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Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday there are growing signs of religious freedom in Cuba and that there is an opportunity for reconciliation between the communist nation and the United States.
It happened more than 38 years ago, long before he became an attorney and two-term mayor of Miami. Manny Diaz remembers the first touchdown in Belen's history.
My grandmother told me about it with the same rapture that, decades earlier, her parents had spoken of the old dream of El Dorado....
Cuba stagnated with Castros: Travels in the island nation gave a journalist family contacts to cherish and a sense of loss to lament
Government supporters screaming insults and slogans broke up two tiny International Human Rights Day marches Thursday and chased away a British diplomat onlooker, pounding on his car as he drove away.
Cuba's government's supporters shout slogans in favor of Cuban leader Fidel Castro during a march organized by dissidents to commemorate the Human Rights Day in Havana.
PACIFIC IMMERSION: James Turley has an abiding interest in the Pacific countries, having visited many of them, and is married to a Japanese native.
George Romagosa spent the first 30 years of his life on the island of Cuba. As part of island life, Romagosa said, he learned to swim in the Caribbean Sea. Joy Hirdes/The Times-PicayuneGeorge Romagosa, 82, swims most weekday mornings --...
Lennart Freeman hasn’t lost his Swedish accent. Nor has he lost his flair for cooking Swedish meatballs and Swedish ham and a dish called Jansson’s Temptation, which you probably don’t recognize unless you are Swedish or you have had Christmas dinner at the Freeman home. He also has dual citizenship—the United States and his native Sweden.
HAVANA — The Rev. Jesse Jackson took him to church for the first time in 27 years. Home run legend Hank Aaron asked him for autographed baseballs.
A federal court has held the Defense Department in contempt after officials at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, failed to videotape the testimony of a Yemeni detainee as ordered.
SUNDAYGo old school for ChristmasSee the holiday classic film White Christmas in a classic movie house. Join Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Rosemary Clooney, with a score by Irving Berlin, in the 1954 classic at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Tampa Theatre, 711 Franklin St. Admission is $8.50 for adults and $6.50 for theater members. Call (813) 274-8286.FRIDAYStroll and roll
Hundreds of government supporters drowned out two small opposition protests in Cuba's capital on Thursday, chanting and jeering at the dissidents as they marched to mark International Human Rights Day.
Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday there are growing signs of religious freedom in Cuba and that there is an opportunity for reconciliation between the communist nation and the United States.
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A biscuits and gravy breakfast fundraiser will be held from 6 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 19, at the Cass-Putman Rescue Building, 516 E. Jefferson St., Cuba.
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