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June 2006

June 29

FROM CUBA
Personnel changes reflect decline of Communist youth organization
The plenum of the provincial committee of the Union of Communist Youth in Matanzas deposed the organization's first secretary, José Anselmo Díaz, for "errors" committed in the management of the organization, according to an official announcement June 22.
MATANZAS, Oscar Sánchez Madan

FROM CUBA
Prison inmate insulted by X-ray tech
"We have to kill them all," said an X-ray technician at the North polyclinic in Moron when she realized her patient was a political prisoner brought in from the nearby prison.
MORON, Antonio Femenías
FROM CUBA
Price of bus tickets up
"Tickets are 132 pesos," said the announcer at Havana's bus terminal after announcing the departure of a bus to Santiago de Cuba June 13.
HAVANA, Abel Escobar Ramírez
FROM CUBA
Residents evicted to expand dairy
Housing officials aided by police evicted the occupants of 14 houses in the Boyeros municipality of Havana June 16. Critics charged the whole purpose of the move was to expand an adjacent dairy and that the displaced families did not have a place to go.
HAVANA, Ahmed Rodríguez Albacia
The Miami Herald
• One-time rising political star in Cuba going to jail
• Cuba celebrates its place on U.N. rights council
• U.S. visa call center back after overrun
• Cuba loses fight to competitor over its trademark cigar
• U.S. visa call center back after overrun
Yahoo News
• Cuban official gets 12-year prison term
• Cuban migrants anxious to leave island
• Jamaica Gets Cement Shipment From Cuba
• Cuba hails 'plantibody' breakthrough for hepatitis vaccine
• Cuba Plans to Increase Ethanol Production
• Woman accused of being spy for Cuba freed
• ACLU sues Fla. schools over Cuba book ban
Bolivia protest over Cuba medics
Doctors in the Bolivian capital La Paz have staged a protest against an influx of Cuban medics offering free care in poor and rural parts of the country.
BBC, UK.
American-born college students keep flames of Cuban protest burning
"I would say my parents are Cuban and they would say, 'Oh, I want to go to Cuba for spring break.'" recalled Diane Cabrera, 23, a graduate of Georgetown University. "I would say, 'My cousin that lives in Cuba can't go to the same beach that you can go to.'"
The Sun-Sentinel.
Students plug Cuba's water leaks
Four engineering students from Bristol University are preparing to fly to Havana in an attempt to improve the Cuban capital's water supplies.
BBC, UK.
D'Rivera mourns for native Cuba
Holidayed in Havana recently? Don't tell Paquito D'Rivera, the Cuban-born clarinetist and sax-man who's as revered and respected for his contributions to classical music as he is to the realm of Latin jazz.
winnipegsun.com.

LINKS

Cuban musicians honor their roots but want to grow
Descemer Bueno was born and raised in Havana and immersed in his country's music -- accompanying his mother, a singer, on guitar at parties, trained in Cuba's superb music education system. He's a man whose heart practically beats in rumba time.
Chicago Tribune.

Habana Abierta may help recharge Cuban music
From the hot mambos of Perez Prado and the jazzy jam sessions of Cachao to the lilting acoustic strains of the Buena Vista Social Club, the sounds of Cuba have always been an inevitable point of reference for Latin music.
Chicago Tribune.


June 16

FROM CUBA
Mother charges negligence in prisoner's death
The mother of a 41-year-old prisoner who died recently charged authorities with negligence in rendering timely medical care to her son. Teresa Landrian Figuera said she was told by hospital doctors that if her son had received timely attention, his life would have been saved.
HAVANA, Ahmed Rodríguez Albacia

FROM CUBA
Diarrhea outbreak overwhelms health system in Moa
Last Thursday, Deysi Leiva walked out of the emergency room in the Pedro Sota Alba pediatric hospital, where she had taken her two-year-old daughter Dayrin for diarrhea, saying the medical facility was full of mothers with children in the same condition.
MOA, Juan Carlos Garcell
FROM CUBA
Intensive journalism course offered to independent journalists in Santiago
A 45-day intensive course in journalism aimed at improving the skills of independent journalists in the region launched June 15 in Santiago de Cuba, the country's second largest city.
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Virgilio Delat
FROM CUBA
Bolivian students feted in Cuba
In recent weeks there have been increasing reports of groups of Bolivian students being feted at several locations around the city of Havana.
HAVANA, Juan Carlos Linares Balmaceda
FROM CUBA
Prisoner singled out for abuse by guards
A prisoner who had himself tattoed with anti-government slogans all over his body is being singled out for abuse at the Holguín provincial prison, said Alfredo Domínguez, a political prisoner serving time there.
HOLGUIN, Liannis Meriño Aguilera
The Miami Herald
• Very quietly, they reject Fidel Castro
• Communism will remain after Castro, brother says
• Cuba's Alarcón blames U.S. for jailings
• Bill easing Cuba sales rule OK'd
• Miami-Dade Schools ban book on Cuba
• Families torn by travel ban to Cuba come out in protest
• Keeping the beat
Yahoo News
• Cuba hails U.S. absence from U.N. rights panel
• Cuba's Alarcon denies 24 imprisonments
• Cuban Cigar Company Will Continue Fight for COHIBA Trademark in U.S.
Cuban doctors investigate eye surgery problems
The Cuban government has sent two of Its top ophthalmologists to Jamaica to examine patients who have suffered serious corneal damage following eye surgeries in that country.
radiojamaica.com.
Official Urges Cuba To Stop Restricting Internet Access
A human rights official for the Organization of American States (OAS) has called on the Cuban government to stop restricting access to the Internet.
Washington File.
Alarcón's gift for excuses reveals failures
Ricardo Alarcón, the president of Cuba's national assembly, is an immensely entertaining and gifted man. It's not easy explaining Fidel Castro, and a less-experienced performer might have flubbed it. In Alarcón's hands, the difficult task was transformed Wednesday night into a thing of beauty.
The Miami Herald.
Cubans deprived of the INQ
Cubans are allowed to send email and have a look at government Web sites on topics from the weather to literature. But if you want to have a wibble round the world outside you can forget it.
Inquirer, UK.
Cuba loses bid to stop U.S. firm from using famous Cohiba name on cigars
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday stubbed out a case over rights to the Cohiba brand name on cigars sold in the United States, upholding the rights of a New York company to use the name on products it makes outside Cuba.
Sun-Sentinel.
Cuba trade on the table
United States has become island's top food supplier.
Sun Sentinel.
Tony Soprano has nothing on Fidel Castro
Late last year, a top diplomat in the U.S. Interests Section entered his Havana home to find it covered in excrement. It was payback for allowing Cuban dissidents access to the Internet. Other diplomats have had tires slashed and utilities cut.
Southern Illinoisan.
Pastors challenge sanctions against Cuba
A group of pastors opposed to decades-old sanctions against Cuba by the United States will begin a journey this week with a truckload of medical supplies for the Communist country.
Guelph Mercury.
N.C. Baptists, UNC keeping strong ties with communist Cuba
A small group, sponsored by the Cary-based North Carolina Baptist Men, has just returned from working to build a retirement home in the communist island-nation.
The Herald-Sun.

June 14

FROM CUBA
52 dead in traffic accidents in Havana in four months
In the first four months of the year, 52 died and 251 were hurt in 1,101 traffic accidents in the city of Havana. Many of the dead were cyclists who hitch rides behind buses and motorcycle riders who don't wear the helmets required by law.
HAVANA

FROM CUBA
Makeshift housing spreads in Havana
Cubans in need of shelter in the city of Havana are erecting structures of any material at hand and in any area big enough to lie down.
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
Communist Party officials "interview" independent journalist
Communist Party officials, who in Cuba are called "community factors" (don't ask) called in independent journalist Juan González to scold him for an article he wrote recently about Cuban President Castro's reputed wealth.
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
Consumers who haven't paid for rice cookers will be fined
Consumers who bought one of the rice cookers the government put on sale three months ago and who haven't paid for them in full will be fined, according to signs posted in retail establishments in San Miguel del Padrón municipality in Havana.
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
Two attempt escape from high security prison
Two inmates in the Camagüey province prison Cerámica Roja attempted to escape during the night of May 30. The two, aged 23 and 34, were apprehended.
CAMAGUEY
FROM CUBA
Construction starts on TV Morón
Last week a billboard appeared in the center of Morón announcing the beginning of construction of a TV center for TV Morón very close to the site housing 56-year-old Radio Morón.
MORON
FROM CUBA
Political prisoner decries prison conditions
Political prisoner Virgilio Mantilla decried poor conditions in the Kilo[meter] 9 prison in Camagüey province where he is serving a seven year sentence.
CIEGO DE AVILA
FROM CUBA
Food distribution delayed in Camagüey town
The townspeople of La Gloria, a settlement about 30 miles from the capital city of Camagüey province, say their allotment of foodstuffs under the government's rationing system had not come through as of June 3. The food is expected to be put on sale by the first of the month.
CAMAGUEY
FROM CUBA
Mascarade
Mrs. Novo says she's a revolutionary. She's the wife of a coronel in the armed forces. Coronel Cámara (that's Mrs. Novo's husband's last name) is the head of the Association of Combat Veterans in this province.
PINAR DEL RIO
FROM CUBA
Officers threaten independent journalist
Two officers of the Department of State Security visited independent journalist Ahmed Rodríguez and threatened to send him to prison if he continues with his journalistic activities.
CIEGO DE AVILA
The Miami Herald
• Cuba restores electricity to U.S Interests Section
• School Board votes to remove Cuba book from all Miami-Dade schools
• State sued over Cuba-travel ban
• U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana has no electricity
• Confession in FIU Cuba case challenged
Yahoo News
• Cuban soap opera sparks debate
• School Board Makes Decision On 'Vamos A Cuba'
• Pakistan, Cuba, HK To Set Up Missions In Bid To Boost Trade
• Cuba: U.S. lying 'shamelessly' about power cut to American mission in Havana
• Tropical Storm Alberto drenches Cuba
• 25,000 Cubans move from 'life-threatening' storm Alberto
• Castro: al-Zarqawi killing a 'barbarity'
Lyndonville man talks about being imprisoned in Cuba
Rick Schwag of Lyndonville and his nonprofit organization, Caribbean Medical Transport, have, over the past decade, helped send to Cuba 18 40-foot containers filled with medical equipment, supplies and pharmaceuticals.
The Burlington Free Press
Human Rights in Cuba Deteriorating, Says European Union
The European Union (EU) says it deplores what it calls "further deterioration" of the human rights situation in Cuba since June 2005.
USINFO.
Cuba to provide advise to Venezuela in aeronautics
A group of experts from the Cuban Civil Aeronautic Institute (IACC) is in Venezuela to advise the National Civil Aeronautic Institute (INAC), said the latter in a communiqué.
El Universal, Venezuela.
Czech government wants EU to get tougher with Cuba
Support within the EU for a tougher stance on Cuba is strongest in the eight eastern European nations that joined the bloc in 2004 and where memories of the legacy of communism are still fresh.
Pravda.

June 29

FROM CUBA
Personnel changes reflect decline of Communist youth organization
The plenum of the provincial committee of the Union of Communist Youth in Matanzas deposed the organization's first secretary, José Anselmo Díaz, for "errors" committed in the management of the organization, according to an official announcement June 22.
MATANZAS, Oscar Sánchez Madan

FROM CUBA
Prison inmate insulted by X-ray tech
"We have to kill them all," said an X-ray technician at the North polyclinic in Moron when she realized her patient was a political prisoner brought in from the nearby prison.
MORON, Antonio Femenías
FROM CUBA
Price of bus tickets up
"Tickets are 132 pesos," said the announcer at Havana's bus terminal after announcing the departure of a bus to Santiago de Cuba June 13.
HAVANA, Abel Escobar Ramírez
FROM CUBA
Residents evicted to expand dairy
Housing officials aided by police evicted the occupants of 14 houses in the Boyeros municipality of Havana June 16. Critics charged the whole purpose of the move was to expand an adjacent dairy and that the displaced families did not have a place to go.
HAVANA, Ahmed Rodríguez Albacia
The Miami Herald
• One-time rising political star in Cuba going to jail
• Cuba celebrates its place on U.N. rights council
• U.S. visa call center back after overrun
• Cuba loses fight to competitor over its trademark cigar
• U.S. visa call center back after overrun
Yahoo News
• Cuban official gets 12-year prison term
• Cuban migrants anxious to leave island
• Jamaica Gets Cement Shipment From Cuba
• Cuba hails 'plantibody' breakthrough for hepatitis vaccine
• Cuba Plans to Increase Ethanol Production
• Woman accused of being spy for Cuba freed
• ACLU sues Fla. schools over Cuba book ban
Bolivia protest over Cuba medics
Doctors in the Bolivian capital La Paz have staged a protest against an influx of Cuban medics offering free care in poor and rural parts of the country.
BBC, UK.
American-born college students keep flames of Cuban protest burning
"I would say my parents are Cuban and they would say, 'Oh, I want to go to Cuba for spring break.'" recalled Diane Cabrera, 23, a graduate of Georgetown University. "I would say, 'My cousin that lives in Cuba can't go to the same beach that you can go to.'"
The Sun-Sentinel.
Students plug Cuba's water leaks
Four engineering students from Bristol University are preparing to fly to Havana in an attempt to improve the Cuban capital's water supplies.
BBC, UK.
D'Rivera mourns for native Cuba
Holidayed in Havana recently? Don't tell Paquito D'Rivera, the Cuban-born clarinetist and sax-man who's as revered and respected for his contributions to classical music as he is to the realm of Latin jazz.
winnipegsun.com.

LINKS

Cuban musicians honor their roots but want to grow
Descemer Bueno was born and raised in Havana and immersed in his country's music -- accompanying his mother, a singer, on guitar at parties, trained in Cuba's superb music education system. He's a man whose heart practically beats in rumba time.
Chicago Tribune.

Habana Abierta may help recharge Cuban music
From the hot mambos of Perez Prado and the jazzy jam sessions of Cachao to the lilting acoustic strains of the Buena Vista Social Club, the sounds of Cuba have always been an inevitable point of reference for Latin music.
Chicago Tribune.


June 16

FROM CUBA
Mother charges negligence in prisoner's death
The mother of a 41-year-old prisoner who died recently charged authorities with negligence in rendering timely medical care to her son. Teresa Landrian Figuera said she was told by hospital doctors that if her son had received timely attention, his life would have been saved.
HAVANA, Ahmed Rodríguez Albacia

FROM CUBA
Diarrhea outbreak overwhelms health system in Moa
Last Thursday, Deysi Leiva walked out of the emergency room in the Pedro Sota Alba pediatric hospital, where she had taken her two-year-old daughter Dayrin for diarrhea, saying the medical facility was full of mothers with children in the same condition.
MOA, Juan Carlos Garcell
FROM CUBA
Intensive journalism course offered to independent journalists in Santiago
A 45-day intensive course in journalism aimed at improving the skills of independent journalists in the region launched June 15 in Santiago de Cuba, the country's second largest city.
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Virgilio Delat
FROM CUBA
Bolivian students feted in Cuba
In recent weeks there have been increasing reports of groups of Bolivian students being feted at several locations around the city of Havana.
HAVANA, Juan Carlos Linares Balmaceda
FROM CUBA
Prisoner singled out for abuse by guards
A prisoner who had himself tattoed with anti-government slogans all over his body is being singled out for abuse at the Holguín provincial prison, said Alfredo Domínguez, a political prisoner serving time there.
HOLGUIN, Liannis Meriño Aguilera
The Miami Herald
• Very quietly, they reject Fidel Castro
• Communism will remain after Castro, brother says
• Cuba's Alarcón blames U.S. for jailings
• Bill easing Cuba sales rule OK'd
• Miami-Dade Schools ban book on Cuba
• Families torn by travel ban to Cuba come out in protest
• Keeping the beat
Yahoo News
• Cuba hails U.S. absence from U.N. rights panel
• Cuba's Alarcon denies 24 imprisonments
• Cuban Cigar Company Will Continue Fight for COHIBA Trademark in U.S.
Cuban doctors investigate eye surgery problems
The Cuban government has sent two of Its top ophthalmologists to Jamaica to examine patients who have suffered serious corneal damage following eye surgeries in that country.
radiojamaica.com.
Official Urges Cuba To Stop Restricting Internet Access
A human rights official for the Organization of American States (OAS) has called on the Cuban government to stop restricting access to the Internet.
Washington File.
Alarcón's gift for excuses reveals failures
Ricardo Alarcón, the president of Cuba's national assembly, is an immensely entertaining and gifted man. It's not easy explaining Fidel Castro, and a less-experienced performer might have flubbed it. In Alarcón's hands, the difficult task was transformed Wednesday night into a thing of beauty.
The Miami Herald.
Cubans deprived of the INQ
Cubans are allowed to send email and have a look at government Web sites on topics from the weather to literature. But if you want to have a wibble round the world outside you can forget it.
Inquirer, UK.
Cuba loses bid to stop U.S. firm from using famous Cohiba name on cigars
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday stubbed out a case over rights to the Cohiba brand name on cigars sold in the United States, upholding the rights of a New York company to use the name on products it makes outside Cuba.
Sun-Sentinel.
Cuba trade on the table
United States has become island's top food supplier.
Sun Sentinel.
Tony Soprano has nothing on Fidel Castro
Late last year, a top diplomat in the U.S. Interests Section entered his Havana home to find it covered in excrement. It was payback for allowing Cuban dissidents access to the Internet. Other diplomats have had tires slashed and utilities cut.
Southern Illinoisan.
Pastors challenge sanctions against Cuba
A group of pastors opposed to decades-old sanctions against Cuba by the United States will begin a journey this week with a truckload of medical supplies for the Communist country.
Guelph Mercury.
N.C. Baptists, UNC keeping strong ties with communist Cuba
A small group, sponsored by the Cary-based North Carolina Baptist Men, has just returned from working to build a retirement home in the communist island-nation.
The Herald-Sun.

June 14

FROM CUBA
52 dead in traffic accidents in Havana in four months
In the first four months of the year, 52 died and 251 were hurt in 1,101 traffic accidents in the city of Havana. Many of the dead were cyclists who hitch rides behind buses and motorcycle riders who don't wear the helmets required by law.
HAVANA

FROM CUBA
Makeshift housing spreads in Havana
Cubans in need of shelter in the city of Havana are erecting structures of any material at hand and in any area big enough to lie down.
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
Communist Party officials "interview" independent journalist
Communist Party officials, who in Cuba are called "community factors" (don't ask) called in independent journalist Juan González to scold him for an article he wrote recently about Cuban President Castro's reputed wealth.
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
Consumers who haven't paid for rice cookers will be fined
Consumers who bought one of the rice cookers the government put on sale three months ago and who haven't paid for them in full will be fined, according to signs posted in retail establishments in San Miguel del Padrón municipality in Havana.
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
Two attempt escape from high security prison
Two inmates in the Camagüey province prison Cerámica Roja attempted to escape during the night of May 30. The two, aged 23 and 34, were apprehended.
CAMAGUEY
FROM CUBA
Construction starts on TV Morón
Last week a billboard appeared in the center of Morón announcing the beginning of construction of a TV center for TV Morón very close to the site housing 56-year-old Radio Morón.
MORON
FROM CUBA
Political prisoner decries prison conditions
Political prisoner Virgilio Mantilla decried poor conditions in the Kilo[meter] 9 prison in Camagüey province where he is serving a seven year sentence.
CIEGO DE AVILA
FROM CUBA
Food distribution delayed in Camagüey town
The townspeople of La Gloria, a settlement about 30 miles from the capital city of Camagüey province, say their allotment of foodstuffs under the government's rationing system had not come through as of June 3. The food is expected to be put on sale by the first of the month.
CAMAGUEY
FROM CUBA
Mascarade
Mrs. Novo says she's a revolutionary. She's the wife of a coronel in the armed forces. Coronel Cámara (that's Mrs. Novo's husband's last name) is the head of the Association of Combat Veterans in this province.
PINAR DEL RIO
FROM CUBA
Officers threaten independent journalist
Two officers of the Department of State Security visited independent journalist Ahmed Rodríguez and threatened to send him to prison if he continues with his journalistic activities.
CIEGO DE AVILA
The Miami Herald
• Cuba restores electricity to U.S Interests Section
• School Board votes to remove Cuba book from all Miami-Dade schools
• State sued over Cuba-travel ban
• U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana has no electricity
• Confession in FIU Cuba case challenged
Yahoo News
• Cuban soap opera sparks debate
• School Board Makes Decision On 'Vamos A Cuba'
• Pakistan, Cuba, HK To Set Up Missions In Bid To Boost Trade
• Cuba: U.S. lying 'shamelessly' about power cut to American mission in Havana
• Tropical Storm Alberto drenches Cuba
• 25,000 Cubans move from 'life-threatening' storm Alberto
• Castro: al-Zarqawi killing a 'barbarity'
Lyndonville man talks about being imprisoned in Cuba
Rick Schwag of Lyndonville and his nonprofit organization, Caribbean Medical Transport, have, over the past decade, helped send to Cuba 18 40-foot containers filled with medical equipment, supplies and pharmaceuticals.
The Burlington Free Press
Human Rights in Cuba Deteriorating, Says European Union
The European Union (EU) says it deplores what it calls "further deterioration" of the human rights situation in Cuba since June 2005.
USINFO.
Cuba to provide advise to Venezuela in aeronautics
A group of experts from the Cuban Civil Aeronautic Institute (IACC) is in Venezuela to advise the National Civil Aeronautic Institute (INAC), said the latter in a communiqué.
El Universal, Venezuela.
Czech government wants EU to get tougher with Cuba
Support within the EU for a tougher stance on Cuba is strongest in the eight eastern European nations that joined the bloc in 2004 and where memories of the legacy of communism are still fresh.
Pravda.

June 8

FROM CUBA
Foreign medical students complain about lost Internet connection
Foreign medical students at the Morón School of Medical Science are complaining that the Internet connection has been inoperative for as long as weeks now.
MORÓN

FROM CUBA
Short-sleeve rain coats cause wonder
In the Havana neighborhood of Lawton the hard currency store La Cima recently put on sale short-sleeve rain coats causing wonder among the locals who say they have never seen such a thing.
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
Septic tank overflows next door to bakery
A septic tank has been overflowing next door to a bakery in a tony neighborhood of Havana since the beginning of the year, complain municipal authorities can't or won't address the problem adequately.
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
Train derails - twice
The train known in the city of Morón as the "Battle of Ideas" derailed twice on May 20. The freighter, pulled by an ancient American-made locomotive, ran off the tracks near the town of Peonía.
CIEGO DE ÁVILA
FROM CUBA
Man's choice: abandon wife or house
Linares, who owns a house in Old Havana, said he cannot have his wife move in with him because housing authorities do not allow new residents to move into the historic district.
HAVANA
The Miami Herald
• Castro pitched in for lawmaker's visit
• School Board to hear final appeal on Cuba book
• Posada lawyer may call Kerry, North
• Cuba on 'smuggling' nations list
• Castro's standing tied to leftists' rise
Yahoo News
• Venezuela Signs Oil Technology Agreement With Cuba
• India, Cuba and Syria reject US report on human trafficking
CPJ concerned about deteriorating health of two Cuban journalists
Fariñas went on hunger strike January 31. He has been in the hospital for much of the time since then, receiving fluids and vitamins intravenously. Fariñas is director of the independent news agency Cubanacán Press.
CPJ.
Reporter jailed in Cuba after covering government evictions
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the detention of independent Cuban journalist Armando Betancourt who was arrested a week ago while covering the evictions of dozens of families from their homes in the central city of Camagüey, sources told CPJ.
CPJ.
Suspected Cuban agents say FBI broke promises about not prosecuting
Charges that a husband and wife acted as agents for Cuba should be dismissed because the FBI's case is built on broken promises not to prosecute if the man cooperated with the investigation, defense attorneys say.
Sun-Sentinel.
Oil may grease attitudes toward Cuba trade policy
The imminent release of a new Bush administration status report on U.S.-Cuban relations is re-energizing the anti-embargo lobby, which believes the skyrocketing price of oil could provide a winning angle in its fight to relax trade sanctions on the communist island nation.
The Hill.
133 Cuban Migrants Repatriated
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Drummond repatriated 97 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba today; and the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Metompkin repatriated 36 Cuban migrants Tuesday.
Military.com.
Morales says Cuban doctors in Bolivia to stay
Bolivia's four-month-old Socialist government says that not only will Cuban doctors and teachers working here in "solidarity" teams sent by Fidel Castro not leave this Andean nation, but more will come.
Dominican Today.
U.S. radicals find haven in Havana
Illinois native Charlie Hill is one of dozens of Americans who fled to communist Cuba in the 1960s and '70s to escape U.S. justice
Chicago Tribune.

June 2

FROM CUBA
Forbidden dreams
Dionisio Herrera Rodríguez is 55 years old. He's worked as a bus driver for a quarter of a century. Dionisio had a dream which they shattered.
PINAR DEL RIO

FROM CUBA
Physician who died in Venezuela buried
A 47-year-old physician who had been sent to Venezuela to participate in the government's Barrio Adentro program died there after ingesting wood alcohol. He was buried Sunday in his native San Antonio de las Vegas, south of Havana.
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
Police raid shoemakers in Morón
Critics here say this is part of the government's efforts to stamp out private economic activity, which they say hurts consumers, who end up having to buy shoes of lesser quality from dollar stores.
MORON
FROM CUBA
Airport officials arrested
Two high officials at Havana's international airport were arrested May 12 on charges of corruption and are being held at State Security headquarters.
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
Mexico returned 57 who sought asylum
Mexican immigration authorities returned 57 Cubans last week who had arrived by sea in recent months.
HAVANA
FROM CUBA
Six arrested on charges of illegal exit from the country
Police, border guards, and State Security officers in Las Tunas and Granma provinces frustrated an attempt to leave the country without authorization and arrested five men and a woman.
CAMAGUEY
The Miami Herald
• Preparing for life after Castro's death
• Analyst's new job: visualizing Cuba after Castro dies
• Bond weighed for alleged FIU spy couple
• Dwindling presence of Chinese immigrants in Cuba
• Alleged tormentor's gone, but not anguish of exiles
• Southcom general: Cuba policy needs fresh look
Yahoo News
• Cuban dissident to complete fourth month on hunger strike
• Castro's death could spark refugee crisis
• Peru's Humala accused of being manipulated by Cuban and Venezuelan governments
• Cuba cracks down on cigar smuggling
• Havana's China immigrants keep traditions
• El Duque beats Marlins in 1st Mets start
• Unbeaten Contreras takes on Jays
Cuban Eye Care Programme in Jamaica continues despite concerns
According to local eye doctors, several persons have returned to the island with serious problems.
Radiojamaica.com.
Cuban-American director risks punishment for movie
Cuban-American filmmaker Luis Moro expressed his disdain for the long-standing U.S. trade and travel restrictions against Cuba in a very public way: he made a movie there.
Daytona Beach News-Journal.
Cuban National Assembly president to speak in Fort Lauderdale via satellite
Ricardo Alarcón, president of Cuba's National Assembly, will be the guest speaker at the kickoff for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists' convention this month in Fort Lauderdale, organizers said Thursday.
Sun-Sentinel.
Can Cuba continue to dodge hurricane bullet?
"When the soldiers knock, people have no choice but to obey," said Hector Nuñez, a Havana taxi driver whose basement apartment was robbed when he evacuated three seasons ago. "They'll never make me leave my home again."
NBC News.
Cuba sends doctors to Botswana
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mompati Merafhe, thanked Cuba for medical cooperation that will soon bring 160 Cuban specialists to Botswana.
Mmegi.
Cuba says US denied visa to U.N. AIDS delegate
Cuba complained on Friday that the United States denied a visa to the head of its delegation to a U.N. AIDS conference, but a U.S. spokesman said he applied too late
Agencies, UN.
Castro's Doctor Boasts His Client Will Live to 140
Ditching the cigars but not the army fatigues, Cuban leader Fidel Castro leads a life that guarantees he'll live more than a century, according to his doctor.
ABC News. .

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