A potential new market: Texas' rice to Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">EGYPT, Texas - Tributes to Fidel Castro, statues of Che Gue­vara and photographs of Elian Gonzalez might not line the streets of this rice-growing town, but make no mistake about it: The farmers here are pro-Cuba. Read More

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Jeff Greene, Kendrick Meek complain about negative attacks in debate

<p style="text-align: justify;">ORLANDO -- Jeff Greene and Kendrick Meek used their only statewide televised debate Tuesday to blast each other's character and credentials while complaining about negative attacks. Read More

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Spanish Television Prepares Documentary on Alicia Alonso

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA, CUBA.- The Spanish television network Television Española (TVE) will present its documentary “Indispensable: Alicia Alonso” during the inaugural gala of the 20th International Ballet Festival of Havana in October. Read More

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CPP congratulates Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">Accra, Aug. 11, GNA - The Convention Peoples Party (CPP), on Wednesday, congratulated the Government and People of Cuba on its 52nd anniversary of Cuban Revolution. Read More

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Cuban plastic art to Peru

<p style="text-align: justify;">It was known a few weeks ago that Peruvian poet Antonio Cisneros had won Ibero-American Award Pablo Neruda. This author also won the poetry award Casa de las Américas at the age of 26 with his intense poems Canto ceremonial para un oso hormiguero in the 1960s. Read More

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Cuba Improves Soils to Increase Crops

<p style="text-align: justify;">The improvement of the soils for agriculture, many of them affected by salinity and low content of organic matter, constitutes a priority to increase crops in Cuba, a nation in which food production has a national security status. Read More

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Homeless People Live in Tunnels Under Las Vegas

<p style="text-align: justify;">(CBS)&nbsp;&nbsp; Fortunes are won and lost in Las Vegas all the time. But the city itself has been on the losing end of the foreclosure crisis. The city's homeless population has grown from nearly 12,000 two years ago to nearly 14,000 today. Yet there are fewer than 1,000 beds in shelters, forcing many to go to extremes in seeking shelter. CBS News correspondent Seth Doane goes underneath the Vegas strip. Read More

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Greene releases documents related to Cuba yacht visit

<p style="text-align: justify;">Democratic Senate hopeful Jeff Greene’s campaign released new documents today to bolster Greene’s contention that his 2007 visit to Cuba wasn’t an embargo-defying party layover but an unscheduled stop to fix mechanical problems. Read More

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"Mules" stretch limits of U.S. trade embargo on Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">HAVANA (Reuters) – It all starts with a description given over a mobile phone: "Look for a woman with long blonde hair, blue jeans, silver heels and a black T-shirt arriving on the next flight from Miami." Read More

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Farm production figures not encouraging

<p style="text-align: justify;">The output of farm products other than sugar decreased 9.7 percent in the first semester of this year compared with the same period in 2009, according to a report from the National Office of Statistics. Cattle farming also dropped, by 4.8 percent. Read More

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