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2010
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Cuba, January 2010
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| Feb.5 |
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Cuban hire in Venezuela raises concern
| Feb.23 |
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Prison hunger striker Zapata dies Leading Cuban political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo, 42, has died in hospital after 85 days on hunger strike | |
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| Mar.8 |
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US eases sanctions to allow freer web
| Mar.18 |
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Castro supporters heckle protesters Hundreds of government supporters have heckled members of the 'Ladies in White' rights group marching in protest through the streets
| Mar.20 |
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5.6-magnitude earthquake shakes Cuba
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| Apr.19 |
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Cardinal Ortega says country is in crisis
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| May.6 |
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Cuba has worst sugar harvest in a century
| May.22 |
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Cardinal, Castro discuss detainees
| May.23 |
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Cuban prisoners 'win concessions' Cuba reportedly relaxes the prison regime for its political detainees after talks with Church leaders and pressure from a hunger striker.
| May.26 |
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Gulf spill could foul Cuban waters
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| Jul.3 |
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Hunger striker Farinas 'close to death'
| Jul.7 |
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Cuba to release 52 political prisoners The prisoners are set to be freed and will be allowed to leave the country, Cuba's Roman Catholic church announced in a written statement | |
| Jul.8 |
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Cuba dissident ends hunger strike
| Jul.10 |
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Cuba 'starts freeing dissidents'
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Rare pictures show smiling Castro Map of Havana Cuba New photographs show Fidel Castro greeting workers in Havana in a rare glimpse of the former Cuban leader.
| Jul.12 |
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Castro rips U.S. in rare TV appearance Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro: The United States is pushing for what would become nuclear wars against Iran and North Korea | |
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Seven freed dissidents leave for Spain A group of political prisoners freed by Cuba are on a flight bound for Spain to start a new life in exile
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Cuban 'Queen of the Bolero' dies at 87
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| Aug.1 |
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President allow more private enterprise
| Aug.7 |
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Fidel Castro delivers rare speech The former Cuban leader has delivered his first speech to the national assembly since resigning over ill health four years ago
| Aug.18 |
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U.S. to loosen rules on Cuba travel The Obama administration is preparing to announce new rules allowing some travel to Cuba, along with an ability for to send economic assista...
| Aug.25 |
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Cuba ends elderly smoking subsidy Cuba's elderly will no longer be entitled to state-subsidised cigarettes
| Aug.30 |
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Fidel Castro says he was 'at death's door' Fidel gives new details about his health four years ago when emergency surgery forced him out of power, saying he didn't think he would make...
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| Sep.8 |
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Castro casts doubt on 'Cuban model' Fidel Castro said that the 'Cuban model' no longer works, an admission of failings in the communist economic model
| Sep.10 |
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Castro quote 'was misinterpreted' Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has said that his recent comment about Cuba's economic model was misinterpreted by a US reporter
| Sep.11 |
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Castro remark on Roma condemned Castro accused Paris of carrying out a 'racial holocaust' over its expulsion of members of the Roma community
| Sep.13 |
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Cuba to cut half million public jobs Cuba announces plans to lay off more than a half million public sector workers over the 6 months and allow more jobs to be created in the private sector | |
| Sep.28 |
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Cubans brace for tropical depression Cubans braced for high winds and heavy rain as a tropical depression pushed toward the island nation
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| Oct.10 |
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More political prisoners to be released 3 Cuban political prisoners who were not part of an originally announced release, will nonetheless be freed, Cuba's Roman Catholic Church
| Oct.13 |
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Category 2 Paula heading for Cuba Hurricane Paula weakened as the storm brushed past Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and headed for Cuba
| Oct.21 |
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Cuba to free more dissidents The government has authorised the release of 5 more dissidents who are not among a group of 52 set for freedom under an agreement reached in...
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| Nov.4 |
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U.S. ballet company returns to Cuba 50 years later, the New York-based American Ballet Theatre took to the stage in the Cuban capital's Karl Marx theater
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Passenger plane crashes in Cuba Map of Guasimal Cuba The ATR twin turboprop, belonging to the state-run Aerocaribbean airline has crashed in the centre of the country with 68 people on board | |
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| Dec.14 |
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Cuba refuses dissident exit visa The authorities have refused an exit visa for Guillermo Farinas to travel to France to receive the EU's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Though...
| Dec.24 |
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Cuba begins to publish U.S. documents A government-run website has begun translating into Spanish and posting online leaked U.S. government cables that discuss the island nation
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