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South East Asia News.Net Saturday 21st November, 2009 With more than 115,000 barrels per day of Venezuelan oil flowing to Cuba, the country gets more than enough crude to cover its electricity needs.

The coup last summer in this tiny, Central American country blew up into an international incident, with thousands of Hondurans taking to the streets while leaders from Barack Obama to Fidel Castro lined up behind ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

Like a comet with an erratic orbit, Cuba's hothouse music scene occasionally flares into view, dazzling American audiences for a spell before suddenly falling back into darkness.

Fidel Castro was 32 and building his new government on the fly. He nationalized Cuba's U.S.-run telephone company, tapped Che Guevara as head of the National Bank and claimed he was no communist to every interviewer - later maintaining he hid his true political convictions to keep from antagonizing Washington too soon.

Mirna Torres salsas with a gray-bearded man for $1.50 a dance in the Barba Azul, a dark yet garish cabaret decorated like an erotic carnival fun house.

Nearly 50 years after a botched US-directed invasion of Cuba, the communist nation said on Saturday it would hold a military exercise this week to boost preparedness against any future US attack.

A couple who professed admiration for Fidel Castro are sentenced to prison and will pay the federal government $1.7 million for spying for Cuba.

President Hugo Chavez is inviting his mentor Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela during the coming months.

Raul Castro's government has locked up scores of people in Cuba for exercising their fundamental freedoms and allowed scores of political prisoners arrested during Fidel Castro's rule to languish in detention, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Friday.

A former US State Department official and his wife pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that they spied for almost three decades for the Communist-led Cuban government.

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By Mary Beth Sheridan Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 19, 2009 A battle over Cuba policy is escalating in Congress, with proponents saying they have their best chance in years of repealing the ban on U.S. tourist travel to the island.

The debate over U.S. policy towards Cuba heats up this week as the House Foreign Affairs Committee holds a hearing Thursday on whether to lift the U.S. travel ban against Fidel Castro's island-prison. Senator Richard Lugar and Rep.

"Rather than dismantle the repressive machinery, Raul Castro has kept it firmly in place and fully active." From BBC: Cuban conditions 'remain harsh' Cuba is continuing to violate human rights and is using draconian laws to repress its citizens, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.

Critics of relaxing travel restrictions to Cuba said today that the Castro regime first has to agree to return criminal fugitives, including a woman who murdered a New Jersey state trooper in 1973.

The United States should "scrap" a ban on its citizens travelling to Cuba, two key US lawmakers said Tuesday, blaming the policy for hampering Washington's efforts to promote democratic reforms there.

Back in the 1990s, Ann Louise Bardach -- who speaks Sunday at 11 a.m. with Gerald Posner at the Miami bookfair, made herself infamous in Miami by scoring a huge interview with Fidel Castro for Vanity Fair .

United Nations, Nov 15 Cuba sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urging the US to act with regards to terrorists in that country operating against Cuba, and demanded the release of the five Cuban anti-terrorists in US jails.

The authors featured will appear at Miami Book Fair International, which ends Sunday at Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami.

History suggests that there is nothing wrong with the Jamaican Government being careful with its decision regarding the United States' , request for the extradition of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.