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Cuba Nostalgia: Festival Takes People Back to Pre-Castro CubaFox NewsIt's a journey that takes you back to Cuba before Fidel Castro rose to power, when the island was a must-stop for tourists and was the Caribbean's crown jewel. “Everybody talked about how wonderful and beautiful Cuba[...]

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Cuba-Rushford captures ACAA Div. I titleWellsville Daily ReporterRose fired a 1-hitter as Cuba-Rushford clinched the Allegany County Division I title with a 7-2 win over Genesee Valley. The Rebels' starting catcher made his second solid start in as many weeks as the games pile up at the end of[...]

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BBC NewsExclusive: Repsol comes up dry in Cuba offshore wellReutersBy Jeff Franks and Marc Frank | HAVANA (Reuters) - Spanish oil giant Repsol said Friday that the first of three planned wells in Cuban waters was unsuccessful, a blow to Cuba's hopes for energy independence. "I can confirm[...]

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Justice, Injustice and the Cuban Five CaseCounterPunchGerardo talks about ideas to force the National Security Agency to release its vectored map of the Feb 24, 1996, shoot down of two Brothers to he Rescue planes by Cuban MIGs. The government charged Gerardo with conspiring to commit murder[...]

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The Daily StarVenezuela's Chavez unseen for week but follows riotReutersBy Andrew Cawthorne and Mario Naranjo | CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has not been seen or heard in public since returning a week ago from his latest cancer treatment in Cuba but was well enough[...]

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SunHerald.comCubans denied US visas have record of engagementSan Francisco Chronicle(05-18) 10:05 PDT HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- The US State Department has given Raul Castro's daughter a visa to attend an academic conference in San Francisco, but it also has rejected about a dozen other Cuban[...]

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Cuba's hope of easing its energy dependence on Venezuela with its own domestic source of oil has suffered a blow -- the first in a series of exploratory offshore wells has come up dry.

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An exploratory oil well off the northern coast of Cuba has proved a failure and will be capped and abandoned, Spanish company Repsol said Friday, a disappointment for a cash-strapped nation hoping for an economic lifeline.

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HAVANA (Reuters) - Spanish oil giant Repsol said Friday that the first of three planned wells in Cuban waters was unsuccessful, a blow to Cuba's hopes for energy independence. "I can confirm that the Repsol well in Cuba has been reported to be unsuccessful and that we are proceeding to[...]

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Spanish oil company Repsol says exploratory well off Cuba is unsuccessful, will be abandoned

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Blue Jays clinch tie in Div. II

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Cuban first daughter Mariela Castro has been granted a US visa, sparking anger from Cuban-American leaders.

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The film Seven Days in Havana (Siete Dias en La Habana), shot in Cuba by seven renowned international filmmakers, will be presented at the 65th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which began yesterday at the famous French resort, reports Café Fuerte.

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The Historian of Havana, Eusebio Leal, on Wednesday visited the UN headquarters in New York where he held a courtesy contact with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

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The Cuban National Defense Council and the Council of Ministers approved new changes during their extended meetings, held this past Saturday here in the capital, reported the Granma newspaper.

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A stellar 8.2 inning relief job from Antonio Romero (4 hits, no runs, 9 strikeouts) and three home runs (Rudy Reyes, Serguei Perez and Carlos Tabares) lifted Industriales to a 7-1 win over Matanzas in game seven of their Occidental (Western) division championship series.

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According to the April news summary on the Rebelion web site, “A Cuban blogger is suffering censorship in his country.” This blogger is Iroel Sanchez, who was allegedly censured by the Havana correspondent for the Associated Press, a US news agency.

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“You Cubans need to look on the bright side,” they seem to be saying. “You folks need to be content, appreciate what you have – because if you try to change things all you’re going to do is make them worse.” That’s the message that has kept us paralyzed for years

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The Japan men's volleyball team got off to a losing start in Pool A action in the World League on Friday night, going down in straight sets to Cuba. Led by Leon Venero Wilfredo's 19 points, the Cubans, ranked fifth in the world, prevailed 25-22, 28-26, 25-20 to leave home fans disappointed at[...]

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The recent Encuentro de Blogueros Cubanos en Revolución {Meeting of Cuban Bloggers in Revolution} brought together a group of “official” bloggers—chiefly journalists and communications professionals who are employed by the state and maintain their blogs as part of their work. Since the[...]

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An international collaboration between chefs, part of the Havana Biennial, combines a boundary-crossing art project with the simple delight of complicated food.

Source : New York Times

Explore : Americas, Caribbean, World

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Canadian coach's 22-man squad includes some veterans, some youngsters

Source : Globe and Mail

Explore : Americas, Brazil, Canada, Caribbean, World

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The daughter of Cuban leader Raúl Castro has been granted a visa to visit the U.S. to attend an academic gathering in San Francisco.

Source : Miami Herald

Explore : Americas, Caribbean, Raul Castro, World

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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro's daughter is scheduled to visit California next week to speak at a conference of experts on Latin America during a rare U.S. trip by a member of Cuba's ruling family.

Source : Reuters

Explore : Americas, Caribbean, Raul Castro,[...]

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The recent Encuentro de Blogueros Cubanos en Revolución {Meeting of Cuban Bloggers in Revolution} brought together a group of “official” bloggers—chiefly journalists and communications professionals who are employed by the state and maintain their blogs as part of their work. Since the[...]

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Mother's Day, celebrated this past weekend all across the Caribbean, was a hot topic of discussion with regional bloggers - or rather, mothers were. From posts of admiration and thanks to accounts of how women regularly defy oppression, it was a mixed bag, but one that mothers everywhere would have[...]

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Havana Times reports that dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia was released by authorities late last week “after being held for more than 24 hours without his whereabouts being made known.” Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter[...]

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This week, members of the Cuban diaspora have been blogging about two main things: the one-year anniversary of the death of dissident Juan Wilfredo Soto, and the re-arrest of human rights activist Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia.

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“Radio Marti last week published and broadcast an editorial, ‘The Cardinal’s limits,' that asserted that Cardinal Ortega is involved in ‘political collusion' (contubernio) with the Cuban government…”: The Cuban Triangle suggests that Radio Marti also has its[...]

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A member of the Ladies in White has been charged with “disobedience” and could face prison time for marching with the dissident group; bloggers hope to raise awareness of the case. Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter ·[...]

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Raul Castro declared as early as 2007 that Cuba needs more foreign investment, and the Communist Party’s economic reform blueprint reiterated the point: more foreign investment, from more countries, with projects evaluated more promptly and according to broader criteria.  But not a great[...]

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Following complaints by Senator Rubio and others, the Treasury Department changed the rules governing people-to-people travel programs.  I don’t see that the actual regulations have changed; rather, the description of the licensing criteria has been changed in Treasury’s guidelines for[...]

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CNN has done the service of drawing out both the Cuban and U.S. governments on their positions on the case of jailed USAID contractor Alan Gross.Below is video of an interview with Cuban foreign ministry official Josefina Vidal, preceded by some background on the case.  The Cuban position is[...]

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Cuba’s economic reforms are a two-step process, if not more, as labor federation chief Salvador Valdes Mesa explained in an interview just before the May 1 labor marches, where he tied any state sector salary increases to the big cuts in government spending that have to occur first:“Until the[...]

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• Granma: 56,500 Cubans have registered and updated their property titles since new procedures went into effect last November.  The benefit, the article explains, is that the owner is “recognized before the law as legitimate owner of his property and[...]
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In an article on tourism in Cuba (2.7 million visitors last year, and this year’s figures are up 5.2 percent through March), Juventud Rebelde notes the contribution of the entrepreneurial sector: there are 1,618 private restaurants and 5,207 homes in which Cubans rent rooms to foreign[...]

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