Overhaul of U.S. policy on Cuba long overdue Orlando Sentinel Editorial

<p style="text-align: justify;">BRADENTON HERALD. Posted on Sat, Oct. 09, 2010. Approach has failed to spur reforms. This summer's massive BP oil spill took the steam out of reckless proposals to breach the 125-mile buffer zone for drilling off Florida's Gulf coast. But just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water, Cuba is lining up a Spanish company to drill next year off its coast just 50 miles from the Florida Keys. Read More

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Cuba decries sanctions against Iran

<p style="text-align: justify;">Sat Oct 9, 2010 11:11AM. Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki (R) and his Cuban opposite number Bruno Rodriguez in a joint press conference in Tehran, Oct. 9, 2010. The Cuban foreign minister has condemned the US-backed sanctions slapped on Iran for its peaceful nuclear activities, voicing his country's backing for Tehran's civilian atomic program. Read More

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Cuba-Venezuela undersea cable to be in operation in 2011: official

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Oct. 8(Xinhua) -- The undersea fiber optic cable between Cuba and Venezuela will be put into operation in July 2011 and it will multiply the current connection speed by 3,000 times, Cuban Vice Minister of Informatics and Communications Alberto Rodriguez said Friday. "This project strengthens our technological independence and national security," Rodriguez added. Read More

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Cuba, Bahamas push ahead with offshore oil plans

<p style="text-align: justify;">Oct 8, 2010 - 12:05:25 PM.HAVANA (Reuters) - Plans in Cuba and neighboring Bahamas to develop offshore oil fields may open big new oil frontiers at the doorstep of the United States, but the Cuban project has sparked opposition in next-door Florida reflecting the usual antagonistic U.S.-Cuba politics. Read More

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Cuba Journal: A Mixing of Styles in Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">THE NEW YORK TIMES.October 8, 2010, 3:30 pm. What happens when you put some great American jazz musicians onstage with the biggest names in Afro-Cuban music? They have a blast. At least, that is what they did at the Mella Theater in Havana the last two nights. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra played on Wednesday and Thursday to a packed house of 1,500 with a lineup of Cuban stars that included Chucho Valdés;Pancho Terry, the country's foremost chekeré player; Bobby Carcassés; and Orlando Valle, known as Maraca. Read More

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SOUTH JOURNAL: Uribe's regime spied on Cuba, Venezuela and the Middle East

<p style="text-align: justify;">South Journal, Bogota The ex-chief of the Gone organization with Colombia's Security Administrative Department (DAS, intelligence), German Albeiro Ospina admitted before the Colombian justice that since his organization was created they infiltrated the embassies of Cuba, Venezuela and Middle East countries to spy on opposition senators, such as Piedad Cordoba and Gustavo Petro. Read More

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Marambio countersues

<p style="text-align: justify;">Chilean businessman Max Marambio began legal proceedings before the Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Chile’s La Tercera newspaper reported. In what seems like a response to Marambio’s move, Cuba on Thursday asked Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant. After a one-year investigation, Cuba in May accused the co-owner of Cuba-based Alimentos Río Zaza of bribing officials and indicted Marambio. Read More

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USA-Cuba Conflict under Scrutiny in Canada

<p style="text-align: justify;">Relations between the United States and Cuba have not flourished over five decades because of conditions imposed on Cuba by Washington in exchange for a change in its policy, experts gathered agreed. The issue was the center of discussions on the second day of a congress of the Latin American Studies Association, LASA 2010, in session in Toronto, attended by over 2,700 experts from three continents. It was addressed in four panels, including "Cuban Foreign Policy under Raul Castro" and "The USA-Cuba Dialogue: Lessons from the Past, and Prospects for Talks between Obama and Castro." Read More

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Fidel Castro's Book 'The Strategic Victory' Launched in Toronto

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 8 (acn) Fidel Castro's recently published book `La victoria estrategica' (The Strategic Victory) was launched on Thursday in Toronto in a meeting with members of the Association in Solidarity with Cuba in this Canadian city. Read More

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Landau and Valdes Answer James Cason's Non -Answer

<p style="text-align: justify;">In answering our accusations of malfeasance, James Cason, candidate for mayor of Coral Gables, Florida, has lauded his own behavior as former head of the US Interests Section in Havana 2002-5. "I am proud of what I did in Havana." Instead of affirming or denying our claim, Cason demonstrates that he feels good about his behavior in Cuba; a narcissistic assessment of himself and an attack on Fidel - which should satisfy and even amuse his close friends and family. But if Congress begins to look at his words and, more importantly, the undiplomatic action he and his boss Noriega initiated, they may find serious breaches of protocol. Read More

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