Monthly Archives: February 2007
Weak from fast, dissident fights on in Cuba
Posted on Wed, Feb. 14, 2007
Weak from fast, dissident fights on in Cuba
By Doreen Hemlock
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
SANTA CLARA, Cuba – After a seven-month hunger strike in a bid to seek
Internet access for Cubans, the independent… Continue reading
Docs-for-oil trade shows Cuba's flair
Docs-for-oil trade shows Cuba's flair
The Castro-Chavez deal saves the eyesight of many Venezuelans.
By DAVID ADAMS
Published February 12, 2007
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HAVANA — A few months ago Venezuelan farmer Ramon Morillo, 52, was going
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Dissident: `Down with corruption, I'm on hunger strike'
Dissident: `Down with corruption, I'm on hunger strike'
Fariñas uses nonviolence in bid to force change in Cuba
By Doreen Hemlock
Havana Bureau
Posted February 11 2007
SANTA CLARA, Cuba · After a seven-month hunger strike in a bid… Continue reading
Cuba's young radicals may be losing luster
Cuba's young radicals may be losing luster
By Gary Marx
Tribune foreign correspondent
Published February 8, 2007
HAVANA — Six months after ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro temporarily
ceded power, young hard-liners linked to Castro have all but disappeared
from… Continue reading
Venezuela: Chronicle of a wreck foretold
Posted on Wed, Feb. 07, 2007
Venezuela: Chronicle of a wreck foretold
OUR OPINION: CHAVEZ ON THE ROAD TO DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED DICTATOR
Seeing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's recent moves to amass absolute
power is like watching a train heading… Continue reading
Bush budget pushes more aid to Latin America
Posted on Tue, Feb. 06, 2007
U.S. POLICY
Bush budget pushes more aid to Latin America
The Bush administration's proposed budget would increase U.S. aid to
Latin America slightly and boost funding for Cuba democracy programs.
BY PABLO BACHELET
pbachelet@MiamiHerald.com… Continue reading
Can desire to subsist be called corruption?
Can desire to subsist be called corruption?
By Ray Sánchez
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted February 4 2007
Havana · Awaiting the birth of his first child, the headwaiter of a
popular tourist restaurant figured out a way to secure a… Continue reading
Raul Looks to the East
Raúl Looks to the East
Fidel is still around, and officially in charge. But his brother Raúl
may be about to ditch Cuba's Soviet economics in favor of Beijing's
free-market model.
By Joseph Contreras
Newsweek International
Feb. 12, 2007 issue… Continue reading
Rustlers butcher cow stolen from farmer
FROM CUBA
Rustlers butcher cow stolen from farmer
Rafael Ferro Salas, Abdala Press.
PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba – January (www.cubanet.org) – When police arrived at
8:00 a.m. a group of people was looking at the cow's carcass left… Continue reading