Woman to try Cuba-Florida swim again

<p style="text-align: justify;">Bad weather foiled attempt 32 years ago. Last Updated: September 27, 2010 12:16am. Swimmer Diana Nyad trains in Key West, Florida on Sept. 24, 2010. Veteran long-distance swimmer Nyad looks as tough as nails as she talks about setting out soon on a treacherous swim of more than 100 miles (160 km) from Cuba to Key West, Florida. She says the journey will take up to 65 hours. (REUTERS) Read More

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A U.S. policy that hurts Cubans

<p style="text-align: justify;">Monday, September 27, 2010; A14. WASHINGTON POST. Former defense official Stephen Johnson's Sept. 23 letter missed the point about U.S. policy toward Cuba. [Johnson's letter] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/22/AR2010092205720.\html. Cuba does not present a threat to the United States, and there is no justification or rationale for any level of sanctions or hostile policies. I see essentially no possibility that terrorists might attack from Cuba. Read More

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Some 20 Cuban Dissidents Ask to Leave Spain for U.S.

<p style="text-align: justify;">EFE - September 26, 2010. MADRID " A total of 21 Cuban political prisoners taken in by Spain since July have contacted the U.S. Embassy to express their desire to live in that country, where they can be reunited with other relatives, spokesmen for the dissidents said on Sunday. Read More

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Hugo Chavez Says Venezuelan People Confident of Revolution

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Sept 27 (acn) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said that the people of his country are confident of the Revolution because they know their vote will be respected. Read More

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0-3. Cuba easily gets rid of Tunez and goes for the next round

EFE. Rome. Cuba easily got rid of the Túnez team at the World Volleyball Champonship in Italy by means of a convincing 0-3 in a game that supposed the second victory for the Cubans, now they have granted the passage for the next round in the coompetition. Read More

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Crowded and fluid legislative elections in Venezuela ( Socorro Hernández)

<p style="text-align: justify;">Participation percentage can not still be advanced in Venezuela, attendance is important and the process of issuing the vote is fast, said the rector of the Electoral National Commmission, Socorro Hernández. teleSUR Read More

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Cuba's report on embargo, conciliatory

<p style="text-align: justify;">For close to two decades, the Cuban government has issued a scathing annual report against the American trade embargo. But this year, the report—released last week—offered an unexpected and conciliatory twist. The document acknowledged that the Obama administration cannot end the embargo on its own and offered steps that Washington could take to unilaterally lessen its scope. Among them: permitting more religious, academic, and cultural groups to travel to Cuba. Read More

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Announcement. Caribbean textures: Multiplicated Caliban

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Caribbean Study Center from the Casa de las Américas, together with the Arts and Languages Faculty from the University of Havana, are announcing for the second occasion the Texturas Caribeñas (Caribbean Textures) research program, to take place from September 2010 until December 2011. Read More

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MH: Review | 'Nature -- Cuba: The Accidental Eden'

<p style="text-align: justify;">Though I haven't seen the program, I am familiar with the editorial approach of the MIAMI HERALD, and this article is completely typical. It's infused with the idea that NOTHING which Cuba does can ever be presented or viewed favorably. This is what's known in journalism as a hatchet-job. It feeds on all of the prejudices which have been built up in half a century of malignant writing to send you one basic message: DO NOT WATCH THIS PROGRAM. It's sort of like the intellectual-moral equivalent of the US government's ban on travel to Cuba. Well, I've been to Cuba many times. I can tell you that Cuba has many, many problems, and by no means are all of them caused by US policy. Read More

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New documentary on Che to be Released in Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 24 (acn) A new documentary on Argentinean-Cuban guerrilla fighter Ernesto Che Guevara will be released in Cuba next October 7, reported Prensa Latina news agency. Read More

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