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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Powerhouse Cuba has pulled out of the amateur World Boxing Championship in Chicago in October to avoid new defections by its boxers, the Cuban Boxing Federation said on Wednesday.
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Many migrant workers are bringing AIDS to rural parts of Mexico, which are not prepared to handle the epidemic.
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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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Energy company Harvest Natural Resources encounters problems in Venezuela.
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A Cuban woman made it to the United  States by stowing away in a wooden crate the size of a filing  cabinet on a cargo flight from the Bahamas, officials said on  Wednesday.
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In his new movie, 'Sicko,' director Michael Moore takes a group of Americans to Cuba for medical care. Uncle Sam is not happy.
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A Cuban father allowed his young daughter to emigrate legally to the United States with her mother to find a better life. But months later, the mother has become incapable of caring for the girl and the father wants to take the child home.
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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.
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US authorities may have to release more than 1,000 Cubans held since a 1980 influx of asylum-seekers whom Cuba will not take back, lawyers said following a Supreme Court immigration decision.
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Cuba will not send a boxing team to the world championships in Chicago in October, heeding Fidel Castroâs fears about future defections after two fighters abandoned their teammates during the Pan American Games last month in Brazil.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- The line forms every day after dawn at the Spanish Consulate, hundreds of people seeking papers permitting them to abandon Venezuela for new lives in Spain. They say they are filled with despair at President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's growing power, and they appear not to be alone. At other consulates in this capital, long lines form daily....
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Rescue workers struggled on  Saturday to reach remote villages in Venezuela's Andean  mountains cut off by torrential rains and landslides that have  killed more than 40 people in nearly a week.
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A prominent Cuban doctor takes refuge in Argentina's embassy in Havana, prompting fears of a diplomatic row.
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CASILDA, Cuba -- Tiny flames jump and sputter in the night here, suspended above the roadbed as if held by an invisible wand.
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A Cuban troupe of 44 dancers, singers and musicians starring in a show in Las Vegas sought asylum in the United States on Monday in one of the largest mass defections by Cubans performing abroad.
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URENA, Venezuela  - Together with his children and  his parents, Luis shares a cramped shack built of tin sheets,  wood and plastic bags on dirt lot where there is no water  supply, no transport and little work.