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April
9
The
Miami Herald
• Hard times force Cuban retirees to work
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Experts: U.S. spies are often in the dark on Cuba
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A Cuban woman's "trip to the moon''
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Government objects after bond granted to Cuban
militant
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Cuban: System 'not ideal'
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Cuban baseball players smuggled out
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Most Cuban dissidents spurn Spanish overture
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Members of Cuba's Communist Youth Union gather
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Smuggling and baseball collide in the courtroom
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Castro again blasts ethanol
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Troops mobilized after Castro's surgery
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Excerpts from Castro's article
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Cuba's tourist economy in trouble
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Spain hopes for better ties with Cuba
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Yahoo
News
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Idaho's Governor in Cuba on Trade Trip
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Judge sets Cuban militant free on bail
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Cuban Official to Youth: Shun Capitalism
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Castro chides Bush, Brazil in column
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US biofuel policy could spark world 'holocaust':
Castro
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Dissident
analyzes leading role of Church in transition to
democracy in Cuba
Dagoberto
Valdes, director of Vitral: the Catholic Church
is "the only institution in Cuba where there are
still footprints of the civil society which otherwise
has been annihilated."
Freedom House. |
Freedom
House Sends Letter to Spanish Foreign Minister Regarding
Recent Visit to Cuba
Freedom House
sent a letter today to the Foreign Minister of Spain,
Miguel Angel Moratinos, expressing disappointment
that the official met with Cuban authorities during
a recent visit to the island but not with members
of the country's dissident movement.
Freedom House. |
Cuban
doctor forced to leave Gabon seeks asylum in France
A Cuban doctor
who refused to return home after working in Gabon
sought asylum in France on Friday when he stopped
there after being deported, one of his lawyers said.
The Tocqueville
Connection. |
Castro
in new US biofuel attack
Writing in
the Granma newspaper, Mr Castro said a US drive
to back crop use for fuels would raise prices and
cause more hunger in developing countries.
BBC News, UK. |
Cuban
exiles differ on Posada
Following
a legal victory for anti-Castro militant Luis Posada
Carriles, prominent Cuban exiles on Saturday differed
over how the U.S. government should now deal with
him.
South Florida
Sun-Sentinel. |
U.S.-Cuba
Relations Could Be Modified
Cuba's leadership
changed. Control of Congress changed. As a result,
many say now is a politically plausible moment for
change in U.S.-Cuba policy.
The Tampa Tribune. |
Cuban
Catholic Church asks for 'understanding' in times
of 'change'
"Right now
the important thing is a high level of understanding
in order to take the right steps", said the assistant
Bishop of Havana, Juan de Dios Hernandez, during
the Via Crucis procession in central Havana late
Friday.
EARTHtimes.org. |
Learning
to dance the salsa, Cuban-style
To many,
Cuba is known as the isle of rum and salsa. I'm
at the Havana Club for a dance lesson. Its tasting
room is a reminder of the drinking establishments
that made the city famous in the pre-revolution
1930s.
CNN. |
