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Cuba travel ban under discussion in WashingtonU.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)
Report: Cuba's Raúl Castro as ruthless as Fidel
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 Democrats oppose lifting Cuban travel ban
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)
Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez detained, beaten on way to march
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)
Obama answers questions from top Cuban blogger
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)
Obama answers questions from top Cuban blogger
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)
Paints front of house black as sign of mourning
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)
Cancilleres de UE y Cuba se reúnen este sábado
Bruno Rodríguez se entrevistará con la denominada 'troika europea' ... (MiamiHerald.com)
PULSO CUBANO
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)
Escritor colombiano premiado inaugura con conferencia la ``Semana del Autor''
<p align="right"><p align="right"> <span class="dropcap-large">E</span>l escritor colombiano William Ospina, premio ``Rómulo Gallegos'' 2009 por la novela <I>El país de la canela</I>, abrió en La Habana la ``Semana de Autor'', de la que es invitado especial, con una conferencia en la que aseguró que el español le debe mucho a Hispanoamérica. (MiamiHerald.com)
Festival de Cine en La Habana contará con más 400 películas
<p/> El Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano celebrará en diciembre en La Habana su edición 31 con más de 400 filmes, entre ellos el estreno de un documental de Tristán Bauer sobre el ``Che'' Guevara y la presencia de figuras como el español Ventura Pons y los argentinos Fito Páez y Gastón Pauls. (MiamiHerald.com)
Australia relanza relaciones con la isla
STRINGER / EFE<p/>LOS CANCILLERES de Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla (derecha) y Australia, Stephen Smith (izquierda), firman documentos el 23 de noviembre del 2009, en la sede de la cancillería cubana en La Habana. (MiamiHerald.com)
Moratinos insta a renovar la política hacia La Habana
El ministro español de Asuntos Exteriores afirmó que un cambio beneficiaría más a la situación de los derechos humanos en la isla que la posición común... (MiamiHerald.com)
Disidente cubano acusa a Zapatero de postergar defensa de derechos humanos
Rigoberto Carceller envió una carta en nombre del grupo de exiliados "Cuba Cambio Ya''... (MiamiHerald.com)
Obama has many options to change course on Cuba
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)
Cuba and Australia sign Memorandum of Understanding
HAVANA, Cuba Bruno Rodriguez and Stephen Smith, Foreign Affairs Ministers of Cuba and Australia respectively, signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday in Havana.
(Topix.net)Cubans scamper to avoid dreaded blackouts
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.
(Topix.net)Treacherous trek took student from Cuba to La Roche College
Cuban refugee Yoanki Hernandez Leyva, 28, is studying facilities management at La Roche College in McCandless.
(Topix.net)A Conversation About Cuba and Castro
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.
(Topix.net)Obama praises dissident Cuban blogger Sanchez
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.
(Topix.net)Cuban hunger striker reported very ill
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)
Cuba dissident ends protest fast amid health rumor
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)
Can baseball help bring US and Cuba together?
"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)
Castro as commentator on US politics
Think you're obsessed with President Barack Obama and the many challenges he faces at home and abroad? (MiamiHerald.com)
Contaminated needles left in phone booths
Police are searching for the person or persons who left needles supposedly infected with the HIV virus in telephone booths (MiamiHerald.com)
Diario cubano critica ``fobia'' de funcionarios a la prensa
El diario Granma, órgano del gobernante Partido Comunista Cubano (PCC, único), arremetió este lunes contra la ``malsana fobia'' de funcionarios estatales que obstaculizan el trabajo de la prensa e impiden el acceso a informaciones. (MiamiHerald.com)
Reconocido meteorólogo cubano de visita en EEUU
El reconocido meteorólogo cubano José Rubiera asistió este lunes a una conferencia sobre la cooperación entre Estados Unidos y Cuba para enfrentar los huracanes, efectuada en la ciudad de Nueva Orleans. (MiamiHerald.com)
Defunciones de cubanos en la Florida
ABREU, Raimundo, de 78 años, 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 relanzan relaciones diplomáticas
Cuba y Australia relanzaron este lunes sus relaciones diplomáticas de dos décadas, anunció el canciller Stephen Smith, quien realiza una visita oficial de dos días a la isla. (MiamiHerald.com)
Cuba keeps ill writer jailed as Norway awards prize
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)
EDITORIAL | A Cuban dissident deflected
Why doesn't President Obama have time for Cuba's pro-democracy opposition? (MiamiHerald.com)
