Kirchner asks Castro to allow dissident trip
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Argentine President Nestor Kirchner on Friday asked Cuban leader Fidel Castro to allow dissident Hilda Molina to leave the communist-ruled island and travel to Argentina, a government source said.
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Authorities in Cuba denied entry to a conservative Spanish politician and two Dutch colleagues hoping to meet with dissidents, Spain's Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
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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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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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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made an unannounced trip to Havana on Tuesday to visit Cuban leader Fidel Castro, his ideological mentor and ally.
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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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Havana, Dec 14 (AIN) Cuban President Fidel Castro awarded visiting Venezuelan Head of State Hugo Chavez with the Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Order at a rally marking the 10th anniversary of Chavez&#39; first visit to Cuba.
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Dozens of political prisoners in Cuba should be freed, former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar said Friday at an international conference examining ways to support resistance to Fidel Castro's regime.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he has   put the worst of his health crisis behind him and will be able   to receive foreign dignitaries in private during a summit of   the Nonaligned Movement of developing nations next week.
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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.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has appealed to Libya&#39;s leader Muammar Qaddafi Friday for the release of the Bulgarian medics, sentenced to death.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro said he has   put the worst of his health crisis behind him and will be able   to receive foreign dignitaries in private during a summit of   developing nations next week.
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A Cuban militant accused of masterminding the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner wants a federal judge to let him out of jail while the U.S. government continues searching for a country where it can deport him.
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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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Cuban President Fidel Castro is walking,   talking and being briefed, according to a statement published   on Saturday in the Communist Party daily, Granma, a day before   his 80th birthday.
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Fidel Castro's absence from his belated 80th birthday celebration has reinforced suspicions he is too gravely ill to return to power he ceded provisionally to brother Raul last summer.
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MEXICO CITY, Feb. 19 -- RaÃÂ¿l Castro has long operated in the backstage of Cuban politics. But his public record, which has emerged over his 19 months as interim president, suggests he might pursue reforms to allow more political and economic latitude on the island.