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Caribbean & Central America - October 2006 (ISSN 1741-4458)

CUBA: Apartheid in tourism industry

On 10 October Cuba celebrated the anniversary of the liberation of slaves on the island. It marks the occasion in 1868 when the "padre de la patria", Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, freed the slaves working on his land and invited them to join him and his fellow conspirators in a war against colonial Spain.

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