Posted on 23 April 2009. Tags: Black caucus, Castro, Congress, Cuba, Politics, Racism

Most Americans seem to ignore the fact that, before Castro came to power in 1959, Cuba was one of the most racially integrated nations in the world, with a socio-cultural system relatively free of racial discrimination. As Professor Richard R. Fagen has pointed out, "Batista's Cuba exhibited a greater degree of national integration than did ...
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Posted on 20 March 2009. Tags: Africa, Africans, Black, Blacks, Caribbean, Caribbeans, Cuba, Discrimination, Havana, Moors, Racing, Racism, Science, War, bi-racial, black person, black woman, caribbean land, chinese man, contemporary science, cuban girl, cubans, ethnicity, genealogical tree, genealogy, great grandmother, human genome, mixed, race, racial classifications, racial differences, skin color, slaves, society, spanish settlers, sugarcane fields, thirty years, yucatan

I don’t remember ever having asked myself what race I belonged to. I was born advantaged in a society that discriminated against non-whites.
So, am I white? The answer isn’t so simple. On my identity card, it says my skin color is white. So, am I white? Let’s have a look at my genealogical tree; since ...
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Posted on 20 March 2009. Tags: Africa, Africa, Africans, Caribbean, Cuba, Havana, Politics, Trade, Uganda, cubans, s

Havana, Mar 20 (Prensa Latina) The Parliaments of Cuba and Uganda signed here a protocol to define the framework to promote and develop cooperation.
Jaime Crombet and Rebeca Kadaka, vice presidents of the National Assemblies of Cuba and Uganda, respectively, signed the accord inspired on the traditional ties that bind both countries.
Under the agreement, the legislators ...
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