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Raul Castro (June 3, 1931 - ) is the President of Cuba and younger brother of Fidel Castro who transfered power to his brother on July 31, 2006.
Raul Castro (June 3, 1931 - ) is the President of Cuba and younger brother of Fidel Castro who transfered power to his brother on July 31, 2006.
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Alan Gross, in Cuban prison, asks to see his ailing mother
Alan Gross, the Maryland man who is serving 15 years in a Cuban prison after taking communications equipment into the communist nation, is asking authorities there to let him return to the United States to visit his ailing mother before she dies.
Gross,...Tags: Bill Richardson, Jimmy Carter, Wolf Blitzer, CNN (tv network), Caribbean Islands
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Family takes case of Md. man imprisoned in Cuba to public
– Judy Gross stood outside Cuba's diplomatic mission to the United States, microphone in hand, and described her family's Thanksgiving.
"There was once again an empty seat for Alan," she told sign-wielding supporters Monday in front of the Cuban...Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, U.S. Senate, Human Rights, Arthritis, Government
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Cuba's high court rejects appeal by Maryland man
Cuba's Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Maryland contractor Alan Gross to be released from a 15-year prison sentence for alleged spying. The court claimed that Gross, of Potomac, who was arrested in December 2009 after distributing computer...Tags: George W. Bush, Communist Party of China, U.S. Department of State, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Local Government
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Corruption trial of Canadian trader ends in Cuba, with verdict soon
Reuters* Importer faces up to 12 years in prison * Corruption arrests unprecedented in Cuba By Marc Frank HAVANA, May 24 (Reuters) - The trial of a Canadian businessman who bribed Cuban officials ended on Friday after two days of testimony, but there was no...Tags: Justice System, International Trade, Trials, Cuba, Judges
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Poll: Cubans more optimistic about Castro reforms
El Nuevo HeraldCubans appear to be growing more optimistic about President Raul Castro's economic reforms, and large majorities favor direct elections of their president but say the government is repressive, according to a poll made public Thursday. The survey by the...Tags: The Miami Herald, Cuba, Elections
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Canadian businessman goes on trial in Cuban corruption crackdown
ReutersHAVANA (Reuters) - The trial of a Canadian businessman who has confessed to bribing Cuban officials began on Thursday, almost two years after his arrest in a sweeping government crackdown on corruption. The closed trial of 53-year-old Sarkis Yacoubian,...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Defendants, Lawyers, International Trade, Corporate Crime
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Leaked recording stirs political furor in Venezuela
Reuters* Opposition says recording shows corruption, division * Gov't ally Silva calls recording manipulation by CIA * Affair stirs already volatile post-Chavez politics By Brian Ellsworth CARACAS, May 21 (Reuters) - A recording released by Venezuela's...Tags: Media Industry, U.S. Congress, Political Corruption, Fidel Castro, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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EXCLUSIVE-Cuba readies corruption trials of Western businessmen
Reuters* Executives facing charges of various economic crimes * Arrests part of broad government crackdown on corruption * Cases have strained diplomatic relations By Marc Frank HAVANA, May 14 (Reuters) - Canadian and British executives of three foreign...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Defendants, Lawyers, Corporate Crime, Trials
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The Miami Herald Myriam Marquez column
Miami HeraldIn her mind's eye, Elsa Morejon looks from Miami at her beloved island and worries that what ails Cuba will not be cured solely with democracy. What ails Cuba, the humble Baptist nurse says with conviction, is a gaping hole in spirituality, a people who...Tags: Values, Ethics, Political Systems, John Paul II, Human Rights
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Cuba's Ladies in White leader meets Pope Francis
Miami HeraldPope Francis exchanged a brief greeting Wednesday with Cuban dissident Berta Soler, leader of the Ladies in White, in the Vatican at the end of a general audience held in St. Peter's Square. Soler is on a worldwide tour to publicize the plight of...Tags: The Pope, The Miami Herald, Fidel Castro, Benedict XVI, Cuba
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Cuban agent begins renouncement of U.S. citizenship
Reuters* Still must formally renounce before U.S. officials * Says happy to be in "society I belong to" * Foreign Minister says Alan Gross case has "no relation" By Jeff Franks HAVANA, May 6 (Reuters) - A Cuban agent who served 13 years behind bars in the...Tags: Brasilia (Brazil), Fidel Castro, Key West, Prisons, Justice System
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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: American Red Cross, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Fidel Castro, Cuba, Havana (Cuba)
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