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I quit as party chief 5 years ago, Fidel Castro

<p style="text-align: justify;">By PAUL HAVEN, Associated Press Paul Haven. HAVANA – Fidel Castro said Tuesday he resigned five years ago from all his official positions, including head of Cuba's Communist Party, a pre-eminent job in the island's political pantheon that he was thought to still hold.It was the first time the 84-year-old revolutionary icon has said he no longer heads the Communist Party, which he has led since its creation in 1965. The Communist Party website still lists him as first secretary, with his brother President Raul Castro listed as second secretary. Read More

Eclectic Rant: Time to End the U.S. Economic Embargo of Cuba

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Ralph E. Stone. Monday March 21, 2011. Bookmark and Share. The United States is the last country in the Western Hemisphere with no formal relations with Cuba. It is time for the United States and Cuba to mend fences. For a start, the U.S. should end the economic embargo against Cuba. The embargo makes it illegal for U.S. corporations to do business with Cuba. U.S. travel restrictions to Cuba are also a form of economic sanctions. Read More

The greening of Havana

<p style="text-align: justify;">An Irish cultural week helped forged even stronger connections in the Cuban capital, Havana, this month PERHAPS IT was just the heat, but, as Iarla Ó Lionáird lifted his voice into the rafters of Havana’s venerable Basilica Menor de San Francisco de Asis, we felt a shiver run down our spines. To hear Ó Lionáird’s sean nós fill the vast, dim space above our heads, here in the heart of Habana vieja (Old Havana) where music is so vital, was to feel a momentary swell of tír grá. And the standing ovation it received from an attentive Cuban audience confirmed that Ó Lionáird’s nuanced laments touched an emotional chord even for those not raised on its sound. Read More

Edmonton country music artist looking for lost Cuban dog

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Jamie Hall, edmontonjournal.com March 19, 2011. EDMONTON — Searchers are combing the streets of Varadero, Cuba, hoping to find the dog that stole the heart of an Edmonton country music artist. Somewhere in that sentence is the inspiration for a country music song, one Craig Moritz would gladly pen once he has all the lyrics for his happy ending.“I kind of fell in love with that dog,” says Moritz, who was selected for the prestigious new artist showcase by the Canadian Country Music Association in 2004. He is about to release his third album. Read More

Star witness in Posada trial says the Cuban militant admitted to role in bombings

<p style="text-align: justify;">By ALFONSO CHARDY.elnuevoherald.com. The star prosecution witness in the Luis Posada Carriles trial says the exile militant admitted to her in an interview 14 years ago that he played a role in the bombing of Cuban tourist sites. Read More

Locals are ready as doors to Cuba open

<p style="text-align: justify;">Saturday, March 19, 2011. By Julie Percha, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Relaxed rules mean more access for Pitt students, religious groups to a nation so close yet so far away. When she studied in Cuba last spring, University of Pittsburgh senior Gloria Hatcher came face-to-face with crumbling infrastructure and poverty so dire that many locals struggled just to stretch their monthly food rations.The communist nation is a place few Americans have legally visited and, despite its location 90 miles from Florida, seems a world apart. Read More

Key moment as journalist takes stand in Posada trial

<p style="text-align: justify;">A New York Times contract employee who interviewed Luis Posada Carriles in 1998 testified Wednesday that Posada told her that small explosives were used in a series of tourists bombings but only to scare away tourists. Read More

Cuba-USA relations

<p style="text-align: justify;">By Stabroek staff. Editorial.Wednesday, March 16, 2011. In spite of periodic hiccups, a slow but fairly consistent positive evolution in Cuba-United States relations continues to be apparent. One of those hiccups occurred at the end of last week, when an American contractor, ostensibly assisting persons and groups in Cuba with internet communications, was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Cuban court, an act strongly objected to by the US government. The Cuban government has recognized that with the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States, the new President has deliberately sought to ease open person-to-person relationships between the two countries<br /> <br /> Read More

Times reporter to testify in trial of ex-CIA agent

<p style="text-align: justify;">By WILL WEISSERT. Associated Press. Tuesday, Mar. 15, 2011. EL PASO, Texas -- A New York Times reporter who interviewed a shadowy ex-CIA operative about masterminding bombings that rocked hotels, nightclubs and an iconic eatery in Cuba in 1997 is set to testify at his perjury trial Wednesday after long resisting taking the stand. Read More

Spain celebrates Latin American liberation with bicentenary films

<p style="text-align: justify;">Cinematic collaboration presents stories of the greatest colonial rebels to new generation of film-goers. Rory Carroll in Caracas. guardian.co.uk, Monday 14 March 2011 19.27 GMT. The story of José Artigas, the father of Uruguay's independence, is just one of the liberation sagas to be retold.Photograph: Germán Luongo/Libertadores. Read More

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