Cuba

Debating US travel ban to Cuba

Nov. 20 - In the United States, the Congress debated lifting the five-decade long travel embargo for American citizens to Cuba. SOUNDBITES: House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Congressman Howard Berman SOUNDBITE:...

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Obama Tells Blogger He Wants Greater Freedom for Cubans

President Obama responds to a set of questions posed by Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez about the U.S.-Cuban relationship, and praises Sanchez and her fellow bloggers for their “efforts to empower fellow Cubans to express...

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Ex-U.S. official and wife admit 30 years of spying for Cuba

A former State Department official and his wife admitted in federal court Friday that they spied for Cuba over the past three decades, receiving their coded instructions over a shortwave radio and passing along information to...

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U.S., Cuba players find friendship in softball

HAVANA (Reuters) - There were hugs and handshakes all around on Friday as teams of older U.S. and Cuban softball players ended a "friendship" tournament they hope will set an example for their respective governments.

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Cuba's early education programs

HAVANA, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- "Children's Circle" and "Educate Your Child" are household words in Cuba, where parents benefit from these social pre-school education programs for their children. Created in April 1961 as an...

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Prosecutors plan commission case in Cole bombing

WASHINGTON (AP) - Military prosecutors said Friday they plan to seek new charges against the alleged mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. The announcement follows Attorney General Eric Holder's decision a week ago to...

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Cuba offers free penis implants

Cuba's government has offered its first free penis implants as part of a program set to be expanded across the communist island, an official newspaper reported. It is likely not what Karl Marx had in mind when he imagined a...

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Our Man in Boston: That Write Stuff [Writing About Writers]

Now that I am more kindly disposed toward The Paris Review—the literary institution founded by George Plimpton and a cohort of his pals back in the wild and crazy 1950s—since they have dropped the hyperbolic “DNA of literature”...

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Support the Closing of Guantanamo! Bring Guantanamo Detainees to Justice!

The Obama administration is closing Guantanamo and wants to both 1) bring the September 11th conspirators to trial in US federal court and 2) move other detainees to a maximum security federal prison in Illinois. The prison...

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Cuba and the Convertible Peso

Cuba has more than one peso Cuba has always been known as one of the hottest travel destinations in the Caribbean. Before the 1959 revolution, Americans loved to visit Cuba. The island is filled with exotic beaches, fabulous...

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