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Musical Passions: Cuba's Cultural Ambassadors>by Michelle Chase
When Cuban singer Silvio Rodríguez played to a sold-out crowd in Carnegie Hall in New York in June, opposing groups of demonstrators faced off outside the auditorium creating a battle of dueling imagery that continued throughout the concert. As on so many other occasions, the cultural world served as proxy for broader political tensions over Cuba. To some extent this should come as no surprise: Cuban writers, artists, and musicians wield a disproportionately powerful role in public discourse, and Cuban musicians tend to make their most controversial statements when they tour abroad.
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Against the Odds: Fighting Canada's Free Trade Deal With Colombia
by Sheila Katz and Gauri Sreenivasan
The Canadian House of Commons passed a free trade agreement with Colombia on June 14, representing the deal's final major legislative hurdle. It still has to go through the Senate and be signed by the governor general, but this is basically a formality. For years Canadian activists have tenaciously fought to stave off the deal, which again represents the hemispheric vision and plans of the United States and Canada in the region based on the failed NAFTA model.
This article originally appeared in the May/June 2010 edition of NACLA Report on the Americas.
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Events
South of the Border
June 25, 2010 - Opens in NYC
Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misrepresentation of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents.
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We Are Not Afraid - Inside the Coup in Honduras
July 7, 2010, 7-9:00pm
Acclaimed filmmakers Katia Lara and Carlos del Valle braved repression and surveillance by the coup government, and eventually left Honduras in exile to finish the film.
Kellen Auditorium at The New School 65 5th Ave, New York, NY 10003
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