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No cigar: Economic embargo on Cuba turns 50In this Nov. 7, 2006 file photo, a car drives past a billboard that reads in Spanish; "70 percent of Cubans have been born under the Embargo," in Havana, Cuba.
Topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 21:12
Yoennis Cespedes Rumors: Cubs, Marlins Driving up Price
Yoennis Cespedes has yet to hit U.S. soil, but the Cuban native's agents are still confident he will land in major league camp before the spring.A According to ESPNChicago.com's Bruce Levine , Cespedes is still awaiting his visa from the Dominican Republic before he'll be able to conduct face-to-face meetings in the United States.A Levine mentions ... (more)
Topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 17:02
American contemporary artist Michael Dweck invited to have a solo exhibition in Cuba
I love the way the book displays the photographs, but as I've been given the honor of being one of the first living American artists to exhibit in Cuba, I felt I had to present something additional as a show of respect and gratitude,' Dweck said.
Topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 12:47
Fidel Castro warns of bleak future, touts memoir
Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro painted a bleak picture of the future, saying the world was in its worst situation ever as Cuban television aired on Monday part of a six-hour event last week touting his newest memoir.
Topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 08:42
Environmental Internationalism: Cuba's New Mission?
Necessity forced Cuban leaders to adopt an environmentally friendly, self-reliant strategy that can aid the Earth's well being and humanity's survival.
Topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 04:28
U.S. Travel To Cuba Grows As Restrictions Are Eased
The U.S. government has restricted travel to Cuba for a half-century. However, the Obama administration has gone back to a Clinton-era policy that eased some limitations, and some 400,000 Americans visited Cuba last year.
Topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 00:18
Italy frees former Guantánamo detainee
An Italian appeals court has overturned the terrorism conviction of a Tunisian man who had spent nearly eight years in the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo, Cuba.
MiamiHerald.com | 06-Feb-2012 21:30
Italy frees former Guantanamo detainee
An Italian appeals court has overturned the terrorism conviction of a Tunisian man who had spent nine years in the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba.
Topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 20:14
Vatican may put Cuba's Felix Varela on the road to sainthood
Carmen Pelaez, a playwright and actress who grew up in Miami and made a name for herself nationally with her one-woman show, Rum and Coke, was running around New York, training for a marathon, when she experienced The Moment.
Topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 19:13
Vatican may put Cuba’s Felix Varela on the road to sainthood
Pope Benedict XVI may announce Felix Varela has been made a ‘venerable’ when he visits Cuba
MiamiHerald.com | 06-Feb-2012 17:27
Hunger striking Cuban political prisoner released, still facing charges
After all, the guy said from the start that history would absolve... asombra : This may or may not be true, and even if it is, it may not be publicly admitted.
Topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 15:09
How To Travel From The US To Cuba Now
At Travelzoo , we come across deals to exotic spots around the globe all the time -- Kenya, the Galapagos, New Zealand, Tahiti, to name a few -- but one destination a short plane flight away has remained elusive over the years.
Topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 14:04
Cuba producing sugar with new technology
Cuba has begun to employ a new technology to produce white sugar, a measure that improves its quality, avoids the refining process and reduces the cost of manufacture, a media report said Sunday.
Topix.net | 06-Feb-2012 07:40
WashPost Coos 'So Nice to Meet You, Havana'
Suze Orman: Obama Averaged '200,000 Jobs a Month' in 2012, 'He's Done So Much in the Past Four Years' Sunday's Travel section in The Washington Post carries the big headline "Meet Me In Havana," or online, it's "So nice to meet you, Havana." Inside the headline was "In Cuba, finding vivid color and colorful people." Team Obama has made it possible ... (more)
Topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 16:56
Barrueco to perform at Lee Thursday
Lee University will host internationally renowned guitarist Manuel Barrueco Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Dixon Center as a guest for Lee's Presidential Concert Series.
Topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 12:42
Pentagon refuses extension for Guantanamo Sept. 11 trial
Guard tower at the front gate of "Camp Five" and "Camp Six" detention facility of the Joint Detention Group at the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 04:12
Visit Cuba! Revel in the misery of the enslaved Cuban people
Honey : In other words we have on the Supreme Court a person who is a communist.
Topix.net | 05-Feb-2012 00:02
Fidel Castro presents 2-volume memoir
In this photo released on Feb. 4, 2012 by the state media website Cubadebate, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro speaks during the presentation of his book 'Guerrillero del Tiempo,' or 'Time Warrior' in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Feb.
Topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 20:03
Review: La Rumba Cuban Cafe
Cut into a row of commercial spaces on Main Street just before the intersection ofA Highway 92 is a little taste of Havana, Cuba.
Topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 15:53
Cuban blogger says government bars trip to Brazil
The Cuban government has denied a request by dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez to travel to Brazil, her 19th failed effort to obtain a permit to leave the country, she said on Friday.
Topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 11:44
Cuba's Raul Castro visits Venezuela's Chavez
Cuba's acting President Raul Castro speaks to a crowd in Havana's Revolution Square during the parade to mark the 50th anniversary celebration of the forming of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces December 2, 2006 in Havana, Cuba.
Topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 07:34
A Cuban-American jailed in Cuba since 2006 is freed and sent home because of ill health
Julio Rafael Mesa Fariñas, freed by Cuba on Friday, was in a cell next to Alan Gross during part of his incarceration.
MiamiHerald.com | 04-Feb-2012 05:04
Cuba: Protest Against Hunger Striker's Death
Pedazos de la Isla posts a video of dissidents protesting the death of political prisoner Wilman Villar Mendoza in a neighborhood of Guantanamo.
Topix.net | 04-Feb-2012 03:24
Arts and entertainment news in Summit County
Seeking actor, age 40 to 70, to play one of the poker players in "Oscar and Felix: A New Version of the Odd Couple," playing at the Backstage Theatre from March 1-31 . Show directed by Wendy Moore.
Topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 23:10
Cuba prisoner of Hialeah freed after six years
Cuba has freed a Cuban-American convicted of people smuggling after an incident in 2006 in which another smuggler was shot to death by Cuban security forces and a third was sentenced to 26 years in prison.
Topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 19:05
GOP criticizes plan to transfer 'high-level' Guantanamo detainees
Members of Congress are reacting sharply to a plan being considered by the White House to transfer abroad five of the most dangerous prisoners from Guantanamo Bay as a gesture to the Taliban in advance of Afghanistan peace talks.
Topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 15:01
U.S. citizen detained in Cuba
A South Florida man's family is trying to bring him back to Miami after relatives said he was detained in Cuba, accused of trafficking false documents, in a case of mistaken identity.
Topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 10:46
Cuban women on a protest march say police harassed and detained them
They say they were trying to stage a march in the central Cuba city of Santa Clara when police searched them for cellphones More than 20 dissidents, who want to stage a protest march from one end of the island to the other, were reportedly detained by police.
Topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 06:36
Sept. 11 trial at Guantanamo may face new delay
Lawyers for at least two Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of planning the Sept. 11 attack asked the Pentagon on Thursday to extend a deadline for pretrial motions, which could again delay a case that has been stalled by political and legal disputes for years.
Topix.net | 03-Feb-2012 02:22
Cuban women on a protest march say police harassed and detained them
They say they were trying to stage a march in the central Cuba city of Santa Clara when police searched them for cellphones
MiamiHerald.com | 02-Feb-2012 23:43
Dissident blogger says Cubans wanted more from Brazilian visit
The Brazilian leader had vowed to make human rights a cornerstone of her foreign policy pointed to the U.S. detention camp for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay on the island's southeastern tip.
Topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 22:17
Robert Williams' Odyssey in Cuba
"The abundance of the USA belongs to the people, all the people, and no one faction has the right to deny the other liberty, justice and the pursuit of happiness," said Robert Williams in 1962.
Topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 18:13
Dissident blogger says Cubans wanted more from Brazilian visit
The Brazilian leader had vowed to make human rights a cornerstone of her foreign policy pointed to the U.S. detention camp for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay on the islands southeastern tip.
MiamiHerald.com | 02-Feb-2012 14:43
The First American Freedom Fighter
This February 2ndA stands as the 500thA anniversary of the death of Hatuey, an Indigenous American fighter for independence from colonialism not mentioned in the same breath as Patrick Henry, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.
Topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 14:03
1-Feb-12 - Program Released for Pope's March 23-29 Mexico-Cuba Trip
Benedict XVI Will Give More Than 10 Addresses VATICAN CITY, JAN. 31, 2012 .- The Vatican today presented the official program for Benedict XVI's March 23-29 trip to Mexico and Cuba: Friday, March 23, 2012 Rome 9:30 am: Departure by plane from Leonardo da Vinci international airport of Rome/Fiumicino to Leon/Guanajuato. Leon 4:30 pm: Welcome ... (more)
Topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 09:53
Collette Vacation's Re-Discover Cuba: A Cultural Exploration
Highlights Trinidad a- Pottery Class a- Cienfuegos a- Bay of Pigs Museum a- Havana a- La CabaA a Castle a- Maqueta de la Ciudad de La Habana Museum a- Guanabacoa a- Cuban Fine Arts Museum a- Ernest Hemingway Home a- Casa Fuster Call 1-800-622-8977 to have a reservation packet sent to you.
Topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 05:39
Private Cuban video shows corruption cases
Top officials are getting private showings of a video that purportedly details ongoing corruption investigations.
MiamiHerald.com | 02-Feb-2012 03:11
Yemen president could face questions in Guantanamo case
A lawyer for a Guantanamo prisoner charged in the attack on the USS Cole has asked a judge to let him question the president of Yemen while he is in the U.S. for medical treatment.
Topix.net | 02-Feb-2012 01:34
Funding La Izquierda
According to the website "u.s.debtclock.org" the current $15 trillion obligation exceeds an entire year's output of our nation and continues to grow at warp speed.
Topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 21:25
CUBA: Party Aims for Efficient, Inclusive Socialism
HAVANA, Feb 1, 2012 - Cuba's communist leaders have mapped out a strategy to modernise their country's one-party socialist model and make it more efficient, which implies making it more inclusive and representative of a society that is increasingly diverse.
Topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 17:10
Cuba food prices up 20% in 2011
Food prices in Cuba shot up by nearly 20 percent last year as the cash-strapped government cut subsidies and imports and agricultural reforms failed to crank up domestic production, according to a new government report.
Topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 13:01
Four Cuban Hotels Awarded by the Neckermann Reisen Tour Operator
Cuban hotels Iberostar Varadero, Melia Las Dunas Playa Pesquero and Paradisus Rio de Oro Resort & Spa received the awards Primo 2011, given by the important German tour operator Neckermann, part of the travel group Thomas Cook, one of the largest in the world.
Topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 08:56
Brazil prez: Blogger's travel for Cuba to decide
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Tuesday that her country acted properly in granting an entry visa to Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez, but that it's an internal matter for Cuba as to whether Sanchez is allowed to leave the island.
Topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 04:56
Cuba food prices up 20% in 2011
Government report shows agricultural reforms not increasing production or dropping prices.
MiamiHerald.com | 01-Feb-2012 02:52
Afghan detainees being considered for release
A look at the Afghan prisoners at Guantanamo that U.S., Afghan and other officials have said are being considered for release as part of a peace deal with the Taliban: Fazl has has been held since January 2002, one of the first prisoners brought to the prison at the U.S. base in Cuba.
Topix.net | 01-Feb-2012 00:42
Brazil prez: Blogger's travel for Cuba to decide
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said Tuesday that her country acted properly in granting an entry visa to Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez, but that it's an internal matter for Cuba as to whether Sanchez is allowed to leave the island.
MiamiHerald.com | 31-Jan-2012 21:58