Cubans on Medical Aid Mission Flee Venezuela, but Find Limbo
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BOGOTA, Colombia -- Ariel Perez was, like thousands of fellow Cuban doctors, a devoted soldier in Fidel Castro's most important overseas mission -- providing medical care to the poor in oil-rich Venezuela, Cuba's most vital ally. But last year, Perez and two Cuban companions, carrying rucksacks with...
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Cuban exiles in Miami expressed quiet relief at Fidel Castro's resignation on Tuesday but said their homeland had moved past the longtime leader and change was inevitable.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Venezuelan police swooped on an ambulance used by robbers escaping a bank siege on Tuesday, arresting all four men and freeing a group of captives to end a two-day hostage standoff.
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Cuban members of a theatrical production in Las Vegas plan to seek asylum in the United States, leaving families behind and defying their government, the show's founder and creator said Sunday.
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Brazilian police are looking for three Cuban musicians who disappeared this week and are believed to want asylum, a police spokesman said on Friday.
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In the heartland of opposition to Fidel Castro, some Miami exiles expressed relief at the Cuban leader's resignation on Tuesday but others said they doubted it would end his overwhelming influence on their homeland.
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Looking for foreign aid after his election, Haitian President Rene Preval stopped in Havana. When Trinidad's prime minister needed heart surgery, he twice turned to Cuban doctors. And when the U.N. held its annual vote to denounce the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, the Caribbean Community trade bloc gave its unanimous support.
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In Puerto Rico, hundreds of H.I.V. and AIDS patients are not receiving vital medical care, say a host of doctors, community groups and patients.
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By OSCAR CORRAL  By OSCAR CORRAL  MIAMI - Picture this: Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies. Cubans board rafts and take to the seas. In South Florida, exiles board boats and head for Cuba to pick up desperate relatives.
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A Venezuelan-led mission to rescue three hostages held by leftist rebels in Colombia's vast jungles was tottering on the edge of collapse Monday, with guerrillas still not revealing where they'll free the hostages.
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A Venezuelan-led mission to rescue three hostages, including a 3-year old boy, from leftist rebels in Colombia's jungles fell apart Monday as the guerrillas accused Colombia's military of sabotaging the promised handoff.
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VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia  - A Venezuelan mission to pick up three hostages held for years by Colombian rebels in jungle camps was delayed again on Saturday because guerrilla leaders have not given the final go-ahead.
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MIAMI, Oct 21  - Known as the capital of Cuban exiles, Miami was abuzz Thursday with news of President Fidel Castro&#39;s accident, with many Cuban-Americans bemoaning that the communist leader only fell on his face, and not from power.
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Venezuela withdrew its ambassador from Panama on Friday to protest outgoing President Mireya Moscoso's argument that she pardoned four Cuban emigres for fear they might be sent to Venezuela and executed.
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A plane vanished off the coast of Venezuela on Friday carrying up to 18 people, including eight Italians and an American, rescue officials and the Italian government said.
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Three New York rescue workers injured in the September 11 attacks got the best treatment Cuba can offer in Michael Moore's film critique of U.S. health care, the Cuban doctors who attended them said this week.
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Hurricane Ivan, packing maximum sustained winds near 160 mph (260 km/h), was moving away from western Cuba early Tuesday, leaving toppled power lines, uprooted trees and extensive flooding in its wake.