May 13, 2008 IPS
	CUBA: ‘Green’ Farming Techniques to Boost Production -- POZO REDONDO, Cuba, May 13 (IPS) - The application of agroecological techniques and the salvaging of traditional farming methods have revolutionised food production in rural areas along the southern edge of the Cuban capital.
April 25, 2008 ACN Cuban News Agency
	Nancy Pelosi Says US Blockade of Cuba Should be Lifted -- Havana, April 25 (acn) The speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said the US economic blockade of Cuba “has failed and should be lifted.”
April 25, 2008 BBC News
	Cuban reforms create goodwill -- Hundreds of Cubans have been learning a whole new vocabulary over the past few weeks.
April 08, 2008 Reuters
	Cuba reorganizes family doctor program -- HAVANA (Reuters) - President Raul Castro's government will close more than half of Cuba's family doctor offices and boost staffing at the rest in a major reform of its vaunted free health care system, medical sources said.
March 28, 2008 BBC News
	Cuba lifts curbs on mobile phones -- Cubans are to be allowed unrestricted access to mobile phones for the first time, in the latest reform announced under new President Raul Castro.
March 27, 2008 BBC News
	Castro champions gay rights in Cuba -- There is a Castro who is fighting to introduce radical changes in Cuba.
March 20, 2008 BBC News
	Cuba studies travel rules change -- Cuba is studying the easing of restrictions on its nationals who want to travel abroad, Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque has said.
March 18, 2008 BBC News
	Cuba lifts farmers' supplies ban -- The Cuban government has lifted its ban on farmers buying their own supplies to improve agricultural production.
March 12, 2008 cbsnews.com
	Cuba's Revolution Of Rising Expectations -- "How can I afford $90 for a pair of glasses?” That’s the question Matilde, a retired school secretary threw at me. The glasses in question are for her 83-year-old mother, whose myopia makes it impossible for her to read without prescription lens.
February 25, 2008 The Miami Herald
	Serious legal questions loom for Posada -- Luis Posada Carriles, the anti-Castro Cuban militant, celebrated his 80th birthday this month at an undisclosed location in Miami, but many serious legal and political questions about his alleged crimes as a younger man still loom as large as ever.
February 24, 2008 The Sacramento Bee
	Travel to Cuba remains a challenge -- San Francisco-based Global Exchange is one organization playing strictly by the rules. In the 1990s and up until 2004, it sent six to eight groups to Cuba on "reality tours" every month, some with as many as 200 people, said Leslie Baylog, the organization's Cuba coordinator.
February 20, 2008 Associated Press
	Raul: Fidel Lite, or Cuba's Linchpin? -- HAVANA (AP) -- Bespectacled and businesslike, Raul Castro has long lived in the shadow of his charismatic older brother, Fidel.
February 19, 2008 washingtonpost.com
	Castro Resigns as Cuba's President -- Julia Sweig,, author of "Inside the Cuban Revolution," was online Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 3 p.m. ET to take your questions about impact of Fidel Castro's resignation as Cuba's president on the U.S. and the world.
February 19, 2008 Reuters UK
	Fidel Castro, 20th century revolutionary -- HAVANA (Reuters) - Fidel Castro, who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States from a guerrilla uprising and defied attempts to oust him by 10 U.S. presidents, retired on Tuesday after almost half a century at Cuba's helm.
December 11, 2007 BBC News
	Cuba makes human rights promise -- Cuba has announced that it will sign two major UN agreements on civil and political rights and allow periodic UN monitoring of its human rights record.
August 17, 2007 BBC, Havana
	Cuba Awaits News on Castro's Return -- The president of Cuba's Congress, Ricardo Alarcon, speaks to the BBC about the island's future.
August 01, 2007 BBC News
	Castro vows to fight for recovery -- The Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, has issued a statement saying he is fighting relentlessly for a full recovery from ill health
April 20, 2007 Reuters
	Cuban exile wanted in bomb plot freed in U.S. -- HOUSTON (Reuters) - Anti-Castro Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, wanted in Cuba and Venezuela for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner, got out of jail on Thursday and flew to Miami pending trial in Texas on immigration charges.
April 11, 2007 AP
	Victims protest Cuban militant's release -- Tearful relatives of Cubans killed in a 1976 airline bombing blamed on anti-communist militant Luis Posada Carriles denounced on Wednesday a U.S. court ruling allowing the jailed former U.S. operative to be released from prison on bond. Posada trained with the CIA for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and served in the U.S. Army in the early 1960s.
August 18, 2006 IRC- Americas Program
	Fidel’s Health and Implications for U.S. Policy -- Fidel Castro's recent announcement that he would temporarily transfer power to his brother Raul and others in the Cuban Government has led to much speculation about the course of events in both Cuba and Miami. With hard-line Cuban Americans dancing in the streets of Little Havana, and even preparing boats to sail to the island to foment unrest, the question on everyone's mind is: does this signal the beginning of a much-discussed transition for Cuba? And if so, what will it look like?
August 17, 2006 Council on Hemispheric Affairs
	The Cuban Mirage: Self-Deception in Miami and Washington -- For many of the anti-Castro exiles dancing along Miami’s Calle Ocho on Monday, July 31, the announcement of a temporary transfer of power by aging revolutionary Fidel Castro to his younger brother Raúl, marked the happiest of moments as well as the end of a troubled epoch in their lives.
August 13, 2006 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
	Cuba's Agricultural Revolution an Example to the World -- To the right lay revolutionary tomatoes and to the left lay revolutionary lettuces, while in the glass in my hand, filled to the brim and frothing with vitality, was the juice from revolutionary mangoes. It was thick, unfiltered and fabulously sweet. It was also organic.
August 10, 2006 Progressive Media Project
	U.S. must end misguided policies against Cuba -- The Bush administration should act as a good neighbor toward Cuba instead of waging its political war against the island. Just two weeks after Castro underwent surgery, the Bush administration updated a May 2004 report entitled "Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba." It has even hired a transition director to oversee the implementation of the plan for a "transition to democracy."
August 09, 2006 Grist
	High Fidelity -- Reports that Fidel Castro turned over power to his brother Raul last week because of surgery for intestinal bleeding have brought a flashback to the Cold War, with reporters rushing to doodle prematurely on his grave and interview the vociferous hard-right Miami expat constituency that has helped dictate U.S.-Cuba policy for the last 47 years. But they're missing a vital part of the story.
August 02, 2006 Florida Sun Sentinel
	Change must come from internal process -- The "Compact with the Cuban People," issued on July 10 by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, as the two co-chairs of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, puts forward a view of Cuba divorced from reality and a vision of the future which can only be described as pie in the sky.
July 14, 2006 Agencia Cubana de Noticias
	US People's Support for Cuba Voiced -- Solidarity between the American people with Cuba was reaffirmed by visiting members of both the Pastors for Peace organization and the Venceremos Brigada during a round table discussion aired Thursday on Cuban radio and television.
June 27, 2006 Inter Press Service
	U.S.-CUBA:Academics Decry Travel Restrictions. -- As the United States and Cuba fireaccusations at each other in the latest tumultuous chapter in their conflictive relationship, some members of U.S. scientific and student communities are working to salvage exchanges between the two nations.
June 14, 2006 South Florida Sun-Sentinel
	Cuban official defends policies during Hispanic journalists -- Cuba's Ricardo Alarcón on Wednesday asserted his country's imprisoned journalists had been working for the U.S. government and swore that Cuban-Americans hoping to recover long-lost property on the island "will never have any role, absolutely any role, in this country again."
June 14, 2006 The Associated Press
	Cuba book to be removed from Miami-Dade schools, School Board votes -- A children's book about traveling to Cuba, and similar books from the same series about other countries, must be removed from all Miami-Dade County school libraries, school officials ruled Wednesday.
May 09, 2006 NY Times
	As Cuba plans offshore wells, some want U.S. to follow suit -- US lawmakers propose a fix to the current gas crisis