Does anyone know how it feels to want freedom so badly that they would risk everything to try to escape their homeland not knowing if the Cuban Coast Guard or the sharks will kill you before you reach freedom..
Ten-year-old Juan Mario Gutiérrez’s 1994 death is case No. 8500 in the newly released database.
After more [...]

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When you break it down Fidel Castros real fear is those he must take off the streets. He really fears his own people.
The jailed Dr. Oscar Biscet is becoming the public face of the island’s dissident movement, more so after President Bush on Monday gives him in absentia the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom award. [...]

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Behind the scenes it looks like American Officials are preparing for a massive number of refugees to seek asylum at Guantanamo.
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — The U.S. military has expanded plans for a pop-up tent city to shelter migrants in case of a Caribbean boat crisis, spending more than $55 million to prepare [...]

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“And then Che’ executed them all even the youngest ones and secured my Dictatorship for 50yrs. You can do the same my son and remember in America there are many useful idiots especially in Hollywood and Washington D.C.”  Fidel reading a story and giving his son some advice.
 

Cuba’s state media on Sunday [...]

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At least 28 people were killed and 73 were injured in Cuba’s deadliest accident in years Saturday after a train slammed into a bus, state television reported. “In this fatal accident, as of (2200 GMT) 28 people have been killed and another 73 [...]

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HAVANA - The United States issued only about 15,000 of the 20,000 emigrant visas it had agreed to issue to Cubans during the last fiscal year, American authorities said Monday, and they blamed Cuban officials for the shortfall.
Cuban authorities have not allowed the American mission to fill 11 job openings, all typically held by Cuban [...]

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 Who knows what to believe. Info out of Cuba is mostly propaganda.                      This story is from the Sun Sentinel. They call it a Frank assessment…ok

Vice President Carlos Lage delivered a frank assessment of his country’s economic future during a closed-door speech Saturday that was later [...]

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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba and Spain on Saturday took a big step toward mending relations by signing a broad agreement that re-establishes cooperation halted in 2003 after Havana jailed 75 dissidents.
Spanish International Cooperation Minister Leire Pajin said the deal includes support for small business, the environment, food security and joint efforts in other countries [...]

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Cuban authorities on Thursday detained and then released Marta Beatriz Roque, the island’s most prominent political female dissident, following a protest at the Justice Ministry, Roque told AFP. Government security agents took Roque to her house and released her, the dissident told AFP.
Roque [...]

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