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Man convicted of spying in the U.S. is allowed to return to Cuba
MEXICO CITY -- A man convicted of spying in the U.S. for the Castro regime has been allowed to return to Cuba after more than a decade in an American prison, and on Monday he began the paperwork to make his homecoming permanent (link in Spanish). Rene...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Judges, U.S. Supreme Court, Cuba
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Letters: Hawaii issue sets memories afloat
Mahalo nui loa ("thank you very much") for the Special Hawaii Issue [April 21]. Fabulous memories of several visits to the islands in paradise were made vivid by the stories, pictures and maps of Oahu, Molokai and the cruise with stops at the Big Island,...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Personal Data Collection, Ernest Hemingway, Cuba, China
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Beyonce and Jay-Z's trip to Cuba was approved by U.S. Treasury
Beyoncé and Jay-Z's anniversary trip to Havana, Cuba, was approved by the U.S. government, Treasury officials have said. The recording artists, Beyoncé Knowles Carter and husband Shawn Carter, headed to the island nation last week for their five-year...
Tags: Arts and Culture, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Cuba, Beyonce, Jay-Z
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th anniversary in Havana, Cuba
Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their...
Tags: Cuba, Beyonce, Jay-Z, The Miami Herald
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Tiempo Libre's Cuban musical fusions at Broad Stage on Saturday
Increasingly, the Cuban-emigre, Miami-based band Tiempo Libre's name is starting to sound like a serious misnomer. After all, when exactly is this workaholic septet supposed to have "free time," given its steady output of CDs spotlighting the group's...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Radio, Cuba, Music, Mirrors (music group)
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Latin world mourns Cuban film producer Carlos Vives, dead at 71
Since Cuban film producer Carlos Vives died in Havana last week at 71, tributes have floated in from newspapers and websites across the Spanish-speaking world. Except, of course, in the United States, where because of Cold War-era political rationales...
Tags: Roger Ebert, Arts and Culture, Cuba, Media Industry, Chicago Sun-Times
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Cross Cuba off the blacklist
Washington has for three decades kept Cuba on a list of countries that sponsor terrorism, even though it has long since changed the behavior that earned it that distinction. By all accounts, Cuba remains on the list — alongside Iran, Sudan and Syria...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama, Human Rights, Cuba, U.S. Department of State
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French daredevil climbs landmark Havana hotel without a net
FrameworkBy Anne-Marie Garcia, Associated Press HAVANA — A French daredevil who has scaled some of the world's tallest buildings conquered Cuba's famous Habana Libre hotel on Monday without ropes or a safety net — climbing to the top in about half an... -
Havana's well-worn welcome mat
Some analysts are suggesting that Cuba is the place to be these days for anyone interested in understanding what’s really going on in the Andes region. That makes sense given recent events unfolding in Havana. For starters, Venezuelan President...
Tags: Raul Castro, Hugo Chavez, Cuba, Colombia, Peru
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A dance with Castro's Cuba
HAVANA — "It's been 51 years since the event you Americans call the Bay of Pigs, but now Playa GirĂ³n is a popular beach destination for foreigners," the guide tells me. It is hard to imagine that the words "Bay of Pigs" could do anything but fill...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Ernest Hemingway, Cuba, Religion and Belief, Music
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Planning your trip to Cuba
At last count, there are more than 160 tour operators with licenses from the Treasury Department to run people-to-people Cuba trips. Here are three: Insight Cuba, (800) 450-2822, http://insightcuba.com/cuba-tours. I was on the Classic Cuba trip, with...Tags: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Cuba, Trips and Vacations, United Air Lines, Los Angeles International Airport
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Viredo Espinosa dies; Cuban Abstract Expressionist painter was 83
Viredo Espinosa, a member of a revolutionary group of artists in 1950s Cuba whose Abstract Expressionism expanded the scope of the country's modern art, died Sunday in Costa Mesa. He was 83. Espinosa, who fled Cuba in 1969 and eventually settled in...
Tags: Orange County Register, Fine Artists, Arts and Culture, University of California, Irvine, Artists
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