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7 hrs ago | The Taipei Times

Cuban military exercise braces for US attack

Nearly 50 years after a botched US-directed invasion of Cuba, the communist nation said on Saturday it would hold a military exercise this week to boost preparedness against any future US attack.

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Related Topix: Cuba, World News, Central America, Raul Castro,

13 hrs ago | The Miami Herald

U.S. agent for Cuba gets life in prison

A couple who professed admiration for Fidel Castro are sentenced to prison and will pay the federal government $1.7 million for spying for Cuba.

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Related Topix: Prison

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Newsday

Hugo Chavez invites Fidel Castro to Venezuela

President Hugo Chavez is inviting his mentor Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela during the coming months.

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Caribbean Net News

Raul Castro imprisons critics, crushes dissent, says Human Rights Watch report

Raul Castro's government has locked up scores of people in Cuba for exercising their fundamental freedoms and allowed scores of political prisoners arrested during Fidel Castro's rule to languish in detention, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Friday.

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Related Topix: Charitable Organizations, Cuba, World News, Central America, Raul Castro, Prison

Caribbean Net News

Ex-State Dept official pleads guilty to spying for Cuba

A former US State Department official and his wife pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that they spied for almost three decades for the Communist-led Cuban government.

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

Human Rights Watch

Statement to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of The United States House of Representatives

Chairman Howard L. Berman U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs 2170 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Dear Mr.

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Related Topix: Prison, Charitable Organizations, Raul Castro

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Cuba Journal

Sides gear up for fight over U.S. ban on travel to Cuba

By Mary Beth Sheridan Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 19, 2009 A battle over Cuba policy is escalating in Congress, with proponents saying they have their best chance in years of repealing the ban on U.S. tourist travel to the island.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, George Bush, Jeff Flake, Republican, US House of Representatives, Howard Berman, Democrat

Foreign Policy

Why relaxing the travel ban won't save Cuba

The debate over U.S. policy towards Cuba heats up this week as the House Foreign Affairs Committee holds a hearing Thursday on whether to lift the U.S. travel ban against Fidel Castro's island-prison. Senator Richard Lugar and Rep.

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Related Topix: Prison, US Politics, Richard Lugar, US News, US Senate, Republican, Howard Berman, US House of Representatives, Democrat

Wed Nov 18, 2009

My Weblog

Cuba using draconian laws to repress its citizens

"Rather than dismantle the repressive machinery, Raul Castro has kept it firmly in place and fully active." From BBC: Cuban conditions 'remain harsh' Cuba is continuing to violate human rights and is using draconian laws to repress its citizens, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.

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Related Topix: Raul Castro, Charitable Organizations, Prison

North Jersey Media Group

Cuba critics: Return fugitive who killed NJ state trooper before we relax restrictions

Critics of relaxing travel restrictions to Cuba said today that the Castro regime first has to agree to return criminal fugitives, including a woman who murdered a New Jersey state trooper in 1973.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Scott Garrett, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Representative Albio Sires, Prison, State Prisons

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Raw Story

Key US lawmakers: 'Scrap' Cuba travel ban

The United States should "scrap" a ban on its citizens travelling to Cuba, two key US lawmakers said Tuesday, blaming the policy for hampering Washington's efforts to promote democratic reforms there.

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Miami New Times

Miami Book Fair: Ann Louise Bardach on Fidel Castro's Death

Back in the 1990s, Ann Louise Bardach -- who speaks Sunday at 11 a.m. with Gerald Posner at the Miami bookfair, made herself infamous in Miami by scoring a huge interview with Fidel Castro for Vanity Fair .

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Mon Nov 16, 2009

Prensa Latina

Cuba Demands US Actions against Terrorists

United Nations, Nov 15 Cuba sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urging the US to act with regards to terrorists in that country operating against Cuba, and demanded the release of the five Cuban anti-terrorists in US jails.

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Sun Nov 15, 2009

The Miami Herald

'Without Fidel': What's next for Cuba?

The authors featured will appear at Miami Book Fair International, which ends Sunday at Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami.

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Related Topix: Cuba, World News, Central America, Miami, FL, Miami Metro,

Jamaica Gleaner

US treatment of kingpins

History suggests that there is nothing wrong with the Jamaican Government being careful with its decision regarding the United States' , request for the extradition of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.

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Related Topix: Prison, Beverages, CocaCola, Terrorism, Dumfries and Galloway County, Scotland, United Kingdom,

Jamaica Observer

Bullets Can't Kill Crime

There are studies enough and statistics galore to prove to the most ignorant and obscurantist amongst us that retaliatory crime and violence is not a policy to defeat crime or criminality.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, World News, Asia, Afghanistan

Sat Nov 14, 2009

WGN-TV Chicago

Hugo Chavez invites ex-Cuban leader Fidel Castro to meeting of ALBA trade bloc in Havana

President Hugo Chavez is inviting former Cuban leader Fidel Castro to next month's meeting of the regional ALBA trade bloc being held in Havana.

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Reuters

U.S. science group seeks cooperation with Cuba

A group led by the head of the United States' biggest science organization is in Cuba this week to discuss ways to rekindle scientific cooperation as U.S.-Cuba relations slowly improve under U.S. President Barack Obama.

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Fri Nov 13, 2009

AlertNet

INTERVIEW - Venezuela would be "mad" to fight Colombia

President Hugo Chavez is stirring trouble with Colombia to disguise domestic failures and Venezuela would be "mad" to enter a conflict with its neighbor, a prominent opposition leader said.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Colombia, Hugo Chavez, Alvaro Uribe

WAND-TV Decatur

Castro as commentator on US politics

Think you're obsessed with President Barack Obama and the many challenges he faces at home and abroad? Well, you're not alone.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, George Bush, W.

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