MiamiHerald.com: Cuba http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/index.html MiamiHerald.com: Cuba http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Cuba 60 Mon, 12 May 2008 20:35:34 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/885/story/49453.html http://www.miamiherald.com/885/story/49453.html Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:33 EDT http://www.miamiherald.com/885/story/50750.html http://www.miamiherald.com/885/story/50750.html Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:33 EDT Cuban judo team leaves without one athlete http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/529583.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/529583.html Mon, 12 May 2008 08:02 EDT The Cuban contingent that competed in last week's Pan American Judo Championships left Miami for Havana on Monday afternoon without gold-medal-winning judoka Yurisel Laborde, who left the group Sunday afternoon $94.6M awarded in Cuban man's slaying http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/528868.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/528868.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01 EDT A Miami-Dade judge has awarded $94.6 million in damages to the family of Aldo Vera Sr., a former senior Havana police official murdered in Puerto Rico in 1976, allegedly by Cuban government agents. Cuba's leader tells another whopper http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/521281.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/521281.html Sat, 10 May 2008 18:22 EDT As a practical matter, it is impossible for this or any other newspaper to set the record straight every time the Cuban government tells a whopper. Orchestrating lies is the specialty of police states. Anyone who has ever listened to Radio Havana or watched a Cuban TV ''news'' program knows that Cuban leaders lie to their own people and lie to the outside world. They even lie to each other. But sometimes the lie is so blatant, so malign, so far removed from the painful reality of life in Cuba that... Cuba's famed Bohemia magazine is 100 years old http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/528018.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/528018.html Sat, 10 May 2008 03:01 EDT Cuba's Bohemia magazine, which revolutionized Latin America's information panorama in the 20th century, marks its 100th birthday Saturday. Cuban Central Bank urges stronger peso, fewer subsidies http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/527876.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/527876.html Fri, 09 May 2008 21:23 EDT Cuba's Central Bank is urging the government to gradually unify the island's two parallel currencies and cut back on ''indiscriminate'' subsidies, according to an internal report obtained by The Associated Press on Friday. Cuba's famed Bohemia magazine is 100 years old http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/528018.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/528018.html Sat, 10 May 2008 03:01 EDT Cuba's Bohemia magazine, which revolutionized Latin America's information panorama in the 20th century, marks its 100th birthday Saturday. Cuban Central Bank urges stronger peso, fewer subsidies http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/527876.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/527876.html Fri, 09 May 2008 21:23 EDT Cuba's Central Bank is urging the government to gradually unify the island's two parallel currencies and cut back on ''indiscriminate'' subsidies, according to an internal report obtained by The Associated Press on Friday. Cuba's two-currency system adds up to a social divide http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/527060.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/527060.html Fri, 09 May 2008 09:57 EDT The many problems faced by Cubans like Rosa and others like her, complicated by factors such as the country's loss of Soviet aid years ago, appear to be getting worse. Cuba's system of two currencies may be at least partly to blame. Bush touts his record on Latin America http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/525316.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/525316.html Thu, 08 May 2008 03:01 EDT President Bush served up a spirited defense of his priorities in Latin America on Wednesday, dismissing recent reforms by Cuba's new leadership as ''empty gestures'' and pushing ambitious initiatives for Mexico and Colombia that face scrutiny by Democrats in Congress. Bush reaches out to Cuban dissidents http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/524463.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/524463.html Wed, 07 May 2008 12:46 EDT President Bush has reached out to Cuban dissidents, speaking by videoconference with activists still on the communist Caribbean island and struggling for change there, the White House said Wednesday. Cuban migrants land in Mexico after 17 days at sea http://www.miamiherald.com/948/story/530567.html http://www.miamiherald.com/948/story/530567.html Mon, 12 May 2008 20:33 EDT An attempt to reach Florida turned into 17 days at sea for Cuban migrants crammed aboard a rickety sailboat that drifted ashore in Mexico near the Belize border. Top Cuban athlete still missing in Miami; may have defected http://www.miamiherald.com/948/story/530454.html http://www.miamiherald.com/948/story/530454.html Mon, 12 May 2008 17:58 EDT The Cuban national judo team left for home Monday with mountain bikes and espresso machines, televisions and trophies. Top Cuban athlete still missing Monday http://www.miamiherald.com/948/story/529486.html http://www.miamiherald.com/948/story/529486.html Mon, 12 May 2008 16:51 EDT The Cuban national judo team returned home Monday without one of its stars, whose weekend disappearance fueled speculation that she is defecting. Cuba: Bush chat with dissidents a 'show' http://www.miamiherald.com/948/story/530078.html http://www.miamiherald.com/948/story/530078.html Mon, 12 May 2008 12:51 EDT Cuba on Monday dismissed a videoconference between President Bush and three key dissidents as a stunt to bolster the U.S. leader's low approval ratings, claiming there would be no political opposition on the island without funding from Washington. Cuban team member missing after Judo competition http://www.miamiherald.com/948/story/529502.html http://www.miamiherald.com/948/story/529502.html Sun, 11 May 2008 22:21 EDT A member of Cuba's women's national judo team left the team at some point Sunday afternoon following the final day of the Pan American Judo Championships. $94.6M awarded in Cuban man's slaying http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/528868.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/528868.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01 EDT A Miami-Dade judge has awarded $94.6 million in damages to the family of Aldo Vera Sr., a former senior Havana police official murdered in Puerto Rico in 1976, allegedly by Cuban government agents. Cuba's leader tells another whopper http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/521281.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/521281.html Sat, 10 May 2008 18:22 EDT As a practical matter, it is impossible for this or any other newspaper to set the record straight every time the Cuban government tells a whopper. Orchestrating lies is the specialty of police states. Anyone who has ever listened to Radio Havana or watched a Cuban TV ''news'' program knows that Cuban leaders lie to their own people and lie to the outside world. They even lie to each other. But sometimes the lie is so blatant, so malign, so far removed from the painful reality of life in Cuba that...