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Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Fidel Castro and his followers leave Isle of Pines Prison Moncadistas after leaving prison Fidel arrives at Havana's railroad station Photots: Granma
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The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Chris Nolan Things are loosening up in Cuba. Cellphones aren't forbidden and with Fidel Castro's waning health and power ceded to his brother Raul, there's lots of reason to hope for serious change. To help things along, Castro critic and Cuban affairs...
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The First Post (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
A film is to be made about Fidel Castro's illegitimate daughter, Alina Fernandez (pictured, right), who since slipping quietly out of Cuba in 1993 has been one of her father's…
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PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Bobby Moresco, who won an Oscar for co-writing Crash, is back to work. The writer-producer is pairing up with Artists Relations Group to portray the story of Alina Fernandez. For those of you who might not know, Alina is the only daughter of former Cuban dictator communist leader Fidel Castro. Alina was born from an affair [...]
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Filed under: Drama , Deals , Scripts , Politics , Cinematical Indie Fidel Castro might be showing up as a character in Steven Soderbergh's Che flicks, but it looks like his daughter, Alina Fernandez , is getting a bit more involved in the movie biz. The Hollywood Reporter posts that Crash co-writer and Oscar winner Bobby Moresco is bringing her story to the big screen. Fernandez will...
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Michael Goldfarb - The Blog (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Variety reports: Producer Robert Moresco ("Million Dollar Baby," "Crash") has partnered with Artist Relations Group to produce a biopic about Fidel Castro's exiled daughter, Alina Fernandez. Castro recently ceded power to his brother Raul after almost 50 years in power....
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Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Duo partner on Castro kin biopic - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety Producer Robert Moresco (”Million Dollar Baby,” “Crash”) has partnered with Artist Relations Group to produce a biopic about Fidel Castro’s exiled daughter, Alina Fernandez. Castro recently ceded power to his brother Raul after almost 50 years in power. Depending on how they [...]
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
p2pnet news | Freedom:- “On a recent morning, Yoani Sánchez took a deep breath and gathered her nerve for an undercover mission: posting an Internet chronicle about life in Fidel Castro’s Cuba,” said the Wall Street Journal just before Chritstmas last year, going on: “To get around Cuba’s restrictions on Web access, the waif-like 32-year-old posed [...]
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Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The hosts of Radio Mambí's weekday morning drive-time show generally reserve their fiercest attacks for Fidel Castro or his younger brother Raúl. But these past few days the popular show En Caliente has let callers unleash attacks against another Raúl:...
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FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
We already showed you a few photos of Demián Bichir as Fidel Castro, now it's time to show you the first official photos of Benicio Del Toro as Che Guevara. Ocean's Thirteen director Steven Soderbergh's latest project is a set of two films shot back-to-back about Che Guevara titled individually The Argentine and Guerrilla. Both [...]
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Religion Clause (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Cox News Service reports today that in Cuba, actions taken by Fidel Castro in the 1990's have encouraged revival of Cuba's Jewish community. Most of the island's Jews fled in the 1950's, and the community was once down to about 800. It has now grown to 1500. The country has 3 synagogues and a Jewish community center, though as yet no full-time rabbi. After Castro in the 1990's...
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Another Green World (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... and we will live well. Anyway on to Fidel The 4th intervention fleet (Thursday 08 May 2008) FIDEL CASTRO IT came into being in 1943 as a means of combating nazi submarines and protecting navigation routes during the second world war. It was decommissioned in 1950, when it became superfluous. The US Southern Command was designed to meet Washington's hegemonic needs in our region at...
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Edward Printer | 02/20/2008
For all its drama, Cuban President Fidel Castro 's announcement early Tuesday that his 49-year rule has come to an end is unlikely to bring significant political or economic changes to the Western Hemisphere's only communist nation, nor is it likely to change U.S. policy.