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FEBRUARY 2001 HEADLINES

February 28

FROM CUBA / No buses, and the government tries to eliminate pedicabs / UPECI

FROM CUBA / Students must walk to school in pre-dawn darkness / Grupo Decoro

FROM CUBA / Children's park neglected into oblivion / AFPCP

FROM CUBA / Broken sidewalks affect mostly older residents / Luis Viño Zimerman

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Cuba News / Central Europe

Cuban Communists Want to Erase Traces of Papal Visit / Zenit

Florida shipper gets license for route to serve Cuba / Sun-Sentinel

One Million Color TV Sets to Export to Cuba / Xinhuanet

Moral change required to build new Cuba, says catholic dissident / ETWN News

Cuba's record: 'Poor' / Miami Herald


February 27

State Department gives Mexico thumbs up, Cuba thumbs down / CNS News

Cuba will not give up claim to territory occupied by US base / IRNA

Cuban boxer in Miami after fleeing / AP

USC and Cuba Chart New Territory: MBA Students to Explore Business Practices in Havana / Excite

The embargo battle / Chicago Tribune

Cuba / Country Reports on Human Rights Practices -2000


February 26

FROM CUBA / 'Reporters Without Borders' Correspondent Arrested / Alida Viso Bello

FROM CUBA / Police sweep affects poor and old retirees / AFPCP

FROM CUBA / Increased police presence felt in Havana / AFPCP

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Dissidents detained to prevent protests over '96 shootdown / Chicago Tribune

Simon wants a visa to bring Castro to SIU / Chicago Sun-Times

Stay tough on Castro, exiles tell governor / Sun-Sentinel

Cubans and Australians in music revival / The Age

Indict Castro for Murder, Says House Republican / CNS News


February 23

FROM CUBA / Pedicab drivers say harassment is part of larger campaign / APSIC

FROM CUBA / Wax-extraction plant closed after seven years in operation / APSIC

FROM CUBA / John Lennon's glasses stolen again from Havana statue / Decoro

Albright: Bush can't change policy / Yahoo!

Russians may look to Cuba as reply to U.S. missile plan / Miami Herald

Simon urges end to Cuba embargo / Chicago Tribune

Cuba not so libre with the net / Wired News

Cuban foreign minister to visit Japan March 3-6 / Kyodo News

Cuba seeks Asian support for lifting U.S. economic blockade / Bernama

The Castro corner . . . / Chicago Sun-Times

Annual Havana cigar festival drawing aficionados from around the world / Sun-Sentinel

Annual Havana cigar festival drawing aficionados from around the world / Sun-Sentinel

The future of Cuba / Boston Herald

The other face of Paquito D'Rivera / LA Times

Shining Night / Calgary Sun



February 22

FROM CUBA / Where are the ambulances? / APLO

FROM CUBA / Authorities concerned about thousands of unemployed communist youth / UPECI

FROM CUBA / Chicken farm closed; eggs not available / UPECI

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Cuba: premium cigar production tumbles to 118 million units / Bloomberg

Controversial novelist to write on Pope's visit to Cuba / EWTN

Malaysia announces opening of Embassy in Cuba / IRNA

Inside the Wasp's Nest / Miami New Times

Cubans find ways to access internet, e-mail / Chicago Tribune


February 21

FROM CUBA / Agriculture ministry officials evict peasants from small farms / Lux InfoPress

FROM CUBA / Unsafe working conditions in western cuban sawmill / Lux InfoPress

FROM CUBA / Long jail sentences for two who ate the zoo's ostrich / APLO

Cuba News / Yahoo!

'95 Cuban doctors employed in East Cape / All Africa

Doctor diplomacy' requires Red pledge? / WorldNetDaily.com

Trotting out the big lie / Miami Herald

Possible Cuba trip makes some wary / San Francisco Chronicle

Cuba's foreign minister to visit in March; aid may be further away / The Japan Times

Honduran doctors seek expulsion of Cuban colleagues / Miami Herald


February 20

FROM CUBA / Prison administrators misappropriate budget funds / APLO

FROM CUBA / Black market spare parts for state-owned buses and taxis / Luis Viño Zimerman

FROM CUBA / Four hurt in partial building collapse / Grupo Decoro

Exile flotilla heads for Cuban coast / Yahoo!

Cuba wants to learn from our experience / The Star

CANF's speaking in a new tone / Max J. Castro / Miami Herald


February 19

FROM CUBA / Agricultural laborers in the dollar economy don't have working clothes or shoes / APSIC

FROM CUBA / Students attend classes in crumbling building / APSIC

FROM CUBA / Cuban consumers complain about poor service in dollar stores / APSIC

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Cuba News / IRNA

Hain helped Manics' Cuban trip / BBC News

Council of Foreign Relations leaders meet with Castro in Cuba / CNN

Cuba and the Council on Foreign Relations / NewsMax.com

Pedaling with a revolutionary spirit / NY Times

The island of reflected images / The Washington Post

Unlikely proposal / The Washington Times


February 16

FROM CUBA / Cuban police subject prisoner to torture / Cuba-Verdad

FROM CUBA / Growing rumors of a currency change in Cuba / Cuba Voz

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Cuba: New wave of political oppression / Amnesty International

Federal trade agency minimizes impact of Cuban embargo / Fox News

Cuban embargo costs U.S. little / NewsMax.com

Cuban foreign minister to visit China Feb. 25-Mar. 3 / Kyodo

Beware Fidel Castro / Emilio Ichikawa / Miami Herald

Celia will survive / JAM!


February 15

Cuban diplomat shot to death in Mexico City / Miami Herald

Cuba offers free med school training / Yahoo!

Reports from Cuba indicate tobacco harvest could have problems / Bloomberg

GOP's split over Cuba leaves Bush on tightrope / Chicago Tribune

Ex-chief of Cuban exile group faces charge of embezzling cash / Sun-Sentinel

Castro's Cuba is an unlikely island of superb classical ballet / LA Times

Carlos Cruz's second act / Miami New Times


February 14

FROM CUBA / Garbage collector is the job to have in Havana / CPI

FROM CUBA / High prices of veterinary medicines blocking cattle development / UPECI

Cuba News / Miami Herald

The last tango in Havana and the velvet hostages / Frank Calzon / Miami Herald

Poetry for the jampacked: Cuban poets bring rhymes to the people / Sun-Sentinel

With Cuban help, Chavez carries his revolution into the schoolyards / Tampa Bay Online

Battle over Cuba heating up again / The Dallas Morning News

From Cuba, with gloves / NY Post


February 13

FROM CUBA / Culture ministry shuts down artists' studios / Cuba-Verdad

FROM CUBA / Consumers are asked to police price controls / Cuba-Verdad

FROM CUBA / Dollar store replaces park / AFPCP

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Airlines fancy flights to Cuba / Chicago Tribune

Feds say Fidel is hacker threat / Wired News

And your little dog, too / The Washington Post


February 12

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Questioning Cuba's dotcom revolution / The Christian Monitor

Cuban ambassador confers with Majlis speaker / IRNA

Castro's little-known right-wing history / Oppenheimer / Miami Herald

Forty years of silence ends for Bay of Pigs pilot / Postnet.com

Treasure in the deep? Cuba, firm aim to find out / The Washington Post

An 'activist' Cuba policy / Miami HeraldAn 'activist' Cuba policy / Miami Herald

Let yankee tourists shower dollars on Cuba's poor / The Wall Street Journal


February 9

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Czech, Polish diplomats preparing another resolution against Cuba / Central Europe Online

Beirut and Havana ink taxation pact / The Daily Star Online

'Buena Vista' guitarist is accused of trading with the Cuban 'enemy' / Independent

Yes, aispiquingli / Reporters Without Borders

Howdy, comrade: it's ropin', ridin' and revolution at rodeo Cuban-style / Chicago Tribune

A Cuban Idyll / Miami New Times


February 8

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Cuba News / Central Europe Online

Cuba News / Central Europe Online

Dissident group opens christian library in Cuba / EWTN

Cuban leadership takes biting tone / Chicago Tribune

Head of Cuban parliament talks about Cuba after Castro / CNS News

From Havana with love / The Village Voice


February 7

FROM CUBA / Patients complain about shortcomings in medical service / Cuba-Verdad

FROM CUBA / Store administrators lose their jobs for lack of a pen / Luis Viño Zimerman

2 Czechs say their ordeal in Cuba was a message aimed at Bush / Miami Herald

Sprung from Cuba / Miami Herald

Havel jabs Castro over Czechs jailed in Cuba / Virtual New York

Czechs return home from Cuba jail / Yahoo!

Castro spreads the ire / CNN

Exiles Open 'Free Cuba Embassy' in Washington / CNS News

Castro foes open 'embassy' in D.C. / Chicago Tribune

Rise in internal dissent hones Castro's hard line / The Washington Times

Before Night' falls short of revealing full Reinaldo Arenas story / The Chicago Tribune


February 6

FROM CUBA / Workers not paid on account of theft / Lux InfoPress

FROM CUBA / Triple whammy for travelers at havana train terminal / AFPCP

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Castro lashes out at 'foreign journalists' / Editor & Publisher magazine

Cuba Ignores Pope's Proposals / NewMax

A Bigger Picture of 'Elian' / Daily News

Swedish campaign defies book ban / The Friends of Cuban Libraries

Cuba seeks to revive traditional cuisine as tourism expands / Bloomberg

Cuba offers to train Nigerian unionists / The Guardian Online


February 5

FROM CUBA / New telephone service exclusively for "revolutionaries" / APLO

FROM CUBA / Family evicted by force in Las Tunas / Lux InfoPress

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Argentina recalls Cuba ambassador / BBC News

Writing was Reinaldo Arenas' best revenge / Toronto Star

Havana's Bodeguita del Medio to Continue Franchise Expansion / Bloomberg

Cuban spies' trial reveals ring's pitiful grade of espionage / The Sydney Morning Herald

In Havana, Ballet Earns a Solid 'Si!' / The Washington Post

Waiting at the Gate for Trade With Cuba / NY Times


February 2

FROM CUBA / Municipal hospital has no x-ray equipment in working order / Cuba-Verdad

FROM CUBA / Apparent lack of interest shown by local members of communist youth / UPECI

FROM CUBA / Public transportation shrinks in las tunas province / Juan Téllez Rodríguez

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Mbeki To Visit Cuba / AllAfrica

Cuba's Latest Political Prisoners / NY Times

Solid leader at HUD / The Cincinnati Post

Before Night Falls / Reviews


February 1

FROM CUBA / Tobacco crop in danger of being lost in Las Martinas, Pinar del Río / UPECI

FROM CUBA / Garbage hasn't been picked-up in two weeks in Santiago de Cuba / APLO

Cuba jailed two Czechs in plan to foment division, expert says / Miami Herald

Czech senate chairman to be received by Castro on thursday morning / Central Europe

Store underlines Cuba's hunger for books, cash / Chicago Tribune

Falmouth man going to Cuba to fix pianos / Boston Globe

Reds interested in Cuban defectors / Cincinnati.com

Venezuelan Schools Go Castro / NewsMax

Cuban Missive Crisis / Miami New Times



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