Cuba says it curbs narcotics flow without U.S. help
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Fewer drug traffickers are using Cuba as a corridor to the United States thanks to tough enforcement and cooperation with other countries, the ruling Communist Party newspaper Granma said on Friday.
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Myanmar and Venezuela have "failed demonstrably" to do enough to fight illegal drugs for a third straight year, said a U.S. report on Monday that waived sanctions on Caracas to maintain aid for democracy programs.
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U.S.-directed seizures and disruptions of cocaine shipments from Latin America dropped sharply in 2007 from the year before, reflecting in part a shift in tactics by drug traffickers to avoid detection at sea, senior American officials disclosed Monday
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The government on Wednesday rebuffed a recent offer by Cuba for talks and said Havana had become even more hard-line since Raul Castro stepped in for his ailing brother Fidel Castro.
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Central American nations are putting aside border bickering to allow the relatively free movement of people and goods between nations &#151; a goal that has U.S. officials worried about a jump in smuggling of drugs and people in a region already plagued by crime and on the lookout for terrorists.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have scrapped their 11-month-old policy of seizing prescription drugs imported through the mail from Canada, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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U.S. President George W. Bush ruled out any easing of the decades-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba but proposed loosening some restrictions on contacts with the communist-ruled island, if more freedoms were allowed.
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The U.S. has halted payments to clinics that treat AIDS patients in Puerto Rico, forcing hundreds of poor people to go without free medicine in a U.S. territory with an AIDS rate nearly double that of the mainland
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Cuba said on Monday that it was ending  circulation of the U.S. dollar in its territory as of Nov. 8 in  response to tightened U.S. economic sanctions.
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The United States eased a  controversial ban on publications from Iran, Sudan and Cuba on  Wednesday in a bid to allow dissidents to be heard while  maintaining an embargo on official documents.
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Cuba will deport reputed drug kingpin Luis Hernando Gomez Bustamante to Colombia, which plans to extradite him to the United States, a government official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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The U.S.-backed strategy to fight Afghanistan's massive drug trade has been unsuccessful in stemming opium cultivation, which is expected to hit record levels this year, a senior U.S. official said Thursday.
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The State Department says Cuba&#39;s move to ban the circulation of dollars underscores the weakness of Fidel Castro&#39;s communist government.
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HAVANA - Cuba ended circulation of the dollar on Monday to reduce its vulnerability to US sanctions, and shops, restaurants, gas stations, hotels and other businesses began accepting only Cuban convertible pesos.
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The government has taken US dollars out of circulation following the recent tightening of US sanctions against Cuba.
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Cuba's top anti-drug agent and European officials launched a course Monday on drug interdiction in the Caribbean, marking one of the first renewed programs since diplomatic relations between Havana and the EU were restored last month.
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Cuba took over leadership of the Nonaligned Movement Friday, but with Fidel Castro too sick to promise an appearance, his younger brother and his close friend Hugo Chavez of Venezuela were left to mete out the anti-American invective.