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	<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Cash-strapped Cuba will require visitors to buy health insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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Cash-strapped Cuba will require visitors to buy health insurance if they want to enter the country, according to a new government measure disclosed on Saturday.
Under the measure, which takes effect in May, the insurance will be sold by foreign companies approved by the Cuban government or by Cuban firms at ports of entry to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba explains vanishing trick of frozen bank accounts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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HAVANA - Cuba is offering foreign businesses percent annual interest over five years as part of a plan to repay hundreds of millions of dollars in bank accounts frozen by the cash-strapped government, diplomatic and business sources said this week.
 
The government is hoping the interest payments will encourage companies to keep doing business with import-dependent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ernest Hemingway still haunts Cuba</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HAVANA – Ernest Hemingway still haunts Cuba; he&#8217;s just doing it in wax.
A life-size likeness of the legendary author debuted last week at a wax museum in the eastern city of Bayamo.
Hemingway wrote &#8220;The Old Man and the Sea&#8221; while living in Cuba and his exploits in literature and life are celebrated in monuments across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>56 websites and counting&#8230;U.S questions China but problems closer to home</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Using phrases and words from the U.S constitution and countering the much maligned criticism by Hillary Clinton of China´s alleged Internet Censorship the new twitter profile proves that unchanged hypocrisy abounds&#8230;the tweets speak for themselves&#8230;
Follow http://twitter.com/thouwilttweet to get the broad picture of U.S censorship of the Web and the time the Government spends denying this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Miraflores with love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CARACAS, Venezuela 
President Hugo Chavez has turned to his friends in Cuba for help in tackling Venezuela&#8217;s energy crisis, drawing criticism Wednesday from opponents who say that the communist-led island is notorious for its own electricity woes.
The socialist leader announced that Cuban Vice President Ramiro Valdes had arrived on Tuesday to head a Cuban team [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoan Earns 500 dollars selling Internet access on Cuba&#8217;s vast and varied black market</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yoan used to earn 25 dollars a month working as a computer technician for a state company &#8212; and an extra 500 dollars selling Internet access on Cuba&#8217;s vast and varied black market.
The 31-year-old managed 10 accounts for government employees who had authorized email access and would rent out their passwords to trusted clients under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prominent Communism detractor speaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Polish President and Nobel Peace Laureate Lech Walesa, a key player in helping bringing down communism in Eastern Europe, said Tuesday that there will soon be a political change in Cuba.
&#8220;It&#8217;s going to happen,&#8221; Walesa said, speaking through an interpreter. &#8220;But the world must be ready for the changes that will bring about,&#8221; he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Detained Spy Talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A U.S. contractor accused by Cuba of distributing illegal communications equipment remains under investigation and his alleged actions would be considered a &#8220;serious crime&#8221; anywhere in the world, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on Thursday.
Whether Rodriguez signaled that Cuba will deal harshly with the man identified in media reports as 60-year-old Alan Gross was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cuba turns its back on foreign travel agencies in Cuba concerning Cuban Americans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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Ever so quietly the Cuban government began a campaign to lock foreign travel agencies registered inside and outside Cuba out of the lucrative Cuban American travel market. From early November agencies reported abruptly canceled services for clients arriving in Havana´s terminal 2. Initially the motive was that their receptive agents in Cuba, the likes of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S man arrested as US Congress takes its foot off the accelerator concerning lifting travel restrictions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
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The flurry of news emanating from the U.S between June and October concerning the possible lifting of travel restrictions seems to have died down. Many consider this is because Cuba is refusing to reciprocate or make any democratic concessions whatsoever. Others are suggesting that Raul Castro sees the arrival of millions of US citizens to [...]]]></description>
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