fuentes, Leonardo Padura

Subjects
Reading -- Personal narratives -- Appreciation, Authors -- Works -- Appreciation -- Personal narratives, Social sciences, Works, Appreciation, Personal narratives
Abstract

About ten years ago, with the beneficent delay that usually settles things into their proper places, I discovered the writings of Paul Auster. The first of his books that ended [...]

Published
2007

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