News from Cuba
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Time To Make Peace With Cuba
FinalCall.com, IL - 4 hours ago
Over the past 50 years Cuba has been a focal point of US disdain. Early in the morning of January 1, 1959, members of the July 26th Movement entered into ...
BBC News
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Cuba opens Hemingway archive to scholars
guardian.co.uk, UK - 20 hours ago
Cuba's has begun allowing electronic access to more than 3000 documents from Ernest Hemingway's Cuban hideaway Finca Vigía, most of which have never been ...
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Detainees in Afghanistan seeking right for release
The Associated Press - 1 hour ago
A hearing Wednesday will test whether a 2008 Supreme Court decision — allowing al-Qaida and Taliban suspects at the US naval base in Cuba to challenge their ...
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Frame US relations to Cuba in more promising context
USA Today - 5 hours ago
In Washington today, politicians too often just stand their ground. Liberal strategist Bob Beckel and conservative columnist Cal Thomas provide a better ...
LIVENEWS.com.au
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US appeals court: Detainee IDs can be secret
The Associated Press - Jan 5, 2009
... ruled Monday that the government can keep secret the identities of detainees who claim they've been abused at the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ...
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Muhammad Saad Iqbal
New York Times, United States - 20 hours ago
... dated 29 July 2004, Implementation of Combatant Status Review Tribunal Proceduresfor Enemy Combatants Detained at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base Cuba, ...
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Judge's Order Could Keep Public From Hearing Details of 9/11 Trials
Washington Post, United States - 7 hours ago
Among the men about to undergo military trials at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is the self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind. (By Brennan Linsley -- Associated Press) ...
Government
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Panama´s Torrijos Ends Visit to Cuba
Prensa Latina, Cuba - 18 hours ago
Cuba´s First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura and Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque saw Torrijos off at Havana"s Jose Marti International Airport ...
CTV.ca
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Cuba Vice President Machado Ventura Says Economic Situation "Very ...
Latin American Herald Tribune, Venezuela - Dec 15, 2008
Jose Ramon Machado Ventura offered that somber appraisal in a speech Sunday to the final session of the Congress of the Committees for the Defense of the ...
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Raul Castro Leads Army Ceremony
Escambray, Cuba - Jan 5, 2009
Accompanying Raul in his visit to the project was First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura; Vice President Juan Almeida Bosque; Gen. ...
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More than 78000 doctors trained
Granma International, Cuba - Dec 12, 2008
José Ramón Machado Ventura, first vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers, and Health Minister José Ramón Balaguer were presented with the ...
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Cuba mulls government accounting office, spending cuts
Tolerance.ca, Canada - Dec 27, 2008
Cuban president Raul Castro (left) talks with first Vice-president Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, on December 27, during the II annual session of National ...
Government
ABC News
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Contradictions of Cuba's foreign policy
Socialist Worker Online, IL - 4 hours ago
Cuba has never supported a revolutionary movement against any government that has had good relations with Havana and rejected US policy towards the island, ...
LIVENEWS.com.au
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US appeals court: Detainee IDs can be secret
The Associated Press - Jan 5, 2009
... ruled Monday that the government can keep secret the identities of detainees who claim they've been abused at the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ...
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Detainees in Afghanistan seeking right for release
The Associated Press - 1 hour ago
A hearing Wednesday will test whether a 2008 Supreme Court decision — allowing al-Qaida and Taliban suspects at the US naval base in Cuba to challenge their ...
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Judge's Order Could Keep Public From Hearing Details of 9/11 Trials
Washington Post, United States - 7 hours ago
Among the men about to undergo military trials at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is the self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind. (By Brennan Linsley -- Associated Press) ...
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Latin America: reactions to attack on Gaza
World War 4 Report, NY - Jan 5, 2009
Cuba's Communist government issued a statement on Dec. 27, at the beginning of the air campaign, calling the offensive an "act of genocide" and a "criminal ...
Culture
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Cuba dusts off hidden Hemingway documents
National Post, Canada - 14 hours ago
ART AND CULTURE: Mixed Media and other news from the galleries, museums and institutions of higher art. TELEVISION: From Remote Patrol to show panels, ...
ABC News
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What Cubans brought to Miami
BBC News, UK - Jan 3, 2009
As budding Cuban exiles, it would therefore be our duty to make learning Spanish and adhering to the culture and customs of our parents, a priority. ...
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Real Estate in Cuba: Hot with Speculation
NuWire Investor, WA - 21 hours ago
Approximately 11 million people live in Cuba. The island's culture is a medley of aboriginal, Spanish, and African. The 2008 UN Human Development Report ...
WWLP 22News
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Ralp De La Cruz: Holidays make me pine for Three Kings Day
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL - Jan 6, 2009
Although I was born in Cuba, I have only faint memories of Los Reyes Magos. Not long after we immigrated here, the Three Kings got swallowed up by Santa ...
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WASHINGTON DIARY: Education and the State —Dr Manzur Ejaz
Daily Times, Pakistan - 10 hours ago
From the highly capitalistic United States to controlled economies like Cuba and China, the state has taken the fundamental responsibility of educating the ...
Tourism
Cuba Headlines
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Cuba: Nickel again earned more than tourism in '08
The Associated Press - Jan 5, 2009
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba produced 70400 tons of nickel in 2008, helping the industry surpass tourism as the communist-run island's top source of revenue for the ...
ABC News
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Cuba's golf revolution
Independent, UK - 10 hours ago
Tourism in Cuba is run by the military and Raul Castro, who ran the country's defence forces before becoming Cuba's President, is said to have endorsed more ...
Cuba Headlines
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Cuba Boosts Congress Tourism
Cuba Headlines, Cuba - 22 hours ago
Cuba has excellent conditions to boost congress tourism, so some 300 international events are scheduled for 2009 in the Caribbean Island. ...
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Cuba Says Tourism Up 2% in 2008
Latin American Herald Tribune, Venezuela - Dec 28, 2008
HAVANA -- Cuban Tourism Minister Manuel Marrero announced that this sector grew by 2 percent in 2008 and will end the year with 2.3 million visitors, ...
Nigerian Tribune
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Tourism 2008... - People, Issues and Events
Nigerian Tribune, Nigeria - 11 hours ago
It attracted a number of foreign tourists and investors from Hungary, Spain, Brazil, Cuba and South Africa The former Minister of Tourism, ...
