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Cuba both imports toilet paper and produces its own, but does not currently have enough raw materials to make it, he said.

The US developed its own definition of torture and began transporting captives to ghost prisons and a little-known military base in Cuba.

He has stubbed out Cuba's freedom once; it would be tragic if hatred of him led to more pain.

A spokesman for the U. S. Postal Daifu Lu said: "The United States Post Office will continue to accept letters from Cuba, parcels. "

Others felt that the Olympic champion from Cuba might be able to outbox and outsmart the elder Klitschko brother.

In a worldwide radio broadcast Khrushchev said he would remove "offensive" weapons from Cuba in return for a U. S. pledge not to invade.

Kennedy decided to use a naval blockade -- he called it a "quarantine" -- to prevent any more Soviet ships from reaching Cuba.

Many Hondurans worried that Mr. Zelaya was trying to turn their country into a socialist state like Cuba.

The president's brother, Adan, helps to co-ordinate the company's subsidised oil sales around the Caribbean as ambassador to Cuba.

Mr Lyons is hardly the only Southerner who would be glad to see the end of America's 45-year embargo on trade with Cuba.

Dr. Biscet says that the regime has offered to let him go if he agrees to leave Cuba.

In both Cuba and Iran, moreover, the US and its does have real interests in common, so a warming of relations is at least possible.

He said the nature of Chavez's visit to Cuba with his previous trip to Ecuador, Brazil and the same.

How much oil might actually lie in Cuba's sector of the Gulf of Mexico is a matter of dispute.

BEIJING, Jan. 16 Xinhua The BBC reported that Obama has said he would relax the United States citizens to Cuba travel restrictions.

But they had never been held at the American military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Cuba women's volleyball game and encountered many Americans there, although the game did not turn out well for the U. S.

He said he believed the new regulations will help to relax the limits development of civil society in Cuba.

At the tender age of two, he along with his family left the country of Cuba for a life of freedom ad opportunity in the United States.

Cuba is ready to continue working with China for a brighter future of friendly relations between both countries.

That it used to be illegal under US law to export crypto to any country, which has been relaxed though, but does not include Cuba.

He landed in the dark of night off the coast of Cuba and make his way to the mountains, and after much difficulty, found Garcia.

The Bush administration says it has no plans to end economic restrictions against Cuba without changes like free elections.

Cuba's "polyclinics" have helped give Cubans one of the longest life expectancies (78 years) of any developing country in the world.

Which is all the more reason for the U. S. to drop its utterly failed economic embargo against Cuba.

Several months earlier his mother had fled Cuba with him for the United States in a rickety boat.

Pentagon officials said the majority of 440 detainees held at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba would not face military commissions.

Her mother, meanwhile, had been living in Cuba, where she had remarried.

The ship had been sent to Cuba after riots broke out in Havana. The Maine was sent to protect American interests there.

Mexico's Foreign Relations Department said over the weekend that it had pressed Argentina, Cuba, Ecuador and Peru to drop restrictions.

The President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, has said he's free from cancer after returning home from Cuba, where he had a checkup.

For her Cuba and also to her mu wen life only one love, not to marry her lifetime.

As an economically backward country, Cuba's social security level is at the front ranks of the world.

And perhaps Cuba wants to be one of the partners in a four-way joint venture. How would we write the treaty to do that?

But they add it would be unfortunate if Cuba came to dominate discussions at a time of economic peril for the entire hemisphere.

But he said the handover of power from one member of the Castro family to another does not bode well for Cuba's immediate political future.

But if little seems to be changing inside Cuba, its long-strained relations with the West may be easing.

In one of his first official actions, he ordered the closure of the American detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year.

We're talking about a secret weapon so big that Khrushchev was ready to pull out of Cuba to get it back.

There was a good chance you wouldn't see that person for years, because you wouldn't be allowed to leave Cuba.

"Half of Cuba lives off the black market, " he said with a gruff smile. "And the other half depends on it. To me, it is unstoppable. "

The president is likely to ask other summit-goers to press Cuba on issues of democracy, including the release of political prisoners.

Cuba and Venezuela have accused the United States of protecting Mr Posada by failing either to try him for terrorism or to extradite him.

He said that he had a warm and grand reception as soon as he arrived in Cuba and he was greatly moved.

"Given that Cuba has banned flights from Mexico, perhaps I am not going to be able to go, " the president told a local television station.

In Cuba I studied Spanish and learned to speak it a little, though in later years it escaped my memory.

Fort Lauderdale is one of several airports that have begun flights to Cuba since the Obama administration loosened restrictions this year.

I think he began to take life a bit more seriously after Cuba because he realized instead of just being a game it was for real.

The Allure Despite tensions between the U. S. and Cuba, Havana is a sultry array of history, tropical beaches, and a warm culture.

The doctors did not want me to go back to Cuba, because you don't want to land in a Cuban hospital.

Back in Cuba, she receives locals and tourists in her second-story apartment on a rundown street in the center of Havana.

Though he loved teaching and was good at it, I had the feeling that for Professor Aguilar, Cuba was those other nine women rolled into one.

If Cuba throws him in prison for a long sentence, U. S. -Cuba relations would almost certainly suffer.

Since then, the U. S. government against Cuba began to implement economic, trade and financial blockade.

A former State Department official and his wife were in custody and charged with spying for Cuba government nearly 30 years.

Since illness forced Fidel to turn over his powers two years ago, several Latin American countries have sought closer relations with Cuba.

Democracy activist Ramon Saul Sanchez said the announcement is good news for advocates of democratic change in Cuba.

She will also be the challenge as "full of symbolic moment" , hoping to promote understanding between the United States and Cuba.

The venom will be used to make an anti-cancer medicine that Cuba has developed and is beginning to sell in Cuba and other countries.

On the last day of the term, the Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals by detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

She last spoke to her other brother Raul in 1964, just days before she left Cuba to go into exile, she said.

In November Ray himself escaped from Cuba and made his way to Miami.

Avicennia, which has a lower density (about 0. 64) and good nail holding qualities, is often used as railway ties in Cuba.

The evidence suggests that Mr Castro imposed communism in Cuba of his own volition, not in reaction to American hostility.

A Cuba able to refine its own oil, even in a joint venture with Venezuela, would ultimately be less dependent on Venezuela, Mr.

or with Che Guevara, who by many accounts broke with him over his decision to lead Cuba into the Soviet bloc.

The officers saw the postcard; and a few days after our return from Cuba, we were arrested.

President Obama has already indicated he would be willing to engage Cuba in a well-prepared diplomatic dialogue.

Cuba's parliament named Raul Castro president, ending nearly 50 years of rule by his brother Fidel.

It was the first time that the 84-year-old leader of Cuba's revolution stated so directly that he no longer heads up the party he founded.

It was even more against our interest to permit the Soviet Union to overwhelm or to humiliate Cuba.

In the bigger international picture, Cuba is no longer such a unique case.

This put Kazakhstan in a tie with Thailand for third place in the boxing medal count, behind Cuba and Russia.

I have made several trips to Cuba over the last decade and I feel that someday soon things will change there dramatically.

The loss destroyed any hope that Spain could win the war. There was now no way it could send more soldiers and supplies to Cuba.

Cuba's government said he was illegally distributing satellite equipment and accused him of subversion.

White House officials have also made clear they will not revisit plans to close the U. S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Cuba is one of the world's major sugar-producing countries, known as "the world's sugar. "

A frail asthmatic, he took up arms with Fidel Castro's guerrillas in Cuba's Sierra Maestra.

The informal economy is one way in which Cuba is becoming more like the rest of Latin America.

The U. S. willingness to engage on Cuba is another indication of a slow, tentative warming of relations between Washington and Havana.

This site, as the name states, provides bilingual "fake news" about Cuba and receives contributions from a variety of authors.

This can be explained, in part, by the fact that Mr Obama has so far defended the 47-year-old trade embargo against Cuba.

In the wake of a visit by Pope Benedict, Cuba's communist government declared that Good Friday would be a public holiday.

He said that it was Jiang's second visit to Cuba. His last one was paid in 1993 when Cuba suffered the biggest difficulties.

Cuba does not produce enough and its population is ageing. Theft and absenteeism are rife in workplaces across the island.

Different seekers have located the mythical place in the mid-Atlantic, Cuba, the Andes, and dozens of other places.

All planned support by the U. S. Air Force is called off, and the 2506 Brigade is left stranded to fend for itself in Cuba.

John F Kennedy was not woken to be told that nuclear-capable missiles had been discovered by the CIA in Cuba.

Cuba President Raul Castro says his government is prepared to meet with the Obama Administration.

Hedges said the world's smallest bird species, the bee hummingbird, can be found in Cuba.

He also indicated that the United States will hold negotiations with Cuba on resuming direct mail service between the two countries.

In Cuba up to 1m former state workers will spend 2011 adjusting to life in a newly legalized private sector of small business (see article).

In the low-income category, Ukraine comes out on top, and Cuba outdoes its fellow middle-income countries in quality of life.

Since then, it has catalyzed tremendous economic, social, and political liberation in countries ranging from Cuba to the United States.

Rodriguez said China-Cuba relations were at the best historical phase, citing close contacts between the leaders of the two countries.

A change in a contiguous dry quadrangles formation of a million of alley, alley plots linked plots constitute Beijing Cuba outlook.

And thirdly, because Cuba is a socialist country, Chinese people have more of a sense of closeness.

Central and South American leaders who will attend the summit have been urging the United States to adopt a more open policy toward Cuba.

According to the online magazine tmz. com Penn hopes to ask Fidel about Cuba's evolving relationship with the Obama administration.

All ships of any kind bound for Cuba from whatever nation or port will, if found to contain cargoes of offensive weapons, be turned back.

The playing tables have holders for drinks, just as they did in Cuba. But here, players cannot drink or smoke. Or even bet.

In Cuba, the government is trying to create a national intranet, while not allowing their citizens to access the global internet.

Mr Castro has been emphatic that Cuba's communist system is not up for negotiation with the United States.

You do not have to turn in the I-94 if your are visiting Canada, Mexico, OR adjacent islands other than Cuba for less than 30 days.

Mr. Motroni, whoarrived from Cuba when he was 12 knowing no English, felt blessed for thechance to reinvent himself in the United States.

S. trade embargo of Cuba. Mr. Negroponte said he cannot imagine that happening anytime soon.

During the early weeks of eighteen ninety-eight, President McKinley waited for Spain to act on its promises to Cuba. He saw little progress.

AMERICAN presidents tend to be very cautious when it comes to policy toward Cuba.

Today Cuba and Thailand confirmed their first case of the virus . The patient in Cuba is a Mexican student at a medical school .

Suppose this "natural disaster" been a weather weopan aimed at Cuba but came up short in it's delivery?

The firm soon discovered that father and son were going to Cuba, where Kroll was able to negotiate the father's detainment.

Perhaps one thing is sure in Cuba: Fidel Castro will not show up for that.

He and his partner, a psychologist, are desperate to leave Cuba.

Yang said China-Cuba friendly and cooperative relations had been further and comprehensively developed with the joint efforts of both sides.

Columbus, he related, had drifted into a "tangled archipelago" of cays off the Zapata Peninsula of Cuba in 1494.

The Cuba players were in high spirits from the beginning of the match. The Chinese were not in good physical condition.

The Delegation of Cuba reiterated the position it had expressed that morning.

From the previous focus on quadrangles , the central area of the framework of a gradual transfer to Cuba outlook fundamental issue possible.

We report a case of eosinophilic meningitis due to infection with Angiostrongylus cantonensis in a traveler returning from Cuba.

This legislation is designed to end that practice and open Cuba to democracy, he said.

"My situation in Cuba became delicate because of my activity against the regime, " she said.

Elian Gonzalez's grandmother, Raquel Rodriguez, headed to Miami, where they hoped to see their grandson before returning to Cuba.

Lifting the 1962 suspension does not mark an automatic return for Cuba, he said.

He interrupted his speech at the rally to call Cuba's Fidel Castro, who he considers his mentor.

This will provide important pointers to a Cuba without the direction of the Castro brothers.

Earlier this year, Fidel Castro, who ruled Cuba for decades, stepped down and ceded power to his brother, Raul.

For this sorry state of affairs, Cuba's authorities have long blamed the United States' trade embargo.

About 100 years ago, Cuba was one of those colonies.

The news came out that the president of Cuba suddenly fell ill.

The American Congress may go on to lift the ban on travel to Cuba by other Americans, and perhaps liberalise some trade.

On bilateral economic cooperation and trade, Jiang said that Cuba is now one of China's major trade partners in Latin America.

Set in late nineteenth-century Cuba, the film is sure to entice audiences with its compelling cast, suspenseful plot, and exotic locale.

That, of course, has long been the dirty secret of America's Cuba policy.

In the immediate aftermath of the quake, a tsunami watchwas put out for Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas, but this was later lifted.

let no one have the least doubt on which side Cuba will stand.

They had four children and she became known as Cuba's de facto first lady, as Fidel was divorced and guarded about his private life.

The U. S. Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal from seven Chinese Muslims being held at the U. S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

He invoked both these memories in his video message from Cuba, suggesting that once again he would overcome adversity.

Lightning streaks across the sky over Vinales Valley, Cuba.

Separately, the United States and Cuba agreed to resume talks on migration between the two countries.

President Barack Obama approved the resumption of military trials at the U. S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ending a two-year ban.

Venezuela is now providing subsidised fuel to Londoners, discounted crude oil to Cuba and buying distressed public debt from Argentina.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Siboney refers to Cuba.

It was difficult to get a true picture of what was happening in Cuba.

In return for their withdrawal, the Kennedy administration guaranteed that it would not again invade Cuba.

When Cuba lifted its border controls, the close-knit family split apart, some of its white half going to America.

After leading Cuba to another world championship in 1998, she was again chosen the best player of the tournament.

And a gay man and a woman, whose sex change operation was paid for by the government, married in Cuba this weekend.

The right to own private property does not exist in communist countries like Cuba, North Korea, and China.

American officials have privately made it clear that further steps towards better relations with Cuba can be expected.

By contrast, modern houses in Cuba are made of concrete or brick, making them expensive and laborious to rebuild after a hurricane.

We urge Cuba to release political prisoners, to allow for a free flow on information and for freedom of assembly.

Cuba has dominated much of the international competition, including the Olympics, although the U. S. won the gold in 2000. The U.

Cuba's government appears to have two motivations for allowing the export of its athletic treasures.

The right to a fair trial is limited in Cuba, with courts and prosecutors under government control.

Second, it unjustifiably excludes Cuba without mentioning the general consensus that exists in the region to condemn the blockade .

China and Cuba are "good comrades, good friends and good partners, " said the Chinese foreign minister.

Prior to the meeting, Raul Castro, First Vice President of the State Council and the Council of Ministers of Cuba also met with Yang.

In 1959 Cuba was already one of the five leading countries in Latin America on a variety of socioeconomic indicators.

Leaders at the summit meeting are also expected to push Mr. Obama to further loosen the United States policy toward Cuba.

Earlier this year Patricia Espinosa, Mexico's foreign minister, renegotiated $400m of debt on which Cuba had defaulted.

In the United States, Barack Obama will loosen restrictions on travelling to Cuba, allowing academic, cultural and religious visits.

The rear row takes the offensive regardless to all get behind with Brazil from the tops of a quantity still a quality, Cuba etc.

Yet so far there is no indication that China has shipped to Cuba intact ground forces, navy or air force systems.

Her official attempt to swim over to Cuba will begin if and when all conditions are just right.

She wondered what kind of place Cuba was, and if it was anything like home.

The calling of the party congress marks the culmination of a four-year debate among Cuba's leaders.

The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned home from Cuba after having what he says was his final round of chemotherapy for cancer.

He also criticised Cuba's supposed ally, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for his anti-Semitism and denial of the Holocaust.

Since China's current strategy is to reduce friction with the United States, it is unlikely to export missile technologies to Cuba.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and its generous subsidies to Cuba, Fidel allowed limited foreign investment and self-employment.

Though Cuba remains a communist country of one-party rule and a state media monopoly, in some ways debate is becoming freer.

But Cuba showed no interest in exploring the possibility. Instead it turned to its ally and benefactor, Venezuela.

A tiny goby fish searches for a meal of parasites on the snout of a grouper on the reefs off Cuba.

The manipulation of climate can be used to destabilize an enemy's economy, ecosystem and agriculture (e. g. North Korea or Cuba).

But Stephen Gibbs found that wasn't something he had to worry about when he after four and half years rather hastily left Cuba.

Cuba's leaders will look especially to Brazil, which has offered aid to help the new co-operatives and private businesses.

He said that Cuba will do a comprehensive physical examination.

A few days after the Rough Riders' charge up San Juan Hill, the Spanish fleet fled Cuba.

The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he's travelling to Cuba for a health checkup four months after he had surgery for cancer there.

When the infamous attempt to reclaim Cuba failed, in April 1961, my dad was again taken as a political prisoner by Castro's forces.

U. S. President Barack Obama has ordered the closure of the detention center at the American naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The head of the world's largest advertising corporation also has his eyes on Iran and Cuba.

Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles if the United States agreed not to interfere in Cuba.

Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz said in his remarks that the establishment of Cuba-China relations is of historic significance.

A few days later, she heard from Cuba mustachioed telephone.

"Like everywhere, Cuba has its pros and cons, but we will overcome the problems that we face, just like the blockade, " he says.

Last month that tendency took her to Cuba.

Fidel Castro stood down as Cuba's leader in 2006 with an intestinal illness, and was still too unwell to receive calls.

Other foreign joint ventures in Cuba cut corners, but Rio Zaza's alleged misdeeds involved particularly large sums of money.

Costa Rican voters narrowly approved the pact in a referendum in October 2007. Hurricane Paloma destroyed thousands of homes in Cuba.

the US fleet bottled up the Spanish ships in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba and destroyed them when they tried to escape.

Ms Sanchez believes her roughing up was a signal that the days of tolerance of Cuba's embryonic blogging community are over.

I didn't visit the resorts of Cuba. I wanted to experience the real island. I stayed with locals, and I traveled around all over.

It is beat out in the distinction of world's smallest frog by a slightly smaller frog found in Cuba.

Ponce de Leon's presence was brief as he was attacked by native American forces and died in nearby Cuba.

Cuba's rich tourism resources, hundreds of scenic spots like the jade dot the coastline.

Separately on Tuesday, China called on Washington to repatriate 17 Chinese Muslims being held at the U. S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

But the president wants to avoid the bad foreign press that followed the deaths of hunger-strikers in Cuba and Venezuela this year.

Three days later the OAS, at a summit in Honduras, voted unanimously to let Cuba rejoin.

In Cuba, the long rule of a cruel dictator is nearing its end.

Greene's story of a hapless spy in Cuba makes those points in an unforgettable way.

Saiid Farhi had been held without charge at the U. S. base in Cuba for nearly nine years.

For all America's painful histories with Cuba and Iran, they do not include a war within living memory.

Cuba now receives Venezuelan largesse on a scale similar to that once supplied by the Soviet Union.

Many countries around the world, including Cuba, Venezuela, Switzerland, and Ireland, have already banned the use of incandescent lights.

Located just 90 miles off the coast of Florida, Cuba is an island of Spanish-speaking people, palm trees, and white-sand beaches.

And Cuba needs to be far more resourceful, because of the blockades and things, but a really wonderful playground.

Hurricane Paloma is bearing down on Cuba--Category 4 storm that has farmers rushing to protect crops and livestock .

3In this April 1961 file photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro jumps from a tank as he arrives at Giron, Cuba, near the Bay Of Pigs.

He was in a faraway place called Cuba, fighting for a man called Roosevelt.

He insists that socialism is "irrevocable" in Cuba and that the country is not moving toward capitalism.

Since taking office, Mister Obama has ordered the closure of the American detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

But he says pressure for broad reform on the next Cuban leader, from inside Cuba and outside, will grow.

It cited a former prisoner held at the U. S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as saying about 50 others were held on the Bataan.

Antonio Esquivel, head of the democracy-seeking Cuban Patriotic Council, says U. S. -Cuba flights provide only one-sided benefits.

His support for the embargo on Cuba and his opposition to gun control at home may be wrong-headed, but they are genuine.

"Unlike [China or] Vietnam, Cuba has faced 50 years of financial and commercial blockades from the US. "

China and Cuba signed a set of trade accords, including plans to revamp Cuba's aging ports and earthquake-detection systems.

Nearly all elections are now free and fair. The big exception remains the gerontocratic dictatorship of the Castro brothers in Cuba.

A few come in from Cuba, India, Nigeria and the Philippines, but most of them quickly move on to North America.

The Communist government of Cuba is easing its restrictions on privately-owned restaurants as part of new reforms announced today.

Kennedy stared down the Russians over missiles in Cuba and was then assassinated the following year.

When Roosevelt Roads closes, Guantanamo Bay in Cuba will be the only U. S. naval base left in the Caribbean.

This week's Economist Asks question addresses another contentious aspect of American foreign policy: the trade embargo against Cuba.

Critics of the proposal say it could have the opposite effect in Cuba, and actually empower the repressive government.

JOHN KENNEDY: "This government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba. "

Washington did not finally break off diplomatic relations with Cuba until January 3, 1961.

Cuba also said it was negotiating deals that could bring the total to nearly $150 million.

It has its roots in Cuba's son and mambo but was heavily influenced by American music and Latin Americans living in New York.

China and Cuba, the right to fight for women's volleyball tournament final twists and turns intense and exciting.

It was developed "to create and disseminate the knowledge of all and for all, from Cuba and with the world, " the site said.

Do you think United States will alter its policy of blocking economic trade with Cuba anytime soon?

And General Curtis LeMay, whom I served under as a matter of fact in World War II, was saying 'Let's go in, let's totally destroy Cuba.

On February 24th the new assembly is due to meet to unveil the Council of State, and thus Cuba's president and its other top officials.

Tropical Storm Paloma is strengthening and turning to the north as it approaches the Cayman Islands and Cuba.

Since the increase in anti-Cuban members, so that Parliament passed to relax the blockade against Cuba will become more difficult.

Cuba has announced plans to lay off huge numbers of state employees in the biggest shift to the private sector since the revolution in 1959.

I was an interrogator at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

In 1961, a CIA-trained force made an unsuccessful attempt to land at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba and topple Fidel Castro.

The President of Venezuela reportedly plans to return to Cuba for additional cancer fighting treatment.

wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call.

A self-employed woman sells food at a stall in the doorway of her home, on April 15 in Caimito, Cuba.

The animals from Cuba can expect the diet to be better in their new home and the visitors to be slightly more free-range.

Cuban employee displays one of the smallest books in the world during the 19th International Book Fair in Havana, Cuba.

The two sides are both expressed in his crowded months as a correspondent in Cuba and Greece.

DK: Basically, some of the stuff I was reading is you were born in Cuba. . .

He was a Argentina-born Maxism revolutionist and a guerrilla leader in Cuba.

Cuba has long ceased being a dagger in the heart; it can hardly even be called a thorn in the side.