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  Missing Florida boater’s body found tied to his vessel in Cuba

  A missing boater expected to arrive in Key West two weeks ago after traveling from Fort Myers was found dead tethered to his sailing vessel on a rocky Cuban beach earlier this week.

• CUBA

  State Department: Havana provides safe haven to US fugitives

  The State Department report on terrorism for 2012 appears similar to the 2011 version.
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  Biden

  Biden praises Brazil in speech, calls country ‘developed’

  In the last stop on his six-day South American and Caribbean tour, Vice President Joe Biden applauded Brazil’s economic progress and announced plans for a state visit by President Delma Rousseff to Washington.
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  Threat spurs Canada to move ex-Guantánamo prisoner Omar Khadr

  The lawyer for a Canadian man who spent 10 years at the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo says his client has been transferred from a prison in Ontario to one in Western Canada after another inmate threatened his life.
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  CUBA

  Cuban dissident says security forces are studying Vladimir Putin’s rule

  They are learning how to manage post-communist changes
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  In the camps

  U.S. military force feeding a third of Guantánamo hunger strikers

  U.S. Navy medical staff were on Sunday force feeding 35 captives at the prison camps at Guantánamo, a military spokesman said, noting that six of at least 103 hunger strikers were hospitalized.
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  SPECIAL REPORT: MEXICO AND THE MEDIA

  Murder of Mexican reporter in Veracruz spotlights official hostility toward press

  Regina Martinez had a premonition that she was courting danger in the months before her death. She spoke to colleagues of her fear.
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  Mexico

  Few convictions for Mexico’s special prosecutor for crimes against journalists

  The special prosecutor for such cases says Mexican law gives her office only the “most feeble” tools to prosecute crimes against journalists
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  Mexico

  Few convictions for Mexico’s special prosecutor for crimes against journalists

  The special prosecutor for such cases says Mexican law gives her office only the “most feeble” tools to prosecute crimes against journalists
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  SPECIAL REPORT: MEXICO AND THE MEDIA

  On the crime beat in Mexico, danger lies in knowing too much

  — It is a sultry morning in this crime-ridden resort, and little movement occurs at the main police headquarters. Francisco Robles, a freelance news photographer, glances down at an incoming text message on his phone.
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  Mexico

  In Mexico, fears for democracy as threatened journalists curtail coverage

  Quitze Fernandez, a columnist for the El Guardian newspaper in this capital of Coahuila state abutting Texas, picked up the phone in his newsroom one day.
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  CUBA

  Canadian executive awaits verdict in corruption trial

  The two-day trial of Sarkis Yacoubian concluded Friday. It may take up to two weeks for a verdict.

• In My Opinion

  Andres Oppenheimer: While Pacific Alliance thrives, Mercosur withers

  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos may not have been hallucinating when he said last week that the Pacific Alliance — the bloc made up of Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile — “is the new economic and development engine of Latin America and the Caribbean.”

• Cuban migration

  Sociologist: Income levels of Mariel migrants lower than earlier Cuban exiles

  Sociologist finds that more recent Cuban arrivals are not the ‘golden exiles’ of times past and have incomes similar to other Latin migrants

• 7 migrants returned to Cuba by U.S. Coast Guard

  Seven Cuban migrants have been returned to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba, after arriving off the Keys.
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  CUBA

  Cubans more optimistic about Castro’s economic changes

  Cubans appear to be growing more optimistic about ruler Raul Castro’s economic reforms and large majorities favor direct elections of their president but say the government is repressive, according to a poll made public Thursday.

• Turks and Caicos making strides in getting back stolen land

  Four years after a British firm embarked on efforts to help the Turks and Caicos recover illegally sold government land, millions are being recouped for the public treasury.

• CUBA

  Canadian goes on trial in Havana for corruption scandal

  Sarkis Yacoubian says he will plead guilty to one charge, but that he’s innocent of other corruption charges
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  Troops can tweet from Guantánamo again

  U.S. troops can once again tweet and post on Facebook from the coffee shop, Irish pub and library at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, a base spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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  HUNGER STRIKE

  Military defense lawyers cite My Lai massacre in plea to Hagel

  Uniformed defense lawyers for alleged Guantánamo terrorists invoked the Vietnam War’s My Lai massacre in their bid to get Vietnam veteran Chuck Hagel to intervene in the prison camps.

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