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Rights group prods Obama to lift Cuba travel ban

A human rights group is asking President-elect Barack Obama to end immediately a ban on most American travel to Cuba.

  • THE RECORD

    Cuba, 50 years later

    I have learned one thing from my various visits to Cuba over the years, and that is not to predict the demise of the regime. I did that sometimes in the past, if only to offer a bit of hope to various despairing individuals who thought that a visiting foreigner might know more about their future than they did themselves. But the brothers Castro are still there, ever more moth-eaten (in Raul’s case, almost mummified), and they have just celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their revolution.

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A dancer performs during the 50th anniversary celebration of the Cuban Revolution at the main plaza in Santiago, Cuba, Jan. 1

    THE WASHINGTON POST

    In Cuba, pinning hopes on Obama

    The world has numerous expectations of the incoming president Barack Obama, but many Cubans, who live on state salaries that average $20 a month, seem to possess an outsized hope that Obama will somehow transform their lives.

  • THE INDEPENDENT

    Cuba's golf revolution

    The first round was Fidel Castro's way of demonstrating his scorn for the bourgeoisie. But the game he loathed survived his rule, though plans to make the island a golfer's paradise have foundered.

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Cuba's Raul Castro speaks during the official welcoming cremony for the President of Panama, Martin Torrijos, and at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana Monday

    CUBA

    Raúl wants to chat

    Shortly before his profoundly anti-American speech of Jan. 1, Raúl Castro, at the time in Brazil, insisted publicly on his desire to talk with President-elect Barack Obama. What is his intention?

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