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  • July 2008

    • McCain Ad Links Obama to Castro

      Huffington Post  |  Jul 24, 08 2:12 PM CDT

      McCain Ad Links Obama to Castro

      (Newser) - The McCain campaign is running an Internet ad composed of photos of Barack Obama and Fidel Castro side by side, with the caption “Fidel Castro thinks he is 'the most advanced candidate,'" the Huffington Post reports. The ad is running on websites catering to South Florida, home to many Cuban expatriates and deep anti-Castro sentiment. More »

    • Cuba Rebuilds Spy Network in Fla., Agent Says

      Miami Herald  |  Jul 5, 08 3:59 PM CDT

      Cuba Rebuilds Spy Network in Fla., Agent Says

      (Newser) - Cuba has rebuilt its spy network in Florida to its highest level in 10 years, a US Army expert on Cuban agents tells the Miami Herald . The FBI rounded up more than a dozen spies in 1998, but they have all been replaced, bringing Florida’s spy population to around 210, Lt. Col. Chris Simmons said. His revelation is the first in recent years by a US official on Cuban spies. More »

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      Florida  • Cuba  • spies  • Cuban exiles

    • Bush Could Decide by Weekend to Close Gitmo

      ABC News  |  Jul 3, 08 3:55 PM CDT

      Bush Could Decide by Weekend to Close Gitmo

      (Newser) - President Bush could decide by Saturday to close Guantanamo Bay as a prison for high-value detainees, insiders tell ABC. There is “generally wide agreement” among Bush's top advisers—Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates among them—that Gitmo should eventually be shuttered, but the landmark recent Supreme Court decision undermines the central reason to keep prisoners on the Cuban base—to prevent access to courts. More »

  • June 2008

    • Elian Spotlight Shows Obama Weak Spot

      Politico  |  Jun 24, 08 11:58 AM CDT

      Elian Spotlight Shows Obama Weak Spot

      (Newser) - Eight years after the Elian Gonzalez standoff contributed to Al Gore’s defeat, the row is back in the headlines and causing trouble for Barack Obama. Obama’s stance on Cuban issues, not to mention the prominent roles Elian’s father’s lawyer and a Clinton deputy AG play in his campaign, have angered many members of Florida’s Cuban exile community, Politico reports. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Florida  • Cuba  • Cuban Americans  • Cuban exiles  • Elian Gonzalez

    • Chavez: US Confrontation 'Inevitable'

      New Yorker  |  Jun 23, 08 3:25 AM CDT

      Chavez: US Confrontation 'Inevitable'

      (Newser) - With the US distracted by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been busy amassing a Latin American power bloc to blunt Washington’s influence. But the firebrand leader, who calls President Bush “the devil” and the US “the empire,” is receiving level-headed advice from none other than Fidel Castro, writes Jon Lee Anderson in a New Yorker profile. More »

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      George W. Bush  • United States  • oil  • Colombia  • Cuba  • Venezuela  • Fidel Castro  • Alvaro Uribe  • Hugo Chávez

    • Elian Case Returns to the Spotlight

      Miami Herald  |  Jun 20, 08 10:10 AM CDT

      Elian Case Returns to the Spotlight

      (Newser) - When the battle over whether to send young Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba raged in 2000, Barack Obama was an Illinois state senator nowhere near the fray. But two of the candidate's current advisers played a role, and that connection has some Cuban-Americans ready to protest the senator's speech this weekend in Miami. Elian's great-uncle is leading the charge, the Miami Herald reports. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Florida  • Cuba  • illegal immigrant  • Elian Gonzalez

    • Europe Votes to Lift Cuba Sanctions

      Agence France Presse  |  Jun 20, 08 8:20 AM CDT

      Europe Votes to Lift Cuba Sanctions

      (Newser) - The European Union has agreed to lift sanctions against Cuba, much to the annoyance of the White House. "We see encouraging signs in Cuba and I think that we should show the population in Cuba that we are ready to work with them," an EU official tells the AFP. It's a largely symbolic victory for Cuba and Spain—which lobbied for the change—because sanctions have been suspended since 2005. More »

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      European Union  • Cuba  • Spain  • human rights  • Fidel Castro  • Raul Castro  • sanctions  • National Security Council

    • Ailing Fidel Appears on TV

      Associated Press  |  Jun 18, 08 5:58 AM CDT

      Ailing Fidel Appears on TV

      (Newser) - An animated Fidel Castro appeared on state-run Cuban TV yesterday, in the first such broadcast of the ailing revolutionary since January. Castro, standing in some parts of the video, was seen chatting in a garden with his brother Raul, the current Cuban president, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the AP reports. The trio discussed the global food and oil crises and  the effect of Midwest floods, Chavez told reporters. More »

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      politics  • Cuba  • Fidel Castro  • Communism  • Cuban Revolution  • Communists

    • Prison of Cuban Baseball Ensnares US Agent, Too

      Vanity Fair  |  Jun 13, 08 3:17 PM CDT

      Prison of Cuban Baseball Ensnares US Agent, Too

      (Newser) - Politics is keeping "at least half a billion dollars of baseball players in Cuba right now," one agent tells Michael Lewis as he investigates, for Vanity Fair , the case of an American sports agent now in jail for smuggling athletes. Gus Dominguez appears to be a victim of politics on the US side—though that web isn't half as tangled as the one facing athletes on Castro's island. More »

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      MLB  • baseball  • immigration  • Cuba  • smuggling

    • Hard Workers in Cuba Will Finally Get Their Due

      Miami Herald  |  Jun 12, 08 4:42 AM CDT

      Hard Workers in Cuba Will Finally Get Their Due

      (Newser) - Raul Castro has ordered employers to create new salary structures that include extra pay for increased productivity—a bold departure, by Cuban standards, from Socialist orthodoxy, the Miami Herald reports. Under the current system, workers get a flat fee based on their job descriptions with no hope for incentives. Low productivity is common, and Fidel's brother is anxious to kick-start the economy. More »

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      economy  • Cuba  • Fidel Castro  • Raul Castro  • Communism  • socialism

    • Cuban Prez OKs Sex Change Operations

      Reuters  |  Jun 6, 08 6:27 PM CDT

      Cuban Prez OKs Sex Change Operations

      (Newser) - Cubans can now have free sex change operations, Reuters reports. The latest legal change under President Raul Castro was pushed by his daughter, Mariela Castro, who heads a sex education center and says she has a 28-person waiting list. Cuba allowed a sex change 20 years ago, but sparked so much outcry that Havana canceled the program. More »

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      Cuba  • Raul Castro  • Havana  • sex change

  • May 2008