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Obama free to change US-Cuba policy - WPVI
HAVANA - December 3, 2008 -- Barack Obama will be the first American president in nearly 50 years to have a relatively free hand in deciding whether to ease punitive Cold War-era policies toward communist Cuba, and the foreign policy team he ...

Obama names Richardson to head Commerce Department - Washington Post
President-elect Barack Obama and Commerce Secretary-designate New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson take part in a news conference in Chicago, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (Pablo Martinez Monsivais - AP) President-elect ...

Media advance notion of disappointment on the left with Obama, but ... - Media Matters
Summary: Several media figures are promoting the notion of division among Obama supporters, asserting that the left is or should be disappointed with the president-elects Cabinet selections. But the idea of significant disappointment with Obama ...

Miami Cuban-Americans Shifting Opinion on Cuba Embargo - Voice of America
A new U.S. public opinion poll shows long-time support for the U.S. embargo against Cuba is falling among the Cuban-American community in Miami. VOAs Brian Wagner reports from southern Florida the poll reflects a shift of opinion away from harsh ...

Miami-Dade poll sees shift in opinion over Cuba embargo - Miami Herald
In an unprecedented shift in attitude that could affect Cuba policy for the incoming administration of Barack Obama, more than one out of two Miami-Dade Cuban Americans think the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba should end, according to a new poll ...

Cuban-American support for embargo fading: poll - Reuters
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A Chance to Change the Course in Cuba - The Globalist
table border=0 width= valign=top cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7trtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbrdiv style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1/divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/1-0fd=Rurl=http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx%3FStoryId%3D7381cid=1276194029ei=4gg3SeeJGsGPmAeSn5yrDwusg=AFQjCNE03a10jEJdIUhinikIomweY3M_wgA Chance to Change the Course in bCuba/b/abrfont size=-1font color=#6f6f6fThe Globalist,nbsp;DCnbsp;-/font nobr17 hours ago/nobr/fontbrfont size=-1A critical component of these talks should be lifting the US embargo on bCuba/b and resuming normal trade relations. Although lifting the embargo ? or b.../b/fontbrfont size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/1-1fd=Rurl=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DuAJOTQnOIWEcid=1276194029ei=4gg3SeeJGsGPmAeSn5yrDwusg=AFQjCNFSdx2t1j22B2hqIW7dqqqdRLWUvwVideo: Raw Video: Medvedev in Cuba, Meets With Castro/a font size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrAssociatedPress/nobr/fontobject width=448 height=356param name=movie value=http://www.youtube.com/v/uAJOTQnOIWE/paramparam name=wmode value=transparent/paramembed src=http://www.youtube.com/v/uAJOTQnOIWEtype=application/x-shockwave-flashwmode=transparentwidth=448height=356/embed/objectbr/fontfont size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/1-2fd=Rurl=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/01/AR2008120102406.html%3Fhpid%3Dopinionsbox1cid=1276194029ei=4gg3SeeJGsGPmAeSn5yrDwusg=AFQjCNH6SDZ2PsEXCeg_1oo1VMLEVAJzeARussia#39;s Caribbean Farce/a font size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrWashington Post/nobr/font/fontbrfont size=-1a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/1-3fd=Rurl=http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4AS2B720081129cid=1276194029ei=4gg3SeeJGsGPmAeSn5yrDwusg=AFQjCNHZqrZNlKiA_UX5H_g05k2d4ZT3UgCastro attends bCuba#39;s/b first Catholic beatification/a font size=-1 color=#6f6f6fnobrReuters/nobr/font/fontbrfont size=-1 class=pa href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/1-4fd=Rurl=http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2008/1203pazencolombia.htmcid=1276194029ei=4gg3SeeJGsGPmAeSn5yrDwusg=AFQjCNELGSfNQ0n2QroC-3sRBylGyIzJOwnobrCuba News/nobr/anbsp;- a href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/1-5fd=Rurl=http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/14079/cid=1276194029ei=4gg3SeeJGsGPmAeSn5yrDwusg=AFQjCNFBmvaQM5019cz6T2hHNjieywIglwnobrPeople's Weekly World/nobr/a/fontbr/font class=p size=-1a class=p href=http://news.google.com/news?ie=ISO-8859-1ncl=1276194029hl=ennobrall 1,440 news articles/nobr/a/font/div/font/td/tr/table

ACT Appeal: Hurricane Gustav and Hurricane Ike Emergency ... - Reuters AlertNet
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Miami Cuban-Americans Shifting Opinion on Cuba Embargo - Voice of America
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3rd Cuba-CARICOM summit announced - Granma International
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Cuba to host Caribbean summit on financial crisis (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Cuba has no plans to join the Caribbean Community regional trade bloc, but will host its leaders at a summit next week nonetheless.

Cuba ready to authorize GM corn crop: scientists (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Cuba could soon authorize the planting of 124 acres of genetically-modified corn for the first time to help reduce its dependence on costly food imports, Cuban scientists said on Tuesday.

AP Analysis: Obama free to change US-Cuba policy (AP via Yahoo! News)
Barack Obama will be the first American president in nearly 50 years to have a relatively free hand in deciding whether to ease punitive Cold War-era policies toward communist Cuba, and the foreign policy team he announced this week seems predisposed to make it happen.

Cuba softens stance toward Catholic church (Miami Herald)
Cuba?s government took a significant step toward improving relations with the Roman Catholic Church this past weekend. President Raul Castro attended mass with the island?s Catholic hierarchy and thousands of faithful to beatify a 19th century Cuban friar known as the "father of the poor."

TRAVEL | Cuba's bicycle diaries (Miami Herald)
Our first morning in Cuba and I'm woken up by screams. Leaping naked from the bed, I fling open the bathroom door to see my wife wrestling with a vicious snake, writhing and thrashing, spraying gallons of water in all directions. My first lesson learnt: never underestimate a Cuban tap. Water pressure here can bring a whole new meaning to 'power shower'.