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07/04/2008 08:57 AM
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CARIBBEAN: Regional Unity Losing Steam, Critics Say
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ST JOHN'S, Antigua, Jun 30 (IPS) - Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders are gearing
up for their annual summit in Antigua early next month amid
worrying signs that after 35 years, the regional integration
movement has not progressed beyond a "community of sovereign
states".
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07/04/2008 08:57 AM
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CUBA: The ‘Telenovela’ as Springboard for Public Debate
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HAVANA, Jun 26 (IPS) - Months have gone by and he still receives
suspicious calls on his cell-phone. Memories of a woman who
became obsessed with him are triggered every time Chucho sees a
popular prime time Brazilian TV "telenovela".
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07/04/2008 08:57 AM
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HEALTH-CUBA: Lung Cancer Vaccine Available
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HAVANA, Jun 25 (IPS) - Cuba’s biotech industry plans to launch on the
international market, in the short or medium term, a vaccine for
treating lung cancer, which causes the deaths of over one million
people a year worldwide.
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07/04/2008 08:57 AM
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POLITICS-CUBA: Past, Present and Future Changes
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HAVANA, Jun 20 (IPS) - Cuba is paradoxically the same, yet not the same,
under President Raúl Castro, who said he would change
"everything that should be changed" to perfect the
socialist path taken by the revolution nearly half a century ago.
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07/04/2008 08:57 AM
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CUBA: Cautious Response to Lifting of EU Sanctions
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HAVANA, Jun 20 (IPS) - Cuba reacted cautiously to the announcement that
the European Union would lift the diplomatic sanctions adopted
after 75 dissidents received lengthy jail terms on charges of
conspiring with Washington to destabilise the Cuban state, and
three men convicted of hijacking a passenger ferry were executed,
in 2003.
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07/04/2008 08:57 AM
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CARIBBEAN: "We Must Produce More and Consume Less"
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jun 20 (IPS) - For the first time in living memory, Caribbean
governments invested time and large sums of money to organise an
emergency food summit at their trade bloc's headquarters in
Guyana aimed specifically at dealing with the global food crisis
and the region's spiraling import bill.
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07/04/2008 08:57 AM
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CUBA: Don’t Worry, Be Ready - for Hurricanes
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HAVANA, Jun 17 (IPS) - Cuba has decided not to make public announcements
of the overall outlook for the coming hurricane season, because
it makes little practical difference to people’s lives and tends
to create false apprehensions, said José Rubiera, regarded as
this Caribbean country’s top expert on hurricanes.
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07/04/2008 08:57 AM
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MIGRATION: More and More Cubans Entering US through Mexico
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MEXICO CITY, Jun 17 (IPS) - The number of Cuban migrants intercepted in Mexico
climbed from 254 in 2002 to 1,359 in 2007. And nearly 1,000 were
detained in the first four months of this year alone -- the
visible face of a people smuggling business that apparently
operates in collusion with the police and other corrupt
authorities.
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07/04/2008 08:57 AM
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CUBA: Government Deports US Citizen Wanted for Child Sex Abuse
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HAVANA, Jun 13 (IPS) - The Cuban government deported a U.S. citizen
accused of sexually abusing a young girl in Costa Rica, less than
two weeks after Washington included the Caribbean island on a
list of countries that it says are not doing enough to combat
child trafficking.
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07/04/2008 08:57 AM
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TRINIDAD: "There Are Monsters Among Us"
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PORT OF SPAIN, Jun 11 (IPS) - Eight-year-old Hope Arismandez never stood a
chance. The autopsy report said she had been stabbed repeatedly,
hit on the back of the head with a blunt object and her throat
slit.
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07/04/2008 08:57 AM
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CUBA: A City Drinks in Change
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HOLGUÍN, Cuba, Jun 10 (IPS) - Afflicted for far too long by severe drought, which
concentrated all minds on how to get water to entire communities
of people, this eastern Cuban city seems at long last to be
drinking its fill, and its appearance is completely different
from what it looked like two or three years ago.
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07/04/2008 08:57 AM
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RIGHTS-US: Mixed Appeals Verdict for "Cuban Five"
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ATLANTA, Georgia, Jun 6 (IPS) - Activists plan to protest a federal appeals court
ruling Wednesday to uphold the convictions of five Cuban
intelligence agents accused of spying in the United States.
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07/04/2008 08:57 AM
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HEALTH-CUBA: Free Sex Change Operations Approved
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HAVANA, Jun 6 (IPS) - New horizons opened up for transsexuals in Cuba
with the approval of a Public Health Ministry resolution that
establishes guidelines for their health care, including free
gender reassignment operations.
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07/04/2008 08:57 AM
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HAITI: Kidnappings Rise as Economic Woes Deepen
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jun 5 (IPS) - Several thousand people, including remnants of the
wealthy and educated class who remain in Haiti, took to the
streets of Port-au-Prince Wednesday to rail against what they say
is government inaction amid a rise in kidnappings.
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07/04/2008 08:57 AM
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HEALTH-LATIN AMERICA: Tobacco Regulations as Solid as Smoke
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MEXICO CITY, Jun 4 (Tierramérica) - Government funds to fight tobacco use in Latin
America, which kills one million people each year, pale in
comparison to the health costs of this epidemic and receive only
a small portion of the tax revenues from the tobacco industry.
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