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• VENEZUELA

  Chávez alliance off to shaky start

  Russia's president ended his Venezuela visit after a tussle among bodyguards. Both sides downplayed the incident.
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  Raúl tells Sean Penn he'd meet Obama at Guantánamo

  Cuban President Raul Castro says he would like to meet President-elect Barack Obama on ''neutral ground'' -- and he suggests the American base at Guantánamo Bay.

• AT THE BASE

  Stadium-style lights to boost security

  The last official Cold War corner of Latin America is fending off potential incursion with fewer than 125 Marines - and $2.47 million in stadium-style lighting.

• Not just a prison, the Navy sees many uses for Guantánamo

  No matter what happens to America's offshore military prison, this much is clear: This Navy base will remain open for years to come, and so probably will the McDonald's, the Taco Bell and the golf course.

• Ex-Bush aide charged with theft from Cuba group

  A former aide to President Bush has been charged with theft from a government-funded center that promotes democracy in Cuba.

• Fidel Castro: U.S. uses al Qaeda to justify foreign policy

  Fidel Castro suggested Sunday that the U.S. government has promoted Americans' fears about al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to justify its plans for world domination.

• Russians want to search for oil off Cuba

  Russian oil companies could soon begin searching for oil in deep Gulf of Mexico waters off Cuba, a top diplomat said just days before Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visits the island.

• SANFORD U.

  Baseball cancels trip to Cuba

  Due to the devastation from multiple hurricanes during the past few months, the Samford baseball program has had to cancel its trip to Havana, Cuba, scheduled for Oct. 17-21, the athletics department announced on Thursday.
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  2 players thrown off Cuba baseball team for `indiscipline'

  Cuba said Friday that right-hander Yadel Martí, who was named top pitcher at the inaugural World Baseball Classic, and hard-hitting outfielder Yasser Gómez had been thrown off the island's top team, Havana's Industriales, for committing ``a grave act of indiscipline.''

• Castro y Chávez reciben las peores calificaciones en reciente encuesta

  Los gobernantes de Cuba, Fidel Castro, y de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, recogen una mayoría de opiniones desfavorables en una encuesta entre nacionales de seis países occidentales, mientras que el brasileño Lula da Silva y el español José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero tienen una mejor imagen.
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  Cuban activists say they have 20,000 signatures

  A women's group presented thousands of signatures Thursday petitioning Cuba's parliament to close the gap in the communist country's dual economy, which pays state workers in Cuban pesos but offers basics like toilet paper in another currency that few can afford.

• SOUTH FLORIDA

  Cuban man's family kept on island, despite U.S. visas

  A Cuban man who lost both of his arms -- after he tried to escape from prison following a failed attempt to reach Florida -- denounced the Cuban government Wednesday for keeping his family on the island even though they have been issued visas to join him in the United States.

• CUBA

  Family reveals secret in Cuba hijacking

  The relatives of Edmundo Ponce de Leon say he was one of the hijackers of a Miami-Cuba flight in 1958 that crashed and killed 14 aboard.

• AFP

  Fidel Castro serenades Chinese president

  China's President Hu Jintao made a landmark visit to Cuba Tuesday, bearing millions of dollars in aid and promises of closer future trade ties.
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  THE WHITE HOUSE

  Obama may tap Elián players for White House roles

  President-elect Barack Obama is expected to name two attorneys to his administration who helped return Elián González to Cuba, angering some Miami Republicans.
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  CUBA

  China expands trade with Cuba

  Chinese President Hu Jintao agreed to deals with Cuba that include purchases of Cuban nickel and sugar and pledges of food and hurricane relief supplies.

• Cuban president to make first visit to Venezuela

  Raul Castro's first official trip abroad since assuming Cuba's presidency will be to Venezuela.

• AP

  Forzudos independientes

  Se llama Gabriel Díaz Sánchez, y como el gobierno Cubano no lo dejo continuar en sus labores de entrenador de Full Contact, se convirtió a la oposición pacífica.
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  CUBA

  Cuba won't let our kids leave, medical workers say

  Former Cuban doctors are contemplating taking their quest to get their kids out of Cuba to an international court.

• CUBA

  Teacher convicted in death of student in Cuba

  A teacher with relatively little experience has been convicted of killing a 12-year-old student by throwing a chair leg at him.

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