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February
24
FROM
CUBA
Drivers of government-issued cars risk losing them
unless they pick up riders
The
drivers of government-issued cars will now risk
losing them unless they stop to pick up passengers
going their way, at the same time that police
impose heavy fines on private car owners who try
to do the same.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Two suspects in serial murders apprehended in Havana
Two
residents of Santiago de las Vegas, on the outskirts
of Havana, were apprehended as suspects in a series
of murders after an old man digging for empty
cans in a garbage bin found the mutilated body
of a man.
HAVANA
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Information Bridge
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Political prisoner harassed in Guantánamo
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Relatives of political prisoners will fast on
anniversary of wave of repression
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The Miami Herald
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No plans to restart talks on migration, U.S. says
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Florida lawmakers are battling Castro
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Exiles offer post-Castro Cuba plan
• Roman Catholic prelate
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Key to Cuba tobacco harvest is patience
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Knee injury sidelines US forward for Cuban trip
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Speedboat Smuggles 13 Cubans Into U.S.
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Che Guevara: Assassin and Bumbler
If
only Carroll had lived a bit longer. If only he'd
visited Cuba in 1959 when every paper from the New
York Times to the London Observer - when every pundit,
every author, every TV host were touting the judicial
outrages, mass larceny and firing-squad orgies instituted
by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara as the most glorious
events since VJ day.
Humberto
Fontova. NewsMax.com . |
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Cuba
travelers gain hearing
Four years after traveling to Cuba on a church
mission without U.S. government approval, three
Milwaukee residents have been granted the hearings
they've requested.
Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel, WI.
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A
new war of words with Cuba is likely
As sure as election years bring stump speeches
and confetti-strewn conventions, history has shown
they also breed heightened tensions between Washington
and Havana as presidents and candidates ratchet
up the rhetoric in a race for Cuban-American voters.
South
Florida Sun-Sentinel, FL.
|
February
23
FROM
CUBA
In Cuba, Committees for the Defense of the Revolution
prepare for war
After
Castro called a U. S. invasion of the island a
"sure thing" in his last speech, the neighborhood
watch Committees for the Defense of the Revolution
together with Civil Defense authorities have been
preparing a plan they are calling "update in time
of war".
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Cuban agricultural workers not paid on time
Salaries
for the 44 employees of the Revolución Co-op in
the Isle of Youth have been as much as 15 days
late in the last two months because, managers
say, the company doesn't have the liquidity.
NUEVA
GERONA
|
FROM
CUBA
Road in poor state of repair hampers transportation
Residents
of La Demajagua, a town in the Isle of Youth,
complain that the main thoroughfare in town has
been unusable for the last 9 months, making access
to the many homes along the road difficult and
life in general inconvenient.
NUEVA
GERONA
|
FROM
CUBA
Construction brigade from eastern Cuba assigned to
Isle of Youth
A
construction brigade consisting of 53 tradesmen
has been assigned to rebuild the housing damage
from 2002 hurricanes Isidore and Lily in the Isle
of Youth.
HAVANA |
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U.S. Envoy Says No Plan to Attack Cuba
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US Olympic women's team heads for Cuba
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DeLay: Evil will not stand in Baghdad, or Havana;
honors victims of communism in Memorial Cubano address |
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Memorial honors Cuban dead
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Conservative exile leaders unveil plan for post-Castro
Cuba
•
Bush, Castro allies of a sort, prof says
• Contreras feels betrayed
• Cuban dancers who defected given asylum, hired
in Cincinnati
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A lifeline for loved ones in Cuba.
Considering
the benefits derived from remittances to Cuba
from South Florida, as they ponder how to ''toughen''
the rules, U.S. officials should keep in mind
the time-honored cardinal rule of physicians:
First, do no harm.
The
Miami Herald.
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No human rights in Castro's prisons
It's
heartening that at least one official of the U.N.
Human Rights Commission realizes that Cuba's regime
conducted an ''unprecedented wave of repression''
last March and April -- even though it comes a year
late.
The
Miami Herald. |
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Baseball
star's millions can't buy freedom for family
In this corner of Cuba's tobacco-growing province,
it's no secret that the wife of José Contreras,
one of Cuba's star pitchers who defected and signed
with the New York Yankees, now also wants out
to join her husband. It's also no secret that
the Cuban government has denied her exit visa
request, saying she must wait five years because
of Contreras' status as a "deserter."
South
Florida Sun-Sentinel, FL.
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Cuba's
human rights assailed
A month before the United Nations Commission on
Human Rights convenes in Geneva, a U.N. envoy
filed her first report on Cuba, calling the imprisonment
of 75 dissidents an "unprecedented wave of repression"
and condemning their prison conditions.
South
Florida Sun-Sentinel, FL.
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The difficulties
of Cuba
Middle Keys photographer Larry Benvenuti has traveled
to Cuba 15 times since 1993, on humanitarian trips
and to record on film the island's beauty. Here,
he recounts the difficulties of getting permission
on his most recent trip, in October.
Florida
Keys Keynoter, FL.
|
The
Cuban
Photographer Bob Harper traveled to Cuba with
a good camera, a good eye and a pocketful of good
will. He came home with hundreds of eye-catching
photographs he is using in a series of collages
depicting Cuban life.
Richmond
Times Dispatch, VA.
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Group
Making Plans for a Free Cuba
Four Cuban-American members of Congress lent their
support Friday to a commission of academics, exiles
and dissidents intent on devising ways to foster
democracy and a free economy on the island once
Cuban President Fidel Castro is no longer in power.
Lakeland
Ledger, FL.
|
Ballet
lands Cuban dancers
Two former members of Cuba's national ballet company
who defected to the United States have gained
political asylum and have contracts with the Cincinnati
Ballet, their Miami immigration attorney said
Wednesday.
Cincinnati
Enquirer, OH.
|
Miami
a changed city 45 years after Cuban revolution
When Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution took hold
in 1959, Juan Clark thought his move north to
Miami would only be temporary. He was ready to
join a movement against Castro's new government
and forge his own return to his homeland. Clark,
then in his 20s, joined in the failed 1961 Bay
of Pigs invasion and spent two years in a Cuban
jail.
Bradenton
Herald, FL.
|
Artists
gain a measure of freedom in Cuba
Shalett wound up on an unofficial odyssey led by
Damian Aquiles, who paints with rust. Aquiles took
her to the makeshift studios of more than a dozen
artists around the capital, some of whom kept their
works under trundle beds. Shalett was wowed by much
of what she saw, works by classically trained painters
and sculptors laboring in a society where milk is
a luxury and freedom of expression even rarer.
The
Seattke Times, WA. |
February
18
FROM
CUBA
Cuban police call Sat TV antenna "subversive," confiscate
it
After
a two-hour home search, police confiscated a satellite
TV antenna, a VCR and some tapes, labeling them
"subversive," and fined their owner 500 pesos.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Tourism workers in Cuba fear home inspections
Cubans
working at the new resorts in Cayo Coco and Cayo
Guillermo, off the north coast of the island,
are afraid they may be subject to home searches
by police.
HAVANA
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U.N. Decries Cuba Over Dissident Arrests
The
Cuban government's imprisonment of 75 dissidents
is an "unprecedented wave of repression" in the
country, a United Nations official said
Yahoo!
News. |
Food shortages in Cuba raising 'a yellow flag'
An
apparent food shortage in Cuba is raising some concern
about a potential nutrition crisis.
The
Miami Herald. |
The Miami Herald
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Cuba remittance limits feared
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U.S. Treasury to investigate money being sent
to Cuba
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Walker Debuts Spanish Version of Book
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Political
reform not in Cuba's future
In Miriam Leiva's cramped Havana apartment, there
is little to indicate that her husband, Oscar
Espinosa Chepe, played a role in the pivotal event
of 2003 in Cuba. A small Christmas tree stands
on a round dining table. Family photographs line
several walls. Only one photograph, the most recent,
seems out of place.
San
Luis Obispo.
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Inside
Cuba: 45 Years Of Castro
In many ways the old cars of Havana are like a
symbol of Cuba. They've been running well beyond
their expectations. The question is how long cane
they continue to run in this same fashion?
CBS
2.
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SA Students
Doing Well in Cuba
The Department of Health in the Northern Cape
has welcomed as impressive a report about the
academic performance of 16 youths who left the
province last year to study medicine in Cuba.
AllAfrica.com.
|
February
16
FROM
CUBA
Water weights down bottled gas in Cuba
This
is incredible!" said a Ciego de Ávila gas customer.
"Just 15 days ago I got the [bottled gas] tank
refilled, and I'm out already." Many of his fellow
customers would agree. It turns out the gas tanks
here are being partly filled with water in a scheme
to divert some of the gas nobody knows where.
CIEGO
DE ÁVILA
|
FROM
CUBA
Former Cuban political prisoner "untrustworthy"
A
former political prisoner was fired from his job
mending fences in a dairy farm because he was
declared "untrustworthy."
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Waiting room of fear
A
toothache is something unbearable. But where you're
really put to the test is when they tell you they
have to work on your mouth without any anesthetic.
PINAR
DEL RÍO
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Castro demands Bush make clear assassination policy
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Castro: U.S. Embargo Hasn't Broken Cuba |
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Roots revival: Punto guajiro makes a comeback
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Assignment in Cuba can be trying, but helping people
is the big reward
She
lives in a place that should be a tropical paradise
but is more of an island hell, where cab drivers
can be fined for talking to strangers, where chicken
is an impossibly expensive luxury, where she has
every reason to believe her home is bugged, and
where she is the regular target of hatred and abuse.
Chico
Enterprise-Record. |
Cuban Dissident Paya Among Nobel Peace Prize Nominees
Cuban
dissident Oswaldo Paya is among the record number
of nominees for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
Mr. Paya, who was also nominated for the award
in 2003, heads the so-called Varela Project
VOA
News .
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Remembering 75 Cuban Political Prisoners
The
mid-Ohio valley pays tribute to 75 Cuban political
prisoners jailed for speaking out for democracy.
About 250 valley residents came to Washington State
Community College to hear about the plight of the
prisoners.
WTAP
News. OH |
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'They
Are Killing These People'
Sanchez said five prisoners had been hospitalized.
He said Espinosa is in the same hospital with
Martha Beatriz Roque, a dissident economist sentenced
to 20 years, who is suffering from diabetes, ulcers,
high blood pressure and is paralyzed on one side
of her face. He said two men who had heart attacks
before being imprisoned, Roberto de Miranda and
Orlando Fundora, are suffering worsening heart
disease and have been moved to prison hospital
wards. Julio Antonio Valdes, who needs a kidney
transplant because prison conditions have further
damaged his already weak kidneys, is in a prison
ward in a Havana hospital, Sanchez said.
The
Washington Post (subs).
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Vanessa
Bauza: Life in Florida stays a dream in a bottle
In the hours before she embarked on the 1959 Buick's
short-lived odyssey at sea, Nivia Valdes carefully
rolled up her marriage certificate, her sons'
birth certificates and her medical diploma and
pushed them through the narrow mouth of a rinsed-out
plastic soda bottle.
Sun-Sentinel.
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Revolutionary
Road
In her first book, In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd,
Ana Menendez assembled an enchanting collection
of short stories. Crafted with a lush, poetic
prose, the stories were lyrical, wise and affecting,
offering up a vision of Cuban exile life filled
with aching loss and absurd hilarity. Loving Che,
Menendez's first novel, has many of the same qualities,
but her hand is not as deft, her footing not as
sure.
The
New York Times.
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Latest
effort to flee drives Cuban migration debate
Rafael Díaz is broke and beleaguered, and his
vintage 1959 Buick is sitting somewhere on the
ocean floor. But he can't help but smile when
describing how he turned his beloved car into
a boat and chugged through shark-infested waters
while trying to reach America. "We almost made
it, too," said Mr. Díaz, a soft-spoken mechanic.
"We could see the shoreline. But the Coast Guard
caught us.".
The
Dallas Morning News.
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Cuba
Is Just a Friend, Venezuela Tells Suspicious US
As U.S. officials lob accusations that President
Hugo Chavez is conspiring with Cuban leader Fidel
Castro to destabilize U.S. allies in Latin America,
Venezuelan officials say the allegations are much
ado about nothing.
Los
Angeles Times (subs), CA.
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Wrong
way on Cuba clear from Idaho
Rep. Butch Otter, R-Idaho, learned something about
Cuba even before traveling there this month. He
found out why it was so hard for Americans to
go to the island.
Oregonian,
OR.
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Decatur
Remembers a Cuban Native as a True American
Tony Goodner is visiting the restaurant where
he loves to eat. But the head chef and owner of
Mando's Pizza isn't behind the counter taking
orders. Armando de Quesada died Saturday morning
as he was getting ready to open the restaurant
for customers.
WHNT,
AL.
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Of Cuba
and politics
What
do Iran, North Korea and Syria have in common? It's
not hard to figure out. They're all dictatorships
with a record of egregious human rights violations.
Oh, yes, some even possess weapons of mass destruction.
But they have something else in common as well:
You can travel there on a U.S. passport. Cuba, our
neighbor to the south? Better forget about it.
Rutland
Herald, VT. |
Accept
refugees who can drive from Cuba
Castro,
we may recall a few short years ago, welcomed a
delegation of Illinoisans, among them Lake Countians,
led by then-Gov. George Ryan. Ryan proclaimed the
tyrant's island not all that bad a place to visit.
It is uncertain if the governor checked out Cuba's
death penalty laws. Yet here were six adults and
five kids in a V8-powered Buick, its doors sealed
to keep water out, motoring to the U.S. Just like
going on a Sunday drive to the in-laws.
Suburban
Chicago News, IL. |
Sonia Santana:
'Havana Dreams'
With
arrangements that recall the Latin big-band beat
of Cuba half a century ago, Sonia Santana breathes
new life into the tunes that powered Havana after
dark.
New
York Post. |
February
13
FROM
CUBA
Dissident Todos Unidos group offers solutions to Cuba's
problems
Todos
Unidos spokesperson Vladimiro Roca said: "We put
this document at the disposition of all Cubans
with a view to initiating the changes that Cuban
society needs to start solving the grave problems,
above all economic, that the Cuban people have
faced for many years."
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Soap, toothpaste and sugar unavailable under the ration
book on the Isle of Youth
The
80,000 residents of the Isle of Youth cannot find
soap, toothpaste and sugar available for purchase
under ration books.
NUEVA
GERONA
|
FROM
CUBA
Families of Cuban imprisoned dissidents seek signatures
on a petition requesting amnesty
Families
of Cuban imprisoned dissidents seek signatures
on a petition requesting amnesty
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Citizens band together in attempt to save last wooden
building
Several
citizens of the southern Havana fishing port of
Batabanó have banded together in an effort to save
the last remaining wooden hotel in the province,
a building they consider has historical value and
has been neglected for decades.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Transportation wars, Havana-style
Authorities
in Havana are carrying on confiscation proceedings
against six owners of cars used in transporting
passengers without all the necessary paperwork.
The government says all six are repeat offenders.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
The clinic and the dollar store
At
night, during one of the frequent power outages
that Candelarios have become used to, they could
be a hundred miles apart. The store remains brightly
illuminated; it has its own generator. The polyclinic
goes dark along with the rest of the town.
HAVANA |
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Car-boat Cubans' next stop will be U.S. base
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Cuba's tourism chief replaced by army colonel
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Dissident presses for more rights
• 8 Cubans returned home
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Cuban Police Conduct Boat-Car Inspection
Cuban
police inspected a house and several auto repair
shops Wednesday in a neighborhood where residents
recently converted two 1950s cars into boats that
refugees used in attempts to reach the United
States..
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NewsA
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Big law firm hit with suit over Cuba trade scheme
Park
Avenue law firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius has been
hit with a $40 million malpractice lawsuit for allegedly
lying and concocting a Cuba trade cover-up for clients
- who didn't even ask for the scheme.
New
York Post . |
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Homeland
Security will review asylum cases for Cubans caught
in '59 Buick
A family of three Cubans who captured the hearts
of well-wishers on both sides of the Florida Straits
after twice trying to sail vintage American jalopies
to South Florida will be sent to the U.S. Naval
Base at Guantanamo Bay, where their requests for
political asylum will be reviewed.
Sun-Sentinel,
FL.
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Havanatur
wary of U.S. Cuba travel crackdown
Havanatur Bahamas Ltd is forced to change the
way it does business, in the face of an embargo
by the United States Treasury Department for allegedly
providing Americans with illegal travel packages
to Cuba..
The
Nassau Guardian .
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CUBA:
The second edition of the Esteban Salas Early
Music Festival ends in Havana
The Festival, that was celebrated at the old church
of San Felipe de Neri and at the Basilica Menor
de San Francisco de Asís, Havana, Cuba, came to
its end last Sunday February 8th.
Goldberg,
Spain.
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Memoirs
of Her Last Tango With Cuba
"Dancing
With Cuba" tells of six months as a 20-year-old
teacher of modern dance in the revolutionary Cuba
of 1970. Despite the exotic setting, the book
is basically a traditional coming-of-age tale.
Its antiheroine is "an inept young woman." Its
themes are disenchantment, self-doubt and failure
in love and work.
Newsday.
|
February
11
FROM
CUBA
E-mail, dollars, and the Internet in Cuba.
The
recent news that the government was getting ready
to move against unauthorized Internet connections
shook many here who had somehow contrived to get
online.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Venezuelan students displace Cubans
Hundreds
of Cuban students at the school for social workers
in Cojímar, east of Havana, were taken out of
their school last week to allow the ministry to
use the school for a contingent of Venezuelan
students.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Cuban independent journalist missing for two months
The
mother of independent journalist Omar Darío Pérez
Hernández fears her son might have drowned fleeing
Cuba with four companions.
HAVANA
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The Miami Herald
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U.S. set to get tougher on Cuba
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'Car-boat' case a dilemma for president
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Cubans not going back -- for now
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Dissidents' plan would end Cuban crisis
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Cuban Dissidents Request Civil Rights
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Cubans on Floating Buick Returned Home
• Castro Signs Baseballs, Talks U.S. Ties By LISA
J. ADAMS, Associated Press Writer
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2 Republican lawmakers believe US will drop Cuba travel
ban
Two
Republican U.S. lawmakers, just back from a trade
mission to Cuba, believe the United States will
drop its ban on Americans' travel to the Caribbean
island next year
VOA
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Idaho
Looks to Boost Trade with Cuba
Idaho Senator Larry Craig and Representative Butch
Otter returned Monday from a three day trade mission
to Cuba. Craig and other members of the Idaho
delegation were talking about Idaho agriculture
products. Craig expects immediate results, with
orders for $10-million worth of Idaho potatoes
and beans.
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Craig,
Otter visit Castro to support travel to Cuba
President Fidel Castro signed baseballs, handed
out cigars and flower bouquets, and discussed
increased ties with the United States during a
three-hour meeting Monday with two Republican
congressmen who want to lift a ban on U.S. travel
to Cuba.
IdahoStatesman.com.
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Tuner strikes sour note
with U.S. over Cuba
Last week, the New York piano tuner received a
Treasury license to donate a pair of crutches
and a walker to a Havana music conservatory instead
of a renewal of his 8-year license to ship used
pianos, musical instruments and piano parts.
MSNBC.
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Cuba
defends human rights record
Cuban authorities defended their human rights
record Tuesday, saying much of the criticism directed
at the communist island has come from groups whose
only aim is to bring down the government.
Bradenton
Herald, FL.
|
US
lists Montreal-based Caribe Sol in its Cuba-linked
ban
A Montreal company is among 10 foreign concerns
linked to Cuba by the Bush administration yesterday
and, thus, forbidden to do business in the United
States.
Montreal
Gazette, Canada.
|
Flying
eye care hospital bound for Cuba next
Parked out behind Galaxy Aviation, among the private
jets and across the tarmac from Palm Beach International
Airport is a big, state-of-the-art ... operating
room. It landed here Monday. It's leaving here
-- with a local eye surgeon at the helm and two
pilots at the wheel -- in two weeks.
Palm
Beach Post, FL.
|
Republicans
in Senate race eying Cuba card
The rule for those running in a crowded party
primary is to play to a strongly defined bloc
to anchor a base of support while trying to take
as many of the other votes from your party as
you can.
Lakeland
Ledger, FL.
|
Havana's
intriguing middle-aged beauties
Stucco mansions glow ochre and peach in the soft
Caribbean dawn. At bright midday, trickling fountains
are the only things awake during the quiet of siesta.
Later, cobblestones resound with the steps of flouncing
señoritas as guitars sing softly to them from the
balconies. This is the Havana that could be, as
its decaying colonial treasures are slowly restored
to their full glory.
The
Washington Post . |
Nobel
Prize winner tells Cubans: Globalization is inevitable
Globalization is inevitable and the world should
make the best of it, Nobel Prize-winning economist
Daniel L. McFadden said Monday, inaugurating a forum
on the topic in the Western Hemisphere's only remaining
communist country.
The
Ledger, FL |
February
9
FROM
CUBA
Cuban prisoners of conscience submit report to the
National Directorate of Jails and Prisons
Dissident
prisoners Léster González Pentón and Juan Carlos
Herrera Acosta took advantage of a visit by a
delegation from the National Directorate of Jails
and Prisons to submit a report on conditions at
the Kilo 7 prison.
SANTA
CLARA
|
FROM
CUBA
Tomato crop lost because of lack of boxes on the Isle
of Youth, Cuba
Some
35,000 pounds of tomatoes rotted in the field
because they were not harvested by the Conrado
Benítez Cooperative, which didn't have any boxes
in which to put them.
NUEVA
GERONA
|
FROM
CUBA
Cuban dissident prisoner to be tried for insulting
an official re-educator
Ailing
dissident Miguel Galbán Gutiérrez, serving a 26-year
sentence for anti-government activities, will
face a disciplinary court on charges he insulted
an official re-educator, according to members
of his family.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Wife of Cuban jailed dissident harassed because of
visit by Czech delegation
Doralis
Velásquez Falcón, wife of jailed labor dissident
Héctor Raúl Valle Hernández, was ordered to report
to the police after a group from Czecheslovakia
visited with her to express solidarity.
HAVANA |
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US Treasury blocks business by 10 Cuban companies,
cracks down on travel to Cuba
•
Cuban Criticizes Brown Over Comments
•
U.S. Denies Visa to Cuban Minister
• Feds Enforcing Cuba Travel Restrictions
• Tsy's Snow Announces Tougher Cuba Travel Ban Enforcement
• Cubans Denied Visas to Attend Grammys |
The Miami Herald
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U.S. identifies 10 companies controlled by Cuban
governments
•
3 car-boat Cubans given reprieve
•
Scam artist promised money from Castro, indictment
says
• Car-boaters gain support
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What is lost by denying visas to Cuban artists? Hearts
and minds?
The
decision by the U.S. government to deny visas
to Cuban musicians invited to attend the Grammy
Awards in Los Angeles yesterday is in sync with
the sentiment of many in Miami's Cuban community.
But, how smart is it?
Enrique
Fernandez, The Miami Herald.
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Venezuela:
definition of hell
You know it's bad when you run away from Cuba
and Venezuela to seek a new life in Colombia.
That's called desperation.
V
Crisis, Venezuela.
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Cuban
youths turn tattoos into show of defiance
Body art is especially popular among the island's
Generation Y crowd, those under 25. And many are
having their skin emblazoned with symbols of defiance:
from marijuana leaves and the face of reggae legend
Bob Marley to guitarist Jimi Hendrix and Harley-Davidson's
screaming eagle.
The
Dallas Morning News, TX.
|
NCC Delegation
Says U.S.-Cuba Contacts Important in Tense Times
Participants in a U.S. ecumenical delegation visit
to Cuba in late January returned convinced of
the importance of maintaining contacts with churches
there, especially at this time of heightened tension
between the United States and Cuba. For their
part, Cuban church leaders asked their U.S. counterparts
for pastoral accompaniment and prayers.
Worldwide
Faith News.
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Cuban
rhythms take center stage at Atwood
Imagine a night when the warm air is scented by
spicy ginger, sweet frangipani and the musky smell
of cigars. Through an open window elegant women
with upswept hair, evening gowns and bare shoulders
dance close to dark-eyed men in white tuxedos.
Anchorage
Daily News, AK.
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Cuba's
art schools may finally be completed
Roberto Gottardi stands on the edge of a crater-size
ditch, imagining the fulfillment of his dream
to build one of the world's great theaters.
Chicago
Tribune, IL.
|
The
right way to invade Cuba
Fidel Castro sought to reignite the revolutionary
fire of his youth last week with a speech in which
he challenged the United States to invade Cuba.
The 77-year-old dictator ranted and raved for
5-1/2 hours, also charging that the Bush administration
was plotting with Cuban exiles in Miami to kill
him.'
Charleston
Post Courier (susc), SC.
|
Garden club
taking green thumbs to Cuba
The Key West Botanical Garden Society has come
up with a unique fund-raising idea - an eco-tour
of Cuba. The seven-day package will take the botanically
minded to three of the island nation's most acclaimed
garden spots.
Florida
Keys Keynoter, FL.
|
US blocks
Cuban Grammy nominees
US authorities have refused to let five Cuban Grammy
Awards nominees travel to Sunday's ceremony in Los
Angeles.
BBC,
UK. |
Vanity
surgery chic, despite the waiting
Idania Bello Acosta's bruised face was wrapped with
gauze and her swollen, stitched eyes were concealed
behind dark sunglasses as she waited for a checkup
at one of Havana's largest and busiest hospitals.
Sun-Sentinel,
FL. |
Uneasy
Witness in Utopian Cuba
In his cartooning days Jules Feiffer would portray
the butterfly fecklessness of his urban neurotics
by having them devise dances to their vague emotional
or intellectual weathers. It is in this sense that
Alma Guillermoprieto titles her book about a young
New Yorker (from a Mexican family) who spent six
months in Havana in 1970 juggling her naïve misapprehensions
with the stridencies of the Cuban revolution.
The
New York Times. |
February
4
FROM
CUBA
More than 100 booked for "dangerousness" in eastern
Cuba
Sixty-eight
whom the government considers "potential delinquents"
were called into the police station in San Cristóbal
January 27, photographed, fingerprinted, booked,
and warned about their "proclivity to criminal
activities".
HAVANA
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FROM
CUBA
Cuban police search woman's home for the third time
in three years
Lorenzo
is the wife of a man who used to work in a Cuban
Armed Forces' radar base and who left Cuba for
the United States three years ago. Last November,
she tried to leave the island in a raft and was
returned.
HAVANA
|
The Miami Herald
•
Cubans trade in pickup for Buick on trip to U.S
•
Exile activist says Cubans in floating Buick are
sent back to Cuba, car sunk
|
Cuba's debt to Venezuela soars as oil keeps flowing
As
Cuba's oil debt to Venezuela tops $752 million,
President Hugo Chávez, a confidant of Fidel Castro's,
becomes Cuba's biggest financial supporter.
The
Miami Herald. |
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links
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Give
Me Your Hand
Joyous, exuberant docu, "Give Me Your Hand" is
about Cuban expatriates in New Jersey and the
music that sustains them: the rumba they credit
with everything from curing breast cancer to maintaining
erections at age 83. Latest entry in the impressive
oeuvre of Dutch helmer Heddy Honigmann, who was
the subject of a recent retrospective at New York's
Museum of Modern Art, "Dame La Mano" builds to
a half-hour musical climax that sends auds dancing
out of the theater..
Variety.com.
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Cuba's
new ally
Amid a new round of rumors that his health is
failing, Fidel Castro has found a key benefactor
and heir apparent to the cause of derailing the
U.S.'s agenda in Latin America: Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez.
Knoxville
News Sentinel, TN.
|
Cuba
calls for media ties with Iran
Cuba has called for the expansion of cooperation
with Iran in the fields of press and mass media,
said an Iranian official on Monday. Iran's Ambassador
to Havana Ahmad Edrissian said that head of Cuban
Prinsa Latina News Agency (Agencia Informativa
Latino Americana) has called for such cooperation.
Irib,
Iran.
|
February
3
FROM
CUBA
Chávez followers said to be training for referendum
in Cuba
Up
to 7,200 young followers of Venezuelan president
Hugo Chávez could be training in Cuba in preparation
for an upcoming referendum Chávez may be facing
as early as next April.
SANTA
CLARA
|
FROM
CUBA
Merchant marine crew frustrated with downsizing of
fleet in Cuba
More
than 100 merchant marine crewmen were brought
together January 23 by the contracting agency
Agemarca to notify them of downsizing decisions
in the fleet that will idle more than 2,500.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Store's stocks of powdered milk in damaged by rats
A
substantial part of the powdered milk stock at
a dollar store in Arroyo Naranjo has been spoiled
by rats, said a clerk at the store, adding that
there is little they can do about it.
HAVANA
|
FROM
CUBA
Cuban consumers wait in line to buy U. S. ground chicken
Santa
Clara residents waited in long lines January 30
when U. S. ground chicken went on sale at the La
Cadena store in the city, even though they said
the price of 23 pesos a pound were high by Cuban
standards.
SANTA
CLARA |
FROM
CUBA
No unemployment under Socialism
There
are no unemployed in Cuba. The government's Newspeak
calls those without a job either "available" or,
by a locution as convoluted as the logic behind
it, "interrupted."
HAVANA
|
The Miami Herald
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Bush, exiles plotting to kill me, Castro says
•
Concerns over policy on Cuba linger
•
The city speaks
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Yahoo! News
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Returning Exile Asks to Stay in Cuba
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Bio-weapons in Cuba?
Republican
U.S. Senate candidate Larry Klayman, running in
Florida, says he wants to see Fidel Castro overthrown
because the Cuban dictator has biological weapons
and shelters international terrorists.
WorldNetDaily.com
. |
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links
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Cuban
league is nation's passion
In the fourth inning, Castro's bearded men suddenly
left the ballpark. Minutes later, Lasorda recalls
hearing machine-gun fire close by as the game
continued uninterrupted. They returned to the
ballpark 20 minutes later, having just executed
30 Batista holdouts in a nearby building.
MLB.com.
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Cuban
musicians' tales bring this history to life
In 1996, American guitarist Ry Cooder went to
Havana and gathered several prominent local musicians
for a recording session that produced the highly
successful album "Buena Vista Social Club.".
Indianapolis
Star.
|
A
good place for Cuba debate
Now that the bait has been dangled in front of
the candidates, perhaps the race for a U.S. Senate
seat in Florida can produce a more meaningful
discussion of Cuba diplomacy. Yeah, fat chance,
but here's hoping.
South
Florida Sun-Sentinel .
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Fidel,
it's time for your close-up
It used to be that fringe candidates for Congress
could say something reckless and outrageous without
being taken seriously. Now, who knows.
Palm
Beach Post, FL.
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Cuba
visit enjoyable for Burke
"I thought that I would see that America was correct
in enforcing the embargo that has been in place
for so many years. I hoped I would be able to
see the other side of this issue and I certainly
did. I definitely saw the effects of America's
embargo on the people of Cuba".
Pontiac
Daily Leader, IL.
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America:
The accidental empire?
In the second of a six-part series entitled Age
of Empire, the BBC's Jonathan Marcus visits Cuba
in a continuing investigation into whether the
United States is an imperial power.
BBC,
UK.
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