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U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen blasted efforts to open Cuba up to U.S. tourists Thursday during a House Foreign Affairs Coomittee meeting, suggesting the tourist dollars would only keep the regime in power. (MiamiHerald.com)

Cuba's government remains as repressive under Raúl Castro as it was under his brother Fidel, according to the first in-depth report on the island's human rights since the younger Castro took power. (MiamiHerald.com)

More than 50 House Democrats sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi supporting current Cuba policy, which embargo-supporters say effectively means that a bill to open Cuba to tourists is dead. (MiamiHerald.com)

Famed Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez said Friday she and another blogger were punched and thrown violently into a car by presumed state security agents as they walked to participate in a peaceful march in downtown Havana. (MiamiHerald.com)

President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in "talking for the sake of talking" with Raul Castro and indicating he won't visit the island until the communist government changes its ways. (MiamiHerald.com)

President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in "talking for the sake of talking" with Raul Castro and indicating he won't visit the island until the communist government changes its ways. (MiamiHerald.com)

Former political prisoner Vladimir Alejo Miranda has painted the front of his house black, which, he says, is a sign of mourning for Cuba. (MiamiHerald.com)

Bruno Rodríguez se entrevistará con la denominada 'troika europea' ... (MiamiHerald.com)

SECUESTRADOR/ La Fiscalía y la defensa de Luis Armando Peña Soltren, acusado de secuestrar un avión comercial y desviarlo a Cuba en 1968, acudieron el martes a un tribunal federal en Manhattan para tratar de establecer la fecha del inicio del juicio contra el puertorriqueño. (MiamiHerald.com)

<p align="right"><p align="right"> <span class="dropcap-large">E</span>l escritor colombiano William Ospina, premio ``R&oacute;mulo Gallegos'' 2009 por la novela <I>El pa&iacute;s de la canela</I>, abri&oacute; en La Habana la ``Semana de Autor'', de la que es invitado especial, con una conferencia en la que asegur&oacute; que el espa&ntilde;ol le debe mucho a Hispanoam&eacute;rica. (MiamiHerald.com)

<p/> El Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano celebrar&aacute; en diciembre en La Habana su edici&oacute;n 31 con m&aacute;s de 400 filmes, entre ellos el estreno de un documental de Trist&aacute;n Bauer sobre el ``Che'' Guevara y la presencia de figuras como el espa&ntilde;ol Ventura Pons y los argentinos Fito P&aacute;ez y Gast&oacute;n Pauls. (MiamiHerald.com)

STRINGER / EFE<p/>LOS CANCILLERES de Cuba, Bruno Rodr&iacute;guez Parrilla (derecha) y Australia, Stephen Smith (izquierda), firman documentos el 23 de noviembre del 2009, en la sede de la canciller&iacute;a cubana en La Habana. (MiamiHerald.com)

El ministro espa&ntilde;ol de Asuntos Exteriores afirm&oacute; que un cambio beneficiar&iacute;a m&aacute;s a la situaci&oacute;n de los derechos humanos en la isla que la posici&oacute;n com&uacute;n... (MiamiHerald.com)

Rigoberto Carceller envi&oacute; una carta en nombre del grupo de exiliados "Cuba Cambio Ya''... (MiamiHerald.com)

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. (MiamiHerald.com)

HAVANA, Cuba Bruno Rodriguez and Stephen Smith, Foreign Affairs Ministers of Cuba and Australia respectively, signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday in Havana.

Cubans are scrambling to turn off lights and appliances and children are going door to door reminding them to do just that under a government threat of dreaded blackouts if energy consumption is not reduced through the end of the year.

Cuban refugee Yoanki Hernandez Leyva, 28, is studying facilities management at La Roche College in McCandless.

The novelist Jos Manuel Prieto and Nation contributor Daniel Wilkinson , the deputy director of the Americas division at Human Rights Watch, recently discussed Prieto's essay " Travels by Taxi ," one of the pieces in The Nation 's 2009 Fall Books issue, forthcoming on November 25.

U.S. President Barack Obama praised dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez and said in a posting on her website on Thursday that he looks forward to the day "all Cubans can freely express themselves." Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez during an interview with Reuters in her house in Havana November 9, 2009.

Leading Cuban dissident Martha Beatriz Roque is extremely ill due to complications from her diabetes and a liquids-only fast launched to protest the government, another dissident reported Thursday. (MiamiHerald.com)

A hunger strike by a Cuban dissident has been a hot story for Miami-based Spanish-language media, and concern about her health even reached the halls of the U.S. Congress, where an anti-Castro lawmaker warned that she was "close to death." (MiamiHerald.com)

"Pingpong diplomacy" thawed relations between the United States and China in 1971. Can "baseball diplomacy" help do the same for the U.S. and Cuba? (MiamiHerald.com)

Think you're obsessed with President Barack Obama and the many challenges he faces at home and abroad? (MiamiHerald.com)

Police are searching for the person or persons who left needles supposedly infected with the HIV virus in telephone booths (MiamiHerald.com)

El diario Granma, &oacute;rgano del gobernante Partido Comunista Cubano (PCC, &uacute;nico), arremeti&oacute; este lunes contra la ``malsana fobia'' de funcionarios estatales que obstaculizan el trabajo de la prensa e impiden el acceso a informaciones. (MiamiHerald.com)

El reconocido meteor&oacute;logo cubano Jos&eacute; Rubiera asisti&oacute; este lunes a una conferencia sobre la cooperaci&oacute;n entre Estados Unidos y Cuba para enfrentar los huracanes, efectuada en la ciudad de Nueva Orleans. (MiamiHerald.com)

ABREU, Raimundo, de 78 a&ntilde;os, natural de Cuba. Servicios hoy a las 11:30 a.m. en Woodlawn Park North. Funeraria Caballero Rivero Woodlawn, Miami. (MiamiHerald.com)

Cuba y Australia relanzaron este lunes sus relaciones diplom&aacute;ticas de dos d&eacute;cadas, anunci&oacute; el canciller Stephen Smith, quien realiza una visita oficial de dos d&iacute;as a la isla. (MiamiHerald.com)

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). (MiamiHerald.com)

Why doesn't President Obama have time for Cuba's pro-democracy opposition? (MiamiHerald.com)