CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Two teens have been taken into custody in connection with a deadly shooting in Little Havana.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Two teenagers have been charged with the shooting death of a man at a Little Havana gas station, Miami police said Thursday. Jonathan Robelo, 18, and Tim Gonzalez, 16, were both charged with second-degree murder in the death of Javier Ulloa, 24, of Miami Gardens.
www.slamxhype.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
100 Pieces of Havana is a special one-off show that is taking place at London's Dray Walk Gallery. 100 artists were asked to participate by… Read More
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
John Parke Wright, with close ties to the Castro brothers, says Cuba is starting to open up economically.
OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
John Parke Wright, with close ties to the Castro brothers, says Cuba is starting to open up economically.
The Bayesian Heresy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution "... The mobster arranged for Kennedy to spend an afternoon with "three gorgeous prostitutes." Unbeknownst to Kennedy, the suite was outfitted with a two-way mirror that ..." "... At the Comodoro-the hotel where Senator Kennedy had his afternoon orgy-an exhibition was sometimes held for special guests. Attorney Frank Ragano...
Gasgoo.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
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HAVANA, Cuba, (ACN): Cuba's Deputy Minister of Transportation Antonio Puente said that 11 more of the 100 Chinese locomotives set to revamp the country's railway system will be up and running next week, pulling cars loaded with fuel, cement, containers, foo.
MisterBryans' (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Paulo FG? Back when I started going to Havana in 03 he was king. Def in the top 5 bands. He played everywhere, his songs were played everywhere. Now I hear nada. Did i miss something? Later. I found this...
OTB News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
HAVANA (Reuters) - President Raul Castro returns to the birthplace of the Cuban revolution this week for a speech that will be watched for news on what some consider another, quieter revolution now taking place on the socialist island.
Presto Vivace Blog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
David Hubler In those Cold War days, listening to and translating news items into English from Radio Moscow and satellite states’ broadcasts from Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, Bucharest, East Berlin, Sofia, Beijing, Pyongyang, Havana and, yes, even Tirana, proved invaluable to the agency, the White House and the rest of the intelligence community. President Kennedy learned that the Soviet naval vessels...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
HAVANA (Reuters) - President Raul Castro returns to the birthplace of the Cuban revolution this week for a speech that will be watched for news on what some consider another, quieter revolution now taking place on the socialist island.
Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The current feature at the Page 99 Test: The Bay of Pigs by Howard Jones. About the book, from the publisher: In January 1959, as Fidel Castro entered Havana in triumph, Americans hailed the revolutionary as a hero. Then came Castro's increasingly anti-American talk, the rise in his regime of the openly Marxist Che Guevara and Raul Castro, and seizures of American-owned assets. In little more
The Economist (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Having rescued Cuba with cheap oil, Venezuela is to be paid back in zebras SOON after Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba in 1959, goes an old Cuban joke, the signs at the Havana zoo that read "Please do not feed the animals" were changed to "Please do not take the animals' food". When the Soviet Union crumbled and withdrew its aid to Cuba, triggering the so-called "special period" that began in the...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
HAVANA - Ailing Fidel Castro said Wednesday that Cuba's president was right to adopt a "dignified silence" over a Moscow newspaper report that Russia may send nuclear bombers to the island, and said C...
Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:53am BST HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Wednesday said Cuba does not have to explain or "ask forgiveness" about a report out of Russia this week that Russia might use its Cold War ally Cuba as a refueling base for nuclear-capable bombers. He did not address whether the report was true or false, and Cuban officials have made no comment. "Raul did very well...
