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• Ida becomes hurricane again in northwest Caribbean

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 722
  Source: Reuters * Storm Ida becomes hurricane for second time * Mexico issues hurricane watch for parts of Yucatan * Ida seen entering energy-rich Gulf of Mexico Sunday (Updates storm becoming hurricane) ...
  4 hours ago

• Cuban Blogger Reports Beating

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  Yoani Sánchez says the police beat her while she was on they way to a march for nonviolence.
  8 hours ago

• Cuba: Yoani Sanchez & Other Bloggers Seized

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 715
  Perhaps it was only a matter of time, but Yoaní Sánchez , Cubas most famous blogger , who has received countless international awards for her activism, was detained briefly and beaten by Cuban authorities on November 6, along with fellow bloggers, Claudia Cadelo (a Global Voices contributor ) and Orlando ...
  11 hours ago

• Escorted Tours In Cuba: Tour Of The West.

  
  Rec and Sports — Authority: 455
  In this article I want to introduce you to one of the best escorted tours in Cuba . you can get. It is focus on the western half of Cuba and if you are interested in culture and nature then this is the right tour for you. DAY 1: Meet on arrival at Havana airport by your tour guide and private transfer to your hotel ...
  11 hours ago

• Cuba: Prominent Blogger Abducted, Beaten

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 683
  (Washington, DC) – Cuban authorities should cease all attacks on human rights defenders, journalists, bloggers and civic activists, Human Rights Watch said today. The international community should condemn attacks on those who peacefully exercise their basic rights to freedom of expression, opinion, and assembly in ...
  11 hours ago

• Cuban Authorities Harass Blogger

  
  IPE at UNC — Authority: 132
  Yoani Sanchez , a well-known Cuban blogger who runs Generation Y , a blog that has become a thorn in the side of the Cuban government, was detained and harassed by Cuban authorities yesterday in Havana. She relayed the experience on her blog this morning: Near 23rd Street, just at the Avenida de los Presidentes ...
  12 hours ago

• Cuban Blogger Claims She Was Beaten By Government Agents

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 799
  Yoani Sanchez , a Cuban blogger known for her critical online missives about the communist government, was detained and beaten yesterday on her way to a march, CNN is  reporting . Sanchez’s website  Generation Y gets around 1 million hits per month, and the government says she’s “gone too far,” according ...
  12 hours ago

• Blogger Yoani Sanchez Briefly Detained

  
  Committee to Protect Bloggers — Authority: 116
  Last month, award-winning Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez was once again denied permission to leave the island, this time to receive the Maria Moors Cabot award for journalism. Less than three weeks later, Sanchez was arrested along with fellow blogger Orlando Luis Pardo as they neared an anti-violence demonstration. ...
  12 hours ago

• Proof positive

  
  Machetera — Authority: 456
  “The Russian Revolution was the tangible proof needed by the earth’s damned, to be sure that Marx’s dream was not an illusion” - Español An interview with Spanish writer Manuel Talens on the 92nd anniversary of the October Revolution By Salvador López Arnal English translation: Machetera From ...
  13 hours ago

• Making of Nelly Furtado’s ‘Mas’ Music Video

  
  D210 TV | Dallas Texas | Entertainment | Celebrity News and Events — Authority: 151
  From the first single “Manos Al Aire”, Nelly Furtado moves on to its follow-up, a song called “Mas”. She has filmed a music video for the track and shared the shooting process through its behind-the-scene footage. Nelly says that the track tells about a troubled relationship. To match the song, the ...
  13 hours ago

• Cool Cuban Kids Song – Tiene Pinochito – Little Pinocchio

  
  Mama Lisa's World Blog — Authority: 125
  Jeanette wrote to us looking for the lyrics to a Cuban lullaby and I think we can help with this one! Here’s her letter, followed by the song she’s looking for… Lisa, There is a nursery rhyme or song that my grandmother used to sing to me (she has been dead about 8 years now) that I can only remember a few ...
  13 hours ago

• Blogger says Cuban agents beat her

  
  EndrTimes — Authority: 444
  November 7, 2009 10:14 a.m. EST Havana resident Yoani Sanchezs blog, "Generation Y," draws about 1 million hits a month. Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- A Cuban woman known for writing critical blogs about life in the communist nation said she was briefly detained by government agents Friday in the ...
  15 hours ago

• Cuba: Details of the Sánchez detention emerge

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 715
  The detention, beating and subsequent release of bloggers Yoaní Sánchez, Claudia Cadelo and Orlando Luis Pardo by Cuban state security on November 6, is receiving widespread coverage in both the mainstream media and the blogosphere and twittersphere. Yoaní has written (es) about the incident on Generación Y, ...
  16 hours ago

• Thats a Heck of a Start to a Baseball Season

  
  Alterdestiny — Authority: 580
  While the baseball season in the U.S. has wound down (in the worst fashion possible), its just gearing up in Cuba, as Opening Day in Cuba was just this past Tuesday. And Cuban slugger Alexei Bell had a hell of a start : Alexei Bell—National Series slugging sensation two years back and offensive hero of ...
  16 hours ago

• MCL se solidariza con Yoani Sánchez , Darsi Ferrer y las demas víctimas de la represión [Oswaldo Paya Sardinas]

  
  El Noticiero de Alvarez Galloso — Authority: 144
  MCL se solidariza con Yoani Sánchez , Darsi Ferrer y las demas víctimas de la represión Denunciamos la detención de Yoani  Sánchez , asi como la condena a Darsi Ferrer y Agustin  Cervantes. Como parte de una ofensiva de intolerancia, en la Habana y tambien en otras provincias y poblados están deteniendo a ...
  16 hours ago

• Shorter Question Everything

  
  Question Everything — Authority: 139
  Cuba and RussiaIn Havana on Wednesday, Cuban and Russian officials signed four international economic association contracts for hydrocarbons exploration and exploitation in discoveries that might be made north of the central and western part of the country.Venezuela and ColombiaPresident Hugo Chavez’s government is ...
  17 hours ago

• Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, others arrested & beaten

  
  Blog for Cuba — Authority: 423
  St. Jaccques Online translation of Penúltimos Días reporting of the arrest and beating of Yoani Sanchez and other Cuban bloggers: November 6th, 2009 The plan was [that] today at 5:30 in the afternoon: a group of youths should make a peaceful (not a protest nor a demanding political) performance-march from 23 ...
  17 hours ago

• Ida spurs tropical storm warnings in Caribbean (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 514
  AP – Tropical storm warnings have been issued for parts of Mexico and Cuba as Ida rapidly gains strength over Caribbean waters. Read more: (AP)"> (AP)">Ida spurs tropical storm warnings in Caribbean (AP)
  17 hours ago

• Dems tell Pelosi they support ban on travel to Cuba

  
  Naked Politics — Authority: 152
  More than 50 House Democrats -- including Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Kendrick Meek, Alcee Hastings and Ron Klein --- sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi supporting current Cuba policy, which embargo-supporters sayeffectively squashes efforts to lift a ban on travel to Cuba. The letter is aimed at blunting ...
  18 hours ago

• Short Takes

  
  Bark Bark Woof Woof — Authority: 593
  Todays number -- 17.5%. Thats the real unemployment rate when all the people who are out of work in taken into account. Todays the day of the House vote on healthcare. A vote on an amendment on abortion could get interesting. Car buyers are coming back to the showrooms. There was another shooting , this ...
  21 hours ago

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