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New
ration books distributed in Cuba for 2005
The Ministry of Internal
Commerce distributed new ration books to Cuban
families at the end of the year. The document
is necessary for people to acquire certain basic
products of a basket determined by the government
at subsidized prices.
HAVANA
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Cuban
polyclinics show improvement in 2004
The more than 90 neighborhood
polyclinics serving the 2.3 million residents
of the capital showed a marked improvement in
terms of equipment and physical plant during 2004.
SANTA
CLARA
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FROM
CUBA
Food
prices increase
Food prices in Placetas, central
Cuba, have increased after the government barred
the U. S. dollar from circulation and imposed a
10% surcharge on dollar transactions, said local
dissident Amado Ruiz.
PLACETAS |
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Migrants' torment
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Basulto wins $1.75M against Cuba
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Old Cuban fashion made fresh
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Opportunity knockout for Cuban boxer
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Elián protesters' suit to begin
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Cuba's Diaz earns his way to HBO telecast
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'Outposts of tyranny' Cuba and Iran thumb noses
at Bush with cooperation deal
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Rare
private doctors fill medical gaps
Cuba's private doctors and
dentists predate other "private entrepreneurs,"
who were licensed for work in the mid-1990s and
have since dwindled because of strict regulations
and high taxes.
Vanessa
Bauzá, Sun-Sentinel.
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Cuban
institutions live in exile
When Fidel Castro took power
in Cuba, his government seized and silenced some
of the country's beloved institutions, from prominent
religious schools to funeral homes.
Madeline
Baró Diaz, Sun-Sentinel.
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Ex-Cuban
spy looses bid not to go to US for drug trial
Nelson Garrido, a former Cuban
spy, will be sent back to the US to face charges
of drug trafficking. His three-year old legal battle
to persuade the South African courts not to extradite
him ended today after his application to review
a judgment of the Randburg Magistrate's Court was
dismissed in the Johannesburg High Court.
SABCnews.com.
South Africa. |
Cuba
braces for 4 more years of U.S. sanctions
As George W. Bush begins his
second term calling for an end to tyranny, Cuban
officials are bracing for four more years of bruising
economic sanctions from an American president they
call The Emperor.
KRT
Wire. |
Maradona
quits Cuba clinic
Diego Maradone has left a
Cuban mental health clinic where he was being treated
for drug addiction and moved to a health spa, said
Argentina's ambassador in Havana.
The
Scotsman, UK. |
Trinidad
de Cuba -- circa 1840
Too many 'protected' towns
have become too cute for their own good. But Trinidad,
with its preserved mansions and Che Guevara murals,
feels authentic.
The
Globe and Mail. Canada . |
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A
Speech About Nothing, Something, Everything
Cuba is a hardy perennial that Mr. Bush clearly
has no intention of toppling: Like every president's
for four decades, his strategy seems to be to
wait for the actuarial tables to catch up with
Fidel Castro. But after Mr. Castro's demise, Mr.
Bush could easily dust off one phrase from his
speech to shape Cubans' future course: "When we
stand for liberty, we will stand with you."
The
New York Times.
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January
21
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CUBA
Salt-water
intrusion threatens local fish in Cuba
Salt-water intrusion into
the La Redonda and La Leche marshes, in the municipality
of Morón, Ciego de Ávila province, threaten the
survival of local fish species, say local fishermen.
CAMAGÜEY
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CUBA
Authorities
cannot stop pilferage at cigarette factory
Authorities seem to be powerless
to stop the pilferage of raw materials at the
Ramiro Lavandero Cruz cigarette factory in Ranchuelo.
In a recent move, they decreed the security detail
assigned to the factory will be limited to patrolling
the outside of the facility.
RANCHUELO
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CUBA
Seasonings
plant effectively shut down
The "El Potro" seasonings
plant has been effectively shut down by lack of
materials, and dozens of workers have been idle
for over ten days.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Rural
Cuban hospital suffers transportation woes
Personnel at the Jibacoa rural
hospital started 2005 without a means of transportation
to reach the hospital. To boot, the ambulance the
hospital used to have, which caught fire at the
end of last year, has not been replaced.
SANTA
CLARA |
FROM
CUBA
Youth
knifed in street brawl
A young Ranchuelo man ended
up in hospital as a result of knife wounds received
in a street brawl January 13.
RANCHUELO |
FROM
CUBA
Patients
disappointed lab tests not performed
Patients in Ranchuelo who
needed lab tests performed were disappointed when
the one facility in town didn't open January 12,
presumably due to a lack of hygiene.
SANTA
CLARA |
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The Miami Herald
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Gala's snub is no obstacle
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Drug Traffickers in Cuba Get More Saavy
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Elegant, obese dancers shatter stereotypes
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Exiled Cuban artist pens a compelling autobiographical
novel
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Dissident
knifed by strangers
On January 15 three men tried
to murder Lucas Raúl Pérez Pérez, a 38 years old
opponent and delegate in Camagüey of The Democratic
Party November 30 "Frank País", declared sources
of the opposition.
Information
Bridge Cuba Miami.
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Canada,
Cuba resume beef trade
Cuba will reopen its border
to a wide range of Canadian beef products, the Canadian
government announced Dec. 14.
Iowa
Farmer Today.
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Gattorno:
A Cuban Painter for the World
The Lowe Art Museum celebrates
Antonio Gattorno's (1904 - 1980) centennial with
the retrospective exhibition, Gattorno: "A Cuban
painter for the world" as he was defined by his
close friend Ernest Hemingway.
Art
Daily. |
MPLA
Delegation Expected In Cuba
A team with Angola's ruling
MPLA party, led by its Secretary-General, Juliao
Mateus Paulo "Dino Matross", on Thursday starts
a week-long visit to Cuba, at the invitation of
the local Communist Party, an official source has
announced.
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Many
exiles seek burial back in Cuba
Near the end of his brief battle with cancer,
Humberto Reyes longed to travel from Miami to
his childhood home in Havana so he could die with
his mother by his side. But the travel visa he
requested from the Cuban government arrived 10
days too late.
Sun-Sentinel.
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Dreaming
in Cuban
Oscar Delossantos won't be teaching high school
history classes much longer. The narrator of H.G.
Carrillo's debut novel, Loosing My Espanish, Oscar
has 34 days before he loses his post in a Chicago
parochial high school.
The
Washington Post.
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Number
of Cuban political prisoners remains high, says Human Rights Commission
The number of political prisoners in Cuban jails remains
roughly the same as last year, according to a report by the Commission for Human
Rights and National Reconciliation, a non-governmental Cuban organization.
HAVANA | | FROM
CUBA
Laid
off Cuban sugar workers called back
Close to 70
workers who were laid off when the Sugar Ministry shut down three area sugar mills
more than a year ago have been called back to work effective January 20.
PLACETAS |
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Rice: Cuba an 'outpost of tyranny,' Venezuela a 'negative force'
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Even Cuba to restrict smoking
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Migrants stopped at sea most in 10 years
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Gala snubs Cuban foundation
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EU split over Cuba policy proposal
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Freed dissidents look forward to time outside Cuba
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23 men who occupied Mexican Embassy in 2002 go on trial
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Bush Extends Waiver of Provision in Law on Cuba |
Cuba
decides to disregard GDP rankings
Foreign experts
say the change may suggest that the island's economy isn't faring well.
Marc
Frank, Financial Times.
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Oil Drilling Could Put U.S. Embargo Over An Economic Barrel
Is
Cuba on the verge of an oil bonanza that could pump financial life into Fidel
Castro's regime and soften U.S. trade policy toward the island?.
Keith
Epstein , Tampa Bay Online | Cuban-American
director shows independent spirit
Filmmaker León
Ichaso has an enviable gig coming up in Hollywood -- directing couple-of-the-hour
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony in a movie about the troubled life of a salsa
legend.
Fabiola
Santiago, The Miami Herald. | Chaplain
leads trip to Cuba
This winter vacation, University
Chaplain Frederick Streets lent his services to the suffering worldwide. After
helping to write a book on mental health in Rome, Streets joined in a service
trip to Cuba.
Yale
Daily News. | Are
we ready to care for Cubans freed from jail?
Is
anyone in government or in the private sector stepping forward with a plan to
provide counseling, job training, mental health services?
Jim
DeFede, The Miami Herald.
| | External
links | | Loved
ones plan for release of Cuban-born convicts who can't be deported
The last time Miriam Ojeda
saw her brother was in a courtroom, more than 20 years ago, slumped and pale from
blood loss, a bullet wound in his shoulder. Since then she's never had a conversation
with him that lasted more than 15 minutes -- the limit for a phone call from a
jailed convict to the outside world.
Sun-Sentinel,
FL. | | Cuba
stresses consolidation of ties with Iran
Visiting Cuban Vice President and Chairman of Cuba's Olympic Committee Jose Ramon
Fernandez and First Vice President Mohammad-Reza Aref in a meeting on Monday discussed
matters of mutual concern.
IranMania.com. |
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January
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CUBA
Fishmonger
throws fish to passersby as he is arrested
A fishmonger
in Santa Clara faced with imminent arrest, started throwing his fish to passersby
and on the roofs of neighboring houses January 6.
SANTA CLARA | | FROM
CUBA
Hundreds
of Cuban travelers stranded after New Year's
Hundreds
of travelers could be seen walking along the National Highway near Ranchuelo January
4, waving 10's and 20's in a futile attempt to find some transportation to the
west.
RANCHUELO | FROM
CUBA
Cuban
teachers give students notebooks
Some middle school
teachers in Santa Clara gave students a nine notebooks at the beginning of January,
since education authorities have provided them with few materials with which to
take notes.
SANTA
CLARA | FROM
CUBA
Gas
service in Havana interrupted New Year's Eve
Residents
of several areas of Havana found themselves with a celebratory New Year's Eve
meal to cook and no fuel to do it with; municipal gas service was interrupted
beginning at about noon and was not reestablished until after 8 that evening.
HAVANA |
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CUBA
Prisoner
mistreated by Cuban medical authorities
Pacheco
said he was taken to the hospital in Morón January 4 for a dislocated patella,
and that the orthopedic doctor who attended his case, a Dr. Peralta, didn't even
look or speak to him, simply sending him back to the prison to be examined again.
SANTA
CLARA | FROM
CUBA
anti-government
graffiti in Placetas
Someone painted five anti-government
slogans on the façade of the Placetas hospital during the night last week; two
of them read Down with Fidel.
PLACETAS |
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Trial Opens in Mexican Embassy Case
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Migrants Swim Ashore In Key Biscayne
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Japanese tourists returning to Cuba |
Family
worried by Adolfo Fernández Sainz's loss of weight
Adolfo
Fernández Sainz was able to receive a visit from his wife, Julia Nuñez, and his
daughter, Joana Fernández, on 6 January. They said the prison authorities have
finally prescribed medical treatment for him.
Reporters
Without Borders.
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opposition to U.S. embargo on Cuba embargo angers exiles
When
Pope John Paul II speaks, millions of people around the world pay close attention,
but when he reiterated his opposition to the U.S. embargo on Cuba over the weekend,
Cuban-Americans in South Florida were outraged.
Florida
Sun-Sentinel. | Blanco
plans trip to Cuba to find buyers for La. Goods
Gov.
Kathleen Blanco launched her second year in office Wednesday by announcing that
she will make a trip to Cuba to look for new markets for state-produced goods.
She said she also will create a task force to look at ways to improve matching
job-seekers with employers.
Times
Picayune, LA. | Imprisoned
journalist Normando Hernández hospitalised for TB
Blanca
González, the mother of Normando Hernández González, told Reporters Without Borders
today that his wife, Yaraí Reyes Marín, will be able to visit him in the Pinar
del Río provincial hospital on 19 January.
Reporters
Without Borders, France. | St.
Vincent PM Visits Cuba
Prime Minister of St. Vincent
& the Grenadines, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves, began an official state visit to Cuba yesterday
evening.
Hardbeatnews.com,
NY. | Officials
look for vanished Cuban nurse
Mystery surrounds
the disappearance of Jannet Eve Perez Cardinasa, a Cuban nurse who was recruited
by the Trinidad Government to work in the nation's health sector.
Trinidad
& Tobago Express | Cuban
American Filmmaker Profiles Fidel Castro For PBS
Adriana
Bosch has written, directed, and edited acclaimed political and social documentaries
for nearly two decades. Born in Cuba, Bosch moved to the United States in 1970.
Hispanic
Business. | What's
New: An Online Update for Frommer's Cuba
As of November
8, 2004, the US Dollar is no longer being accepted as legal tender in Cuba. Travelers
arriving with US Dollars can exchange them for the Convertible Cuban Peso (CUC)
at a one-to-one ratio at the airport and at CADECA official exchange houses around
the country.
Frommers. |
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links | | Health
Care? Ask Cuba
Here's a wrenching fact: If the U.S. had an infant mortality rate as good as Cuba's,
we would save an additional 2,212 American babies a year. (Cuban
public health related news)
The
New York Times. | | Oil
Find Hints at a Less Dependent Cuba
On Dec. 25, President Fidel Castro said he had some information to lift the spirits
of Cuba's 11 million people: two Canadian energy companies, Pebercan and Sherritt
International, had discovered oil in the Gulf of Mexico in an area under Cuba's
control.
The
New York Times. |
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CUBA
Vehicular
accidents kill 73 in first 10 months of 2004
During
the first 10 months of last year, 73 people were killed and another 329 injured
in vehicular accidents in Cuba, according to figures released by the National
Transit Division.
HAVANA | | FROM
CUBA
Seamstress
in Cuba denied employment for her religious beliefs
A
29-year-old seamstress in Pinar del Río said she was denied a job at a local sewing
shop on account of her religious beliefs.
PINAR
DEL RÍO | FROM
CUBA
Man
fired for father's political activism
When GEOCUBA
administrators fired him from his job, the only reason they gave him was that
he is the son of a political activist opposed to the government, said José Antonio
Martínez' father, also of the same name.
PINAR
DEL RÍO | | The Miami Herald
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Three Kings Day still alive for kids in 'atheist' nation
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Floor paintings reach to infinity
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A historic day for Martinez, exiles
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Martinez goes into Senate an instant star
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Pope calls for lifting of US embargo on Cuba
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Cuban migrant drowns off Honduran coast
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EU presses Cuba over diplomatic ties
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I am Cuba, the siberian mammoth (Soy Cuba, o mamute siberiano) |
Limb
funding for Cuban teenagers
Chances of treatment
in Cuba are said to be limited.
BBC,
UK. |
Reeves
travels to Cuba to perform mission work
The Rev.
James "Jim" Reeves of Christ Boulevard United Methodist Church traveled to Cuba
on a mission trip last week.
The
Charlotte Observer. | Iran,
Cuba agree on implementing Cuban power project
Iran and Cuba reached the agreement on the project of repair and maintenance and
renovation of Cuba's power industry, ISNA reported on Saturday.
Tehran
Times, Iran. | 'Truckonaut'
finally wins his freedom
The Cuban mechanic made
headlines last year after converting two vintage American jalopies into floating,
amphibious vessels in thwarted attempts to reach South Florida.
Sun-Sentinel |
Group
heads to Cuba to give Jewish community support
As
a young girl in the 1950s, Natalie Pelavin used to visit South Florida from Flint,
Mich., with her parents. While they took a side trip to Cuba, she remained behind,
but she recalls her father's words: "If you take Spanish in high school, I'll
take you to Cuba."
South
Florida Sun-Sentinel | Artist
pair portrays ruins of Cuba's sugar industry
Browsing
through a Paris flea market, Cuban architect and artist Juan Luis Morales found
an old book that led him to the work of French painter and lithographer Eduardo
Laplante, who moved to Cuba in 1849.
IndyStar.com. |
Chill
factor: Cayo Coco, Cuba
So if travellers are prepared
for nothing other than scorching hot beaches, steel drum beats and calm tides,
but instead encounter a scenario similar to this and don't want to spend the entire
day emptying the contents of the mini bar and watching dubbed repeats of Friends,
they might want to do as I did.
National
Post, Canada. |
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January
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Christmas
chronicle
Christmastime was celebrated in Cuba
until 1966. But things changed after that year. To mention Christmas became a
crime, and to celebrate it was suicide. The authorities had banned its commemoration.
HAVANA, Rafael Ferro Salas. | | The Miami Herald
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Florida farmer exports awaited cattle to Cuba
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Cuban acts a top draw in Vegas
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Author explores Cuba's workhorses
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Cuba resumes diplomatic contacts with eight EU countries
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Cuba Looks to Further Centralize Economy
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Cuba moves to clamp down on hard currency control after oil find
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Sherritt and Pebercan shares rise after news of Cuban oil find |
Castro's
Jailed Librarians
It wasn't the Santa Clauses and
candy canes decking the halls of the U.S. diplomatic office in Havana that prompted
Fidel Castro to order the Christmas decorations dismantled there. It was the light
display forming the number 75.
Wall
St. Journal. | In
Cuba's prisons
Today's Le Monde has an interview
from Havana with two political prisoners just released from Fidel Castro's jails,
in which they recount the sadistic, inhumane treatment meted out to dissenters
from Fidelismo and to ordinary law violators.
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