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Cuba says will consider U.N. and Red Cross visits
Reuters* Red Cross halted prison visits in Cuba in 1989 * Cuba denies allegations of arbitrary detention, torture * Call for access among 293 recommendations at rights forum By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA, May 3 (Reuters) - Cuba said on Friday it would consider...Tags: Human Rights, American Red Cross, Civil Rights, Fidel Castro, Raul Castro
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Letters: Hawaii issue sets memories afloat
Mahalo nui loa ("thank you very much") for the Special Hawaii Issue [April 21]. Fabulous memories of several visits to the islands in paradise were made vivid by the stories, pictures and maps of Oahu, Molokai and the cruise with stops at the Big Island,...Tags: Interior Policy, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Personal Data Collection, Trips and Vacations, Cuba
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No freedom of speech in Cuba despite easier foreign travel-activist
Reuters* Dissident among 19 Cubans allowed to leave so far * Says Havana controls media * Britain, Spain and U.S. call for freedom of association By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA, May 1 (Reuters) - The Castro government's easing of foreign travel restrictions...Tags: Human Rights, Civil Rights, Freedom of the Press, Raul Castro, Prisons
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Ladies in White leader wants U.S. hard line on Cuba to continue
El Nuevo HeraldMIAMI _ The leader of Cuba's dissident Ladies in White, Berta Soler, Monday called for maintaining the U.S. trade embargo and limiting travel to the island until the Raul Castro government respects human rights. Castro's economic and migration reforms...Tags: Diabetes, Human Rights, Economic Sanctions, Foreign Aid, European Parliament
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FEATURE-Cuba's young see bleak future, many want to leave
ReutersBy Jeff Franks HAVANA, April 29 (Reuters) - On weekend nights in Havana, young hipsters fill the sidewalks at a busy intersection near the seafront and spill into the park below, passing rum bottles between them, smoking cigarettes and playing guitars....Tags: Revolutions, Interior Policy, Immigration, Fidel Castro, Raul Castro
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Venezuela's Maduro pledges continued alliance with Cuba
Reuters* Cuba-Venezuela alliance is like "brotherhood" -Maduro * Maduro meets with Fidel Castro for five hours HAVANA, April 27 (Reuters) - Cuba and Venezuela signed cooperation accords on Saturday for 51 projects as Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, on his...Tags: Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, South America, Fidel Castro, Elections
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Globe-trotting Cuban activists sway world opinion
Miami HeraldAt least a half dozen Cuban activists are now crisscrossing the globe, more or less at the same time, publicly airing their grievances against the Cuban government and meeting with high-level officials and politicians abroad. What gives? Many Cuba...Tags: Interior Policy, Human Rights, Civil Rights, United Nations, Raul Castro
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Colombia, FARC start new round of talks in Cuba
Reuters* Government pushing for agreement on agrarian reform * Rebels say hopeful of finding political solution to conflict * Talks began five months ago By Jeff Franks HAVANA, April 23 (Reuters) - Colombia and the Marxist FARC rebels launched their latest...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Colombia, Cuba, Social Movements
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A tender look at Cuba in Chaves and Davis' 'Havana Blue'
Last October, choreographer Frank Chaves and jazz trumpeter Orbert Davis traveled to Cuba to research a suite they hoped to create together. By immersing themselves in the movement and music of the island nation, they sought to bring something of the...
Tags: Dance, River North, Entertainment Events, Music, Culture
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Beyonce and Jay-Z's trip to Cuba was approved by U.S. Treasury
Beyoncé and Jay-Z's anniversary trip to Havana, Cuba, was approved by the U.S. government, Treasury officials have said. The recording artists, Beyoncé Knowles Carter and husband Shawn Carter, headed to the island nation last week for their five-year...Tags: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Transportation Industry, Amanda Bynes, Chelsea Lately (tv program), Beyonce
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Somber snapshots from Pennsylvania to Cuba
Francie Bishop Good's new photo exhibit begins, as do many of her nostalgic portraits, with her childhood in the suburbs of Orefield, Penn. In the early 1960s, Good would take her mint-green point-and-shoot to nearby Allentown, a city where leisure...
Tags: Allentown, Pembroke Pines, Orefield, Fort Lauderdale
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Rapper Jay-Z rejects criticism of his Cuba trip with Beyoncé -- and so does Broward commissioner
Sun SentinelRapper and entertainment industry mogul Jay-Z responded Thursday with a forceful rejection of the criticism he’s received from South Florida politicians over his visit to Cuba last week with his wife Beyoncé. And the couple received support from a...Tags: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Weston (Broward, Florida), Barack Obama, Beyonce, Broward County
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