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Cuba: backstreet with an escape route

In front | FOCUS
Welcome to Callejon (Photo: ©Marc Paso Mateu)

In the first of our ‘rock and backpack’ series, we discover Havana - the cultural centre of a Cuba in which everyone has the ability to produce something, but few express themselves

by Marc Paso Mateu // 21/03/08

PICTURES

Photos: Cuba as Castro retires at 81

Post-election images from the provincial tourist town of Viñales in the west, to the semi-tropical cacao plantations of Baracoa in the east. The Cuban leader will not run again as president at the National Assembly on 24 February

by Alison Micklem // 22/02/08

INTERVIEW
The Euro is getting stronger (Photo: jopemoro/ Flickr)

'Were the US to go under, the world would turn to the Euro'

The five-year-old Euro may be trading above the dollar, but a stronger currency can damage Europe

by Jimerna Gómez de la Flor // 15/02/07

INTERVIEW
Fidel Castro, man of the past (Photo: Carolo/ Flickr)

Carlos Malamud: 'Europe’s policy is ‘wait and see'

In Cuba, the Castro administration is on the verge of ‘going to a better place’

by Fernando García Acuña // 12/02/07

INTERVIEW
Martha Beatriz Roque and the director of cafebabel.com at a hotel in Havana (photo Béatrice Martinet)

Martha Beatriz Roque, standing up to Castro

As Fidel’s poor health forces him to hand over power to his brother Raúl, the sixty-year-old Roque denounces the neglect of her people and the regime of ‘apartheid’ enforced in Cuba. This is her story, told in very special circumstances.

by Adriano Farano // 07/08/06

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