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The U.S. State Department has told Cuba it deplores last week's ``assault'' on blogger Yoani Sánchez, one of the toughest of several expressions of support for the Havana writer. (MiamiHerald.com)

Two Czech tourists arrested in March after they shouted insulting remarks about Fidel and Raúl Castro during a scuffle at Havana's international airport will be tried next week, diplomatic sources confirmed Wednesday. (MiamiHerald.com)

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is inviting his mentor Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela during the coming months. (MiamiHerald.com)

The Supreme Court is staying out of a dispute in Miami between school officials and civil libertarians over a book about Cuba that depicts smiling children in communist uniforms but avoids mention of problems in the country. (MiamiHerald.com)

Cuando el peculiar cortejo de un centenar de enfermos mentales vestidos de negro se detuvo frente a la sala, la marcha fúnebre se trocó en conga, el ``Caballero de París'' resucitó y el director del Hospital Psiquiátrico de La Habana gritó con alborozo: ``¡Esto es una locura!''. (MiamiHerald.com)

<p/> El ejercicio militar que realizar&aacute; la pr&oacute;xima semana Cuba busca aumentar la preparaci&oacute;n ante una eventual agresi&oacute;n de Estados Unidos, afirm&oacute; un alto jefe militar, citado este s&aacute;bado por la prensa oficial. (MiamiHerald.com)

STRINGER / EFE<p/>EL CINEASTA espa&ntilde;ol Jos&eacute; Luis Garci habla durante una entrevista en La Habana, Cuba. (MiamiHerald.com)

El presidente del gobierno espa&ntilde;ol considera que es "un imperativo biol&oacute;gico'' para Espa&ntilde;a el mantener con Cuba un "di&aacute;logo exigente''... (MiamiHerald.com)

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El periodista cubano Reinaldo Escobar, esposo de la bloguera Yoani S&aacute;nchez, denunci&oacute; en su bit&aacute;cora que fue v&iacute;ctima el viernes de una "golpiza'' que demuestra la veracidad de una denuncia similar presentada por su mujer hace dos semanas. <img src="http://media.elnuevoherald.com/images/redesign/icons/video.gif" border="0" /><img src="http://media.elnuevoherald.com/images/redesign/icons/photo.gif" border="0" /> (MiamiHerald.com)

Despu&eacute;s de 30 a&ntilde;os de espiar para Cuba, un funcionario retirado del Departamento de Estado fue condenado a cadena perpetua luego de que &eacute;l y su esposa se declararon culpables... (MiamiHerald.com)

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. (MiamiHerald.com)

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. (MiamiHerald.com)

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. (MiamiHerald.com)

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. (MiamiHerald.com)

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. (MiamiHerald.com)

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. (MiamiHerald.com)

An elderly US couple charged with spying for Cuba for almost 30 years have pleaded guilty, with the husband agreeing to serve a life sentence, the US Justice Department said.

The five men the Justice Department has said will be charged in the attacks of Sept.

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A bust of Protestant reformer John Calvin has recently been unveiled in a park in Havana, Cuba, as a way to cap a year-long celebration of his 500th birthday.

Representatives from Cuba and the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development have signed an agreement for a joint project to rehabilitate the eastern Holguin city's aqueduct.

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Thirty years of spying for Cuba will send a retired State Department official to prison for life after he and his wife pleaded guilty Friday to sending secrets to the United States' longtime antagonist. (MiamiHerald.com)

When a dozen Cuban bloggers wanted to stage a protest last month, they simultaneously tweeted, texted and posted messages like ``Freedom.'' <p/> One later used a blond wig to sneak into a government building and complain against censorship of the Internet. And the next day, she posted a video of her complaint on her blog. (MiamiHerald.com)

The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate. (MiamiHerald.com)

Supporters of tough U.S. sanctions against the Cuban government have given more than $10 million to congressional campaigns over the last seven years, according to a study released late Sunday night by a group supporting campaign finance reform. (MiamiHerald.com)

José Antonio Vázquez, a graduate of the Hotel and Tourism School, says he’s been unemployed as a chef for two months because of his opposition to the government and the fact he wears a “Change” bracelet. (MiamiHerald.com)

The City of Havana provincial court has punished 85 persons so far this year for illegally selling goods and food on the street. (MiamiHerald.com)

Former political prisoner Ángel Frómeta was ordered to appear in court Monday to prove that the 125 acres he inherited from his father legally belong to him. (MiamiHerald.com)

IMPLANTES/ Cuba realiza de forma gratuita en siete provincias de la isla implantes de pr&oacute;tesis de pene de silicona y plata, una pr&aacute;ctica costosa y exclusiva de pa&iacute;ses desarrollados, seg&uacute;n un informe publicado en la prensa local. (MiamiHerald.com)