Category Archives: Cuba

Gitmo becomes $500 million Camp Costly

By doris | Published: June 7, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com The cost of the marquee, along with a smaller sign positioned near the airfield: $188,000. Among other odd legacies from war-on-terror spending since 2001 for the troops at Guantanamo Bay: an abandoned volleyball court for $249,000, an unused go-kart track for $296,000 and $3.5 million for 27 playgrounds that are often [...]

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Key U.S. lawmaker calls for lifting of travel ban on Cuba

By doris | Published: November 20, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — The U.S. government has no right to restrict American tourists from traveling to Cuba, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Thursday. “It is the only country in the world where our people are not allowed to go,” said Rep. Howard Berman, D-California, at the start [...]

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Gates: Closing Guantanamo prison ‘more complicated’

By doris | Published: September 29, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com “I think it has proven more complicated than anticipated,” Gates said in an interview broadcast Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Noting he had pushed for a firm deadline of January 2010 for closing the controversial facility, Gates said: “If you have to extend that date, if at least you [...]

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OAS revokes 47-year-old suspension of Cuba

By doris | Published: June 4, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales said at the end of the two-day meeting in the city of San Pedro Sula that the OAS had rectified a serious error. The United States led the push to suspend Cuba from the OAS at the height of the Cold War, also breaking diplomatic [...]

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Is Housing Gitmo Detainees In U.S. Prisons A Problem For You?

By doris | Published: May 25, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty: President Obama says some terror suspects from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility will be sent to U.S. prisons. Despite opposition from Congress, the president is moving forward with his plan to close Gitmo by next January. He insists that he won’t authorize freeing any detainees who would [...]

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Gates defends decision to close Guantanamo

By doris | Published: May 23, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Obama administration had no choice but to order the shutdown of the prison at Guantanamo because “the name itself is a condemnation” of U.S. anti-terrorism strategy. In an interview broadcast Friday on NBC’s “Today” show, Gates called the facility on the island of [...]

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Is trade embargo with Cuba hurting U.S. interests?

By doris | Published: May 5, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com “Let’s be honest, there’s a mystique about Cuba,” said Graham Cook, a Canadian golf course designer. Or ask South African pro golfer Ernie Els, the star attraction at a Cuban golf tournament aimed at turning the island into the sport’s next destination. “It would be great to see the Americans and [...]

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Analysis: United States-Cuba relations begin the long thaw

By doris | Published: April 10, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com That frank assessment from Rep. Barbara Lee, D-California, has resonated loud and clear from the island of Cuba — 90 miles from the southernmost point of Florida — to the halls of Congress. For the first time in nearly 50 years, relations between the two nations, which have a history steeped [...]

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US policy on Cuba evolving under Obama

By doris | Published: April 7, 2009

Full Story At news.yahoo.com WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama will soon move to ease travel and financial restrictions on Cuba as his administration conducts a broad review of its policy toward the communist nation, a senior American official said Monday. “We can expect some relaxation, some changes in terms of the restrictions on family remittances [...]

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