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| 07/29/2010 07:00 AM |
| Big drop in U.S. agricultural sales to Cuba |
| U.S. agricultural exports to Cuba fell 35 percent in the first five months of this year compared with the same period in 2009, largely because of the island's shortage of hard currency, according to a recent report. |
| 07/27/2010 07:00 AM |
| Castro brothers silent at revolution ceremony |
| Cuba's 26th of July ceremony turned into a bucket of cold water Monday for those hoping for change, with Raúl Castro remaining silent despite expectations he would announce reforms needed to ease a withering economic crisis. |
| 07/26/2010 04:54 AM |
| Political prisoners in Spain confronted with maze of immigration rules |
| Cuban refugee Jorge Pérez Fernández has the promise in writing: The Spanish government will grant him political asylum or residency within six months of his arrival in that country. |
| 07/25/2010 04:00 AM |
| In exile, different type of survival begins |
| Before their lives changed in a phone call from Cuba's Cardinal Jaime Ortega, the men's days were focused on surviving notoriously harsh Cuban prisons, their energy spent on winning a psychological war with their jailers, armed with only a sliver of hope that one day they might get out. |
| 07/29/2010 08:00 AM |
| Ailing Cuban prisoner recovering in Miami |
| A recently freed Cuban political prisoner arrived in Miami on Wednesday, where he greeted 100 well-wishers who cheered as the paralyzed former boxer called for the overthrow of the Castro government. |
| 08/28/2008 07:36 PM |
| Cuban Colada |
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| 07/25/2010 03:26 AM |
| Cuba: Fidel Castro visits town outside Havana |
| Cuban media say Fidel Castro has donned an olive-green shirt and traveled to a town west of Havana to participate in an event honoring fallen fighters in his revolution. |
| 07/23/2010 02:24 PM |
| Tampa lawmaker: End Cuba travel curbs |
| U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Tampa, is signing onto a bill that would lift decades-old travel restrictions to Cuba, becoming the first member from Florida to do so. Her goal: To secure charter flights from Tampa International Airport and spur activity at the Port of Tampa. |
| 07/22/2010 04:00 AM |
| Freedom awaits more in Cuban jails |
| Statements by two top Cuban and Spanish officials Wednesday that Havana will free all its political prisoners -- not just the 52 already promised their freedom -- have raised the question of just how many political prisoners the island has. |
| 07/21/2010 07:00 AM |
| Relatives of Cuban political prisoners briefed on U.S. entry process |
| U.S. diplomats in Havana began what they portrayed as routine meetings Tuesday with relatives of political prisoners, briefing them on the process for seeking U.S. entry if the prisoners are freed. |
| 07/20/2010 07:00 AM |
| Cuban migrant on Styrofoam boat will be sent to Guantánamo |
| U.S. immigration officials have decided to send a Cuban found adrift on a Styrofoam boat to the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo for possible resettlement in a third country, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed Monday. |
| 07/20/2010 08:00 AM |
| Cuba's Ladies in White vow to march on |
| Their numbers are dwindling, and there's even a call for Cuba's Ladies in White to disband now that the government has promised to release the jailed dissidents whose freedom they demanded. |
| 07/18/2010 06:06 PM |
| Fidel Castro's appearances have experts guessing |
| Was Fidel Castro reminding everyone that he still has power? Was he silently endorsing his brother's promise to free 52 political prisoners? Or was it simply a narcissist's grab for the limelight? |
| 07/18/2010 04:00 AM |
| 11 Cuban prisoners, expatriated to Spain, are weary, ailing, defiant and free |
| Packed into a hostel named Welcome that advertises lodging for about $18 a night -- the same as a cab ride to this industrial hub 10 miles away from the city center -- the 11 freed Cuban prisoners who arrived this week with their families face an uncertain future in a country reeling from economic woes. |
| 07/17/2010 05:00 AM |
| Ex-State Department analyst gets life for spying for Cuba |
| Walter Kendall Myers attended private boarding school and Brown University, and lived a life as a State Department intelligence analyst, university educator and weekend sailor of a 37-foot yacht. |
| 07/16/2010 07:47 PM |
| Cuban spy gets life sentence, wife 81 months |
| A confessed spy for Cuba was sentenced to life in prison and his wife to 81 months after telling a judge Friday that their ``overriding objective'' for 30 years of passing secrets to Cuba ``was to help the Cuban people defend their revolution.'' |
| 07/15/2010 03:17 PM |
| New exiles in Spain consider moving to U.S. |
| Two newly freed Cuban political prisoners arrived in Madrid on Wednesday, joining seven others just beginning to feel the shock of leaving their country and to consider whether they want to stay in Spain or move on to the United States. |
| 07/28/2010 06:15 PM |
| Paralyzed Cuban political prisoner arrives in US |
| A recently freed Cuban political prisoner arrived in the United States on Wednesday, where he greeted 100 well-wishers who cheered as the paralyzed former boxer called for the overthrow of the Castro government. |
| 07/28/2010 06:15 PM |
| Paralyzed Cuban political prisoner arrives in US |
| A recently freed Cuban political prisoner arrived in the United States on Wednesday, where he greeted 100 well-wishers who cheered as the paralyzed former boxer called for the overthrow of the Castro government. |
| 07/27/2010 02:41 AM |
| Fidel absent, Raul silent at Cuba's Revolution Day |
| A B-team of socialist speakers spent Cuba's Revolution Day bashing the United States for everything from its drug consumption to the war in Iraq to its military support for Colombia, portraying Washington as the great villain in world affairs. |
| 07/25/2010 05:21 PM |
| Fidel absent, Raul silent at Cuba's Revolution Day |
| A B-team of socialist speakers spent Cuba's Revolution Day bashing the United States for everything from its drug consumption to the war in Iraq to its military support for Colombia, portraying Washington as the great villain in world affairs. |
| 07/25/2010 01:46 AM |
| Cuba: Fidel Castro visits town outside Havana |
| Cuban media say Fidel Castro has donned an olive-green shirt and traveled to a town west of Havana to participate in an event honoring fallen fighters in his revolution. |
| 07/23/2010 10:51 PM |
| Number of political prisoners in Cuba still murky |
| If Cuba releases 52 prisoners of conscience as promised, it will still hold more than 100 people listed as political prisoners by the island's leading human rights group. But a closer look will find bombers, hijackers and fallen intelligence agents mixed in with those jailed simply for insulting Fidel Castro. |
| 07/23/2010 04:31 AM |
| Cuba sets shake-up for powerful health minister |
| Cuba has replaced its long-serving health minister, the latest in a flurry of recent leadership changes by the government of President Raul Castro. |
| 07/23/2010 01:56 AM |
| Paralyzed Cuban political prisoner headed to US |
| A recently freed Cuban political prisoner has won permission to immigrate to the United States and plans to leave next week, his brother said Thursday. |
| 07/22/2010 06:34 PM |
| 3 new Cuban dissidents arrive in Spain |
| Three more Cuban political prisoners arrived in Spain on Thursday as part of Cuba's pledge to free 52 dissidents jailed since 2003. |
| 07/21/2010 01:19 PM |
| Spain predicts thaw in US and EU ties with Cuba |
| Spain's foreign minister predicted Wednesday that Cuba's release of dozens of political prisoners could eventually lead to a thaw in U.S. relations and the lifting of a decades-old embargo against the Communist-run island. |
| 07/20/2010 09:54 PM |
| Cuba dissidents told Spain exile muddles US asylum |
| The United States appears to have modified a pledge to take in freed Cuban political prisoners, telling their relatives that it will be more difficult for them to apply for asylum if they first accept a Church-brokered deal to trade jail for exile in Spain. |
| 06/24/2010 06:30 PM |
| TWO INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS ARRESTED COVERING ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTEST |
| Two independent are being held by police following their arrest while covering an anti-government demonstration. |
| 06/11/2010 08:16 PM |
| Independent journalists deported to CamagĂĽey |
| The Political Police deported independent journalist Calixto Ramón Martínez from the capital and released him in Camagüey last week. |
| 06/07/2010 07:50 PM |
| 4-year sentence for living in Havana without permission |
| Dissident Duartes Miguel Lara Rodríguez has been sentenced to four years in prison on charges of being a “danger” to society because he was living illegally in Havana. |
| 05/06/2010 10:23 PM |
| Man arrested for stealing his own pressure cooker |
| Leonardo Díaz says he taken to the police station in handcuffs on Tuesday because he didn't have proof of purchase of a pressure cooker he was taking to a repair shop. |
| 04/27/2010 04:13 PM |
| Police captain under investigation for abuse of power |
| A captain in the National Revolutionary Police force has been accused of selling pedicabs he confiscated from unlicensed owners. |
| 04/26/2010 07:15 PM |
| Whereabouts of detained independent journalist unknown |
| Independent journalist Yosvani Anzardo Hernández was arrested over the weekend by two State Security agents and his whereabouts are unknown, according to his wife. |
| 04/23/2010 10:52 PM |
| Anti-government slogans appear in Havana |
| Anti-government slogans were written on Tuesday on the walls next to Havana's Mariano theater and near a police station, according to witnesses who said they saw the writing before police painted it over. |
| 04/22/2010 10:48 PM |
| Dissident's daughter jailed on charge of prostitution |
| Dissident Carmen Bermúdez Arrieta says her 25-year-old daughter has been sentenced to two years in an internment camp on a trumped up charge of prostitution. |
| 03/23/2010 05:20 PM |
| Independent librarian fired from government job |
| José Ignacio Oropesa Almora says he was fired from his job as a truck driver for the state oil company because he’s an independent librarian |
| 02/24/2010 06:32 PM |
| Protesters force police to return sack of rice |
| More than 60 passengers on a bus protested the seizure of a 20-pound sack of rice and forced the police to return it to the owner. |
| 01/11/2010 09:31 PM |
| Police try to stop sellers of bread |
| Since the beginning of the New Year, police in Santa Clara have been pursuing private sellers of bread, which is considered a crime. |
| 07/29/2010 10:05 AM |
| Llega a Miami el ex preso cubano Ariel Sigler |
| En silla de ruedas y consumido hasta el hueso, el ex preso político Ariel
Sigler Amaya, una de las más notables figuras de la oposición en Cuba, fue recibido como
un héroe el miércoles en Miami, a poco más de un mes de su liberación debido a su
delicado estado de salud. |
| 07/29/2010 07:00 AM |
| PULSO CUBANO |
| CANADA/ El gobierno canadiense dijo el miércoles que estaba ``preocupado'' por la suerte de varios de sus ciudadanos detenidos en Cuba y dijo que la situación podría afectar de forma negativa a los intereses turísticos del país caribeño. |
| 07/29/2010 10:00 AM |
| Castro vaticina liberación de los cinco espías |
| El ex gobernante Fidel Castro vaticinó que los cinco espías cubanos
encarcelados en Estados Unidos desde 1998 estarían de regreso en la isla "mucho antes
del fin del año''. |
| 07/29/2010 09:20 AM |
| La Orquesta Aragón en Miami |
| La Orquesta Aragón, que ha mantenido su fama a lo
largo de cuatro generaciones de cubanos, hará dos presentaciones este fin de semana en
Miami. |
| 07/28/2010 05:27 PM |
| Aznar: libertad de disidentes cubanos es victoria |
| El ex presidente de gobierno José María Aznar se reunió el miércoles con 15 de los 20 ex prisioneros políticos cubanos llegados a España en las dos últimas semanas, y les expresó que su liberación es una victoria contra el oportunismo, informó la agencia de noticias Europa Press. |
| 07/28/2010 07:00 AM |
| PULSO CUBANO |
| TURISMO/ El ex presidente del Gobierno español José María Aznar se reunirá hoy miércoles en Madrid con un amplio grupo de los disidentes cubanos que en los últimos días han sido trasladados a España tras su reciente excarcelación por parte del régimen castrista. |
| 07/28/2010 02:31 PM |
| Esperan hoy en Miami a Ariel Sigler |
| El recientemente liberado preso político Ariel Sigler Amaya, parapléjico y confinado a una silla de ruedas, llegará hoy miércoles procedente de La Habana para iniciar un largo y complejo proceso de rehabilitación en el Hospital Jackson Memorial. |
| 07/28/2010 01:36 PM |
| Fidel Castro hace acto propio de celebración del 26 de julio |
| El líder cubano Fidel Castro celebró el lunes la fiesta revolucionaria del 26 de julio en la Plaza de la Revolución, mientras su hermano, el gobernante Raúl Castro, encabezó el acto central en la ciudad de Santa Clara sin dar un esperado discurso sobre medidas económicas. |
| 07/28/2010 01:06 PM |
| Partido Popular honra a disidentes cubanos por su lucha por libertad |
| Las Nuevas Generaciones del principal partido de la
oposición española, el Partido Popular (PP), han homenajeado a los ex presos cubanos
que han llegado en la últimas semanas a España, a los que han honrado como "luchadores
por la libertad en Cuba'' y con quienes comparten la idea de que la Unión Europea no
debería cambiar su posición respecto a la isla. |
| 07/27/2010 07:00 AM |
| España pide a UE renovar relación con Cuba |
| España pidió hoy a la UE que defina ya una nueva relación con Cuba porque ``ha llegado el momento'' después de que las autoridades cubanas hayan dado muestras de un cambio de actitud con la liberación de los presos políticos. |
| 07/27/2010 07:00 AM |
| Estadounidenses contra el bloqueo regresan de la isla |
| Un grupo de 33 estadounidenses que viajaron a Cuba en desafío a la prohibición de Washington de la mayoría de los viajes a la isla comenzó a regresar al lunes a suelo estadounidense. |
| 06/29/2009 06:15 PM |
| Case appears closed on 'Cuban Five' |
| If one person's freedom fighter is another's terrorist, the case of the Cuban Five illustrates the chasm that remains between Havana and Washington, despite recent overtures that are gradually easing tensions left over from the Cold War. |
| 06/08/2009 02:29 PM |
| Cuba's so hot it's cool |
| Tell friends you have just been to Cuba, and depending on the circles in which you travel, you may be rewarded with a lot of envy. Cuba is hot, and we're not talking about the tropical weather. |
| 06/08/2009 02:10 PM |
| Cuba goes capitalist |
| Come July, there will be another sign of Cuba’s New Labour-style accommodation of the capitalist 21st century: wealthy foreigners will be able to buy luxury holiday homes on the island. |
| 06/05/2009 01:52 PM |
| U.S. pushed hard for OAS accord |
| For a few hours this week, the Organization of American States appeared about to splinter: Leftist Latin American governments squared off against the United States over whether Cuba should be allowed to rejoin the main forum for political cooperation in the hemisphere. |
| 06/02/2009 02:12 PM |
| Inside the OAS's Cuba conundrum |
| Latin American leaders usually have few qualms about lecturing the U.S. on what they regard as the folly of its Cuba policy, especially of late. Reintegrating Cuba has become a priority issue for many if not most of the region's governments, who see it as a way to break with the Cold War politics and U.S. hegemony that burdened the region in the 20th century. |
| 05/29/2009 01:29 PM |
| U.S. urged to relax Cuba policy to boost regional relations |
| The U.S. government is fighting an effort to allow Cuba to return to the Organization of American States after a 47-year suspension. But the resistance is putting it at odds with much of Latin America as the Obama administration is trying to improve relations in the hemisphere. |
| 05/26/2009 02:04 PM |
| Relishing the idea of a Post-Castro Cuba |
| Meet the Forrest Gump of Cuban communism, Óscar Espinosa Chepe. Like the character played by Tom Hanks in the 1994 film, Chepe has spent the past half-century having the good (as well as the bad) fortune of being wherever the action is. |
| 05/21/2009 05:56 PM |
| Cuban exile mobilizes for fellow survivors of Castro's labor camps |
| Emilio Izquierdo Jr. survived Cuba's gulag and came to America in 1980. His struggle instilled in him a love of liberty that would drive him to become a thriving businessman. It would also drive him to fight Castro's propaganda by forming the UMAP Political Prisoners Association. |
| 05/20/2009 03:31 PM |
| Uncertainty a common feeling in Cuba |
| Lawrence Journal-World photographer Richard Gwin recently attended the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution in Havana. During the May Day celebration, the streets began to fill at 6 a.m. as more than 1 million Cubans joined to march for the Revolution. |
| 05/20/2009 03:28 PM |
| Deena Stryker photographs of Cuba, 1963-1964 |
| The Deena Stryker Photographs collection contains photographs and related materials generated by the journalist, then known as Deena Boyer, during two trips to Cuba between July 1963 and July 1964. |
| 05/20/2009 01:41 PM |
| Charter companies flying to Cuba thrive |
| The crowd of Cuban-Americans pressing against the airport ticket counter scorned those on the other side. Only a handful of American charter companies have landing rights in Cuba, and with the new White House policy letting Cuban-Americans visit relatives there as often as they want, ticket prices have become political. |
| 07/30/2009 02:23 PM |
| Editorial: America caves to Cuban censorship |
| The Obama administration has caved to demands from Fidel and Raul Castro's government to shut down a U.S.-sponsored electronic billboard in Havana. This is a symbolic step backward in America's mission to promote freedom |
| 07/22/2009 04:51 PM |
| VOA Editorial | Engaging With Cuba |
| American and Cuban diplomats took the first small steps toward improving relations between our two countries with talks in New York this week on migration issues. The discussions revived a regular dialogue between Washington and Havana on migration issues for the first time in 6 years, and followed a pledge by President Barack Obama to reach out to all of America's neighbors in the Western Hemisphere. |
| 07/02/2009 07:24 PM |
| Cuba keeps ill writer jailed as Norway awards prize |
| A few weeks ago, Normando Hernandez Gonzalez got the kind of news that usually prompts cheers and emotion-filled toasts. The Cuban journalist and poet had been awarded the annual Freedom of Expression award by the Norwegian Writers’ Union. A delegation traveled from Oslo to the island nation to present the award, which included a prize of 100,000 kroner (about $15,775). |
| 06/30/2009 11:43 PM |
| EDITORIAL | A Cuban dissident deflected |
| Why doesn't President Obama have time for Cuba's pro-democracy opposition? |
| 06/30/2009 05:06 PM |
| Honduras and the Cuba exception |
| Latin America's leaders are right to condemn the coup in Honduras -- but wrong to give Havana a pass on democracy. |
| 06/29/2009 05:59 PM |
| Why and How to Lift the U.S. Embargo on Cuba |
| Most Latin American leaders slammed the 47-year-old U.S. embargo of Cuba at the mid-April Summit of the Americas in Trinidad. Fidel Castro hadn’t been invited, so he ranted about the “blockade”—and President Obama—from Havana. This all sounds familiar, but there is an important new twist today. The Obama team, and shifts in Cuban American opinion, give hope that we may finally move toward eliminating the embargo—if we can jettison unrealistic demands and expectations. |
| 06/29/2009 03:29 PM |
| Obama should lift embargo on Cuba immediately |
| After nearly 50 years, America's cold war embargo against Cuba appears to be thawing at last. Earlier this spring, the Obama administration relaxed controls on travel and remittances to the communist island by Cuban Americans, and last week it agreed to open the door for Cuba's re-entry to the Organisation of American States. |
| 06/29/2009 03:08 PM |
| The Havana obsession; Why all eyes are on a bankrupt island |
| Bill Clinton and George W. Bush recently had a face-to-face debate in Canada to discuss current affairs. The only Latin American nation mentioned in their conversation? Cuba. |
| 06/29/2009 03:04 PM |
| Obama has many options to change course on Cuba |
| The Obama administration has made an excellent first step to eliminate some restrictions on travel to Cuba, to loosen constraints on remittances, and to re-engage in migration talks. Positive, multiple lines of engagement are clearly the way forward. Broader contact and leverage with Cuba through additional commercial and people-to-people contacts will in time help promote a more pluralistic, less impoverished, and more open society. |
| 06/17/2009 04:52 PM |
| Corporate Beneficiaries of Travel to Cuba |
| If the United States lifted all restrictions on tourist travel to Cuba, what corporations would net the biggest gains? Two: Orbitz Worldwide of Chicago, Ill., and GAESA, S.A. of Havana. |
| 06/17/2009 04:45 PM |
| The Havana Obsession: Why all eyes are on a bankrupt island. |
| Bill Clinton and George W. Bush recently had a face-to-face debate in Canada to discuss current affairs. The only Latin American nation mentioned in their conversation? Cuba. |
| 07/28/2010 06:15 PM |
| Paralyzed Cuban political prisoner arrives in US |
| A recently freed Cuban political prisoner arrived in the United States on Wednesday, where he greeted 100 well-wishers who cheered as the paralyzed former boxer called for the overthrow of the Castro government. |
| 07/28/2010 06:15 PM |
| Paralyzed Cuban political prisoner arrives in US |
| A recently freed Cuban political prisoner arrived in the United States on Wednesday, where he greeted 100 well-wishers who cheered as the paralyzed former boxer called for the overthrow of the Castro government. |
| 07/27/2010 02:41 AM |
| Fidel absent, Raul silent at Cuba's Revolution Day |
| A B-team of socialist speakers spent Cuba's Revolution Day bashing the United States for everything from its drug consumption to the war in Iraq to its military support for Colombia, portraying Washington as the great villain in world affairs. |
| 07/25/2010 05:21 PM |
| Fidel absent, Raul silent at Cuba's Revolution Day |
| A B-team of socialist speakers spent Cuba's Revolution Day bashing the United States for everything from its drug consumption to the war in Iraq to its military support for Colombia, portraying Washington as the great villain in world affairs. |
| 07/25/2010 01:46 AM |
| Cuba: Fidel Castro visits town outside Havana |
| Cuban media say Fidel Castro has donned an olive-green shirt and traveled to a town west of Havana to participate in an event honoring fallen fighters in his revolution. |
