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Sightseeing buses are a hit in Havana
| August 3, 2008
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Castro is cryptic on bomber report
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EU to conditionally lift Cuba sanctions; U.S is critical
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Fidel Castro appears on Cuban TV
The elusive and ailing President Fidel Castro made his first TV appearance in five months yesterday. Cuban television broadcast a silent video... more
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Spanish-language broadcaster built an empire in U.S.
June 14, 2008 From Los Angeles TimesRaul Alarcon Sr., a Cuban exile who built a Spanish- language communications and entertainment empire in the U.S., died Wednesday in Miami... more
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May 26, 1958
Above and at left, authorities arrest five members of the July 26 Movement in a plot to make arms for Fidel Castro's rebel army in Cuba. A... more
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Taking a new approach to Cuba
| May 24, 2008 From Los Angeles TimesWhen the Clinton administration returned young castaway Elian Gonzalez in 2000 to communist-ruled Cuba, a regime his mother died trying to... more
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Castro denies Cuba link to FARC
March 16, 2008 From Los Angeles TimesFormer President Fidel Castro said it was "stupid" to think Cubans were involved with Colombian rebels whose camp was bombed in a cross-border... more
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Free-press group urges Cuba to act
| March 15, 2008 From Los Angeles TimesThe free-press advocacy group Reporters Without Borders appealed Friday to Cuban leader Raul Castro to free 19 journalists still jailed in... more
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U.S. to maintain hard line against Cuba, Bush says
| March 8, 2008 From Los Angeles TimesPresident Bush said Friday that Fidel Castro's "supposed retirement" meant only that Cuba was replacing "one dictator with another" and that... more
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Castro Moves On.
Cuba has gotten some intense media attention recently because of the “retirement” of Fidel Castro who has passed power on to his brother Raul... more
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A Fidelista's lost fidelities
| March 1, 2008 From Los Angeles TimesVivien Lesnik Weisman counted herself among that rare breed -- a Cuban American not interested in politics -- when she started to make a documentary... more
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Cuban exiles' views shifting
| February 26, 2008 From Los Angeles TimesAmilcar Yera, the owner of a Cuban restaurant that dishes out onion-slathered steaks and thick fried plantains to a discerning exile clientele... more
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Old guard in Cuba keeps reins
| February 25, 2008 From Los Angeles TimesCuba's parliament signaled Sunday that the status quo of a stunted state-run economy and strained relations with the United States will persist... more
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'Fidel Castro: My Life' by Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet
February 24, 2008 From Los Angeles TimesEl Supremo's self-serving take on Cuban history... more
