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July
30
FROM
CUBA
Workers
not paid while auditors search for irregularities
The 250-some workers of
a seed producing company in Bayamo have not been
paid their salaries since June while auditors
peruse the books looking for reported irregularities
committed by a company executive.
HAVANA
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Oil won't be invigorating Cuban economy
•
Sharks, detention and the American dream: memories
of the 94 Cuban exodus
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'Fahrenheit 9/11' to be broadcast on Cuban TV
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The Miami Herald
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Firm finds petroleum off coast
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Cuban composers' work showcased
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The
real Cuba
Say what you want about President
Bush on American soil. That's fair game, of course.
That's the kind of country we have - one that protects
lively, free and open debate. But these "Pastors
for Peace" wore those garments on Communist Cuban
soil.
Joseph Farah. WorldNetDaily.com |
CUBA:
CPJ concerned about deteriorating health of imprisoned
journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists
(CPJ) is deeply concerned about the deteriorating
health of imprisoned journalists Julio César Gálvez,
Edel José García, and Jorge Olivera Castillo, who
are among the 29 journalists sentenced to lengthy
prison terms in Cuba in 2003.
Committee
to Protect Journalists. |
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links
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Cruise Passenger
Spots Cuban Refugees
Two days ago, the Brodsky family was out on a
Royal Caribbean cruise and having a great time
coming back from the Cayman Islands, still 200
miles from shore. One family member saw a disconcerting
speck on the horizon, and after he viewed it with
a brand-new zoom lens video camera, the family
had the ship turn around.
NBC6.net,
FL.
|
Senate
race spotlights Cuba policy
Fidel Castro and U.S. policy on Cuba have emerged
as critical topics in the Republican race for
the U.S. Senate, signaling the importance that
the leading contenders place on support from South
Florida's Cuban exile community..
Sun-Sentinel.com,
FL.
|
WSU
baseball team eager for chance to play in Cuba
Wichita State is awaiting approval from the U.S.
government to play a series of baseball games
in Cuba this fall. Bill Pintard, director of Global
Partners Inc., said he'd like to take the Shockers
to Cuba for a trip similar to the one he helped
orchestrate with the Southern California baseball
team in January 2003.
Kansas.com,
KS.
|
Diaries'
Is Guevara's Early Years
"The Motorcycle Diaries,'' a Robert Redford-produced
accounting of Che's youthful escapades across
South America, opened Thursday in Guevara's native
Argentina and is coming in September to American
audiences. It has screened in Cuba to enthusiastic
audiences.
The
New York Times.
|
Cuba's
State-Owned Label Going Worldwide
Cuban state-owned record company Egrem is getting
an international launch for the first time in
its 60-year history.
Billboard.
|
Hasta
la vista: Visa problems stalemate Cuban show at
the Weisman
International tensions and visa problems have
prompted the University of Minnesota's Weisman
Art Museum to cancel an exhibition of conceptual
art from Cuba that was scheduled to open in early
2005.
Minneapolis
Star Tribune (subscription), MN.
|
July
28
FROM
CUBA
Security
tight in Santa Clara for July 26 celebration
Contrasting with the mass
rallies of previous anniversaries, this year's
July 26 celebration in Santa Clara's Ernesto (Che)
Guevara Square will be limited to 30,000 carefully
selected invitees who have been given a long list
of strict do's and don'ts'.
SANTA CLARA
|
FROM
CUBA
Santa
Clara militarized
Santa Clara residents say
they are getting weary from all the effort authorities
have been putting into the city ever since it
was announced that the national celebration for
July 26 would be held here. .
SANTA
CLARA
|
FROM
CUBA
Price
increase rolled back due to drop in sales
Internal Commerce Ministry
officials ordered prices at certain dollar stores
rolled back after a price increase two months ago
led to a drastic drop in sales.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Anti-government
slogan on cemetery wall
The graffiti was discovered
in the early morning of July 26, when Castro was
expected in Santa Clara for anniversary ceremonies
of his revolution. The sign, written in red in block
letters, read: "Welcome, Fidel. Make this your home."
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Government
dumps mangoes into the river rather than let the
farmers sell it
Lack of transportation has
put a crimp on the government's effort to distribute
the current mango crop, but peasants who grow it
are forbidden from selling their produce to the
people.
HAVANA |
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US stands by Cuban sex tourism allegations after
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US failure
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The Miami Herald
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Castro-Bush feud turns personal
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Kerry to court Cubans unhappy with president
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Get-Tough
Policy on Cuba May Backfire Against Bush
The Bush administration, which has undertaken
a number of tough measures against Cuba in this
pre-election season, is finding opposition to
some of them from large numbers of Cuban-Americans,
a group whose electoral support the White House
hoped to solidify.
New
York Times, NY.
|
Tester's
Take: Who Will Stand Up In Little Havana?
There is a lot of talk about the Kerry presidential
campaign making inroads with the Cuban Exile Community.
The conventional wisdom is that if Kerry can peel
away some of that 80 percent of the Cuban vote
that went to George W. Bush in 2000 there is a
chance the Massachusetts senator could carry Florida.
NBC
6.
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Castro,
in Revolution Day speech, slams Bush's past drinking
Fidel Castro's ongoing battle with President Bush
turned personal Monday night as the Cuban president
brought up his nemesis' past drinking habits.
Sun-Sentinel,
Fl.
|
Let
Castro Be One To Say No
The Bush administration is convinced that tightening
the economic noose on Cubans will spur a revolt
against Fidel Castro's dictatorship. But if that
were the case, then Cuba would have been liberated
decades ago.
Sun-Sentinel,
Fl.
|
Race
steward pitches for reunion trip to Cuba
Charlie Miranda is heading the attempt for the
same group to return to the Cuban capital of Havana
for a 50-year reunion in December. It's a group
that includes 95-year-old coach Andrew Espolita
and 11 of the 12 surviving members of the squad,
which was led then by 9-year-old shortstop Tony
LaRussa.
Muskegon
Chronicle, MI.
|
A
Spitting Image of Cuba
Among the many fruit trees in my grandparents'
yard in Cuba was a tall guava tree. It stood over
the patio and in the summers it produced so much
fruit that my brothers and I could not eat enough
to keep up with it, though we tried, scurrying
up its narrow trunk and picking as many as we
thought we could handle.
Ernesto
Mestre-Reed / The New York Times.
|
July
26
FROM
CUBA
National
media issues warning to swimmers
According to the report,
drowning is the third leading cause of death for
all ages, and the second for people under 20.
Last year, 266 people, or one every day and a
half, on average, died by drowning.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Room
for rent
A Canadian visitor to Havana
last spring found lodgings through the Internet:
an air conditioned room with bath in a spacious
apartment on Empedrado Street. Online, 30 dollars
a day for an attractive room in Old Havana seemed
very reasonable.
SANTA
CLARA
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Cuba Releases Well-Known Dissident Roque
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Cuban Dissident Calls for Referendum
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Mexico, Cuba Ambassadors Return to Posts
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Cuban ambassador in Mexico, ending three-month
spat
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Semester at Sea, si! Cuba, no!
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Cuban
Artists Perform for Fidel Castro
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Contreras,
Yanksare happy family
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The Miami Herald
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Florida companies send goods to Cuba under embargo
exception
•
Cuba mystery money gets scrutiny
•
Prominent dissident Roque released for health
reasons
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Cuban Artists Perform for Fidel Castro
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An untold chapter in the life of Celia Cruz
•
Trying to connect with Celia -- and aching to
join her
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US
Calls on Cuba to Honor Migration Accord
James Cason, head of the U.S.
Interests Section in Havana, accused the Communist
government Wednesday of denying visas to Cuban nationals
who already have U.S. travel documents.
VOA
News. |
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links
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Cuban
dissident freed, vows to keep pushing for reform
Only hours after her release Thursday from prison,
one of Cuba's most prominent dissidents pledged
to continue working to bring democratic reforms
to this nation's one-party state. "Prison doesn't
erase ideas. The ideas continue there," said Martha
Beatriz Roque, a 59-year-old economist and the
only woman among the 75 opposition figures incarcerated
last spring by Cuban President Fidel Castro.
Chicago
Tribune.
|
Cuba woman
dissident 'released'
Cuba has freed Martha Beatriz Roque, a prominent
opponent of Fidel Castro, on health grounds
BBC
News, UK.
|
New
rules cut Cuba flights to a trickle
Nearly a month after the U.S. government clamped
down on travel to Cuba, local air charter companies
say their businesses have been decimated, passengers
have yet to receive new licenses required for
travel and thousands have voiced their opinions
to the Treasury Department about the proposed
new rules.
Sun-Sentinel.
|
In
Cuba, drought hits crisis level
Farmers, city dwellers and officials scrape for
fresh water as island nation endures a long dry
spell that has intensified since 2002
Chicago
Tribune (subscription), IL.
|
Cuba's
music: A dance of life
Though it seems a century ago, it's only been
six years since music fans in the United States
first got the opportunity to see Cuban bands play
their music live.
Sun-Sentinel.com,
FL.
|
Let's
bomb Havana with Big Macs
Tomorrow Fidel Castro will remind the Cuban people
how 51 years ago he launched the revolution that
made him unchallenged Maximum Leader in Cuba for
the past 46-plus turbulent years.
San
Francisco Chronicle, CA.
|
UBS
accused of "laundering" Cuban money
Three members of the United States House of Representatives
have accused Switzerland's largest bank, UBS,
of laundering money for the Cuban government.
Swissinfo
- Switzerland.
|
Contreras
finds pieces to his puzzling year
For all of his struggles early in the season,
Contreras, an enigmatic right-hander, has an 8-3
record and a season-low 4.84 earned run average.
He has gone at least six innings and allowed no
more than one earned run in four of his five starts
since his family defected from Cuba on June 21.
The
new York Times .
|
Visa
lottery frees Cuban ballplayer
No one on the Braden River Junior All-Star baseball
team will have traveled a longer road to Saturday's
state tournament than Rudy Marrero.
Sarasota
Herald-Tribune, FL.
|
Rum
maker longs to return to Cuba
El Coco, they called it. It was a 98-year-old
palm tree that withered and died in 1960 after
Fidel Castro took power. It stood in front of
the Bacardí rum factory. Now company executives
hope to plant a new coconut palm, after Mr. Castro
is gone. They say they'll put it in the same patch
of green earth where the first tree sprouted in
1862.
Tracey
Eaton / The Dallas Morning News.
|
Dengue
control : Experts fly to Cuba
A team of medical experts will soon fly to Cuba
to study its methods, including the effectiveness
of 'Bacillus thuringien' (BT) bacteria, used by
Cuba in eradicating dengue mosquito menace, Health
and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva
told the 'Sunday Observer', yesterday.
Sunday
Observer, Sri Lanka.
|
July
22
FROM
CUBA
Love
story of the "New Man"
They liked each other. They
had a lot in common. They haven't seen each other
again. There was no disagreement between them.
It's just that neither one of them "is up for
that sort of thing." Soon, they won't remember
each other.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Cuban
beachgoers closely watched
Cubans are only allowed
at Esmeralda beach in Holguín province, a popular
tourist destination, under strictly regulated
conditions and are closely watched while there,
said local human rights activist Guillermo Llanes.
SANTA
CLARA
|
FROM
CUBA
Cuban
peasant pressured to increase milk deliveries to
the government
Andrés Peña, a peasant who
works a small tract of land in the area known as
Los Negritos, near Banes, Holguín province, says
inspectors from the ministry of Agriculture have
repeatedly threatened him with fines and even confiscation
of his cattle if he doesn't deliver all the milk
his cows produce to the government.
HAVANA |
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Denied U.S. visa, opposition journalist seeks
French aid
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U.S.
prods Cuba on prominent jailed critic
The U.S. State Department
called on Cuba Wednesday to allow humanitarian groups
to monitor the treatment of jailed dissidents, including
Oscar Elias Biscet.
The
Washington Times . |
Uruguay
still not ready for Cuba relations
Uruguay Foreign Minister Didier
Operetti said Wednesday that the conditions still
are not right for re-establishing diplomatic relations
with Cuba.
Big
News Network.com. Australia. |
Castro
snub to Siegfried
Horn first saw the show, "Havana
Nightclub," last September, before the on-stage
attack that nearly killed him and closed his long-running
show at the Mirage. The Cuban show has since become
one of his highest priorities, according to producer
Nicole Durr.
New
York Post. |
A
job well done by Contreras
Jose Contreras stood at the
entrance of the Yankee clubhouse, greeting each
teammate with a smile and firm handshake. His work
was completed an hour before and he had iced his
arm and dressed.
Daily
Record, FL. |
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links
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U.S.
to respond to Bahamas/Cuba relations
The United States government is to respond to
an announcement made by Foreign Affairs Minister
Fred Mitchell that The Bahamas would be setting
up a consulate office in Cuba as part of an initiative
to further strengthen ties with the communist
country.
Nassau
Guardian, Bahamas.
|
Rays'
closer hopes to reunite with Family
With mixed emotions, Rays closer Danys Baez watched
Yankee Pitcher Jose Contreras reunite with his
family last month after two years apart.
Tampa
Bay's 10, FL.
|
Pedro Pan
Lift
I was born in Cuba in 1951 during the Batista
regime. In 1959 Fidel Castro overthrew that hated
regime and promised a democratically elected government.
Pretty soon my mother and other Cubans realized
that all those promises were nothing but lies
and empty promises. When Castro declared himself
a Communist my mother decided to leave Cuba.
HistoryBuff.com.
|
July
20
FROM
CUBA
Authorities
collect all firearms in central Cuban province
"This is not the first time
they pick up all firearms," said a local resident
who asked not to be named, "every time a member
of the Political Bureau or the Council of State
is coming this way, the same thing happens."
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Daughter
of Cuban dissident expelled from university because
of her father
Miguel Tejeda Tenorio, secretary
general of the Union of Christian Workers, says
his daughter was expelled from university because
of her relationship with him. .
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Fifteen
workers walk of a contruction job in protest in
Cuba
Fifteen works on a construction
project walked off the job in protest over working
conditions, said independent union leader William
Toledo Terrero. .
SANTA
CLARA
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Cuban national ordered deported
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Cuba and Mexico restore ties
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Cuba puts focus on corruption
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Cuban gymnast hopes to find glory with U.S.
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7 Cubans arrive in Keys
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Martinez gambling on Cuba stand
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Castro lures sex tourism, president says
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Cuba, Mexico try to get in step
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U.S. allows firm's deal with Cuba
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Region's leaders turn to Cuba trade talks
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Dancing with Fidel in a changing Cuba
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I rebelled for good reason, Venezuelan ex-officer
says
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Cuba, Mexico agree to send back ambassadors after
spat
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Canadian under-18 women's basketball team loses
58-38 to Cuba
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Bush says US has 'particular duty' against human
trafficking, slams Cuba
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Brigades Work Against U.S. Policy in Cuba
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In
Ybor City, Castor Blasts Cuba Rules
Betty Castor opened an 8,000-square-foot
headquarters in Ybor City on Saturday, using the
event to come out against President Bush's new policy
adding restrictions on travel to Cuba. Last week,
she began airing a TV ad, a biographical spot that
served to introduce her to voters.
Tampa
Bay Tribune, FL. |
Free
Cuba's political prisoners
Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, one
of Cuba's most prominent jailed dissidents, is reportedly
being starved by the regime of Cuban dictator Fidel
Castro. Dr. Biscet's wife, Elsa Morejón Hernández,
has released a letter from her husband which was
smuggled out of Kilo Eight prison.
Voice of America. |
Did
Cuba's dictator actually attend Riverside? Oft-told
local legend is not true, school says
Down through the decades,
rumors have circulated around the community that
Cuba's Communist dictator had roots at Northeast
Georgia's oldest military school.
The
Times, Gainesville, GA. |
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links
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Hopes
wither as worst drought in 40 years hits eastern
Cuba
The ochre field that once produced tender corn,
beans and yuca for Rogelio Maura's family is sun-parched
and barren. Withered pastures and cracked fields
extend for miles across the eastern Cuban province
of Holguín and into neighboring Las Tunas and
Camaguey.
Sun-Sentinel,
FL.
|
Bush
Speech on Human Trafficking Targets Castro
President Bush on Friday furthered his effort
to raise the importance of cultural issues in
the campaign, tailoring a speech here on sex trafficking
to appeal to Florida's Cuban exiles and to religious
conservatives.
The
Washington Post.
|
A
Risky Route to Freedom
Nine rafters slipped out of Cuba on May 3, guided
by a full moon and buoyed by hope and ocean currents.
After two days at sea, in the black and cold of
2 a.m., a screw shook loose from their old outboard
and it sputtered to a stop. As the screw plunged
into the shark-filled depths, their spirits sank
with it.
The
Washington Post.
|
Group
assesses trade with Cuba
Agricultural trade with Cuba is increasing, but
it will be some time before it gets substantial
imports from South Dakota, according to two participants
on a trade mission to the communist country.
Rapid
City Journal, SD.
|
For
Cachao and Bebo, a Mighty Second Wind
That the Latin music industry is obsessed with
youth, packageable personalities and a marketable
product with crossover potential is hardly news.
And some recent successes -- think Ricky Martin,
Paulina Rubio or Enrique Iglesias -- indicate
that the payoff can be substantial.
The
Washington Post.
|
Power
struggle within Cuba?
He's one of the most recognizable and controversial
political figures of modern times. His younger
brother is the world's longest-serving defense
minister. Fidel and Raul Castro form a political
and economic dynasty that has dominated Cuba -
and defied the United States - for more than half
a century.
Tracey
Eaton / The Dallas Morning News.
|
U.S.
Permits 3 Cancer Drugs From Cuba
The federal government is permitting a California
biotechnology company to license three experimental
cancer drugs from Cuba, making an exception to
the policy of tightly restricting trade with that
country.
The
New York Times.
|
Tampa
protest shows divide on Bush's Cuba travel policy
Rolando Carbonelo considers himself a Republican.
He voted for President Bush in 2000 and he maintains
that "he has not been a bad president overall."
But this year, the Tampa resident said, he's voting
for John Kerry.
St.
Petersburg Times, FL.
|
Freedom
in Cuba goes backwards
I returned from my first news assignment to Cuba
in 2001 mildly optimistic that the only communist
country in our hemisphere was changing -- that
Fidel Castro was about to loosen up. I returned
from a visit last year, not nearly so hopeful.
Detroit
Free Press.
|
Americans'
visits to Cuba continue
Many tourists in Havana pay tribute to Ernest
Hemingway by drinking a frozen daiquiri alongside
the life-size bronze statue of the late author
at El Floridita restaurant, his onetime watering
hole.
AZ
Central.com, AZ.
|
New
look at Old Cuba
A lavishly illustrated book unlocks the palatial
homes, rich interiors and elegant furnishings
of the country's past.
Orlando
Sentinel, FL.
|
Exiles
Once they considered themselves black freedom
fighters. The FBI considered them armed and dangerous.
After more than a generation as fugitives in Castro's
Cuba, they are living pieces of unfinished business.
The
Washington Post.
|
Faith,
Fidel and the feds: 2 Cuban pastors walk tough
line
Those were tough times for Rhode González Zorrilla,
52, and Dora Arce Valentín, 45. Tougher than for
many other children in Cuba because their fathers
were pastors. With a constitution that until a
decade ago plainly stated Cuba was an atheist
country, you had to be special indeed to speak
up publicly and embrace God.
Orlando
Sentinel, FL.
|
July
16
FROM
CUBA
Ex-members
of Cuban Armed Forces veterans association said
to abuse membership cards
Some former members of the
Association of Combatants of the Revolution have
been accused of abusing the membership cards they
kept when they didn't renew their membership.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Three
Cuban dissidents freed from jail
Three members of the outlawed
Pedro Luis Boitel Democratic Party, arrested on
charges of promoting enemy propaganda and insult,
were freed after spending more than a month in
jail.
SANTA
CLARA
|
FROM
CUBA
Cuban
independent journalist prevented from traveling
within Cuba
The political police of the
municipality of the Isle of Youth prevented independent
journalist Carlos Serpa Maceira from traveling to
Nueva Gerona to participate in a homage to those
who drowned when the "13 de marzo" tug was sunk
10 years ago.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Dissident's
home stoned
Dissident José Rivero Monteagudo
said he was reading when his house was showered
with rocks on the eve of the tenth anniversary
of the sinking of the "13 de marzo" tug.
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CLARA
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Victims of tugboat's sinking by Cuban vessels
honored
|
Cuba
to Buy VIP Russian Jets for $100M
The Cuban firm will pay $100
million for the jets, of which $85 million will
be repaid within 9 years in the form of a loan guaranteed
by the Russian and Cuban governments. Each plane
will be furnished with a double cabin and a VIP-cabin
for Fidel Castro.
MosNews,
Russia. |
Cuba
restraining entertainers
Cuban officials are threatening
to block what would be the biggest Cuban music and
dance extravaganza to journey to the United States
in more than a half-century, leaders of the production
said Wednesday.
Tracey
Eaton / The Dallas Morning News. |
Cuba
study abroad trip canceled
Several students planning
on being the first to participate in an NU-affiliated
study abroad program in Cuba had to change their
plans after the trip had was canceled.
The
Daily Northwestern. |
The
On-Off Cuba Trip Finally On
After a week of waiting and
anxiety, the women's national volleyball team finally
jets out today for a two-week training stint in
Cuba. AllAfrica.com. |
July
14
FROM
CUBA
Party
officials in Cuba disrupt arts students' launch
of papier-mâché boat
Communist Party officials
in Batabanó stopped the launching of a papier-mâché
boat that was somehow supposed to stand for drug
addiction and hauled three art students and their
professor to Party headquarters to "discuss the
incident" July 3.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Drought
in Cuba extends to hydroelectric output
The continuing drought affecting
the easternmost Cuban provinces has also had an
effect on hydroelectric facilities that supply
power to outlying or isolated communities.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Cuban
independent journalist assaulted
A man who identified himself
as Pedro Díaz, a dissident connected with the Varela
project, beat up independent journalist Urbano Lorenzo
July 9 in Cabaiguán, Sancti Spíritus province.
HAVANA |
The
tugboat massacre
Ten years ago today, Jorge
A. García lost 14 relatives in an atrocity that
horrified the Cuban people and still shocks the
conscience: The murder of 41 civilians, among them
10 children, sent to sea graves when three Cuban
boats, chased, rammed and sank the 13 de Marzo,
the old wooden tugboat in which they were fleeing
the island. True nature
The
Miami Herald. |
Mexican
Businesses Aim for Return to Cuba
Several months after Mexico
pulled its National Bank of Foreign Commerce from
the Cuban capital amid a diplomatic spat, Mexican
businessmen traveled to the island to negotiate
a future presence here.
Forbes
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Taylor
teacher recounts trip to Cuba
Shoreline gun placements,
the constant sense of being watched, highly trained
professionals who make only $15 to $17 a month,
and bitterness toward the Russians -- those were
the observations of life in Cuba made by Taylor
University business faculty member Jim Coe and his
wife, Linda, during a recent visit to Havana.
Chronicle-Tribune
. |
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links
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A
vote for the Cubans
The GOP defections, coming four months before
the election, make a strong statement against
the political manipulation of Cuba policy.
Palm
Beach Post, FL .
|
Music: a window on a new
Cuba
New book by Eugene Robinson looks at how Cubans
express their hopes, frustrations and political
dissent, through music.
MSNBC.
|
Germany
sees Cuba as the team to beat
The world's number 11 women's volleyball team,
Germany, sees Cuba as its strongest opponent in
the second series of the 2004 World Grand Prix,
which features four world-class teams.
Jakarta
Post, Indonesia.
|
July
12
FROM
CUBA
Residents
in Cuba concerned about overflowing septic tanks
Residents of Guaicanamar,
just outside Jaruco and south of the city of Havana,
say they are concerned about the proliferation
of overflowing septic tanks in the area, since
the last such situation two years ago was followed
by an outbreak of hepatitis. .
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
More than 40% of postal parcels lost in Cuba
More than 40% of the postal
parcels mailed this year have never reached their
destination, according to a recent study. Among
the missing: a refrigerator, a pair of pants,
a cellular phone, a fan.
SANTA
CLARA
|
FROM
CUBA
Drought
threatens cattle herd in Las Tunas
An expert from the Agriculture
Ministry who recently visited the province of Las
Tunas said the situation of the cattle herd in the
province was "critical" due to drought.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Mass
eviction in Casablanca
Amid a massive display of
force, authorities evicted a number of people in
several families June 30, apparently in order to
clear a slum known as Bachiplan on the road between
Casablanca and the Bahía neighborhood in Regla municipality.
HAVANA |
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Club Med built on property that Cuban exiles claim
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Hernandez Pitches Yankees to Victory
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U.S. Humanitarian Group Arrives in Cuba
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U.S. Women Volleyball Team Loses to Cuba
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Climate changes force Cuba to scramble to adapt
agriculture
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Chiron Is Fined for Trading With Cuba
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Bush losing support among key Cuban-American electorate:
survey
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The Miami Herald
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U.S. aid group visits Cuba, defying law
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Drug baron reported held entering Cuba
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Smuggler's penalty voided
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Join reform push, activist tells exiles
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12 Cubans are returned to island
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Club Med sued in Miami over use of land in Cuba
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Queen
of Salsa's posthumous memoir offers pleasantries
about everyone -- except Castro
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Cuba's
most prominent Christian prisoner may die of starvation,
family says
Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet,
one of Cuba's most prominent detained Christian
dissidents, has urged family and friends to pray
with him amid fears he may die of starvation as
prison officials have denied him food for about
three weeks.
BosNewsLife. |
Cuba
makes a slow welcome
Most Cubans aren't allowed
to stay overnight at hotels, even if they have the
money to pay for the rooms. Nor are they allowed
to board the old Soviet planes that carry tourists
to such spots as Cayo Largo..
Keynoter
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Raul
Rivero - prisoner of Cuban Communism
Blanca Reyes Castacon, the
wife of a well-known Cuban Dissident Raul Rivero
Casta?eda, appealed for help to the international
community. She asks to protect her husband who was
sentenced to 20 years in prison by a court in Havana
on 4 April last year.
PRIMA
News. Russia. |
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Coast
Guard: new ban on boats to Cuba
No U.S. vessels will be allowed to travel to Cuban
waters without a special permit, the Coast Guard
announced Thursday.
Washington
Times, DC.
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Hernandez
stars in Yankees win
Orlando Hernandez pitched five solid innings in
his first major league start since 2002, leading
the New York Yankees to a 10-3 win over the Tampa
Bay Devil Rays in American League play on Monday.
TVNZ,
New Zealand.
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Cuba's
complex reality defies simple solutions
While immigration reform is the acknowledged "third
rail" of American politics -- touch it and you
immediately anger some constituency -- U.S. policy
toward Cuba comes a close second. There are two
distinct arguments on how to treat this pesky
dictatorship 90 miles from our coast, and proponents
of either position pillory anyone who deviates.
Heritage.org,
DC.
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Keep
the Cuba embargo? YES
Some people do not understand the embargo of Cuba.
Its purpose is to keep American hard currency
out of the hands of a Communist thug by restricting
most trade and travel. Since the military controls
all tourism-related business ventures in Cuba,
lifting the U.S. travel embargo would put at least
$5 billion to $6 billion directly into Castro's
hands every year.
Rep.
Mario Diaz-Balart / New York Daily News.
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Keep
the Cuba embargo? NO
The thought of a government enforcing restrictions
that keep people away from their loved ones and
prevent money from being sent to feed and clothe
needy relatives conjures up images of life behind
the Iron Curtain. If only these policies were
that dated and the countries so distant!
Rep.
Joseph Crowley / New York Daily News.
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Propping
up a tropical tyranny
For those Canadians who cling to the conceit that
Cuba's socialist system presents a humane and
economically viable alternative to Western capitalism,
this week's Post series on Fidel Castro's tropical
tyranny should be required reading.
National
Post (subscription), Canada.
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Cuban
defector close to signing with Mets
The New York Mets agreed to a three-year, $3 million
contract with Cuban defector Alay Soler, a right-hander
who ranked among the best in the Cuban leagues
in earned-run average. Soler is somewhere around
24 years old and has had at least one major arm
surgery.
Chicago
Tribune (subscription), IL.
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Hip-hop
not getting bad rap in Cuba
Seven men, some wearing nothing but bikini underwear,
spent a recent morning rolling around on the floor,
chanting, running in circles and literally banging
out tunes using old Soviet typewriters as instruments.
Tracey
Eaton / The Dallas Morning News.
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Cuban
system on decline
With some of its best athletes and coaches defecting
on a regular basis, Cuba may not be as dominant
in Athens as in past Olympics. Cuba has less funding
for its once-powerful sports system and has been
competing less on an international basis leading
up to Athens.
South
Florida Sun-Sentinel, FL.
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July
8
FROM
CUBA
Woman
dies after five-hour wait for ambulance
Delfina Fundora checked
into the Managua polyclinic Thursday with what
doctors called an ischemic attack. Medical personnel
called for an ambulance to transport Fundora to
the hospital, but ambulance central said at the
time that they had no vehicles available. .
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CUBA
Rain
probabilities poor
The probabilities of rain
in the coming months that would alleviate the
year-long drought Cuba has been suffering through
are slight, said meteorologist Roger Rivero, of
the Camagüey investigative center.
SANTA
CLARA
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CUBA
Trio
fined equivalent of six months' salary for trying
to escape Cuba
A Naval judge has fined three
men 3,000 pesos - the equivalent of 15 months' salary
- for trying to leave the island in a 15-foot motorboat
they found.
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House Votes to Overturn Bush Rules on Cuba
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Church Groups Lead Annual Relief to Cuba
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Powell prescribes Cuba travel waiver for U.S.
medical students
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Crude Near Cuba
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Americans Still Traveling to Cuba
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Ex-Olympic Wrestler Charged in Fla. Crash
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Self-mutilation
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Spanish
Seek Oil Off Cuba, as Americans Watch Silently
Recent announcements from Repsol YPF, the big
Spanish oil and gas company, indicate an ambitious
expansion program, with projects planned for countries
like Libya and Equatorial Guinea that are not
for the risk-averse. But none has attracted as
much attention as its gamble on Cuba.
The
New York Times.
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Powell
prescribes Cuba travel waiver for US medical students
Days before tighter restrictions on travel to
Cuba went into effect last week, Powell quietly
agreed to tweak the new rules to allow a small
group of U.S. students attending medical school
on the island to continue to do so.
USA
Today.
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Cuba
Rules Scare Medical Students
American medical students in Cuba have rushed
back to the United States, missing their final
exams, over fears that U.S. authorities will jail
them, fine them thousands of dollars, or revoke
their citizenship for studying medicine on the
island.
Sun-Sentinel,
FL.
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Garcia
finds Cuba stand-in
The Cuban flag was hung from a balcony of the
Dominican National Palace for the benefit of actor
Andy Garcia in the Dominican Republic's capital,
Santo Domingo. The building was being used Saturday
in the filming of "The Lost City," which the Cuban-born
Garcia is acting in and directing.
Denver
Post, CO.
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Cuba's
Communists launch crackdown
Cuba's ruling Communist party has launched a far-reaching
assault on "corruption and illegalities" that
could lead to the expulsion of moderate members.
The campaign - yet to be reported by official
government media - reflects the party's ideological
retrenchment and underlines the extent to which
the government has renounced its timid market-oriented
reforms of the early 1990s.
Financial
Times, UK.
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Joel
Casamayor ? The Cool Cuban Fights On
Look into the eyes of Joel Casamayor. At once
intense, yet relaxed, arrogant, yet focused, the
eyes of the Cuban defector turned world champion
hold stories that most of us could never fathom.
Maxboxing.
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Family
members fighting for painter's artwork from ASU
Now several family members, including Alvarez's
ex-wife in Cuba and his current wife in Spain,
have contacted the university and claimed ownership
of the works.
Tucson
Citizen, AZ.
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Chid
Cuba trip called off
New Bush administration guidelines regarding educational
trips to Cuba have sent 16 UW students scrambling
to find new travel plans during early fall.
The
Daily.
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July
5
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CUBA
Judge
bars paroled dissident from traveling to Havana
Paroled Cuban dissident
Juan Carlos González said the judge in charge
of his case, Juan Enrique Balar, barred him from
traveling to Havana June 30.
HAVANA
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CUBA
Energy
cuts affect workers' salaries
Energy-saving rolling blackouts
decreed by authorities in Villa Clara province
are adversely affecting workers' wages as businesses
close and workers fall short of production goals.
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CUBA
Anti-government
graffiti in eastern Cuba
Someone posted at least four
signs bearing anti-government slogans around the
Camagüey-province port city of Nuevitas, one of
them very close to the local Communist Party offices,
during the night of 23-24 June.
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CUBA
Cafe
or cafeteria, but no coffee to be had
Cubans are as likely as not
to shorten the name "cafeteria" to "cafe" in reference
to said establishments. Residents of Palma Soriano
say the Nuevo Mundo can be called by either name,
but is neither.
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Torture suspect arrested
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Torture suspect from Cuba has closed court hearing
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Democrats say Cuba travel restrictions could help
Kerry
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Cuba sanctions hit home for families in Miami
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Repatriated exile: Government will let him leave
Cuba and return
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Guayabera's origin remains a puzzle
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Top Cuban Legislator Criticizes U.S. Plan
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Musicians Criticize U.S.-Cuba Travel Ban
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List of U.S. government rules on Cuba travel and
remittances
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Cupid-hit Cubans hurry to tie and untie the knot
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No more lonely nights for Contreras
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Garcia Films 'Lost City' Scenes in Palace
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New US restrictions
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Uncertainty
haunts 6 dissidents released from Cuban prisons
In the first few days of his
fragile freedom, Carmelo Díaz Fernández was plagued
by nightmares. After 15 months in prison, the 67-year-old
former accountant and independent journalist had
trouble sleeping in his bed. .
South
Florida Sun-Sentinel. |
Editorial:
Cuba jails hundreds of political prisoners
Does the regime's move to
release these few captives signal a softening of
the police state? Not at all. This is a calculated
return to tired tactics: When the heat is on, the
dictator frees prisoners who shouldn't have been
imprisoned in the first place. Often the releases
are presented as ''gifts'' to prominent visitors,
such as the pope, Jesse Jackson and Gabriel García
Márquez.
The
Miami Herald. |
This
is how you bring down Fidel Castro?
Just when you thought that
U.S. policy toward Cuba couldn't get any dumber,
along comes President Bush with another grandstanding
stunt that is doomed to backfire.
Carl
Hiaasen, The Miami Herald. |
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Court
decision may open door for Cuban, Haitian detainees
A prominent Cuban exile activist said Thursday
that a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on alleged
terrorists held at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo
Bay might help secure the release of Cubans and
Haitians detained there.
Sun-Sentinel,
FL.
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Coast
Guard returns 23 Cubans found at sea
The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday returned to Cuba
23 migrants who were found at sea in the past
week, officials said.
Sun-Sentinel,
FL.
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Cuban
musicians criticize U.S. rules that enforce travel
limits
A group of musicians on Wednesday criticized new
U.S. regulations that will further limit travel
to Cuba, urging the United States to build bridges
to the island instead of tearing them down.
Sun-Sentinel,
FL.
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A
life's love of Cuba, salsa
An icon of almost unimaginable importance among
Hispanics, Celia Cruz is a daunting subject for
a memoir. So it's understandable that Celia: My
Life, the singer's as-told-to autobiography with
writer Ana Cristina Reymundo, doesn't fulfill
all the expectations one might have.
The
Orlando Sentinel, FL.
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New
Cuba Travel Limits May Sway Voters
Carlos F. Lazo, an American military medic on
15 days' leave from Iraq, wanted to see his teenage
sons in Cuba. He flew to Miami, only to be told
that new Bush administration rules designed to
punish Cuba made it impossible.
The
Washington Post.
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For
many in Cuba, marriage is for the birds
When
Yanet Vázquez finally decided to end her marriage,
she and her soon-to-be ex-husband strolled into
a notary public's office, plunked down $4 and
were blissfully divorced in 20 minutes. "It was
quick and easy," said Ms. Vázquez, 31, a cashier.
Indeed, getting unhitched in Cuba is about as
cheap and effortless as it gets, experts say.
The country's liberal divorce laws also fuel one
of the world's highest divorce rates.
Tracey
Eaton / The Dallas Morning News.
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Cuba
'humbling' for church group
After four days celebrating the 50th anniversary
of the evangelical church in Cuba, a 10-member
team from The Rock Church found themselves locked
in an airport terminal for close to 12 hours on
Monday.
The
Gloucester County Times, NJ.
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Castro
hopes Maradona will come back to Cuba
Fidel Castro said yesterday that he hopes Diego
Maradona can return to Cuba, where he spent several
years undergoing drug rehabilitation. Maradona,
43, has been receiving medical treatment in Argentina
in recent weeks for serious heart and lung problems.
Independent,
UK.
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Volunteers
collect supplies for Cuba
A caravan of volunteers stopped in Nashville last
night to collect medical and school supplies before
heading to Cuba next month, in defiance of government
restrictions on aid and travel to the island.
The
Tennessean, TN.
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Will the
new Cuba trade embargo backfire?
The rationale is that depriving the Castro regime
of dollars from tourists or goods from American
factories will turn up the pressure on the leader
himself, hastening his downfall.
BBC
News, UK.
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