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Cuba's Ladies in White marched Thursday on the seventh anniversary of the crackdown that sent their dissident husbands and sons to prison, but without a repeat of the government violence a day earlier that triggered a flurry of international condemnations. (MiamiHerald.com)

All direct U.S. flights to Cuba may be halted if the ex-wife of a Cuban spy wins a lawsuit to garnish money that South Florida charter companies pay in fees to Cuba, lawyers in the case said Monday. (MiamiHerald.com)

The death of a Cuban political prisoner and the prolonged jailing of a U.S. citizen in Havana appear to have cast a dark cloud over U.S. and Spanish government efforts to engage Raúl Castro's government. (MiamiHerald.com)

Cuban security forces, fearing protests over the hunger-strike death of political prisoner Orlando Zapata, have detained or kept home at least 50 dissidents and deployed agents to the cemetery where he may be buried, island activists said Wednesday. (MiamiHerald.com)

More than 60 passengers on a bus protested the seizure of a 20-pound sack of rice and forced the police to return it to the owner. (MiamiHerald.com)

Gladys Escandell Martínez says she was threatened by police after she called three radio stations last week and sent on-air greetings to two jailed fellow dissidents. (MiamiHerald.com)

Alfredo Guillaume, an 80-year-old dissident, says he was beaten by a member of the government’s rapid response brigade last weekend during an attack on Reinaldo Escobar, husband of blogger Yoani Sánchez, at a university book fair in Havana’s Vedado district. (MiamiHerald.com)

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

Independent journalist Aini Martín says she was detained last week as she took photos of a policeman seizing merchandise from an elderly street vendor. (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)

Human rights advocate Edey Sánchez says he was arrested by national police agents following a five-hour search of his home that turned up an oven, a mixer and trays for making candy. (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)

Members of the National Police Force arrested five blind street vendors in the capital last week. (MiamiHerald.com)

El cantautor cubano Pablo Milanés ha expresado su desacuerdo con la actitud del Gobierno de Cuba hacia los disidentes y critica que los cambios anunciados por Raúl Castro "no se han cumplido'', mientras el pueblo, "en medio de una parálisis agónica'', se pregunta "cuándo llegarán''. (MiamiHerald.com)

Un hombre de 67 años se declaró culpable el jueves de secuestrar un avión hace cuatro décadas y obligarlo a aterrizar en Cuba, y le dijo al juez cómo amenazó con un cuchillo a una azafata mientras un cómplice le ponía una pistola en la espalda al copiloto. (MiamiHerald.com)

Fariñas, quien continúa ingresado en el hospital, habla con el doctor Ismely Iglesias (derecha). (MiamiHerald.com)

JESSICA HILL / AP<p/>LA TRIPULACION trabaja en la goleta Amistad, antes de su partida de Estados Unidos.<p/> <p/> (MiamiHerald.com)

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El embajador de Cuba en M&eacute;xico, Manuel Aguilera, advirti&oacute; de posibles da&ntilde;os a la relaci&oacute;n bilateral en caso de que el Senado mexicano apruebe una condena por la muerte del disidente Orlando Zapata, seg&uacute;n una carta divulgada el jueves. (MiamiHerald.com)

The Obama administration has caved to demands from Fidel and Raul Castro's government to shut down a U.S.-sponsored electronic billboard in Havana. This is a symbolic step backward in America's mission to promote freedom (MiamiHerald.com)

A man who avoided prosecution for more than four decades after hijacking a Pan American flight in 1968 and diverting it to Cuba pleaded guilty to charges including kidnapping and aircraft piracy.

The Obama administration still wants to buy a prison in northwestern Illinois even if it's not used to hold Guantanamo Bay detainees.

The Cuban regime knows no shame. On March 8, Granma, the Communist Party daily, foretold the death of Guillermo Farinas Hernandez.

Looking in the mirror used to make Yiliam Gonzalez sick to her stomach. "I would see myself, and my body didn't match who I was," said the 28-year-old wedding pianist, who went by William before receiving a sex change under Cuba's universal health care system.

Looking in the mirror used to make Yiliam Gonzalez sick to her stomach. "I would see myself, and my body didn't match who I was," said the 28-year-old wedding pianist, who went by William before receiving a sex change under Cuba's universal health care system.

The European Parliament voted Thursday to condemn Cuba by a crushing margin over a hunger striker's death, and Spain's ruling Socialists later hinted they might trim back their bid to improve European ties with Havana. (MiamiHerald.com)

Cuban security forces and pro-government civilians violently broke up another protest march Wednesday by Ladies in White -- female relatives of political prisoners -- and dragged them away in buses. (MiamiHerald.com)

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Cuban dissident Guillermo Fari&ntilde;as, who has refused food and water for a week, was back home Wednesday after he lost consciousness and was rushed to a hospital for intravenous liquids, his doctor said. (MiamiHerald.com)

In a March 16 story about a lawsuit involving U.S. charter flights to Cuba, The Associated Press, citing statistics at a Cuban government Web site, erroneously reported there are more than 100 charter flights weekly to Cuba from Miami and New York. (MiamiHerald.com)

Hundreds of government supporters surrounded a small group of Cuban dissidents as they marched through Havana on Thursday on the seventh anniversary of the arrests of their loved ones, screaming abuse but otherwise allowing the protest to proceed peacefully. (MiamiHerald.com)