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Reaffirms View to Close Guantanamo US Defence Secretary Robert Gates

US defence secretary Robert Gates has reaffirmed his view that the "war on terror" detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be closed but how to deal with terrorists still had to be decided. Read More

Governments of Spain and Mexico Urge EU to Lift Sanctions against Cuba

The governments of Spain and Mexico advocated on Thursday the lifting of the diplomatic and economic sanctions that the European Union (EU) imposed on Cuba in 2003. Read More

Hundreds of young people in front of the US Interest Section in Havana

Hundreds of young people in front of the US Interest Section in Havana reiterated their rejection of the injustices the Five Heroes are suffering, after nearly ten years in prison Read More

Cuban Five: ''There are 40 pages of ideological prejudice in the new ruling from Atlanta''

A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals of Atlanta upheld Wednesday the guilty verdicts of the Cuban Five, prisoners in the United States since 1998. It also vacated the sentences of three of the men, ordering a new sentencing in Miami. Read More

Cuban baseball player who defected to speak in Hialeah

One of Cuba's top baseball prospects will hold a press conference in Hialeah Monday after defecting to South Florida in hopes of playing in the major leagues. Read More

Jurists in Ciego de Avila, Cuba Against the Atlanta Ruling

The jurists of Ciego de Ávila rejected the ruling of a three-judges panel at the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, which last Wednesday 4 upheld the guilty verdicts against the five Cuban patriots, who are confined in American jails since 1998, and annulled the sentences of three of them for further re-sentencing. Read More

National Lawyers Guild Support the Cuban Five

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) believes that politics influenced the federal appeals court decision of upholding the convictions to the five Cuban prisoners for fighting terrorism. Read More

A group of Cuban specialists has found unprecedented personal annotations on a wall by the U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway

A group of Cuban specialists has found unprecedented personal annotations on a wall by the U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway, who lived for 21 years in the Finca Vigía, Havana, according to several Cuban media. Read More

11th Circuit Court Upholds Conviction against Cuban Five

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, 3-judge panel, issued its ruling, Wednesday, upholding the convictions of the Five Cuban Heroes, including the espionage conspiracy and murder conspiracy. Read More

Venezuela Foreign Minister Reiterates Extradition Request in Posada Carriles Case

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro took the floor after Washington's ambassador to the OAS said that his country condemns terrorism. ''That is why we formally ask, once again, that the fugitive, Luis Posada Carriles, be captured and extradited to Venezuela.'' Read More

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