Obama s Cuban Breakthrough

Accepting a Cuban exception would represent an enormous setback.

Diaspora blogger Uncommon Sense highlights the plight of a Cuban youth activist who was sentenced this week to 3 years in prison for 'offenses against authority.'

Wonderful traditional Arabic singing woven into fabulous Cuban jazz.

It is the largest tree frog in North America.

The Cuban people will not renounce their independence, their sovereignty and their right to self determination.

Che's life and deeds all became part of a modern bible for young Cubans.

Just a few weeks ago , Cuban blogger Norges Rodríguez published a petition on Change.org calling for affordable Internet access for the Cuban population.

As in the past, however, the Cuban delegation had chosen to politicize the Committee.

The EU opened a dialogue with the Cuban regime, sanctions were conditionally suspended, and it was even made clear to dissidents that they were not welcome at the embassies of several democratic countries.

The Castro regime was a dictatorship that denied the Cuban people their human rights and fundamental freedoms and had betrayed them politically and failed them economically.

The Cuban delegation reiterated its willingness to support all actions to that end.

The representative of Germany, on behalf of France and Romania, requested a vote on the Cuban proposal.

2.3 Adverse effect on academic, scientific, cultural and athletic exchanges between the peoples of Cuba and the United States

His arrest, which was unavoidable given the forcefulness of Cuba's denunciations, was carried out as gently and sympathetically as possible.

Declaration by the organizations that participated the Third Forum of Cuban civil society against the embargo and the annexation

The obstacles preventing Cuba's skeet team from purchasing Beretta rifles made in Italy

They advocate changes to Cuban law that eradicate discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender.

The Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales, for example, has incurred additional costs of 19,000 through having to purchase inputs on the European market.

Chávez knows that his personal security depends on the permanent protection of the Cuban intelligence services.

But democracy has shown weakness and the Cuban regime has in turn adapted its tactics.

Both Swietenia mahagoni , and Swietenia macrophylla were introduced into several Asian countries at the time of the restrictions imposed on American mahogany in the late 1990s and both are now successfully grown and harvested in plantations in those countries.

The proposals by the Cuban and Libyan delegations should be taken into account in that regard.

He led the Cuban operation in support of the Marxist Simba movement, which had emerged from the ongoing Congo crisis.

The impact of that cooperation on the Cuban economy, especially in such fields as agro industry, the environment, energy and industrial management, had been palpable.

They related to various identity and migration issues, and involved institutions including the City University of New York (CUNY), the Universities of South Florida and Gainesville.

Financing was granted to the other 12 projects chosen, but Cuba was overlooked as a result of the embargo.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, many believed that the Cuban regime would take the road to reform, however grudgingly.

On the contrary, the Cuban government continues to detain prisoners of conscience and to criminalize demands for a society wide dialogue.

The Arab peoples could count on the full support of the Cuban people in their quest for a just, unconditional, comprehensive and lasting peace.

He said that the Cuban American National Foundation had fomented terrorist actions against the Cuban people and had caused material and human losses.

The Committee adopted the Cuban proposal by a roll call vote of 8 to 4, with 6 abstentions.

And, in a scene worthy of the glory years of Stalinism, Raúl received the unanimous permission of Cuba s parliament to consult with Fidel on all major issues.

The petition has received over 400 signatures from Cuban residents both inside and outside the country.

This draft is now displayed in the Lincoln Room of the White House, a gift of Oscar B. Cintas, former Cuban Ambassador to the United States.

I have the honour to attach the Declaration by the organizations that participated in the Third Forum of Cuban civil society against the embargo and the annexation (see annex).

Harming the poultry population on the island is an attempt to reduce an important source of protein in the diet of the Cuban people.

Unfortunately, the Sixth Congress demonstrated that the Cuban Communist Party remains in denial about the country s prospects and options.

The implementation of the embargo not only has grave effects on the Cuban people it also harms the interests and rights of the people of the United States and of other countries in the world.

Among the Hispanic population, 5.7 are Puerto Rican, 1.9 Mexican, 0.1 Cuban, and 0.7 some other Hispanic or Latino.

The faculty of law's academic exchange project with the US Cuba Legal Forum, relating to the Cuban and United States legal systems, was cancelled.

They added that Cuban gas could be economically converted into liquid products such as gasoline or diesel fuel through the construction of a conversion plant.

The Cuban Communist Party s recent Sixth Congress reflected this, offering little new and rehashing a lot of the old.

Raúl replaced Fidel as President of the Councils of Ministers and of State, but not as First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party.

The Cuban Government's opposition to Radio y Television Marti was motivated by its panic at the idea that the Cuban people might have access to uncensored information on their own country and the world around them.