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• CUBA

  Bid to tighten up Cuba travel dropped from budget bill

  Cuba was one of the last issues holding up a $1 trillion spending bill in the U.S. Congress. A bid to make it easier for Cuba to buy U.S. imports also fell.

• In My Opinion

  Cuba asking advice from IMF? Don’t laugh!

  An old joke I heard for the first time more than 20 years ago in Havana says that the three biggest achievements of the Cuban revolution are health, education, and low infant-mortality rates, and that its three biggest failures are breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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  CUBA

  Congress may tighten travel, remittances to Cuba

  A move by Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart to tighten Cuban American travel to the island nation has a chance of being passed in Congress.

• CUBA

  Supporters rally for U.S. travel to Cuba

  They want Congress to reject a bid to tighten travel regulations to the island.

• CUBA

  U.S. government agency says Radio/TV Marti’s bosses failed to properly inform Congress

  A U.S. government agency said Martí’s bosses failed to properly inform Congress about costs and its audience in Cuba.
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  In My Opinion

  Zombies are heading to Miami

  In some quarters of Miami, the talk movie of the moment is not the American remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but the crude and bloody Cuban horror film Juan de los Muertos (Juan of the Dead), a story about the day Havana wakes up to an invasion of the living dead.
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  CUBA

  Oil drilling off Cuba prompts talks in region

  Officials from Caribbean countries, including the U.S. and Cuba, met to discuss plans in case a disaster happens at an oil rig off Cuba’s coast.
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  CUBA

  Pope Benedict XVI confirms he will visit Cuba and Mexico before Easter

  In Miami, the Catholic Church said it welcomed the confirmation of the Pope’s planned visit to Cuba ahead of the Easter holiday.
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  CUBA

  Cubans in Havana watch fireworks from exile flotilla

  The Cuban government on Friday called the flotilla a “provocation.”
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  CUBA

  Embargo forces Raúl Castro to change hotels

  The U.S. embargo on Cuba has forced the government of Trinidad and Tobago to shift a summit of Cuban and Caribbean Community leaders out of the Hilton Trinidad Conference Center in Port of Spain, according to a news media report Wednesday.

• CUBA

  Exile plan for liberty show near Havana worries U.S., Cuba

  The U.S. State Department has warned Havana and South Florida exiles to keep their cool during a fireworks show 12 miles off the Cuban coast.

• CUBA

  Cuban dissidents: Colleagues injured in police crackdown

  The dissidents say they want police to free 10 dissidents arrested.

• One wounded in Miami drive-by shooting

  Miami police and paramedics were at the scene of a drive-by shooting Tuesday afternoon at 6935 NW Sixth Ct.
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  American captive of Cuba marks 2 years behind bars

  For two years, Judy Gross has taken a quiet approach to trying to get her husband, Alan, freed from a Cuban jail. Now she’s speaking out.
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  TRAVEL AND TRADE

  Tampa business leaders hope to strengthen ties with Cuba

  Since the first charter flights from Tampa to Cuba in nearly 50 years began, business leaders have been reaching out to the island nation and even invited Cuban diplomats to visit.

• CUBA

  Marches are part of campaign for coordinated protests in Cuba

  Police reportedly detain about 150 dissidents in two days of attempted street marches in Cuba.

• Summit

  Latin and Caribbean leaders challenge US role in region

  Leaders of 33 Latin American and Caribbean nations are meeting in Caracas on Friday to create a new regional organization that will exclude the U.S. and Canada. Some hope the CELAC will ultimately replace the Washington-based Organization of American Stat

• CUBA

  Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez ranked among top ‘Global Thinkers’

  After being honored by Foreign Police magazine, Yoani Sánchez tweeted that she’s just “thinking of how to make the rice last until the end of the month.”

• Pilgrimage to see pope in Cuba considered

  The Archdiocese of Miami is considering organizing a pilgrimage to Cuba that would allow members of South Florida’s Cuban-American community to participate in the visit of Pope Benedict XVI scheduled for next spring.
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  CUBAN CYBERWAR

  Cyber commandos spill phone numbers of top Cuban officials

  Critics of the Castro regime have adopted a new, Internet-savvy tactic: publishing the addresses and phone numbers of top Cuban officials.

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