http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2008 MiamiHerald.com Cuba 60 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:59:39 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/885/story/49453.html http://www.miamiherald.com/885/story/49453.html Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:33 EDT http://www.miamiherald.com/885/story/50750.html http://www.miamiherald.com/885/story/50750.html Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:33 EDT http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673659.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673659.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:34 EDT The United States has offered Cuba $100,000 in emergency aid for the victims of Hurricane Gustav and is willing to send far more if a U.S.-approved disaster assessment team is allowed to tour the hardest-hit areas. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673753.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673753.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:32 EDT In the new school year, which begins next Monday, Cuba’s educational system will be trying out several changes aimed at overcoming the decline in the quality of teaching, blamed on a shortage of teachers and other problems.<br> http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/672929.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/672929.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT Almost as soon as Florida fell out of Hanna's forecast cone, it slipped into Ike's, and that mighty, major hurricane could be on our doorstep Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/672914.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/672914.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT Several South Florida organizations mobilized Thursday to ship money and supplies to the victims of Hurricane Gustav in Cuba, Haiti, and other Caribbean points. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673659.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673659.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:34 EDT The United States has offered Cuba $100,000 in emergency aid for the victims of Hurricane Gustav and is willing to send far more if a U.S.-approved disaster assessment team is allowed to tour the hardest-hit areas. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673753.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673753.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:32 EDT In the new school year, which begins next Monday, Cuba’s educational system will be trying out several changes aimed at overcoming the decline in the quality of teaching, blamed on a shortage of teachers and other problems.<br> http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673764.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673764.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:34 EDT Foreign direct investment in the sugar industry is acceptable to the Cuban government for producing alcohol and other derivatives, but it continues to be a topic that the authorities prefer not to talk about, at least in public, although experts regard it as desirable for the recovery of the industry.<br> http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673834.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673834.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:52 EDT Hurricane Ike was a serious concern in the Caribbean, where a run of storms already drenched islands, filled reservoirs and put low-lying areas at risk. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673834.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673834.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:52 EDT Hurricane Ike was a serious concern in the Caribbean, where a run of storms already drenched islands, filled reservoirs and put low-lying areas at risk. http://www.miamiherald.com/1329/story/653899.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1329/story/653899.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:36 EDT Our blog: From the streets of Havana to Miami and the White House http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/672904.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/672904.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT At least seven newborns died in the maternity hospital Hijas de Galicia here due to a bacterial infection they contracted in the operating room, medical sources said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/672388.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/672388.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:53 EDT Two Cubans are being held by Mexican police for their alleged involvement in the beheadings of a dozen men in the Yucatan peninsula. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/671633.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/671633.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:06 EDT Tropical Storm Hanna was moving past the Bahamas on Thursday on its way to a possible landfall in North Carolina on Saturday, and Hurricane Ike became a bigger concern as it exploded into a massive Category 4 storm. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/670039.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/670039.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:46 EDT Families screamed for help from rooftops in parts of Haiti, where floods and mudslides from Tropical Storm Hanna has led to 26 deaths and deepened the country's desperate food shortage. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/670254.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/670254.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:47 EDT Fidel Castro on Wednesday likened Cuba's damage from Hurricane Gustav to a nuclear bomb, as authorities began cleaning up after the worst storm on the island in more than 50 years. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/669313.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/669313.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:36 EDT They certainly are getting a taste of Cuba by training in Miami for four days -- everything from the steamy weather to the language to the café cubano -- but members of the U.S. national soccer team say they really have no idea what to expect as they head to Havana for a World Cup qualifying match on Saturday night. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/667123.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/667123.html Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT Some residents of picturesque Los Palacios, in the western province of Pinar del Río, have already rebaptized their town in the wake of Hurricane Gustav: They now call it The Ruins. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/666375.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/666375.html Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:13 EDT It's still very early in the 2010 World Cup qualifying process, but already the U.S. faces an intriguing match as it heads to Havana to play Cuba on Saturday. It's the first time the U.S. national team will play on the island since 1947, although a U.S. under-20 team did play there in 1991 during the Pan American Games. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/667605.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/667605.html Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:55 EDT Leonardo Padura writes gritty crime novels notable for their setting – Havana, the author's hometown – and for viewing Cuba through a critical eye. The characters deal with constant hardships of life in modern Cuba, including shortages of food, limited opportunities and a heavy-handed government bureaucracy. But the stories also convey an appreciation of the country, its people and their ability to respond to challenging circumstances with grace.<b> http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/667597.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/667597.html Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:45 EDT Amid rising tensions over Georgia, U.S. officials are increasingly concerned that Russia is moving to rebuild one of the most dangerous features of the old Soviet Union's security structure -- its alliance with Cuba. <br> http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/666472.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/666472.html Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:02 EDT Boarded up, abandoned but still vulnerable, New Orleans anxiously braced for Gustav, praying that the deadly hurricane wouldn't topple all that has been rebuilt in the three years since Hurricane Katrina crippled the city and its spirit. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/671952.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/671952.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:37 EDT Two prominent Cuban dissidents have asked U.S. President George W. Bush to temporarily loosen restrictions on travel and sending money to the communist-run island to help tens of thousands left homeless by Hurricane Gustav. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/669099.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/669099.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:12 EDT Far-reaching Tropical Storm Hanna drenched flood-plagued Haiti on Wednesday, adding to the miseries of a country that has lost 110 lives to mudslides and flooding since mid-August. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/670145.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/670145.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:39 EDT Fidel Castro likened Hurricane Gustav's destruction in Cuba to an atomic explosion, saying Wednesday it could mean billions of dollars in losses for the communist government. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/667713.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/667713.html Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:48 EDT Landon Donovan took off his shirt and soaked in the South Florida sun as he walked off the field Monday, chuckling at the dozen or so college girls photographing his every move. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/665043.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/665043.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:14 EDT A Cuban punk rocker known for his raunchy lyrics criticizing Fidel Castro was convicted of public disorder Friday, but freed after a court dismissed a more serious "social dangerousness" charge that could have sent him to prison for four years. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/661376.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/661376.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:28 EDT Cuba has ordered jailed punk rocker Gorki Aguila, an outspoken critic of Fidel Castro and the communist government, to stand trial on Friday for "social dangerousness," a charge that could carry up to four years in prison. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/659581.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/659581.html Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:27 EDT A Cuban opposition leader said Tuesday she has filed a criminal complaint against the communist government for airing on state television evidence it collected by bugging her phone, going through her garbage and secretly filming her. http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/665754.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/665754.html Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:58 EDT Tanto el jazz como el rock son dos géneros de la música estrechamente vinculados a la libertad. No es casual, entonces, que hayan sufrido los embates de regímenes totalitarios de diverso signo idiosincrásico. http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/665759.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/665759.html Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:01 EDT Cuba tiene 46,500 habitaciones de hotel, más de la mitad administradas por cadenas extranjeras, informó ayer el viceministro de Turismo, José Ramón Rodríguez, durante el XII Campeonato Panamericano de Coctelería, que se celebra en La Habana.<br> http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/671923.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/671923.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:01 EDT Para el sector más duro del régimen castrista, la actitud intransigente de John McCain es preferible al pragmatismo de Barack Obama. Así podrá seguir alimentando el eficaz fantasma del 'enemigo exterior' <br> http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/671777.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/671777.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:48 EDT Americans may wonder why taxpayer funds should be poured into a bucket as leaky as Latin America if the goal is curing underdevelopment. The region needs secure contract and property rights. If local leaders won't defend those rights, programs like Mr. Obama's $2 billion "global education fund" won't amount to a hill of frijoles.<br> http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/670565.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/670565.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:08 EDT The need for a change in Panama's leadership in no way negates the fact that there are some honest and capable people in both the PRD and the Torrijos administration. Nor should this need blind us to the sordid realities of the opposition, which along with the PRD are part of a discredited political class.<br> http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/670247.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/670247.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:44 EDT This month, Ecuador will hold the world's first constitutional referendum in which voters will decide, among many other reforms, whether to endow nature with certain unalienable rights. Not only would the new constitution give nature the right to "exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution," but if it is approved, communities, elected officials and even individuals would have legal standing to defend the rights of nature. <br> http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/670209.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/670209.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:22 EDT A bitter political-cultural confrontation that exploded in Nicaragua in late August could mark the final end of the passionate romance between the world's leftist intellectuals and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. <br> http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/662979.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/662979.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:29 EDT Tanto el jazz como el rock son dos géneros de la música estrechamente vinculados a la libertad. No es casual, entonces, que hayan sufrido los embates de regímenes totalitarios de diverso signo idiosincrásico.<br> http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/592148.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/592148.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:22 EDT Chile is Latin America's success story. Per capita income has grown from $4,720 in 1990 to $13,936 in 2007. By leaving unperturbed market-based economic policies instituted in the 1980s, the Concertación, the center-left coalition in power since 1990, led Chile to where it is today. The next frontier is breaking the $20,000 mark in per capita income, which would denote the country's full passage to development. http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/624098.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/624098.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:22 EDT During the Cold War, the United States was of two minds regarding the Third World. Did the new nations in Africa and Asia provide fodder for Soviet expansionism? Were Iran under the reformist Mohammed Mosaddeq or Guatemala under Jacobo Arbenz on the brink of becoming Soviet outposts? Should Washington welcome the Cuban revolution? http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/641327.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/641327.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:21 EDT Taking the long view on U.S.-Cuba relations isn't easy. In my two most recent columns, I laid out in broad strokes the long historical arc as I see it. My basic point is simple: The United States and Cuba have never had normal relations. To make an eventual rapprochement possible, both need to think outside the box. http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/564417.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/564417.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:20 EDT Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa is heading downhill. According to the latest Cedatos-Gallup survey, only 41 percent of Ecuadoreans would support the extravagant new constitution that his supporters are drafting in the town of Montecristi. Approval requires 50 percent. http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/597007.html http://www.miamiherald.com/294/story/597007.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:19 EDT According to a recent news report President Rafael Correa of Ecuador reviled the Human Rights Foundation's leaders as ''scoundrels.'' Why? Because the New York-based institution had sent him several well-reasoned letters denouncing painful violations of human rights that had occurred in Ecuador. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673659.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673659.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:34 EDT The United States has offered Cuba $100,000 in emergency aid for the victims of Hurricane Gustav and is willing to send far more if a U.S.-approved disaster assessment team is allowed to tour the hardest-hit areas. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673753.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673753.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:32 EDT In the new school year, which begins next Monday, Cuba’s educational system will be trying out several changes aimed at overcoming the decline in the quality of teaching, blamed on a shortage of teachers and other problems.<br> http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673764.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673764.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:34 EDT Foreign direct investment in the sugar industry is acceptable to the Cuban government for producing alcohol and other derivatives, but it continues to be a topic that the authorities prefer not to talk about, at least in public, although experts regard it as desirable for the recovery of the industry.<br> http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/672929.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/672929.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT Almost as soon as Florida fell out of Hanna's forecast cone, it slipped into Ike's, and that mighty, major hurricane could be on our doorstep Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673764.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/673764.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:34 EDT Foreign direct investment in the sugar industry is acceptable to the Cuban government for producing alcohol and other derivatives, but it continues to be a topic that the authorities prefer not to talk about, at least in public, although experts regard it as desirable for the recovery of the industry.<br> http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/672929.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/672929.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT Almost as soon as Florida fell out of Hanna's forecast cone, it slipped into Ike's, and that mighty, major hurricane could be on our doorstep Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/672914.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/672914.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT Several South Florida organizations mobilized Thursday to ship money and supplies to the victims of Hurricane Gustav in Cuba, Haiti, and other Caribbean points. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/672904.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/672904.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:01 EDT At least seven newborns died in the maternity hospital Hijas de Galicia here due to a bacterial infection they contracted in the operating room, medical sources said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/672388.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/672388.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:53 EDT Two Cubans are being held by Mexican police for their alleged involvement in the beheadings of a dozen men in the Yucatan peninsula. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/671952.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/671952.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:37 EDT Two prominent Cuban dissidents have asked U.S. President George W. Bush to temporarily loosen restrictions on travel and sending money to the communist-run island to help tens of thousands left homeless by Hurricane Gustav. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/669099.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/669099.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:12 EDT Far-reaching Tropical Storm Hanna drenched flood-plagued Haiti on Wednesday, adding to the miseries of a country that has lost 110 lives to mudslides and flooding since mid-August. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/670145.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/670145.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:39 EDT Fidel Castro likened Hurricane Gustav's destruction in Cuba to an atomic explosion, saying Wednesday it could mean billions of dollars in losses for the communist government. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/667713.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/667713.html Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:48 EDT Landon Donovan took off his shirt and soaked in the South Florida sun as he walked off the field Monday, chuckling at the dozen or so college girls photographing his every move. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/665043.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/AP/story/665043.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:14 EDT A Cuban punk rocker known for his raunchy lyrics criticizing Fidel Castro was convicted of public disorder Friday, but freed after a court dismissed a more serious "social dangerousness" charge that could have sent him to prison for four years.