Cuba's Waning System of Block-Watchers
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CAMAGUEY, Cuba -- Children swarmed the table outside Blanca Peleaz's concrete home in this central Cuban city. There were cakes and cookies, gooey frosting and candy speckles, rare abundance in a place where food shortages are the norm.
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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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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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The business world is populated with successful Cuban-Americans who left their homeland as children when Fidel Castro took power. But even before Carlos Gutierrez was
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Eleven months after Cuban leader Fidel Castro handed over power to his brother, Cuba continues to trample on civil liberties, though the number of political prisoners has fallen, a rights group said on Thursday.
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Two years ago in December, fewer than 30 U.S. business representatives came to Havana to sign agreements with Cuban officials to export food to the Caribbean island. This week, Cuba expects more than 340 people &#151; primarily producers of American farm goods &#151; to attend the latest round of talks, in which communist officials hope to sign deals worth about &#36;100 million.
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Description: The Cuban government has demanded the US Interests Section in Havana take down its Christmas decorations. Among the trimmings is a sign that reads 75, symbolizing 75 dissident writers and journalists put in jail over the last year.
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Cuba's communist government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least one capitalist empire &#151; Microsoft Corp. &#151; by joining with socialist Venezuela in converting its computers to open-source software.
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Cuba announced Monday that U.S. dollars will no longer be accepted at stores or other businesses on the communist island starting next month in a move that will radically change the way business has been done there over the past decade.
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HAVANA/PANAMA CITY  - Cuba cut diplomatic ties  with Panama on Thursday after its outgoing leader pardoned four  Cuban exiles who plotted to kill President Fidel Castro in  2000.
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Cuba's annual extravaganza celebrating its world-renowned cigars, which began Monday, could be devoid of star power this year.
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The man who was Meyer Lansky's driver and bodyguard during the Mafia's heyday in pre-Revolutionary Cuba died earlier this year, a curious footnote in a communist-run country whose past as a gambling mecca for vacationing Americans is all but forgotten.
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Bush's speech on Cuba simply resurrected the old anti-Castro bromides -- and may not help the cause of dissidents there
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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 announced 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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Still the main challenger to the United States in the Pan American Games medals race, Cuba suddenly has some doubts about one of its strongest sports.
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With Fidel Castro still nowhere to be seen, military reservists, retired officers and decommissioned soldiers are under orders to check in daily at military posts.