Wednesday, March 9, 2011

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US Approves More Airports For Cuba Flights
The US government has given permission to eight more airports to offer direct charter flights to and from Cuba in the latest small opening in the 49-year-long trade embargo against the communist island.
The Internet in Cuba: The US and Cuba both overestimate the impact ...
continue to promote self-determined democracy in Cuba. Funds will be used to provide humanitarian assistance to political prisoners, their families, and other victims of repression; advance human rights; strengthen independent civil ...
Russia and Cuba Partner in Gulf of Mexico to Drill Oil and ...
Cuba has rights to the area in which drilling will be conducted under an agreement the Carter administration recognized. From Russia's perspective, this is another way to gain leverage inside what traditionally has been America's sphere ...
David Rivera calls out Hillary Clinton on Cuba case | Naked Politics
The Miami Republican is taking issue with the State Department's stance on Cuba's trial of Alan Gross, a U.S. contractor who faces 20 years in prison for distributing satellite equipment on the island. Rivera in a letter to the ...
Cuba Human Rights: Cuba's Fidel Castro is island's maximum leader ...
HAVANA (AP) â€" Cuba's Maximum Leader is also on top in cyberspace. A Twitter account that tweets excerpts from former President Fidel Castro's frequent musings on world affairs has passed 100000 followers ...
Cuba Human Rights: Cuba Holds Peruvian Woman Carrying $90000 in Cash
Cuba Holds Peruvian Woman Carrying $90000 in Cash. LIMA â€" A Peruvian woman has been imprisoned in Cuba since Jan. 21 after entering the Communist-ruled island with the equivalent of $90000 in cash, her family and Peru's foreign ministry ...
Cuba Human Rights: Chicago O'Hare Airport Begins Flights to Cuba
Although eleven airports will now host flights to Cuba, officials say that access to these flights will still be limited and that passengers must meet specific travel requirements. However, the new announcement ...
GayandRight: Cuba's American Hostage....
While Arabs are ousting dictators, it's tyranny as usual in Cuba, where U.S. government contractor Alan Gross went on trial last week for espionage. Or at least that's what the Castro regime said took place. The civilized world doesn't ...
Historic air service to begin between Cuba and Atlanta | Travel news
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has received federal authorization to serve as a port of entry for flights to and from Cuba.
e-IR » Why was so much at stake in Cuba in 1962?
In May 1962, Khrushchev decided to secretly deploy forty-eight SS-4s (medium-range ballistic missiles), as well as thirty-two SS-5s (intermediate-range ballistic missiles) to Cuba, only 90 miles off the US coastline (Hunt, 1996: 235). ...