Cuba's ballet legend Alonso slams U.S. embargo
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Alicia Alonso, the nearly blind  matriarch of Cuban ballet, on Friday denounced U.S. sanctions  as an "inhuman and unjustifiable siege" that has hindered  cultural ties between the United States and Cuba.
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America's five-decade trade embargo on Cuba is expected to be far more durable than Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader it was aimed at deposing.
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Spain has called in Cuba&#39;s ambassador to Madrid to protest the Cuban expulsion of a conservative Spanish lawmaker who arrived in Havana Friday in hopes of meeting with human rights activists.
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Cuba's National Assembly accused U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday of wanting to eliminate Fidel Castro, a day after Bush mused on the eventual death of the convalescing Cuban leader.
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From a dilapidated Havana mansion run by a nearly blind legendary ballerina, Cuba is turning out some of the world's finest ballet dancers who are hotly sought by leading international companies.
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Argentina will get nowhere pressing Cuba  to allow a dissident neurosurgeon to travel to see her son and  grandchildren in Buenos Aires, the country's former ambassador  in Havana, Raul Taleb, said on Friday.
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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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Cuba's parliament speaker blasted America's four-decade embargo against the island nation as "genocide" on Saturday, as thousands gathered to draw attention to the upcoming U.N. vote to condemn the sanctions.
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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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Former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar on Friday called for the release of dozens of inmates in Cuba, charging they're political prisoners held "simply because they have a different opinion from the ...
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro lashed out at President Bush Friday, hours after the American leader approved legislation paying for military operations in Iraq without setting a timetable for troop withdrawal.
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Russia's state-controlled arms trader and top aircraft maker criticized Washington Saturday for imposing sanctions on them over dealings with Iran. The defense ministry said the move reflected U.S. annoyance at arms sales to Venezuela.
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The United States remained Cuba's main supplier of food and farm products in 2007, selling the communist-run island more than $600 million in agricultural exports despite its trade embargo, a top official said Monday.
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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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He fled Cuba in 1961, but still calls Fidel Castro his friend. He can't stand communism, but bitterly opposes the U.S. embargo. He lives in Miami, but travels regularly to Havana, even appearing on state-run television.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro, seeking to rid his country of the currency of his arch-enemy, said on Monday Cuba was ending circulation of the US dollar as of Nov. 8 in response to tightened American sanctions.
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Cuba on Monday blasted a new move by a U.S.-funded TV Marti to provide its anti-Fidel Castro programming to Spanish-language stations in Miami that are picked up by popular illegal satellite dishes on the island.