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December
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Police
capture home-made vessel and its crew
Police in
Batabanó municipality, south of Havana, captured
a rustic vessel and several of its would-be crewmen
before they could get away from Cuban waters.
HAVANA, Richard
Roselló
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Tourists
held up in broad daylight
The tourists,
apparently husband and wife, were trading currency
in a government-operated trading house in central
Havana when two youths jumped them and took the
money.
HAVANA, José
Antonio Fornaris |
The
Miami Herald
• Radio, TV Martí face a congressional probe
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Tape contradicts Ros-Lehtinen
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Couple strikes plea deal in Castro 'spy' case
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Radio, TV Martí to be aired locally
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Problems dog broadcaster
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Fake money prompts issuance of new bills in Cuba
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TV and Radio Martí face another audit
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Analysis finds bias in TV, Radio Martí programs
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Migrants say Cuba is slow to issue exit visas
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Life as Castro's daughter-in-law
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Yahoo
News
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US lawmakers doubt 'official' story: Castro not
terminally ill
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US Lawmakers Promote Agriculture in Cuba
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Canada to be helpful for Cuba-U.S. relations when
Castro dies: U.S. official
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Alabama Ag Commissioner Cooks in Cuba
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Report: Castro calls provincial leaders
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Cuban group said to include 7 deported
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Stone documentary on Castro triggers payment over
alleged embargo violation
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Flying
to Havana, Cuba gets a bit easier
Terminal
Four at JFK. It looks like any other day. But if
you look closer, you'll see that the departure screen
reads "Havana." For the first time, direct flights
from New York to Cuba are available.
WABC Eyewitness
News. |
WTC
mission to visit Cuba
World Trade
Center Palm Beach said it is organizing a humanitarian,
educational and information exchange mission to
Cuba in June. Business interests are present, but
organizers indicated they will remain dormant under
the current Cuban government.
South Florida
Business Journal. |
Dissidents
say it's time to open talks
Former Cuban
diplomat and economist Oscar Espinosa has fought
a 14-year battle with the Cuban government. He was
only recently released from jail for his dissident
writings.
St. Petersburg
Times. |
Cuban
Rappers Want Their Own Revolution
In a country
like Cuba, where the state has its hand in just
about everything, it is perhaps not surprising that
there is a governmental body that concerns itself
with rap music.
Hispanic Business. |
Cuba
Pipeline Reaches North
After three
days jammed together in a 30-foot boat with no food
or water, dodging storms and Coast Guard cutters,
26 Cuban refugees landed off Longboat Key in Monday's
predawn darkness.
The Tampa Tribune |
Fidel's
Final Victory
The smooth
transfer of power from Fidel Castro to his successors
is exposing the willful ignorance and wishful thinking
of U.S. policy toward Cuba.
Foreign Affairs. |
Living
in Cuba after Castro
Life after
Castro. What will happen in Cuba? That is the prevalent
question being asked by people in Santiago de Cuba,
in Miami, Fla, in Nassau, Bahamas and in many cities
and countries around the world.
The Nassau Guardian |
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Resigned
Cubans expect no changes / Los Angeles Times
Amid
the transition to life without Fidel, there is
frustration but apparently little will to demand
reform.
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December
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CUBA
Independent
journalist confined to house during celebrations
Independent
journalist Ainí Martín Valero of the Agencia Cuba
Verdad says State Security agents told her not
to leave her home on December 2 and 10, days of
national celebration.
HAVANA
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Home
of independent journalist subject of attack
Independent
journalist Ahmed Rodríguez Albacia says his home
in Old Havana was stoned and burning cardboard and
paper tossed on the roof on Wednesday.
HAVANA |
FROM
CUBA
Independent
journalist fired from his job as farm worker
Bernardo Arévalo
Padrón says he was fired from his job in the municipality
of Aguada de Pasajeros in Cienfuegos because he
refused to stop being an independent journalist.
SANTA CLARA
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CUBA
Police confiscate farmer's home-built tractor
Authorities
informed Betancourt that the tractor would be confiscated
since he couldn't produce papers to justify his
ownership. Betancourt said he couldn't have had
papers because he had built the tractor out of parts
scavenged primarily from abandoned vehicles.
SANTA CLARA
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Residents
praise peddlers
Residents
of Ranchuelo praised street peddlers in the municipality
for supplying potatoes to consumers where the official
distribution system fails.
RANCHUELO |
FROM
CUBA
Electric
blackouts on the increase in Havana
Electric blackouts
have become more frequent in Havana during the last
week, according to an official of the Electric Power
company in the city.
HAVANA |
The
Miami Herald
• Cuba's aging society straining resources
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Cuban dissident's release creates 'false image'
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Moderate exile groups join in urging easing of Cuba
restrictions
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Raúl sits in at big party
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Acts of civil protest on the rise in Cuba, report
says
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Complaint filed against Cuban lobbying group
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Castro's absence spurs little hope among Miami's
exiles
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Freedom Tower tribute shows range of Cuban artist
Carlos Alfonzo
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Yahoo
News
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Cuban dissidents urge real power transfer to Raul
Castro to deal with transition
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Red Cross to seek access to Cuban prisons
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US says no talks with Cuba until regime moves toward
democracy
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Ailing Cuban dissident sees no political link in
his release
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Number of journalists jailed for Internet work on
rise: study
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Fidel Castro congratulates Venezuela's Chavez on
re-election
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Washington should extend olive branch to Cuba: analysts
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Fidel
Castro has yet to face justice
It is deeply
wrenching to witness a week of lavish celebrations
honoring Fidel Castro's birth when most likely every
day, somewhere in the world, anguished families
quietly mourn the death of a loved one at the hands
of this heartless, evil man.
Bonnie Anderson,The
Miami Herald. |
A
battle for political prisoners in Cuba
On Nov. 9,
the Liberation Christian Movement publicly released
a proposed resolution called, ''The Need for the
Government of Cuba To Free Peaceful Political Prisoners,''
which was addressed to the U.N. Council on Human
Rights.
Oswaldo Paya,
The Miami Herald. |
What's
next for Cuba - and Latin America - after Castro?
While President
Bush is understandably preoccupied with the far-off
Middle East, there is uncertainty, and perhaps mischief
brewing, in America's own backyard.
John Hughes.
The Christian Science Monitor . |
Chávez
win bolsters Cuba succession hopes
Hugo Chávez's
sweeping victory in the Venezuelan presidential
election this week could help to ensure political
cover and economic support for the emerging leadership
in Cuba as Fidel Castro fights for his life somewhere
in Havana.
Marc Frank,
The Financial Times |
Castro
can't make it, but Cuban Jews mark 100 years on
islands
As the world
focuses its attention on Cuba's ailing President
Fidel Castro - who was too sick to attend his own
80th birthday bash in Havana - Cuba's Jews are enjoying
a rare celebration of their own.
Larry Luxner.
Jewish News Weekly. |
Cuban
rock climbers irk Castro regime
Climbers
who have conquered Vinales's jagged peaks and imposing
walls are now bumping up against a more formidable
obstacle: the Communist political system. As Gonzalez
touched earth and removed his hard hat, he cast
a wary eye for park rangers and police.
Naples Daily
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Rare Silence Reverberates in Castro's Long Goodbye
/ The New York Times (reg. req'd)
In
his day, Fidel Castro could not stop talking.
He was Cuba's talk show host as well as its president,
with his frequent long speeches broadcast into
homes on radio and television serving as something
akin to background music in Cubans' lives.
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Hippocrates
Meets Fidel, and Even U.S. Students Enroll / The
New York Times (reg. req'd)
The
Latin American School of Medical Sciences, on
a sprawling former naval base on the outskirts
of this capital, teaches its students medicine
Cuban style. That means poking at cadavers, peering
into aging microscopes and discussing the revolution
that brought Fidel Castro to power 48 years ago.
Cuban-trained doctors must be able not only to
diagnose an ulcer and treat hypertension but also
to expound on the principles put forward by "el
comandante."
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Cuba's
Future Is Already Here / The Washington Post (reg.
req'd)
For
now, though, the Cuban regime has accomplished
something that the Bush administration had pledged
to thwart: an uneventful transition that leaves
the Cuban Communist Party still comfortably in
charge.
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Paving
the Way for Ties With Cuba / The Washington Post
(reg. req'd)
Perhaps
a sign of the imminent post-Castro times, a small
but official congressional delegation will be
taking a quick trip to Cuba next month for a look-see.
Helping to round up some interesting folks for
the lawmakers to talk to is Sarah Stephens, a
policy activist who has been trying for years
to foster dialogue with the United States' communist
neighbor.
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