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• Tomorrow’s Boston Latino Film Festival Screening Dedicated to Jorge Steven López

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 159
  Tomorrow’s screening at the 8th Annual Boston Latino Film Festival will be dedicated to the memory of Jorge Steven López Mercado , the 19 year old gay man who was found brutally murdered on November 13th. Openly bisexual filmmaker Carmen Oquendo-Vil lar will present two short pieces on her ongoing work about ...
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• End trade and travel bans, L.A. Times says

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 133
  In an editorial titled "Cracking Cuba," published Thursday, the Los Angeles Times concludes that "the economic pressure that failed to yield either regime change or human rights reforms over more than four decades of Fidel Castros rule is just as ineffective today as it has always been. "Instead of continuing a ...
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• Conclusion of Bastion 2009

  
  C U B A P O L I D A T A — Authority: 128
  Army General Raúl Castro congratulated participants of Bastion 2009 Strategic Military Exercises, confirming they had accomplished previous goals.A video conference with principal organs of direction, commands of the Western, Central and Eastern Armies and presidents of provincial defense councils, served as the ...
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• Cuba conducts war games with U.S. invasion in mind

  
  osmoothie — Authority: 146
  Reuters , “ Cuba conducts war games with U.S. invasion in mind ” by Jeff Franks Cuban television showed images of tanks firing their guns as they rolled through the countryside, artillery batteries blasting away, camouflaged troops digging trenches and shooting bazookas, attack helicopters and fighter jets ...
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• Fear of hard times ahead

  
  C U B A P O L I D A T A — Authority: 128
  Cubans are bracing for hard times in 2010 as President Raul Castro slashes imports and cuts government spending to get Cuba out of crisis — and they are growing impatient with the slow pace of economic reform.Hurricanes, the global recession, U.S. sanctions and the inability of the communist-run island’s command ...
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• Blogger Yoani Sanchez is threat to Cuba

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  With her platted hair and bookish demeanour, Yoani Sanchez does not look like a threat to the Cuban State.
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• Yoani Sanchez, Cubas popular blogger, has been beaten up for describing life

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Yoani Sanchez, Cubas most popular blogger, has been beaten up by thugs for the offence of describing life under the Castro regime
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• Castro wont attend summit in Portugal

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 133
  Raúl Castro will not attend the 19th Ibero-American Summit , to be held Nov. 29-Dec. 1 in Estoril, Portugal, the Cuban daily Granma announced Saturday in a two-paragraph note. No explanation was given. Cuba will be represented by Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla . Several other presidents will not ...
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• Same Cuba, Same Policies: Why It Is Not Time To Lift The Travel Ban

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 758
  The U.S. Committee on Foreign Affairs held a hearing last week on lifting the ban on travel to Cuba, revealing the high discrepancy among congressional members over whether or not restricting Americans from traveling to Cuba will ultimately influence democratic change and enhance human rights under the Castro ...
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• Raul Castro: "Rivers of sweat" better than blood

  
  Along the Malecn — Authority: 539
  CBS video on YouTube Barack Obama promised a new beginning in U.S.-Cuba relations. Cuban leaders arent convinced the U.S. has given up trying to topple the socialist government and are carrying out large-scale military exercises this week. The Bastion military exercises began in 1980 and have been held in 1983, ...
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• Chávez pays a lightning visit to Raúl, Fidel

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 133
  Hugo Chávez made an unannounced trip to Havana on Tuesday to meet with Raúl and Fidel Castro, the Venezuelan president said Wednesday in Caracas during a ceremony for the visiting president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . “I made a lightning trip to Cuba and spent seven hours yesterday with Fidel going over ...
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• Dissidents support an end to the travel ban

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 133
  Miriam Alonso , a founder of the dissident group Ladies in White, issued a statement in Havana on Monday saying that she and her "husband, Oscar Espinosa Chepe , fully support the lifting of the travel ban on Americans to visit Cuba." Both have been vocal critics of the Cuban government. On Thursday, Alonso ...
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• Spanish daily urges EU to pressure Cuba

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 133
  The influential Spanish newspaper El Pais – normally a left-of-center daily – has sided with hardliners who would like Spain and the European Union to pressure Raúl Castro into relaxing his control of society. Here are excerpts from an editorial it published Sunday, titled "Repression in Cuba ." "Fidel Castros ...
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• Obama Responds to Cuban Dissident

  
  The Debate Link — Authority: 431
  Cuban dissident Yoani Sanchez, recently beaten by state security , submitted seven questions to US President Barack Obama through her blog. Now, she has posted his responses . I am, of course, pleased to see the President aligning with Cubas burgeoning civil society which is pressing domestically for democracy and ...
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• Support for blogger is sought in Spain

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 133
  The Foreign Affairs Commission of the Spanish Congress next Wednesday will debate a motion of support for Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez and other oppositionists, the Spanish news agency EFE reported Saturday. The nonbinding resolution, introduced by Carlos Salvador , a deputy from the Navarran Peoples Union, asks ...
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• Asphyxiating economic situation

  
  C U B A P O L I D A T A — Authority: 128
  The government of Army General Raul Castro suffers from an asphyxiating lack of liquidity which has caused a fall of 36% in Cuba’s foreign trade in the first nine months of 2009.And the solutions to the economic crisis are a period of wartime and deprivation: not paying debt nor to those of other countries or to ...
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• Cuba: Raul’s a brutal despot too?! Duh…

  
  The iPINIONS Journal — Authority: 128
  This week, international news organizations reported the fact that Raul Castro is continuing the reign of terror his brother Fidel launched almost 50 years ago as if it were every bit as shocking as the fact that President Barack Obama is continuing many of the oppressive war-on-terror tactics his predecessor George ...
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• Obama interacts with Cuban blogger

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Havana, Nov 20 (EFE) US President Barack Omaba has assured Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez that Washington wants to see “increased respect for human rights and for political and economic freedoms” on the communist-ruled island, the blogger has said.In response to a written questionnaire Sanchez sent him, the US leader ...
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• A Remarkable Achievement

  
  Doug's Dynamic Drivel — Authority: 140
  Not many bloggers, outside of the MSM, can say that they have posed serious questions for the President of the United States and receive a direct response from same. This one can. Yoani Sánchez: Graduate in Philology. Lives in Havana and combines her passion for information science with her work on the Portal ...
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• Obama answers Cuban bloggers quiz

  
  Cuban Colada — Authority: 133
  Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez has received an answer from President Barack Obama to a questionnaire she sent him and President Raúl Castro on subjects related to U.S.-Cuba relations. Castro did not respond to the questionnaire, Sánchez says in her blog, Generation Y . Here are some of Obamas responses: • "I ...
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