Cuba vows to defy U.S. efforts at change
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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 was right to reject calls from the  European Union for negotiations to improve relations until the  EU scraps sanctions against the island, Cuban leader Fidel  Castro said in an editorial published on Thursday.
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President Bush will be committed during his second term to the "liberation of Cuba" by extending moral and political support to the Cuban people, a top State Department official said Friday.
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President Hugo Chavez rejected a U.S. government report accusing Venezuela of funding efforts by Cuba&#039;s Fidel Castro to subvert democracy in Latin America, saying it indicated Washington&#039;s aggressive intentions toward Havana.
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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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The U.S. government strives mightily to stamp out intellectual property theft all over the world &#151; except for Cuba, where it tries to broadcast anti-communist messages to anyone able to see U.S. programming through illegal satellite dishes.
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Stricter enforcement of 40-year-old U.S. sanctions has made it harder for Cuba to do its banking and has seen Cubans evicted from U.S.-owned hotels around the world, Cuba said on Tuesday.
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In a statement read by the state television anchor, the Cuban president says he 'will not block the path of younger people'
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Fidel Castro wrote Tuesday that President Bush is threatening the world with nuclear war and famine  -  an attack on Washington a day before the White House was to announce new plans to draw Cuba away from communism
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The deterioration of President Fidel Castro's health has been accompanied by the rise of hardline elements to key positions in Cuba, leaving no possibility for democratic reformers to surface, a senior State Department official said Wednesday.
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Despite pressure from members of Congress and business groups, the United States has no plans to soften its policies toward Cuba as the island heads into the post-Fidel Castro era, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez says.
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Cuba's ailing leader, Fidel Castro, says he does not want to 'cling' to power
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Acting President Raul Castro said Cuba remains open to normalized relations with the United States, but warned the Bush administration in his first comments since assuming power that it will get nowhere with threats or pressure.
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Cuba on Monday rejected Washington's offer of &#36;50,000 in post-Hurricane Charley aid, calling the gesture hypocritical and the amount humiliating.
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Cuba is scheduled to hold military exercises nationwide in mid-December as part of its All-people's War policy to test the country's reaction to foreign aggressions, said a communique of the Ministry of the ...
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Panama's new President Martin  Torrijos vowed on Wednesday to mend diplomatic ties with Cuba,  ruptured last week when his predecessor pardoned four men  jailed for plotting to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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WASHINGTON -- Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Guti&#xE9;rrez had some straight talk yesterday for lawmakers and business groups pressing for a softer approach toward Cuba as the island prepares for a post-Fidel Castro era.