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• TELECOMMUNICATIONS

  U.S. calls to Cuba have decreased

  Possibly because more Cuban Americans are visiting Cuba these days, the number of calls to Cuba have gone down, as have U.S. payments for the calls.

• IMMIGRATION

  Boquete seeking U.S. residency to avert deportation to Cuba

  A Cuban national wrongly accused of sexual assault and threatened with eventual deportation is now seeking a green card and perhaps citizenship.

• Boquete seeking U.S. residency to end immigration limbo

  Orlando Boquete, a Mariel refugee erroneously convicted of sexual assault and threatened with deportation to Cuba, is now trying to become a permanent U.S. resident, which would make him eligible for citizenship.

• ESPIONAGE

  Convicted Cuban spy gets lighter sentence

  One of the Cuban Five defendants, initially sentenced to life in prison for espionage conspiracy, saw his term reduced to 22 years. The judge rejected an even lighter sentence recommended by prosecutors.

• CUBA

  Faced with a deep recession, Cuba tries socialism lite

  Facing a severe and protracted economic downturn, Cuba's government is scaling back socialism in an attempt to save it.

• ESPIONAGE

  Convicted Cuban spy gets lighter sentence

  One of the Cuban Five defendants, initially sentenced to life in prison for espionage conspiracy, saw his term reduced to 22 years. The judge rejected an even lighter sentence recommended by prosecutors.

• TOURISM

  U.S.-Cuba travel picking up steam

  Bills in Congress to allow all travel to Cuba are increasingly drawing support among U.S. lawmakers and the public -- but they still face an uncertain future.

• TRAVEL

  U.S.-Cuba travel flourishing

  Legal travel to and from Cuba is booming, even though the Obama administration has not officially changed any rules regarding nonfamily travel to the island.

• Report: Hard to ease Cuba embargo

  A U.S. president has limited ways to ease the embargo on Cuba -- unless he or she certifies that Havana is moving toward democracy or Congress overturns U.S. laws on the sanctions, according to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

• JUANES CONCERT

  Poll: Cuban Americans change tune about Juanes concert in Havana

  A poll showed that most Cuban-Americans now approve of the concert that Juanes put together in Havana.

• Defamation suit settled in Cuban 'agent' case

  A defamation lawsuit filed by a Cuban American anti-embargo activist against a U.S. counterintelligence expert who branded her a Havana ``agent'' has been settled, both sides say.

• CUBA

  Obama's Cuba policies receive faint praise

  U.S. changes in Cuba policy `are extremely limited and insufficient,' the nation's foreign minister told the U.N. General Assembly.

• Cuba: Not much has changed in Cuba-U.S. relationship

  In a hard-lined speech to the 2009 United Nations General Assembly, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said that despite the election of Barack Obama, not much has changed in the relationship between Cuba and the United States.

• Latin American economies on the rebound

  The construction industry here in Lima is booming, middle-class residents are once again snapping up new apartments in Rio de Janeiro and software companies in Santiago, Chile, are expanding.

• Bills could transform U.S./Cuba business

  When it comes to crafting Cuba policy, Congress has been in the back seat of late. The sweeping new rules released last month that loosen the 49-year-old U.S. embargo against the island came from the executive branch and the Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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  IMMIGRATION

  Cubans tell of capture and torture on Mexican journey

  Yurizán González thought his ordeal was over after his kidnappers made a cut on his ear in a room of an old abandoned house in Cancún, the resort southeast of Mexico where he was held captive. But the torture session continued, he said, when the captors removed the cloth plug they had placed in his mouth to mute his screaming and replaced it with a gun muzzle.

• Juanes complained about being followed

  A Miami radio station broadcast Tuesday a recording of a heated discussion Colombian rocker Juanes had with Cuban authorities a few hours before his concert ``Peace Without Borders'' in Havana.

• THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

  Details emerge of Cuba's nuclear threat

  Cold War documents recently made public reveal Castro called for a tougher Soviet line on the U.S., up to and including nuclear strikes.

• Cuba's pace of U.S. patent filings picks up

  It was a brief item in a newsletter that tracks U.S. government activities: U.S. Patent No. 7,556,726 was awarded on July 7 to the National Center for Scientific Investigations in Havana.

• A day after Juanes show, emotions in Miami still mixed

  When Fabio Diaz settled in with 15 members of his extended Cuban family to watch Colombian singer Juanes' historic concert in Havana on television Sunday, he -- and the rest of his clan -- had mixed feelings. Diaz, who is 35 and came to Miami at 19, thought the event should have been staged in an intermediary location between the island and Miami, as a bridge between the two sides. And he wanted Juanes to speak out directly about freedom in Cuba.

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