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  CUBA

  Dissident Antonio Rodiles says network with exiles can facilitate Cuba’s transition to democracy

  Antonio Rodiles also favors keeping U.S. embargo in place during a critical time for Cuba
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  CUBA

  Mariela Castro gets permit to travel to LGBT forum in U.S.

  Previously the State Department had said she would not be able to travel beyond the New York metro area. Now it says she can go to Philadelphia for the forum.
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  In the camps

  AMA opposes forced feedings at Guantánamo

  The president of the American Medical Association said in a letter to the Secretary of Defense that every competent patient — even a prisoner — has the right to refuse food or medical care.

• IMMIGRATION

  Feds: Number of previously deported immigrants returning to U.S. is increasing

  A growing number of people who had been deported are sneaking back into the U.S.
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  CUBA

  Ladies in White leader wants U.S. to maintain hard-line on Cuba

  Berta Soler favors both maintaining the embargo and limiting travel to Cuba from the United States
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  In the camps

  More Navy medics arrive at Guantánamo to help out on forced feedings

  About 40 additional U.S. Navy medical forces have arrived at the prison camps at Guantánamo to assist in the growing hunger strike by 100 captives, more then a fifth of them being force-fed, a spokesman said Monday.
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  Cuban dissidents

  Globe-trotting Cuban activists sway world opinion

  Under Cuba’s new travel rules, the world has become a stage for Cuban bloggers and dissidents. Who benefits the most — Havana or the dissidents themselves — is open to debate

• Follow live-tweeting of Ladies in White leader meeting with Miami Herald Editorial Board on Monday

  Cuba’s Ladies in White leader Berta Soler will meet with the Miami Herald Editorial Board on Monday morning.
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  IN THE CAMPS

  Life under lockdown at America’s hunger-striking prison camps

  America’s offshore war-on-terror prison camp has gone from peaceable routine to hunger-striking nightmare. A look at life at the prison where nearly every captive is under lockdown.
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  U.S. Navy

  Navy tests new weapons in the war on drugs

  The U.S. Navy is testing an unmanned blimp and a drone as cost-effective detecting and monitoring tools in the Caribbean Sea.
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  Cuba

  Cuba’s Ladies in White leader Berta Soler praises exile support

  The leader of Cuba’s Ladies in White thanked Miami’s exile community on Saturday for its continued support for dissidents on the island and asked for more moral, spiritual and material help for those who seek to end the Castro regime.
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  IN THE CAMPS

  Red Cross arrives at Guantánamo as hunger strike hits 100 mark

  The U.S. military now counts 100 of the 166 captives as hunger strikers. It said a fifth of them were being force fed on Saturday as the International Red Cross launched new prison camp visits.
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  Haiti

  Haiti launches vaccination campaign against fatal childhood diseases

  Haiti joins the international community in launching a nationwide vaccination campaign to save children’s lives.

• 10 rafters returned to Cuba by Coast Guard

  The U.S. Coast Guard returned 10 Cuban migrants to their homeland Wednesday after finding their vessels during two separate interceptions at sea.

• Cuban spy case

  Charge against former State Department employee in spy case

  Marta Rita Velazquez is accused of introducing convicted spy Ana Belen Montes to the Cuban Intelligence Service. The indictment against Velazquez, who is in Sweden, was unsealed after nine years

• Cuba

  Raúl Castro's sexologist daughter bound to New York during U.S. visit

  Mariela Castro won’t be able to accept an LGBT award in Philadelphia because her travel is restricted to the New York metropolitan area
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  Florida man behind Medicare money-laundering transfers to Cuba sentenced to 4 years

  A Florida “middle man’’ who sent stolen Medicare millions to Cuba was sentenced to 4½ years in prison in Miami federal court.
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  IN THE CAMPS

  Amid growing strike, review of releases urged

  The U.S. military now counts 94 of the 166 captives as hunger strikers, 17 being tube fed, 3 hospitalized.

• CUBA

  U.S. urges freedom for Granma journalist

  José Antonio Torres was arrested after detailing mismanagement of an aqueduct project in Santiago de Cuba

• In My Opinion

  Andres Oppenheimer: Latin America’s fastest-growing economies of 2013

  New economic projections from the World Bank and the United Nations show that Latin America countries will keep growing at moderate rates this year, except for the booming economies of three countries that start with the letter P — Paraguay, Panama and Peru.

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