Cuban dissidents start push to change constitution
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A prominent Cuban dissident group launched a campaign on Monday to push for constitutional reforms that would allow for democratic elections and greater respect for human rights in the communist country.
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Supporters of leftist President Rafael Correa armed with sticks and stones fought their way into the Congress building Tuesday, demanding lawmakers call a referendum on whether the country's constitution should be rewritten.
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Cuban authorities forced a group of protesters to leave a Havana park where they planted themselves two days earlier to demand the transfer of a jailed dissident to the capital for medical treatment, one of the protesters said.
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A rights group in Cuba says there are fewer political prisoners but widespread repression continues.
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In a bid to thaw icy relations with Europe after last year&#39;s crackdown on dissent, Cuban authorities released well-known writer Raul Rivero and four other dissidents as the EU reviews
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Bolivia, the world&#39;s third biggest cocaine producer, should redesign its coat of arms to include coca leaves, according to one group of delegates to an assembly rewriting the constitution.
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In an open letter to US President George W. Bush and his Democratic rival John Kerry, the leading Cuban-American lobby group called for tougher US policies against Cuba's communist government.
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Cuba vowed to defy U.S. efforts for economic and political change on the island in a front-page editorial Thursday in the Communist Party's newspaper that also referred to dissidents as "mercenaries" and "counterrevolutionary puppies."
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Cuba will free seven of 59 dissidents imprisoned since 2003, a move that opponents of ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said reflects a "climate of change" under his brother's rule.
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HAVANA/MADRID  - Cuba said on Saturday it barred  entry to three European lawmakers on a trip to support  dissidents, setting back Spain's campaign to mend frosty ties  between the EU bloc and the communist-ruled island.
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Taking up Raul Castro's invitation to speak their minds without fear of reprisal, more Cubans have begun publicly complaining and challenging government policies on everything from limits on Internet access to travel restrictions.
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Cuba freed six jailed dissidents on  health grounds on Monday and was preparing to release a dozen  more in an apparent bid to clean up its human rights image.
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SAN JOSE, Nov 19 (IPS) - Just when it seemed that Cuba would be locked in a   standoff with the other countries represented at the 14th  Ibero-American  Summit, currently underway in the Costa Rican  capital, Mexico's intervention  smoothed the way for a  consensus on a draft resolution condemning the pardon  granted to  four Cubans jailed in Panama for attempting to assassinate Cuban   President Fidel Castro.
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Repression is increasing in Cuba under the control of Raul Castro, and the domination of the government by his brother, Fidel, is nearing an end, Bush administration officials said Tuesday.
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At workplaces and in neighborhoods across Cuba, people are complaining about the state of their country in a national debate on economic reform opened by acting President Raul Castro.
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Zimbabwe's government is to amend tough security and media laws, in response to opposition demands.
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Leading advocates of easing sanctions against Cuba in the U.S. Congress will fly to Havana on Friday to assess the situation since ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro ceded power to his brother Raul in July.