Cuban ex-CIA agent Posada returns to Miami

After being acquitted in a trial for perjury in federal court in El Paso, former CIA-agent Luis Posada Carriles plans to make his first public appearance in Miami on Wednesday during a press conference and then he will dinner at the Big Club Five of Miami.

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TWO INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTS ARRESTED COVERING ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTEST

Two independent are being held by police following their arrest while covering an anti-government demonstration.
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4-year sentence for living in Havana without permission

Dissident Duartes Miguel Lara Rodr�guez has been sentenced to four years in prison on charges of being a �danger� to society because he was living illegally in Havana.
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Man arrested for stealing his own pressure cooker

Leonardo D�az says he taken to the police station in handcuffs on Tuesday because he didn't have proof of purchase of a pressure cooker he was taking to a repair shop.
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Police captain under investigation for abuse of power

A captain in the National Revolutionary Police force has been accused of selling pedicabs he confiscated from unlicensed owners.
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Whereabouts of detained independent journalist unknown

Independent journalist Yosvani Anzardo Hern�ndez was arrested over the weekend by two State Security agents and his whereabouts are unknown, according to his wife.
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Anti-government slogans appear in Havana

Anti-government slogans were written on Tuesday on the walls next to Havana's Mariano theater and near a police station, according to witnesses who said they saw the writing before police painted it over.
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Dissident's daughter jailed on charge of prostitution

Dissident Carmen Berm�dez Arrieta says her 25-year-old daughter has been sentenced to two years in an internment camp on a trumped up charge of prostitution.
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Independent librarian fired from government job

Jos� Ignacio Oropesa Almora says he was fired from his job as a truck driver for the state oil company because he�s an independent librarian
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Protesters force police to return sack of rice

More than 60 passengers on a bus protested the seizure of a 20-pound sack of rice and forced the police to return it to the owner.