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Cuba dissident ends protest fast amid health rumor

A hunger strike by a Cuban dissident has been a hot story for Miami-based Spanish-language media, and concern about her health even reached the halls of the U.S. Congress, where an anti-Castro lawmaker warned that she was "close to death." But ...

From ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, eTaiwan News,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Lincoln Diaz-Balart,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. House of Representatives

Buena Vista diva eyes improved US-Cuba relations

HAVANA Omara Portuondo, the sultry-voiced diva of the Buena Vista Social Club, has been granted permission to visit the U.S. for the first time since 2003 and hopes a dose of her sensuous sound can inspire both countries to improve frozen ...

From ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Northwest Indiana Post-Tribune,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Buena Vista Social Club (musician),  Omara Portuondo (musician),  United States Department of the Treasury,  University of California, Los Angeles,  Ry Cooder

Buena Vista diva goes to US for 1st time since '03

Omara Portuondo, the sultry-voiced diva of the Buena Vista Social Club, has been granted permission to visit the U.S. for the first time since 2003 and hopes a dose of her sensuous sound can inspire both countries to improve frozen relations. The ...

From ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Taiwan News,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Buena Vista Social Club (musician),  Omara Portuondo (musician),  United States Department of the Treasury,  University of California, Los Angeles,  Ry Cooder

No more free lunch at Cuban cafeterias

HAVANA - The Cuban government plans to close free cafeterias in state ministries and instead give employees a stipend to buy food. ...

From ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  25 Sep 2009

Jailed Cuba protester released to psychiatric ward

A man whose drunken outburst on hunger in Cuba made him an Internet celebrity will be released from prison after first spending three weeks in a psychiatric ward for alcoholism treatment, a leading human rights activist said Thursday. Authorities ...

From ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Taiwan News,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Carlos Gonzalez

Cuba OKs organized religious services in prisons

Cuba will allow inmates to attend Roman Catholic Mass and Protestant services inside prisons, a top religious leader said Tuesday, in a significant easing of the communist government's policy toward organized religion. Authorities from the ...

From ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, eTaiwan News,  15 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Fidel Castro

Thousands pay respects to Cuban revolutionary hero

HAVANA (AP) -- Tens of thousands of Cubans lined up Sunday to pay their respects to Juan Almeida Bosque, a vice president and hero of the country's 1959 revolution whose death at the age of 82 further thinned the ranks of this communist-run country's ...

From ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Buffalo News,  13 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Fidel Castro,  Juan Almeida Bosque

Thousands pay respects to Cuba's Almeida Bosque

HAVANA—Thousands of Cubans lined up early Sunday to pay their respects to Juan Almeida Bosque, a vice president and hero of the country's 1959 revolution whose death at the age of 82 further thinned the ranks of this communist-run country's old-guard ...

From ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Boston Globe,  13 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Fidel Castro,  Juan Almeida Bosque

Cuba: Talks with US about resuming mail service

The Cuban government says it will host a U.S. delegation in the coming days for talks on reviving direct postal service between the two nations. A Foreign Ministry official tells The Associated Press that "both sides agreed to hold negotiations." ...

From ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, eTaiwan News,  2 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

EU embassies visit wife of jailed Cuban dissident

Representatives from five European Union embassies in Cuba visited the wife of jailed political opposition activist Darsi Ferrer on Thursday, but insisted their visit was not political. Diplomats from Sweden, Great Britain, Hungary, Poland and ...

From ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Taiwan News,  27 Aug 2009

Related Topics: European Union

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