Cuba sees envoy's sign as naughty, not nice
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Chicago Tribune - The top U.S. diplomat in Havana said Tuesday that Cuban officials have threatened to take retaliatory action unless he removes a large sign symbolizing Cuba's jailed dissidents from the front lawn of the U.S. diplomatic mission.
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HAVANA/PANAMA CITY  - Cuba severed diplomatic ties  with Panama on Thursday in anger at its outgoing leader  pardoning four Cuban exiles imprisoned for plotting to kill  President Fidel Castro in 2000.
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Cuban authorities have erected a huge poster across from the US Interests Section in Havana that depicts US soldiers abusing prisoners in Iraq.
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Fidel Castro signed a lengthy essay published yesterday, saluting a Cuban political figure but giving no hint of how Castro is feeling, even amid rampant rumors of his death.
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"But it is positive that we are talking about it. Surely, when we talk our positions will become more understandable."  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Cuba was on the verge of a 'major transition,' and chided Spain on Friday for doing business with Fidel Castro while not working more to support dissidents in the communist island nation.Rice's one-day visit here was meant to smooth over a three-year downturn in relations between Washington and the government Madrid, but the disagreement over Cuba has threatened to wash away any growing good will. At issue is Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos's decision to snub Cuban dissidents on a visit to Havana in April. Read more
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Washington has declined to wish Fidel Castro a speedy recovery, with some officials joking that they preferred to hear of a &quot;different kind of fall&quot;.
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Just in time for the holidays, the US-Cuba propaganda war heated up Friday when Cuban authorities tacked up a huge banner outside America&#39;s diplomatic post in Havana depicting the abuse of Iraqi prisoners.
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The ambassador for the Dominican Republic,    Hugo Guiliani Cury, says one of his great challenges in representing a small country at peace has been attracting the attention of officials and policymakers in Washington.
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While the Washington debate on US Cuba policy remains stuck on the issue of trade sanctions, the world has not stood still. At a recent meeting sponsored by the Czech government in Prague, a
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HAVANA, Cuba  - New Chinese traffic lights,   anti-mosquito fumigation campaigns and half-finished paint jobs   on crumbling houses reflect what many Cubans see as papering   over the cracks of a dilapidated city to prepare for the   Non-Aligned Summit.
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HAVANA -- Retaliating against the US diplomatic mission's Christmas display supporting Cuban dissidents, the Cuban government put up a billboard yesterday emblazoned with photographs of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners and a huge swastika overlaid with a "Made in the USA" stamp.
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HAVANA - Cuba on Friday put up two large billboards in front of the US mission in Havana showing photos of abused Iraqi prisoners, in retaliation for a contentious Christmas display set up by American officials.
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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 accuses the US of issuing fewer entry visas to Cubans than allowed for by a deal between the two countries.
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Developing nations will denounce the   United States' role as global policeman at a summit in Havana   this week, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said on   Sunday.
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Spain said Thursday it held "frank and cordial" discussions about human rights, the death penalty and treatment of prisoners in Cuba, despite U.S. complaints it has been too friendly with the communist island.
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The State Department on Monday  rejected an offer of talks with Raul Castro, Cuba's acting  president, saying it saw no point in a dialogue with what it  called the Caribbean island's "dictator-in-waiting."