CUBA

Sen. Feinstein singles out Cuba as potential drug smuggling point

A California senator who chairs a congressional caucus on international drug trafficking warned last week that Cuba could become a significant hub for illegal drugs entering the United States in the near future. 1328886983

Antonio Jorge

Funeral services for Antonio Jorge, expert on Cuban economy, FIU professor

Funeral services will be Thursday for Antonio Jorge, a respected and prolific Miami-based economist who was also a professor at Florida International University and St. Thomas University and served in several top administrative posts at the schools.

GOP report questions Guantánamo releases

Facing domestic political pressures, the Bush and Obama administrations released or transferred 600 terror suspects deemed an acceptable threat from the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, only to find that 27 percent re-engaged in terrorist or insurgent activities, according to a report by Republicans on the investigations panel of the House Armed Services Committee.

• US confirms possible release of Taliban from Guantánamo
• Why Obama hasn’t closed Guantánamo camps

Environment

Guantánamo -- the place with the prison camps -- is going green

Better known for its experiment in offshore detention, interrogation and military justice, Guantánamo is also a lab for environmental exploration.

• Guantánamo goes green

Guantanamo

Cuban migrants at Guantánamo base ‘broke rules,’ face restrictions

Nearly three dozen Cuban asylum seekers were confined to the Leeward side of the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Tuesday, no longer able to send packages to family across the minefield in a security crackdown at the U.S. migrant center at the base in southeast Cuba.

• Base readies for refugees
• Coast Guard ships 17 Cubans back to island

No cigar: Economic embargo on Cuba turns 50

When it started, American teenagers were doing "The Twist." The United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth. And a first-class U.S. postage stamp cost 4 cents.

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CATHOLIC CHURCH

Vatican may put Cuba’s Felix Varela on the road to sainthood

Pope Benedict XVI may announce Felix Varela has been made a ‘venerable’ when he visits Cuba

Italy frees former Guantánamo detainee

An Italian appeals court has overturned the terrorism conviction of a Tunisian man who had spent nearly eight years in the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo, Cuba.

• Italy to take 2 more men from Guantánamo