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28
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CUBA
Police
confiscate street vendors' merchandise
Police carried out a raid
in the environs of the Santa Clara bus terminal
April 22, confiscating merchandise from several
vendors, mostly elderly, who work in the area.
SANTA CLARA
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CUBA
Political
prisoner gets expired medicines
Prison authorities gave
political prisoner Miguel Díaz several packages
containing expired date medicines at La Pendiente
prison on April 21.
SANTA
CLARA
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FROM
CUBA
The
Cuban Foundation of Human Rights Awards the Premio
Paloma
The Cuban Foundation of Human
Rights awarded the second annual Premio Paloma 2005
to independent journalists Normando Hernández González.
SANTA
CLARA |
FROM
CUBA
Police
confiscate satellite receivers
Police raided two homes early
on April 17 in the San Miguel del Padrón municipality
of Havana and confiscated equipment that enabled
the reception of satellite TV signals.
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Castro gets best possible economic news: Venezuela's
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Castro, Chavez Move to Meld Economies
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US Congress urges EU to press Cuba on rights record
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Top Cuban Official Meets Vietnam General
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Cubans Sentenced for Storming Embassy
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Hundreds in D.C. call for fewer limits on travel
to Cuba
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Caucus wants firm pressure on Castro
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Rivals
duel over Cuba policy
Even as activists from across the country gathered
in the Capital on Wednesday to protest U.S. sanctions
against Cuba, pro-embargo members of Congress
announced the formation of a new group that will
work to further isolate Fidel Castro's government.
Sun-Sentinel,
FL.
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April
26
FROM
CUBA
Skeptical
Cuban housewives calculate cooking options
Housewives in Mayarí, in
the eastern Cuban province of Holguín, await the
recently announced availability of electric rice
cookers with mixed feelings; it will be nice to
have a new rice cooker, they say, but will there
be electricity available to use it?
HAVANA
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CUBA
More
blackouts in Caibarién
Residents of Caibarién await
with anticipation Fidel Castro's participation
in a political TV program Thursday nights. Not
because they have any intention of tuning in,
but because they say that there will not be a
blackout those nights.
CAIBARIÉN
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FROM
CUBA
Fish
quota distributed in Santa Clara
"Make it last, señora, because
those three little fishes have to last all month,"
said one customer addressing a woman who had just
bought her quota of fish for the month in a Santa
Clara market.
Santa
Clara. |
FROM
CUBA
Ranchuelo
waterworks pumping untreated water
Residents of the El Monte
district in Ranchuelo, Villa Clara province, complain
the municipal water service is pumping untreated
water from nearby rivers since April 19.
SANTA
CLARA |
FROM
CUBA
Government
sends water by train to drought-stricken area
Government officials have
assigned a train to deliver water to several municipalities
in Holguín province that have been suffering from
an extended drought for months.
CIENFUEGOS |
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The Miami Herald
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Bioweapon threat still unclear
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Wakeman makes Havana shout 'Yes!'
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Elián saga altered lives
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Juan Pablo's gone, but his music plays on
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US lawmakers to found pro-democracy group for
Cuba
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Members of Congress to Announce Legislation to
Lift Cuba Travel Ban
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Companies Launch New U.S.-Cuba Trade Association
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Surviving
Cuba's Prisons
For the crime of reporting
the news, Jorge Olivera Castillo spent most of two
years in the hellish conditions of Cuba's prisons.
Sauro
González, CPJ. |
Cuba
to conduct vaccine trials in Malaysia
Malaysia is allowing Cuba
to conduct clinical trials on vaccines as part of
efforts to promote co-operation in the pharmaceutical
industry.
The
Star Online, Malaysia. |
A
family is split apart in the exodus -- and finally
reunited
Anabel Ruiz Carvajal was
7 when she arrived in Miami through the Mariel boatlift.
She was v9 when she returned to Cuba. Her story
is an unusual one.
The
Miami Herald. |
Cuban
government sentenced two accredited members of the
General Assembly to Promote the Civil Society in
Cuba
The following letter was received
by the Executive Committee of the General Assembly
to Promote the Civil Society in Cuba from the Manzanillo
prison located in the province of Granma, Cuba.
NetforCuba
International |
U.S.-Cuba
policy is personal for Shoreline dad
Carlos Lazo has floated in
shark-infested waters, faced down enemy mortars
and traveled across a continent to build a new life.
The
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Plan
to limit Cuba travel fails
A move to limit travel from Florida to Cuba died
in the state Senate on Monday when committee members
said they don't want to stop anyone from visiting
a sick or dying relative.
Sun-Sentinel,
FL.
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What happened
to Elian Gonzalez?
The Cuban government carefully guards his privacy.
State security agents appear to have set up camp
in the house next door. Anyone loitering nearby
is questioned. Photographs are prohibited.
BBC,
UK.
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April
21
FROM
CUBA
E-mail
access curtailed for election day in Santiago
All navigation through the
national Intranet has been suspended since Saturday
due to the municipal elections held on Sunday.
SANTIAGO DE CUBA
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CUBA
Young
man harassed for refusing to vote
Several government officials,
headed by zone delegate Hugo Cuesta, visited Omar
Hung at home on Sunday and hectored him for refusing
to vote in municipal elections held that day.
SANTIAGO
DE CUBA
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FROM
CUBA
Long
lines to obtain retirees' bonds
Several government officials,
headed by zone delegate Hugo Cuesta, visited Omar
Hung at home on Sunday and hectored him for refusing
to vote in municipal elections held that day.
SANTIAGO
DE CUBA |
FROM
CUBA
Thirty-four
dissidents ask for Castro's resignation
Thirty-four dissidents asked
for Fidel Castro's resignation in an April 12 letter
handed in to the offices of the Council of State,
over which Castro presides.
SANTA
CLARA |
FROM
CUBA
Flea
and tick infestation, again, near schools in Cuba
Residents of several homes
in Ranchuelo detected a substantial influx of ticks
and fleas starting on the morning of April 13.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Family
members of Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva arrested and
DVD equipment confiscated
On March 31, members of the
jury to select the winner of the Paloma Award, granted
by the Cuban Foundation for Human Rights, gathered
at the home of the lawyer Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva,
headquarters of said human rights organization.
HAVANA |
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Official: Cuba cooperation eased deportation
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In rare move, U.S. deports Cuban accused of spying
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Park will recall saga of Pedro Pan
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UN human rights forum rejects Cuban call for Guantanamo
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Zero
tolerance for terrorism suspects
The United States must have
zero tolerance for terrorists. If there was any
doubt about this before Sept. 11, 2001, there is
none today.
The
Miami Herald. |
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April
19
FROM
CUBA
New
test pattern jams TV Martí in Santa Clara
TV viewers who tried to
tune to the broadcast from U.S.-based TV Martí
Saturday April 16 from Santa Clara were surprised
to find themselves watching a test pattern they
hadn't seen before accompanied by a high-frequency
pitch.
SANTA CLARA
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CUBA
Students
stricken with food poisoning
Approximately 48 students
who ate croquettes for dinner at the Miguel A.
Pedroso technological school were stricken with
food poisoning last Thursday.
RANCHUELO
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CUBA
Suspicious
visitor claims to come from U. S.-based NED
A few dissidents and independent
journalists in Santiago de Cuba received a visit
from a man who said he represented the National
Endowment for Democracy, a U. S. organization that
supports democratic development throughout the world.
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Cuban exiles prep post-Castro plan
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Wife: Detainee on hunger strike was force-fed
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Spear Due To Leave Fla. Hospital After Being Stricken
In Cuba
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Cuba Says 96.66 Percent of Voters Voted
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Cuban salsa 'master' Juan Pablo Torres dies at
59
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British rocker Wakeman woos Cuba ahead of concerts
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Castro Criticizes EU Over Guantanamo Probe
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Cubans Fall In Kindelan's Absence
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America
; Honduras Rejects 25 Medical Scholarships From
Cuba
The Honduran government rejected
25 out of 45 medical scholarships that Cuba's Latin
American School of Medicine offered to Honduran
students, officials said Monday.
Keralanext,
India. |
Flowing
from Mariel
Gilberto Ruiz doesn't want
to talk about the voyage that brought him to U.S.
shores 25 years ago, but gently coax him and the
images emerge with the force of his brusque strokes
on canvas.
The
Miami Herald. |
Tighter
travel rules won't get U.S. what it wants in Cuba
To some, it's a puzzle to
figure out why the Bush administration has tightened
travel restrictions to Cuba while at the same time
loosened the trade embargo for U.S. agriculture.
The
Orlando Sentinel. |
Dan
Rather, CNN and Castro
In his new book "Fidel: Hollywood's
Favorite Tyrant," Fontova describes what he calls
a staged interview Dan Rather held with Juan Miguel,
father of Elian Gonzalez.
Sherrie
Gossett, The Conservative Voice. |
When
a bottle of rum can call itself Cuban
Is it geography or chemistry
that gives different rums their distinctive taste?
Is it the sugar, the soil and the climate? Or is
it closely guarded recipes for distillation?
Minneapolis
Star Tribune. |
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April
13
FROM
CUBA
Police
target street vendors
Officers of the National
Revolutionary Police and inspectors of the department
of Prices and Finance raided several street vendors
in Santa Clara April 4, confiscating their wares
and imposing fines on them.
SANTA CLARA
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CUBA
Church
closed in Santa Clara
Sunday, April 3, after services,
the representative of the Churches of Christ in
Villa Clara province told the preacher of the
church sited in José Martí subdivision that the
Church Council had decided to close the church.
SANTA
CLARA
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FROM
CUBA
Young
laborers poorly trained, according to complaints
According to widespread complaints,
young laborers are poorly trained and equipped to
perform in their intended occupations by the appropriate
authorities, in spite of a multiplicity of rules
and regulations to that effect.
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Cuba won't let ex-political prisoner leave for
United States
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Prisoner burned in Cuban uprising dies
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From enemy to possible pope
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Anti-Castro fugitive to seek political asylum
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Cuba, Venezuela call for exile now in U.S.
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U.S. Criticizes Cuba on Human Rights
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US seeks extension of UN scrutiny of human rights
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Dissidents
persist in face of danger
You have to admire the courage
of dissidents in Cuba. They live under a totalitarian
regime where what free people do daily -- criticize
the government -- is a crime.
The
Miami Herald. |
Feds:
We're prepped for mass migration
Wayne Justice was skipper
of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter out of Key West in
the spring of 1980 when his patrol ran into boatloads
of Cuban refugees fleeing to freedom in the United
States. He remembers thinking it would end soon.
Keynoter.com |
Students
call rare trip to Cuba humbling experience
The UCD students each paid
about $11,000 for the trip, and the program barely
managed to draw in the minimum 10 students required.
California
Aggie. |
May
11 Tyler Conference to Tell How to Do Business with
Cuba
Thanks to changes in federal
trade sanctions law, exporting food to Cuba is now
not only possible, it promises to be very profitable
for Texas agricultural producers.
AgNews.
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Marielito
and proud: Journalist offers perspective on boatlift
New York Times reporter Mirta Ojito knows a good
story when she sees one, and she has the Pulitzer
Prize to prove it. She knows a good story when
she's lived one, too. She came to the United States
from her native Cuba as a 16-year-old, brought
by her parents in the Mariel boatlift of 1980
. Sun-Sentinel,
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U.S.
line remains hard against Cuba, despite moderating
forces
Growing up in New York, Mayda Prego thought of
Cuba as a faraway island with a communist government
that would probably gradually wither away. Now
that she's visited her ancestral homeland, she's
struck by its vibrancy and vitality.
WINK
TV Southwest Florida.
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Finding
Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus
The longing for a romantic, imaginary past suffuses
Cuban memoir writing. We are more than familiar
with the enchanted island that never was: the
blue sea, blue sky and swaying palm trees; lovers
walking hand in hand on the wide sea wall they
call the Malecon; the socialites in their evening
dresses dancing the night away at the Havana Yacht
Club; and always, everywhere, the strains of "Guantanamera."
International
Herald Tribune.
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April
11
FROM
CUBA
Second
riot at prison in 12 days
A second riot broke out
at the Combinado del Este prison in Havana April
5, barely 12 days after another riot at the same
facility.
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Detainee on hunger strike
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Mariel exiles differ on U.S. policy
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Mariel exiles firmly middle class
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People, not politics, at the core in Mariel piece
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Cuba trip touched Miami exiles
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After Castro, don't expect any sudden changes
in economic policy
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Groups
warned to obey travel limits
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Mariel family finds success in America against
the odds
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Cuba Action Day April 27; Over 700 to Call for
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Cubans
enraged at Che as T-shirt icon
Some people consider Ernesto
"Che" Guevara the ultimate Latin American revolutionary
leader, a man who gave his life to free the people
of the Americas from U.S. imperialism.
The
Record, N.J
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Cuban
exodus sails into U.S. history
Lourdes Hernandez was a short
and skinny 15-year-old, sitting down on a sunny
afternoon for lunch at her grandmother's house,
when she was forced to face her future.
The
Buffalo News. |
Message
in Cuba
Pope John Paul II's visit
to Cuba in 1998 generated optimism on and off the
island, but achieved little in loosening the grip
of Fidel Castro's authoritarian regime.
The
Miami Herald. |
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April
3
Cuba
has 'surprise' Pope mourning
Cuba has begun three days
of national mourning to mark the death of Pope
John Paul II. Flags in the communist state, which
until 1992 was officially atheist, are being flown
at half-mast.
BBC
News, UK.
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Experts question sense of revaluing Cuban peso
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Castro, island mourn pope
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Mariel: From turmoil to triumph
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Cuban exile's presence would rally exiles, perplex
U.S.
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Asylum to be sought for Cuban militant
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Mariel: New leaders were forged in heat of Mariel
crisis
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I saw joy, sadness, weariness and hope
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To get the story, I hid on a boat near Mariel
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Miami's Cuban stations a key force
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Heady days for Herald: boatlift and major riots
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I wasn't prepared for this huge story
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Story's fallout was felt for decades
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Cuba
reopens border to Canadian cattle after mad cow
disease scare
Cuba has reopened its border
to live Canadian cattle, nearly two years after
the Caribbean island country blocked such imports
over a single case of mad cow disease discovered
in Alberta.
Canadian
Press. |
Church
bells announced pope's death in Cuba
Church bells rang out on the
Communist island of Cuba Saturday to announce the
death of Pope Paul II, the only pontiff ever to
visit the country. He went there in January 1998.
CNN. |
With
Mariel, South Florida blossomed
They left Cuba in desperation
in search of a better life here. The 125,266 Cubans
who arrived on our shores via the 1980 Mariel boatlift
were a hardy bunch. To leave, they survived leaky
boats, rough crossings and attacks on their personal
dignity in Cuba. Once here, their image was tarred
by the behavior of criminals, a minority among them.
The
Miami Herald, FL. |
How
Castro uses the U.S.
Twenty-five years ago, in
April 1980, a spectacular event took place: Tens
of thousands of desperate Cubans sailed aboard anything
at all, headed to the south of the United States.
Carlos
Alberto Montaner, The Miami Herald,. FL. |
John
Paul's impact on Cuba remains in religious sphere
For Cuban Catholics who refused
to renounce their religion during decades of officially
imposed atheism, Pope John Paul II's historic 1998
trip offered a sublime confirmation of faith.
Florida
Sun-Sentinel, FL. |
A
chorus of Fidel Castro defenders
Maybe, however, if those distinguished
Nobel laureates, artists and intellectuals petitioning
on behalf of Fidel would also directly make these
requests by Amnesty International to the Maximum
Leader of Cuba - Fidel might actually show a concern,
however fleeting, for human rights. Will they?
Jewish
World Review. |
Che
T-shirts keep reality under wraps
The first time I saw a Che
thingamajiggy -- a coffee mug with his mug on it
-- I was traveling through Spain 20 years ago. I
was surprised to find the image of the Argentinean
Marxist revolutionary who became the most popular
figure, after Fidel Castro, in Cuba's revolution,
on display. Silly me.
Myriam
Márquez, Orlando Sentinel, FL. |
The
rebel women of Cuba
Dressed all in white, they
will first attend mass at Havana's Santa Rita Catholic
church. And then they'll walk together along the
sidewalk in a silent protest against 61 dissidents'
continued imprisonment. They are part of more than
300 political prisoners rotting in Castro's jails.
Bob
MacDonald, Toronto Sun, Canada. |
Hugo
Chavez: Castro's Mini-Me
'One darned thing after another':
That's how former Secretary of State Dean Acheson
once defined foreign policy. The latest "darned
thing" for the United States is Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez.
The
Heritage Foundation. |
Funeral
to unite Bush, Blair and Clinton - but Castro will
stay away
Presidents will rub shoulders
with kings and queens at the Pope's funeral in a
diplomatic nightmare that will accompany one of
the biggest ever gatherings of world leaders in
modern times, as well as one of the largest gatherings
of pilgrims, who are expected to number up to four
million.
The
Independent, UK. |
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April
1
FROM
CUBA
Democratic
Solidarity Party splits with the Assembly to Promote
Civil Society in Cuba
The dissident Democratic
Solidarity Party decided at a meeting last week
to withdraw from the Assembly to Promote Civil
Society in Cuba.
HAVANA
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FROM
CUBA
Some
10 miles of power cables and telephone lines stolen
in Santiago de Cuba
Thieves reportedly cut and
stole about 10 miles of power cables and telephone
lines last year in the province of Santiago de
Cuba.
HAVANA
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FROM
CUBA
Police
try to blackmail journalist into not writing
Independent journalist Oscar
Mario González, who belongs to the Grupo de Trabajo
Decoro news agency, was offered an exit visa by
police last week if he stopped writing unfavorable
articles.
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Elusive Castro foe may be here
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Activist emerged from shadows
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5 nations are cited as human rights abusers
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Cuban refugee freed by ruling dies
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Prisoners' wives rally unchallenged in Havana
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Dissidents' wives urge Castro to respect protest
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EU delegation pressures Havana over rights record
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Cuban immigrants stuck after being denied benefits
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Cuban
refugee freed by ruling dies
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US lines up action against Cuba in UN rights body
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Cuban activist calls on dissidents to unite in
shared cause
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Venezuela Bank Marks $65M for Cuba Exports
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Castro, Chavez are major threat to Latin America,
warns top ex-US official
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Castro Announces Welfare Payment Increase
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EU: Castro shares interest in closer ties
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Cuban central bank chief says island sees first
surplus in decade
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More
than 18,000 children from Chernobyl treated in
Cuba over last 15 years
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Cuba
opens border to Canadian cattle
Cuba will start importing
live cattle from Canada again. Federal Agriculture
Minister Andy Mitchell announced that the almost
two-year ban is being lifted while at a news conference
Thursday in Havana..
CBC
News, Canada. |
Don't
neglect Radio and TV Martí
Policy on Cuba has been a
low priority in Washington for years. With the war
on terrorism, the North Korean nuclear threat and
the Israeli-Palestinian situation, the island and
Latin America as a whole have been relegated to
the back burner.
Frank
Calzon, The Miami Herald.
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