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       Brian Latell: Delivering on Raul's promises
       The Associated Press: Cuba Central Bank advocates stronger peso, fewer subsides
       Carol J Williams: Cuba's two-currency system adds up to a social divide
       Paula Wolfson: Bush says Cuba has made "empty gestures" at reforms
       The Miami Herald: Cuba's leader tells another whopper
       Tom Gjelten: Cuba bars blogger from accepting award in Spain
       Bill Van Auken: Bush speech on Latin America: defense of a failed policy
       Jorge Castañeda: Raul Castro's big gamble
       Carol J Williams: Cuba walks tightrope of reforms
       Marc Frank: Raul Castro overhauls Cuba's farm bureaucracy
       Anita Snow: Raul Castro moves to cement Comunist party rule after succesful leadership change
       REUTERS: Pope hopesCuba will open up media to church
       RTÉ News: PCs go on sale in Cuba for first time
       Economist Intelligence Unit: Country Report: Cuba. May 2008 (PDF)
       Telis Demos: Corporate stakes in Cuba
       Michael Voss: US deplores Cuba protest brick-up
       Prensa Latina: Cuba blows whistle on US meddling
       The Associated Press: Cuban blogers defy government control
       Richard Burnett: Viva Alina!
       Fidel Castro: The living and the dead
       THE ECONOMIST: Vietnam: half way from rags to richs
       Matthew Borghese: Gorbachev: US should support Raul Castro's reforms in Cuba
       Tim Padgett: Castro family values: Fidel vs. Raul
       Renato Perez: Fidel: I don't like recent reforms
       Morgan Neill: Cuban leader looks to boost food production
       The Associated Press: Changing Cuba: monster buses vanish from Havana streets
       Winham Hartley: South Africa: country writes off Cuba's debt of R926M (US $ 117M)
       Armando Valladares: Cuba and the Vatican
       WOLA Special report: Opting for engagement. (Analysis on Raul Castro and international policy)
       Steve Wasserman: On Fidel Castro
       REUTERS: Factbook - Reforms by Raul Castro in Cuba
       Rosa Tania Valdes: Flow of Cubans leaving by sea rising: US
       Jennifer L Berghom: Castro's daughter speaks at UTPA
       Associated Press: Chavez: Castro predicted fall of dollar
       Circles Robinson: Religion in Cuba: not what you think
       Marc Frank: Cuba's agricultural decline sparks major reform
       Christopher Elliot: Cuba after Fidel Castro: time to go?
       Ray Sanchez: Cuba: gap between state, youth is growing concern
       USA Today: Some Cubans can't afford new freedoms
       Simon Barber: Angola: Fidel Castro and the legend of Cuito Canavale
       Zhang Quangyi: Will Cuba follow China's path?
       Carmen Gentile: Espionage to proceed with Raul Castro, sources says
       Laura Pichs Rodríguez: Cuba to increase doctors mission abroad
       Marc Frank: Cuba moves to descentralize state-run agriculture
       Marc Frank: Cuba's aging leaders move to shore-up revolution
       Jose Azel: After Raul, que?
       Ray Walser: The Cuba embargo: too soon to tear the goal posts
       Anthony Boadle: Letters to Granma new form of expression in Cuba
       Laura Wades-Munoz: GOP lock on Cuban exile vote challenged
       Peter Taaffe: Cuba after Fidel - a new chapter for the revolution
       Madhu Krishnamurthy: Fidel Castro's daugther speaks at Lake Forest College
       Lissa Weinman: Getting smart about Cuba
       National Post, Canada: Hope for Cuba
       Anthony Boadle: Cuban press focuses more on country's problems
       REUTERS: Mexico and Cuba patch up relations; settle debt
       Carol J Williams: Reporters Without Borders asks Raul Castro to realease 19 journalists held...
       President George W Bush discusses Cuba
       The Associated Press: Chavez makes first visit to Cuba since Raul Castro became president
       Jorge Castaneda: History is still waiting to judge Fidel Castro's legacy
       Dominican Today: Fidel Castro highlights Rio summit results
       Anthony Boadle: EU envoy seeks new ties with Raul Castro's Cuba
       Rachel Zoll: Religion in the news
       James C McKinley Jr: Cyber-rebels in Cuba defy state's limits
       Geri Smith: When will Cuba be open for business
       Brian Latell: Cuba's generation gap
       Mark Milke: Viva Castro's departure
       Martin Vengadesan: Controversial Castro
       BBC: Fidel Castro says Raul is in charge
       Economist Intelligence Unit: With Raul Castro as president, expect little change in Cuba
       Manuel Alberto Ramy: Some aspects of president Raul Castro's speech
       Economist.com: The comandante retires - sort of
       AFP: Pressure mounts on US to end Cuban embargo
       The Economist: Castro's legacy
       The Economist print edition: The comandante's last move
       Jeff Israely: Raul Castro's first guest: The Vatican
       Casto Ocando: Raul may look past Venezuela for oil
       Isabel Hilton: So farewell, Castro
       ICCAS: Cuba: What to expect
       Tom Miller: As Fidel fades from the scene
       Ralf Beste: Brussels' man in Havana
       Davie Apple: In both Cuba and "the empire", 2008 could be the year of the Castro convertible?
       Rubrick Bigeon: The post-Fidel moment
       Starbroek News: Cuba in transition II
       Jaime Suchlicki: Rapid succession, slow transition in Cuba
       Andrea Rodriguez: Cubans speak out on Castro's invitation
       Anthony Boadle: Cuba's Castro may soon end mistery over his future
       J Michael McConnell: 2008 Annual Threat Assesment of the Director of National Intelligence
       David Adams: Cuban dissent finds voice on internet
       Tolerance.ca: Cuban lawmakers officially summoned to clarify Fidel Castro future
       Jose Azel: Investing in post-Castro Cuba: are Cuban-Americans the "ace in the hole"?
       Carmen Gentile: Cuba is expanding its oversears spy network
       Frank Calzon: Cuba: will the military support reform?
       The Minot Daily News: Freedom in Cuba? Not likely
       Portia Siegelbaum: Will Fidel Castro be back?
       Marc Lacey: Low-key elections may affect Castro's role
       Associated Press: Cuba parliament must decide on Castro
       Matt Spetalnik: Bush accuses Cuba's Castro of represive policies
       Laura Wides-Munoz: Candidates work harder for Cuban vote
       Don Federick: McCain gets personal, talking about Cuba
       Fin Gomez: Huckabee: Fidel's heir apparent, Raul Castro, should be indicted for murder
       Matthew Lee: Interview: Cuba: no talks with Bush
       Andrea Rodriguez: Cuban elections: no campaign and little chance to voice dissent
       Francis Robles: Vote may signal Castro's last hurrah
       Dalia Acosta: Fewer political prisoners, more arbitrary arrests
       Brian Wagner. Castro stands for reelection in Cuba voting
       S Romero & A Barrionuevo: Case of cash entangles US and two Latin nations
       Jesus Mercader Uguina: Labor conditions in Cuba and the social responsability of foreign investors
       Oliver Kamm: Good riddance to Castro. But what next?
       Official Cuban Press: Cuba's focus shift for 2008
       Raymond Collit: Brazil to invest in Cuba, Castro-Lula meet unsure
       Will Weissert: Ex-CIA agent Phillip Agee dies in Cuba
       Anne-Marie Garcia: Cuban box icon Stevenson says banned fighters should be allowed another chance
       PinkNews.co.uk: Conference discusses Fidel's attitude to gays Cubans
       John Mendez: Only change can save Cuba
       Guillermo Martínez: Leaving Cuba looks easy, but has problems
       Kimberly Miller: Colleges fight ban on trips to Cuba
       Narendar Pani: The Deng of Cuba?
       VietNam News: Friendship with Cuba boosts economic ties
       Official Cuban Press: Cuba mantains 5.3 infant mortality rate in 2007
       Isabel Wolsely Torrey: A firsthand look at Cuba coup 1958-59
       Orlando  Business Journal: Group: Prepare now for opportunities in a post-embargo Cuba
       REUTERS: Cuba oil and gas stagnates despite investments
       Cuban News Agency: Fidel Castro sends message to Cuban parliament
       IANS: Wider scope for dissent in Cuba: Raul Castro
       The Age.com: Castro "has full mental faculties"
       Associated Press: Vatican's No. 2 says he hopes to meet Raul Castro in 2008 visit to Cuba
       Dalia Acosta: Elizabeth and Monica wedding
       The Wall Street Journal: Cuban revolution
       Anita Snow: Castro hints at retirement... or not 
       Marc Frank: Cuba eyes more foreign investment in agriculture
       Marc Lacey: Cuban refinery inaugurated, with Chavez in spotlight
       Assorted Cuban press: Cuba and China develop economic relations
       Gregg Carlstrom: GAO: Enforcing Cuba trade embargo strains homeland security resources
       South Florida Business Report: White paper: plan for end of Cuban embargo
       Will Weisert: Anti Castro efforts hobble border patrol
       AHORA Cuba: Raul Castro says PETROCARIBE is key for regional integration
       Maria Julia Mayoral: Review of Cuba's energy revolution
       Jaime Suchlicky: Implications of lifting US embargo and travel ban on Cuba
       Bernard Chapin: "I survived the Revolution". An interview with Humberto Fontova
       XINHUA: Made in China products shine in Cuba
       Trends Capital News Agency: Cuba is an atractice country for Azerbaijani investments
       Killian Melloy: Castro's niece says Cuba needs reforms on GLTB issues
       Tonya Weathersbee: End failed trade ban with Cuba
       Michael Martinez: Global business comunity keeping a hopeful eye on Cuba
       CBS News: Questions about Castro's future answered
        AFP: Cuba activists say arrests rising
        AFP: Castro signals possible return
        SFGate.com: Despite defeat at polls, Venezuela's Chavez hold all the cards
       AFP: Cuban authorities seize dissidents at church
       Brian Latell: Fidel's final abdication
       Will Weisert: Castro says he warned Chavez about US
       Ramy, Manuel Antonio: It is imperative that we make changes
       John Whitesides: Democrats differ on Cuba policy at Iowa debate
       Chris Hasley: Venezuelan leader´s power play has echoes of Castro
       Michael Martínez: Cubans petition for return of independent universities
       The Miami Herald: Translation of Castro-s essay 
       Steve Chapman: Chavez orchestrating comunism's comeback
       George Walden: Soft-soaping Fidel Castro
       The Economist: Bye-bye embargo?
       Anthony Boadle: Caribbean oil summit set for nexth month in Cuba
       Rui Ferreira & Luisa Yanez: Mas Canosa's influence not matched since his death
       Matthew Cooper: Dump the Cuban embargo
       La Jornada: Fidel Castro contributed an alternative ethic of rebelion and ressistance
       Anthony Boadle: Cubans debate changes, but ask where's the beef
       The Cincinati Post: The Cuban exception
       AFP: Cuba's Raul Castro unveils aircraft ownership reform
       Sheli DeNiola: Cuba and US duke it out in the international ring
       Ali Gharib: Accused terrorist may yet face justice
       Marc Frank:Castro sides with Chavez in rift with Spanish king
       The Economist: The King was not amused
       Ahora.cu: Raul Castro receives Chinese comunist party politburo member
       The Miami Herald: More remittances, travel, for a free Cuba (Editorial)
       Anthony Boadle: US food exports to Cuba dwindle under Bush
       Vietnam News Agency: Vietnam leaders receive Cuban basic industry ministry
       The Economist Intelligence Unit: China economy: pushing pass Germany
       Michael Shifter: Chavez: slouching toward authoritarianism
       EFE News Service: Latin leaders´s speeches on "social cohesion" reveal conceptual differences
       Brian Latell: US policy and Cuba's security services
       Paolo Spadoni: On Cuba, the US is an island
       USA TODAY: Our view on Cuba policy... and the opposing view
       Manuel Alberto Ramy: Computers, yes; travels, no
       Edith Lederer: Cuba warns US about regimen change
       Alvaro Vargas Llosa: Who is buried in Che´s tomb?
       George W Bush: President Bush discusses Cuba policy
       The Economist: Raul's talking cure
       Vicky Huddleston: How not to promote democracy in Cuba
       Tim Padget: Keeping up the hard line on Cuba
       James Klurfeld: Bush hardline Cuba policy buys Castro more time
       IRI: IRI survey shows majority of Cubans want to vote for Castro's replacement
       IRI: Cuban public opinion survey (version in PDF)
       Humberto Fontova: Castro cows ABC-FOX news to the rescue
       Anthony Boadle: Chavez steals show in Castro's Cuba
       Carol Rosemberg: US expands plan for post-Castro refugees camp at Guantanamo
       AFP: Bush to unveil "new initiatives" on Cuba
       REUTERS: Dubai Port studies Cuba building container terminal
       AFP: Castro lauds Cuba one-party elections
       Andy Johnson: Castro's myth of Che
       Luisa Yanez: Plans for post-Castro Cuba presented
       Richard Frost: Cuba: preparing for change
       AFP: Bush calls for release of all Cuba's political prisoners
       Jay Weaver: Two used church to violate Cuba ban
       Philip Peters: Will Raul reform Cuba's economy?
       Oskar Garcia: Study: How to recoupe assets in Cuba
       Times Online: Our MI-5 writer in Cuba
       Mario Loyola: After Fidel
       Francis Robles: Cubans get rare chance to grip in public
       Alvaro Zuazo: Che remembered 40 years after death
       Manuel Alberto Ramy: Unless reforms are made, we'll lose everything
       Brian Latell: Cuba's lost generation
       AFP: Cuba detains at least 21 dissidents
       Science Daily: Population-wide weight loss in Cuba resulted in fewer deaths from diabetes and heart...
       AFP: Bush says Castro's rule near end: urges "free" polls in Cuba
       Granma International: Cuba describes as scandalous and gross Bush's conduct at UN
       Natham Guttman: Revealed: the kosher side of Castro's Cuba
       Steven Baker: The quest for Cuba's finest cigars
       Humberto Fontova: Fidel Castro: Reagan's savior?
       Marc Frank: Raul Castro launches Cuba-wide debate on future
       The Canadian Press: Photo shows heavier-looking Fidel Castro standing, meeting Angolan President
       Marc Frank: Raul Castro stirs hopes in Cuba farmers
       Carol J Williams: Castro turns to power of the pen
       Michael Martínez: Cubans wonder where their internet access went
       Anita Snow: Cuba perks show a post-Fidel touch
       Tom Leonard: Fidel Castro "saved" Ronald Reagan's life
       Associated Press: Fidel Castro wil have to convince Cubans not to re-elect him, official says
       James Petras: Cuba: continuing revolution and comtemporary contradictions
       Fidel Castro: The super-revolutionaires. Reflections by the Commander in Chief
       Economist Intelligence Unit: Cuba politics: succession looks permanent
       Anthony Boadle: Cubans sure Castro is alive
       Jane Sutton: Is Castro dead? US neighbors unsure
       Álvarez-Galloso, Roberto: Can Cuba do a China?
       The First Post: Raul Castro: close, but still no cigar
       Jose de Cordoba: If it's Friday Castro must be dead. Again
       Howard LaFranchi: Prisoner releases under Raul Castro rise hopes for Cuba
       Ian Williams: Obama will be rewarded for his open talk about bad US policy on Cuba
       Laura Wides-Munoz: Little Havana looks to life after Castro
       AFP: Fidel not in danger as he convalesces
       Hans de Salas del Valle: Caveat investor: realities of doing business in Cuba
       Rory Carroll: Dissidents freed as Raul Castro signals change of tack in Cuba
       Mike Williams: Little-know part of Cuba is eager for a comeback
       Latimes.com: Obama's right on Cuba
       George Diaz: Exchanging a cruel leader for another one
       Michael Voss: Cuba awaits news on Castro's return
       Ricardo Chavira: Waiting for their dictator to die
       Steve Mort: Cuban exiles wait for change of leadership back home
       IANS: Demand for single currency in Cuba
       Linda Rosencrance: Travelocity fined for booking trips to Cuba
       Antonio Morales-Pita: Possible scenarios in the Cuban transition to market economy
       Frank Mora: From fidelismo to raulismo
       Wilfredo Cancio & Francis Robles: Fidel Castro's towering shadow endures
       Steven Bodzin: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez proposes gas pipeline to Cuba
       The Associated Press: Castro says Cuba might not send boxers to worlds to prevent defections
       Oxford Analytica: Raul Castro hints at changes for Cuba
       Francis Robles: Chavez-Castro friendship pump billions into Cuba
       Emilio San Pedro; Exile's frustration at Castro status quo
       Reuters: Raul Castro's year: a chronology
       CBS/AP: Castro hints his reign is over
       Tom Miller: The American Comandante
       St Petersburgh Times: No change in Cuba while Fidel lives
       Michael Voss: Fidel's presence still keenly felt in Cuba
       Time Magazine. Fidel isn't dead, but long live Raul
       Ohmy News: Cuba's next revolution
       AFP: Doubts growing over Fidel Castro's role
       Marc Frank: Raul Castro proves no lightweiht in leading Cuba
       Mike Williams: Without Castro
       Associated Press: Agency issues report on Cuba trade
       Ahora Cuba: Fidel receives honorary doctorate at university graduation
       Paul Mulchine: Moore's the real sicko
       Associated Press: US group delivers aid to Cuba
       Elizabeth Mistry: Death of a Castro heralds end on an era in Cuba
       Reuters: Cuba Assembly vote could clarify Castro future
       Will Weisert: On Havana streets, Cubans speak their minds, but limits are strict and closely watched
       Anthony Boadle: Chatolic leaders say Cuba receptive to Church role
       Agencia Cubana de Noticias: Panama and Cuba relations described as positive
       Jaime Suchlicky: Challenges to a post-Castro Cuba
       Wendy Gimbel: The dictator in prep school
       Anita Snow: Living in Cuba food ration isn't easy
       Soeren Kern: Spain counterterrorism policy under challenge by al-Qaida and ETA
       Rights abuses unabated in Raul Castro's Cuba
       Manuel Alberto Ramy: Corpses in the closet
       Beth Fouhy: Hillary Clinton slams GOP rival's Cuba remark
       Todd Benson: Castro says thaw in ties with US not up to Cuba
       Lourdes Perez and Juan Varela: A revived transport system vital for Cuba's development
       The Economist: The revolution is not yet over
       Hans de Salas del Valle: The French connection: How foreign investors defy Helms-Burton
       Karen de Young and Walter Pincus: CIA will air decades of its dirty laundry
       Anthony DePalma: Vilma Espín, wife or Raul Castro, dies at 77
       Ray Sánchez: Castro: the early years
        Foreign Policy: The terrorism index
       Jaime Glazov: Che Guevara: Mass murderer and coward. Interview to Humberto Fontova
       Brian Lattel: Raul Castro: confronting Fidel’s legacy in Cuba; 
       Prensa Latina: Fidel Castro: Bush lies and cons
       “UCC leaders join ecumenical leaders urging end in ban to Cuba travel”
       Patricia Grogg: Energy-Cuba: A light at the end of the túnel;
       Wilfredo Cancio: More imported sugar on Cuban plate
       Mark P Sullivan: Cuba: Issues for the 110th Congress
       Joseph Contreras: Q&A: How Cuba is faring without Fidel?
       Carolyn Whelan: Castro revenge: the Cuban oil rush
       Mike Williams: Private sector operates in Cuba’s shadows
       Anthony Boadle: Food trade survives political hurdles
       Brian DePalma: "Sicko", Castro and the "120 years club"
       Luisa Yanez: Cubans in Cuba "excluded from everything", says reader
       Oxford Analytica: Posada case fuels anti-terror tensions
       Franklin W Knight: The Castro revolution and Cuba
       Associated Press: What embargo? US goods available in Cuba
       The Economist Intelligence Unit: Is Castro coming back?
       Cuba before Fidel Castro
       Jorge Piñón: Cuba's energy future
       Lee Iaccoca: I had enough
       Reflections by the Commander in Chief, May 7th and 9th
       John D. Negroponte: Interview in Colombia
      John Waggoner: Fund´s value rises when Castro ails
     Anthony Boadle: Castro´s recovery lifts Cuban government spirits
     Álvaro Vargas Llosa: The return of the idiot
     Mark Lacet: No sign of Fidel Castro on Cuban Holiday
     Wayne Smiths: Bush's dysfunctional Cuba policy
     AP-FOX News: Castro no-show rises health questions
     Carol J. Williams: Hold the reforms, Castro is back
     The State Department: Counternarcotics strategy in Colombia
     Brian Latell: After Fidel
     Enrique Encinosa: Unvanquished
     Juan Benemelis: The Wasp Net in the United States (Cuban spyes)
     Juan Benemelis: Ana Belen Montes: A mole in the Pentagon (Cuban spy)
     Fidel Castro: Reflections by the Commander in Chief (3) 
       Karen Branch-Brioso: US - Cuba relations could be modified
       Anthony Boadle: Castro returns to limelights as op/ed writer
       AP: Fidel Castro chides US - Brazilian plans for biofuels
       Cuba and Spain become friend again
     Humberto Fontova: Cuba says adios to foreign reporters
     Reuters: Older brother says Castro is in good shape  
     Francis Robles: Comeback for Castro?
     DPA: Cuba on the move
     Computerworld: More nations vie to be outsourcers, maybe even Cuba
     U.S. remains top food source for Cuba, despite 45-year-old trade embargo
      Gustavo Villoldo: The man who buried Che
       Gwynne Dyer: What if Fidel comes back?
       María Julia Mayoral: Raul Castro praises success of Western Army training
       Reuters: Cuba sees economy growing 10% in 2007
       Francis Robles: Fidel Castro´s health improves
       Robert Isenberg: The law says you cant go to Cuba (here is how to do it, anyway)
       Bill Bertz: DIA official warns about Cuban spies

     Jaime Glazov: Symposium: When Fidel falls 

      Pablo Bachelet: U.S. intelligence expert on Cuba losses job. February 28, 2007
       Sun Sentinel: Experts predict grim outlook for Cuba. February 22, 2007

       AP: U.S. expects change after Castro. February 17, 2007

        Julia Sweig: Fidel´s last victory. Foreign Affairs. January/February 2007

        Joseph Contreras: Raul looks to the East. Newsweek International

      Brian Latell: Six months later. The Latell Report. January 2007

       Anita Snow: Cuba´s postcastro transition has already occurred. Associated Press, January 19, 2007

       Alexander Villacampa: The impending death of Castro. January 10th 2007

       Jaime Suchlicky: Is Raul Castro ready to deal? The Miami Herald, January 7th 2007
       Raul Castro gives a taste of his "frank" style. Taipei Times
       Geri Smith: Cuba without Castro. A look ahead. Business Week, December 25th 2006
       Tom Fawthrop: As Castro fades, a crew of new leaders. Christian Science Monitor, December 27th 2006
     Anita Snow: Cuba's Raul Castro signal openness to divergent ideas than brother Fidel
     Carlos Alberto Montaner: The Bulgarian treatment
     Marc Falcoff: Cuba after (Fidel) Castro. Prospects and Possibilities