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42 min ago | The Skanner

VIDEO: Guantanamo: Costing $150 Million a Year and Untold Damage to U.S. Reputation

And every day, up to 100 of the 166 inmates send them back. They're protesting their ongoing imprisonment by going on hunger strikes for what is now 100 days.

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Related Topix: Prison, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, World News, Guantanamo Bay, US News, Camp Delta

10 hrs ago | The Miami Herald

Key West celebrates centennial Cuba flight

Exactly 100 years after making the first successful flight between Key West and Havana, Cuba, aviation pioneer Domingo Rosillo del Toro is being honored.

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Related Topix: Key West, FL, World News

15 hrs ago | Babalu Blog

Cuba: Smile, you're on 'Thug Camera'

For decades, the hired thugs of Cuba's dictatorship have watched, harassed, intimidated, and viciously beat opponents of the regime with relative impunity.

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Related Topix: World News, Activism, US News, Conservative Political News

15 hrs ago | My Rye

Rye's VolunTravel Offering Trips to Cuba & Galapagos

Want to see the world AND make a difference? Why not join VolunTravel and our own extraordinary RMS 6th grade teacher Craig Dreves on an international service trip in 2014? Upcoming family trips include: HAVANA, CUBA - February 15-22, 2014 and learn about the history and struggles of the Cuban people and conduct smaller volunteer projects while in ... (more)

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Related Topix: Ecuador, World News,

16 hrs ago | IndyMedia

Portlands Solidarity w/ Guantanamo Hunger Strike/Vigil Begins May 16th

Guantanamo Hunger Strike/Vigil Begins May 16th at 3:00 PM in front of Portland City Hall Seventy-one-year-old S. Brian Willson, a Viet Nam veteran member of Veterans For Peace, Portland Chapter 72, beginning Sunday, May 12 reduced his food intake by more than 85 percent, fasting on 300 calories a day in solidarity with the 130 uncharged Guantanamo ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, World News, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison

20 hrs ago | Morning Star

Obama's endless siege

"I think we can take the relationship between the US and Cuba in a new direction and launch a new chapter of engagement that will continue during my tenure," he said.

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Related Topix: World News, Central America

Thu May 16, 2013

Pravda

FARC-EP Peace Delegation

Peace Delegation By: Manuel Paz Havana, Cuba, site of the peace talks. May 3, 2013 April was the month that gave the break for the parties to seek formulas and analyze proposals for the benefit of the majority mired in misery.

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Related Topix: Delegation, Soul, World News

The Globe and Mail

American jailed in Cuba settles lawsuit against employer

This handout photo provided by the Gross family shows Alan and Judy Gross at an unknown location.

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Related Topix: World News, Central America, Prison, Bethesda, MD, Raul Castro

Trinadad Express

Drones and Guantanamo

John Bellinger is the last person in Washington you'd expect to criticise President Barack Obama for making too many drone strikes.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, World News, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, George Bush, Terrorism

The Miami Herald

Four priests ordained in Miami

Warm congratulations to the four seminarians who were ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Miami last Saturday at St.

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Related Topix: Miami, FL, Saint Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary, World News, Spain, Saint John Vianney College Seminary

Miami New Times

Cuba's Danay Suarez Coming to Miami's Blackbird Ordinary for First U.S. Show

Cuba. It's the largest island in the Caribbean, a true paradise for over three million people from around the world who visit each year.

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Related Topix: World News

The Atlantic

Harold Koh's Latest Plan for Closing Gitmo

The former Obama Administration official lays it out in four parts, but is perhaps too deferential to have any impact.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News, Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay, World News,

Wed May 15, 2013

Caribbean News Now!

Cuba to host ALBA ministerial meeting on social issues

HAVANA, Cuba -- Cuba will host the fourth meeting of the ministerial council on social issues of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America on Friday.

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The Toronto Star

Canadian entrepreneur who blew whistle on Cuban corruption faces 12-year term

Speaking over a scratchy telephone line from inside a Cuban prison, Sarkis Yacoubian's voice goes suddenly silent.

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

NBC Miami

Nutritionist Oz Garcia Talks About Cuban Food

Like Angelina Jolie, 30-year-old Kirstin Ettengoff of Miami recently made a medical choice that has given her peace of mind.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Cuban Cuisine, Nutrition, Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, World News,

Babalu Blog

For Cubans in Cuba, the Revolution Hasn't Begun

In March the Cuban columnist Roberto Zurbano published an article in The New York Times entitled "For Blacks in Cuba, the Revolution Hasn't Begun." Although the author himself has since said that his text suffered from editorial interventions , his perspective has still caused a huge reaction on and off the Island.

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Related Topix: World News, Cuba, AL, Central America, US News, Conservative Political News

Babalu Blog

Spanish actors escapes 'savage capitalism' of Europe for...

Spanish actor Willy Toledo has announced he will leave Spain and its "savage capitalism" to seek refuge in the utopian paradise that is the Castro regime's Cuba.

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Related Topix: Guillermo Toledo, World News, Central America, Hugo Chavez, US News, Conservative Political News

The Globe and Mail

Who needs a password when your voice will do

"Barclays Wealth customers will no longer need to answer security questions and remember pin codes to use telephone banking," The Daily Telegraph says.

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Related Topix: Cuba Travel, Travel, Castro (San Francisco, CA), Caribbean Travel, Fidel Castro, World News, us Travel, UC San Francisco

Malaysian National News Agency

Colombian President Urges Enhanced Peace Efforts With Rebels

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday ordered government envoys to speed up peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerrilla group.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Colombia,

Tue May 14, 2013

Windsor Beacon

Medical alert in Guantanamo amid hunger strike

A guard looks out from a tower at the detention facility of Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba.

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Related Topix: Prison, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Guantanamo Bay, World News, US Military, US Navy