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Cuba Travel Ban Inspires Passionate Debate in House - The Ledger
The move would reward a regime that oppresses its own people, lawmakers declared, pointing to the recent assault on Yoani Sanchez, a Cuban blogger and government critic, by suspected state security agents. The beating showed that "the Cuban regime ...
UN official urges countries to learn from Cuba on children's ... - English_Xinhua
HAVANA, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- The representative of UNICEF, or the UN Children's Fund, in Cuba said here Friday that Cuba is among the countries that have best implemented the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and that countries in the world ...
Ex-State Department Official, Wife Plead Guilty to Cuba Spying - Bloomberg
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- A former U.S. State Department official and his wife pleaded guilty to charges they provided classified information about U.S. national defense to the Republic of Cuba for three decades. Walter Kendall Myers, 72, admitted ...
Court filing: Cuba spy suspect to plead guilty - WTOP Radio
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government says an accused spy for Cuba has agreed to plead guilty. Retired State Department official Walter Kendall Myers, 72, and wife Gwendolyn were caught in an undercover FBI sting operation, arrested in June and held ...
Harkin OK with moving detainees to Illinois - Quad Cities Onlines
... Harkin says he backs a proposal to move terrorism detainees from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to an Illinois prison. The Obama administration is looking at buying the nearly empty Thomson Correctional Center in western Illinois and use the maximum ...
Human Rights Watch report: Cuba's Raúl Castro as ruthless as Fidel - Palm Beach Interactive
Cuba's government remains as repressive under Raúl Castro as it was under his brother Fidel, according to the first in-depth report on the island's human rights since the younger Castro took power. Titled "New Castro, Same Cuba,' the report by Human ...
US: Virginia's farm exports to Cuba expected to increase - FreshPlaza
Virginia's agricultural exports to Cuba are expected to be up by more than 10 percent this year, even as overall U.S. food exports to the communist country decline, state officials said. The state's exports of agricultural goods to Cuba, including ...
Cuba’s Raul Castro crushes dissent like Fidel -report - Stabroek News
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Cuba’s Raul Castro has kept the system his brother Fidel used to repress critics, refusing to free scores of people imprisoned years ago and jailing others for “dangerousness,” Human Rights Watch said in a report ...
Guantanamo Likely to Miss Closure Deadline, Obama Says - Global Security
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2009 – Despite progress being made in closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, President Barack Obama acknowledged today that the administration likely will not make the January deadline he set when he took ...
Serious rights violations in Raul Castro's Cuba: HRW - Raw Story
Communist Cuba's shift from Fidel Castro's leadership to President Raul Castro's has brought continued serious human rights violations including persistent aggression against dissidents. A new report by Human Rights Watch released Wednesday cited ...

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