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MARCH 2001 HEADLINES

March 30

FROM CUBA / State-run agricultural co-op workers haven't been paid in a month / Grupo Decoro

Echevarría park in Havana is a wasteland / AFPCP

Workers' salary affected by obligatory transfer / APLO

Cuba News / CNS News

Dlamini-Zuma defending Cuba / Business Day

Fidel's little hero does a turn for amigo Mbeki / Business Day

Bush Wants All-American Trade Zone / Yahoo!

Investigator from Cuba takes stand in spy trial / Miami Herald


March 29

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Castro and South Africa's leader sign cooperation agreements / CNS News

Cuba again slams Czechs it detained, then freed / Central Europe Online

Castro says armed struggle no longer needed in Africa / South Africa's National Financial Daily

Parliamentary delegation in Cuba / Cyber Thesis Journal

The left forever fawns over Fidel / Boston Herald

El Presidente's choice / National Post

Group focused on Cuba policy forms in D.C. / Miami Herald

A trip to the biotechnology centre with Castro and Mbeki / Business Day

Helms Boosting Cuban Dissidents / The Washinton Post

Support the Varela Project / Arcos Cazabon / Miami Herald

Fans bananas for Belafonte / NY Post


March 28

FROM CUBA / Food shortage in Pinar del Rio getting more acute / UPECI

FROM CUBA / Havana's movie theaters are slowly fading / UPECI

FROM CUBA / Bicycle parts stolen at police station / CPIC

FROM CUBA / Waste water flows from building that has been closed for years / AFPCP

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Mbeki, Castro sign cooperation agreements / BBC

Cuban official OK with summit snub / The Halifax Herald

Castro's publicist / NY Post


March 27

FROM CUBA / Police harasses street peddlers in Havana / Cuba-Verdad / AFPCP

FROM CUBA / Operating rooms in Guantánamo hospital not up to standards / APSIC

FROM CUBA / A park is missing in Bayamo / APSIC

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Czech communist party chief to visit Cuba, meet Castro / Central Europe Online

Castro welcomes Mbeki in airport surprise / Independent Online

A crabby conflict at the Bay of Pigs / The Washington Post

Prosecutor says Cuban spy testimony could mean racketeering charge / Sun-Sentinel


March 23

FROM CUBA / Not even with dollars do you get any respect" / AFPCP

FROM CUBA / Only government conglomerates may buy 'electro-bikes' / CPI

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Castro joins old enemies at forum on Bay of Pigs invasion / Miami Herald

Kennedy's advisors criticised intelligence gathering prior to Cuban missile crisis / Independent News

Before Night Falls is a rich, full-formed portrait of a writer / The Ottawa Citizen


March 22

FROM CUBA / Mothers complain about the quality of the yogurt sold to their children / Cuba-Verdad

FROM CUBA / Index of impoverishment and dangerousness growing among young / Grupo Decoro

FROM CUBA / Man held for illegal slaughter of cattle hangs himself in jail cell / CPIC

Thanks from Cuba to two Czechs / González Leyva / IHT

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Fliers downed by MiGs violated Cuban airspace, colonel says / Miami Herald

Cuba's Offer of Cheap Generic AIDS Drugs Praised / AllAfrica


March 21

FROM CUBA / Complaints about long-distance phone service on the increase / AFPCP

FROM CUBA / Cuban customs intercept VCR shipment in port of Havana / CPI

South Africa's Foreign Minister Off to Cuba / AllAfrica

Cuba gets US$10m palm oil credit / Thestar.com

Luscar warns Sherritt in midst of Cuban crisis / The Calgary Sun

Students back from Cuba / Contra Costa Times

Error that cost the lives of teenage Cuban stowaways / The Guardian

Venezuela denies it helped guerrilla / Yahoo!

Cuba blew its chance / Montrealgazette.com

Voice against intolerance leaves legacy / Miami Herald

Havana rum punch-up / BBC News

Harry Belafonte, a true believer / ABIP


March 20

FROM CUBA / Pastry chef fired for belonging to a dissident group / UPECI

FROM CUBA / Transportation crisis in Pinar del Río province / UPECI

Cuba News / BBC News

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Cuba News / Virtual New York

Cuba News / Sun-Sentinel

Life Under Castro / The Washington Post

El Poder de Las Danzantes: A Note on a Sixties Legacy / FrontpageMagazine

Free agent / Boston Globe

Appeal for Cubans / The Washington Times

Venezuela Could Review Crude Exports / Business News America

Pilip, Bubenik say Cuba's detention of them was scare tactic / Central Europe Online

The Cuban Samizdat: Can It Be Stopped? / NewsMax.com


March 19

FROM CUBA / Italian-cuban telephone company is manipulated by the government, some charge / María Elena Rodríguez

FROM CUBA / Residents of Pinar de Río fear mosquito onslaught / UPECI

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Cuba News / Los Angeles Times

Cuba in bid to revive utopia of full employment / The Daily Star

Mbeki to visit Cuba to boost trade, investment / The Times of India Online

Spain's Vinexsa Company Plans to Export its Wines to Cuba / Bloomberg

Norwegian defends Castro Nobel nomination / BBC

U.N. Human Rights Summit Begins In Geneva / CNS News

No tears for Castro's Cuba / The Gazette

Why Cuba is not on the A list / National Post

Cuban emigres face new peril at sea / Boston Globe

Glasgow's Havana rhumba with strange bedfellow / The Sunday Times

Pass a Cuban cigar to Scotland's very own Comrade Matheson / The Sunday Times

The Dirty Realism of New Cuban Fiction / LA Times

Major rights offenders sit on UN commission / National Post Online


March 16

FROM CUBA / Students are taken out of classrooms and sent to gather potatoes / Cuba-Verdad

FROM CUBA / Lobster fishermen haven't been paid in full since December / UPECI

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Cuba seeks extradition of Castro 'attackers' / BBC

No rift between Prague, Warsaw over Cuban resolution / Central Europe Online

Ottawa shifts policy on Cuba / National Post

Fidel the Peacemaker / NewsMax

Czechs see jailing as silencing truth / The Washington Times

A new path for Cuba / Benjamin P. Tyree / The Washington Times


March 15

Powell: Cuba Sanctions Should Remain / Yahoo!

Signals of harder line on Cuba / FT

Czechs arrested in Cuba, honored for courage on Capitol Hill / CNS News

A women's prison known as Black Mantle / Agustin Blazquez / NewsMax.com

Goons on trial / The Washington Times

What spies beneath / Miami New Times

Alcan Aims to Clinch Cuban Can Deal - Cuba, Brazil / Business News America

The world is not enough / The Standard Europe


March 14

Journalist released after two-and-a-half years in prison / RSF

Spy testimony heated / Miami Herald

U.S. Cuban policy sparks tension for holiday flight / The Halifax Herald Limited

Five die in Cuban train crash / BBC

Original silk-screened and offset posters from Cuba on exhibit / Bloomberg

Exposure, not embargoes, would help Cuba's transition to capitalism / Chicago Tribune


March 13

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Cuban Communist Party aims to hinder Church´s work / Zenit

Church in Cuba grows among youth but needs more freedom, says archbishop / Catholic World News

Cuba Sees Internet as a Powerful Tool / CNS News

Liberals set to fight Bush choice for Latin America post / The Washington Times

A world of differences still / The Washington Times

Harry Belafonte to appear in benefit concert for Cuban Center / Bloomberg


March 12

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Chavez on surprise visit to Cuba / BBC News

Cuba squeezes private business as economy grows / CNN

Cuban parliament speaker visits Iraq / Times of India

Powell Anxious About Czechs' Approach to Resolution on Cuba / Central Europe Online

Cuba's annual rebuke / Miami Herald

Calling on communist Cuba / The Washington Times

From workers' paradise to tourist paradise / PostNet.com


March 9

Cuba News / Yahoo!

Cuba's Varela Project / Miami Herald

Cuban speaker shows support / The Daily Star

Hollywood goes Havana, again / WorldNetDaily

Treasure island / The Boston Globe

Police-State Tactics at Hunter College / FrontPage Magazine

Felipe Pazos, Economist Who Split With Castro, Dies at 88 / NY Times

American Artist Paints a Moving Film Portrait / LA Times


March 8

FROM CUBA / Public phones vandalized in Havana / Cuba-Verdad

FROM CUBA / Blackouts on the increase in Jatibonico and Ciego de Avila / CPIC

FROM CUBA / Water shortage more acute lately in Santiago / APLO

Basulto warned before first trip / Miami Herald

Powell says human rights in Cuba priority, Czech addition problems / Central Europe Online

Business visitors sing Cuba's praises / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Prodigious Rubalcaba set to spellbind Tokyo /The Yomiuri Shimbun

Another death in Castro's hands / Luis Aguilar Leon / Miami Herald

Team targets migrant deaths / Miami Herald

Shipper gets license for Cuba / Miami Herald

Jewish group brings religious history to Cuban counterparts / The Boston Globe

More U.S. aid sought for Cuban dissidents / Washington Post

Cuba creates new agency to promote tourism around the world / Bloomberg

Straddling two worlds: Cuban author Antonio José Ponte / Miami Herald

Freedom networking / The Washington Times


March 7

FROM CUBA / Government regulations restrict self-employment / Cuba-Verdad

FROM CUBA / Peasants fined and driven from the land they have worked for five years / UPECI

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Cuba shuns U.S. goods over embargo / Yahoo!

Cuban dissidents call for referendum / BBC News

Cuba helps N Prov schools / News24.com

Internet telephony encouraged / FT.com


March 6

FROM CUBA / Close to 50 police and State Security agents beat rafters / Juan Téllez Rodríguez

FROM CUBA / Poor conditions in Guantánamo provincial hospital / APSIC

Cuba News / Kyodo News

Cuba's aging community of jews still hanging on / Chicago Tribune

Carry on spying / The Guardian

Havana's hard line / FT

Lobbying for Latin Grammys challenged / Miami Herald


March 5

FROM CUBA / State Security hits dissidents where they work / UPECI

FROM CUBA / Youths beaten for fishing in Santiago Bay / APLO

Cuba News / Miami Herald

Cuba promises more web access / Yahoo!

The facts on Brothers to the Rescue / Maggie Schuss / Miami Herald

Cuba has a rebirth of vocation / Zenit

Prosecution rests in Miami's Cuban spy case / NewsMax

Arenas' complex life dissected in 'Before Night Falls' / Las Vegas Sun

'Don't Call Me Actor,' says Javier Bardem, a Nominee for Best, Um . . . / NY Times

A museum rolls along streets of Havana / Boston Globe

Easing the embargo grudge against Cuba / Paul Simon / ChicagoTribune

Artists share Cuban adventure / Lawrence Journal-World


March 2

FROM CUBA / Baker fired for associating with dissidents / Reinaldo Cosano Alén

FROM CUBA / Fumigating with diesel fuel may be a health hazard / APO

Fighting for a press without censors or censorship / Luis Alberto Rivera Leyva / Reporters Without Borders

Cuba's bleak political landscape / Raúl Rivero / Reporters Without Borders

Castro says Cuba will be an exemplary socialist state / CNS News

China vows to continue support for Cuba / The Times of India

Chinese, Cuban foreign ministers hold talks in Beijing / Kyodo News

America's left and the double standard over gays in Cuba / NewsMax

Web-browsing age is slowly beginning to click in Cuba / Sun-Sentinel

Mr. Baker: 'Love Cuba and the United States' / Guillermo I. Martinez / Miami Herald

Cuba Now / LA Weekly


March 1

FROM CUBA / Laborers at sugar mill work seven days a week / Cuba Voz

FROM CUBA / Diarrhea outbreak affects hundreds of students / APO

FROM CUBA / Workers complain that lack of supplies costs them / AIDH

Expert: Brothers had previously ignored warnings about airspace / Miami Herald

Poland insists on sanctions against Cuba / Central Europe Online

Cuba looks to jump start cigar production after recent tumble / Bloomberg



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