<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Cuba: News &amp; Videos about Cuba - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Cuba</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Cuba from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:28:16 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Cuba: News &amp; Videos about Cuba - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Cuba</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Cuba from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Cuba arrests dissident rocker, band says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/08/26/cuba.singer/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/08/26/cuba.singer/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Cuban police have arrested dissident musician Gorki Aguila on a charge of "dangerousness," fellow band members said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tracing my Jewish roots in Cuba</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/08/20/cuba.roots/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/08/20/cuba.roots/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Cuba is more than a thousand miles from my home in New York, but it's a place close to my heart.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fay could become hurricane, forecasters say</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/weather/08/17/fay/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/weather/08/17/fay/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Tropical Storm Fay moved over the western end of Cuba on Monday morning on its march toward the eastern Gulf of Mexico and Florida Keys, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Parts of Cuba under hurricane watch; Florida braces</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/weather/08/16/fay/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/weather/08/16/fay/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Tropical Storm Fay had weakened slightly but was reorganizing as it approached eastern Cuba moving westward from Haiti, the National Hurricane Center said Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>S.L. Price: U.S. and Cuba, united at last in baseball's darkest hour</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/olympics/2008/writers/sl_price/08/14/us.cuba/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/olympics/2008/writers/sl_price/08/14/us.cuba/index.html</guid><description>BEIJING -- For a scene to be truly surreal, it has to go beyond the realm of what we call odd or strange. There has to be a feeling of displacement. Time must bend a bit. And there's got to be a bewildering wrench thrown in for good measure, something so incongruous that its absurdity somehow balances out the vague sense of menace in the air.</description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rights group sees 'minimal' drop in Cuba's prisoners</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/08/12/cuba.rights.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/08/12/cuba.rights.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The number of political prisoners held in Cuba has dropped slightly, but the overall rights situation remains "unfavorable" under President Raúl Castro's government with more brief detentions of dissidents, the island's leading independent human rights group said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Putin eyes renewed Russian ties with Cuba</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/04/russia.cuba.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/04/russia.cuba.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is calling for Russia to regain its influential position in former Cold War ally Cuba, Russian news reports said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cuba Allows More Land Ownership</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1824378,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1824378,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Communist officials decreed Friday that private farmers and cooperatives can use up to 100 acres (40 hectares) of idle government land</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>EU Agrees to Lift Cuba Sanctions</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1816748,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1816748,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The European Union on Thursday agreed to lift its diplomatic sanctions against Cuba, but imposed tough conditions on the communist island to maintain sanction-free relations</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cuba deports U.S. fugitive charged with sex crimes</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/06/13/cuba.fugitive/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/06/13/cuba.fugitive/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Cuban government has handed over to U.S. authorities a California man facing federal child sex crime charges, Cuba's Foreign Ministry said Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama: Cuba policy to be based on 'libertad'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/23/obama.cuban.americans/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/23/obama.cuban.americans/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sen. Barack Obama told Florida's Cuban-American community Friday that his Cuba policy would be based on "libertad" and freedom for the island nation's people.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 15:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>US Cell Phones to Be Sent to Cuba</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1808387,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1808387,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>President Bush announced Wednesday that Americans soon will be allowed to send cell phones to Cuba, which he hopes will inspire freedom of expression in the island nation</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 21:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>McCain, Obama argue over Cuba policy</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/20/mccain.obama/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/20/mccain.obama/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama continued their tussle over foreign policy Tuesday, shifting their argument to whether the U.S. should engage Cuba's communist regime.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 21:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush Criticizes New Cuban Leader</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1738316,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1738316,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>President Bush said Wednesday that Cuba's post-Fidel Castro leadership has made only "empty gestures at reform"</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hints of More Reform in Cuba
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1736186,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1736186,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Having promised a Communist Party congress in 2009, Raul Castro has challenged himself to improve Cubans' lives in order to consolidate his rule
</description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Corporate stakes in Cuba</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/23/news/international/corporate_stakes_cuba.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/23/news/international/corporate_stakes_cuba.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>After Fidel Castro announced that he was resigning the presidency of Cuba on Feb. 19, shares of OfficeMax rose 12%. The reason? It has a claim worth $2.5 billion dating back to when its property there was seized in the wake of the 1959 revolution. Similar claims made by nearly 6,000 companies are currently valued at $20 billion, and U.S. laws require all claims to be settled before trade can be normalized.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Castro Family Values: Fidel vs. Raul</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1732103,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1732103,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The retired Cuban leader may have given up power to his younger brother, but that doesn't mean he can't snipe from the sidelines</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cubans on new freedoms: 'We'll see how far we go'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/04/02/cuba.freedoms/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/04/02/cuba.freedoms/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>For the first time since Fidel Castro's official resignation, Cubans are talking more about what the government is doing than what it's not doing.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cuba opens tourist hotels to citizens</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/31/cuba.hotels/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/31/cuba.hotels/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Cuba will allow its citizens to stay in hotels previously reserved for foreigners, the latest in a series of decisions to lift bans on goods and services that the average Cuban can't afford.</description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Luis Bueno: CONCACAF's giants sputtering in Olympic qualifying</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/luis_bueno/03/14/olympic.quals/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/luis_bueno/03/14/olympic.quals/index.html</guid><description>A casual observer at CONCACAF's Olympic qualifying tournament may not be able to pick out the supposed regional powers after the competition's rocky start.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cuba, Still a Country for Old Men</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1716956,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1716956,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Expectations of an infusion of youth into the communist leadership were dashed, as Raul Castro looks to consolidate his authority</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Raul Castro chosen as Cuba's new president</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/02/24/cuba.nextpresident/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/02/24/cuba.nextpresident/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Fidel Castro's nearly five decades of rule ended Sunday when Cuba's National Assembly chose his younger brother Raul to be the country's new president.</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:21:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Raul Castro's First Guest: The Vatican</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1714799,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1714799,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The Pope's Secretary of State is the first important figure to visit Cuba, part of the Catholic Church's attempt to mediate a post-Fidel transition</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Castro's resignation won't change U.S. policy, official says</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/19/us.castro/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/19/us.castro/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The U.S. embargo on Cuba will remain in place despite Fidel Castro's announcement that he's resigning as Cuba's leader, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:37:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Presidential hopefuls call for democracy for Cuba</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/19/castro.candidates/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/19/castro.candidates/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Presidential candidates from both parties said Tuesday they welcome the decision by Cuban President Fidel Castro to step down.</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:09:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Raul Castro Era Begins&amp;amp;#13;&amp;amp;#10;</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1714362,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1714362,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Now that Fidel has resigned, expect a freer economy, a more pragmatic agenda and perhaps other reforms as well</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ex-CIA agent critical of agency dies in Cuba</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/01/09/ex.cia.cuba/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/01/09/ex.cia.cuba/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Philip B. Agee, the former CIA agent who broke with the agency 40 years ago and then published a book about it, has died in Havana, Cuba's state-run newspaper Granma reported Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:04:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Tropical Storm Noel weakens over Cuba</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/weather/10/30/tropical.storm/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/weather/10/30/tropical.storm/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Tropical Storm Noel weakened Tuesday over most of Cuba after lashing the island's northern coast, but heavy rains continued to deluge the Dominican Republic, Haiti and portions of the Bahamas, forecasters said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>At least 11 dead as Tropical Storm Noel heads for Bahamas, Cuba</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/weather/10/29/tropical.storm/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/weather/10/29/tropical.storm/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Cuba issued a tropical storm warning for the Camaguey, Las Tunas and Ciego de Avila provinces as Tropical Storm Noel approached the island.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Keeping Up the Hard Line on Cuba</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1676501,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1676501,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Bush's speech on Cuba simply resurrected the old anti-Castro bromides -- and may not help the cause of dissidents there   
</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush reaffirms Cuba embargo</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/25/bush.cuba/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/25/bush.cuba/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>U.S. President George W. Bush ruled out any easing of the decades-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba but proposed loosening some restrictions on contacts with the communist-ruled island, if more freedoms were allowed.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Will Obama's Stance on Cuba Hurt?</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1655373,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1655373,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>In opposing Bush's hard-line policy, the Democratic candidate has challenged a golden rule of Florida politics. But he may have outmaneuvered his opponents   
</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama again stirs up decades-old debate on Cuba</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/21/obama.cuba/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/21/obama.cuba/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>As Ronald Reagan might have put it, here we go again.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cuban rapper: Fight the injustice</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/04/11/cuba.rapper/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/04/11/cuba.rapper/index.html</guid><description>Working on an old computer with a burned-out monitor, Cuban rapper Aldo Rodriguez painstakingly lays the tracks for his next song.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The color and complexity of Cuba's cigars</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/04/04/cuba.cigars/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/04/04/cuba.cigars/index.html</guid><description>Synonymous with Cuba, just like Castro and Che Guevara, cigars are revered by connoisseurs and part of the country's political landscape.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:33:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CASTRO'S REVENGE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/04/02/8403413/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/04/02/8403413/index.htm</guid><description>SOMETIME LATER this year, less than 70 miles from Florida, a consortium of Spanish, Indian, and Norwegian companies will probably start drilling for oil. It could mark the beginning of a Cuban oil ... </description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>MLB awaits Cuba's reliever for Castro</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/29/magazines/fortune/Cuban_game.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/29/magazines/fortune/Cuban_game.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>The two shortstops, the two hombres who share a position and a homeland, were scooping up ground balls on a back field at the Seattle Mariners' training camp in Peoria, Ariz., one morning last month, taking turns gliding to the ball and firing to first base. The efficient spectacle that is a Major League Baseball batting practice session buzzed around them, balls zipping point to point: pitcher to batter, batter to outfield, fielder to first baseman.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:54:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cuba's color and complexity</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/03/14/aol.march.show/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/03/14/aol.march.show/index.html</guid><description>This month, Art of Life is in Cuba, a country brimming with character. We explore the riches of the country which, behind the crumbling facades, lie in the spirit of its people.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Castro's revenge: The Cuban oil rush</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/19/8402339/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/19/8402339/index.htm</guid><description>Sometime later this year, less than 70 miles from Florida, a consortium of Spanish, Indian and Norwegian companies will likely start drilling for oil. It could mark the beginning of a Cuban oil rus... </description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>No hospitality for Cubans at Hilton hotels</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/02/05/8399194/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/02/05/8399194/index.htm</guid><description>When a delegation of 14 Cubans tried to stay at their usual hotel in Oslo for a travel fair in January, they found themselves bounced from the reservations roster.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:49:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Tiempo Libre has Grammy dreams</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/09/grammy.tiempolibre/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/09/grammy.tiempolibre/index.html</guid><description>Tiempo Libre named their new CD "What You've Been Waiting For/Lo Que Esperabas." And this week, the guesswork is easy: The seven members of Tiempo Libre are waiting for their Grammy.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Cuba, Jamaica, Caymans under hurricane watch</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/08/26/ernesto/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/08/26/ernesto/index.html</guid><description>Cuba, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands were under hurricane watches Saturday night as Tropical Storm Ernesto gained power in the Caribbean.</description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: Get ready for post-Castro Cuba</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/06/30/after.castro/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/06/30/after.castro/index.html</guid><description>The U.S. should have assistance in Cuba within weeks of President Fidel Castro's death to support a transitional government and help move the country toward democracy, a government report recommends.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Buena Fe</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/06/06/havana.blog/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/06/06/havana.blog/index.html</guid><description>I arrive in Cuba via Nassau from Miami. This is a much more complex process than you would have thought.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2006 13:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Q &amp;amp; A: Buena Fe</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/05/04/havana.qa/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/05/04/havana.qa/index.html</guid><description>The Scene discusses Cuban music with Buena Fe frontman Israel Rojas.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 17:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>How I Did It</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2005/08/01/8267030/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2005/08/01/8267030/index.htm</guid><description>"My mother taught me you don't need to be rich to share your wealth." She came to the U.S. from Havana in 1961 and worked odd jobs--as a seamstress, a tarot card reader--but she always managed to s...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2005 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Helping others is a family tradition</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/21/pf/how_giving_0508/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/21/pf/how_giving_0508/index.htm</guid><description>"My mother taught me you don't need to be rich to share your wealth."</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2005 19:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cuba dissidents plan historic meeting</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/05/19/cuba.dissidents/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/05/19/cuba.dissidents/index.html</guid><description>Workmen Thursday were putting the final touches on tile floors and toilets built in the back yard of a Cuban dissident, the venue for what would be -- if police don't stop it -- an unprecedented meeting of opponents of Cuba's communist government.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2005 20:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Church bells announced pope's death in Cuba</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/03/pope.cuba/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/03/pope.cuba/index.html</guid><description>Church bells rang out on the Communist island of Cuba Saturday to announce the death of Pope Paul II, the only pontiff ever to visit the country. He went there in January 1998.</description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2005 05:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cuba gets tough on tourism</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/03/02/cuba.tourism/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/03/02/cuba.tourism/index.html</guid><description>In a move intended to centralize and strengthen Communist Party control of Cuban society, the island's government has introduced regulations barring Cubans who work in the tourist industry "from having personal contact with foreigners."</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2005 03:41:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Castro's health</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/21/Castro.concern/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/21/Castro.concern/index.html</guid><description>Cuba's 78-year-old president walked offstage Wednesday after giving a speech to graduating art teachers when he tripped.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pitcher's family reaches U.S. on boat from Cuba</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/22/contreras/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/22/contreras/index.html</guid><description>The wife and two daughters of New York Yankees pitcher Jose Contreras have escaped by boat from Cuba to the United States.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2004 23:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mexico, Peru pull envoys to Cuba</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/05/03/mexico.cuba/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/05/03/mexico.cuba/index.html</guid><description>Mexico has recalled its ambassador to Cuba following a blistering May Day speech by the island nation's communist leader, Fidel Castro.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2004 05:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Straw: Cuba Britons to be returned</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/02/19/britain.guantanamo/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/02/19/britain.guantanamo/index.html</guid><description>Five of the nine British citizens detained at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba are to be returned to Britain, the UK government says.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:58:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Travel CUBA</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/10/01/350558/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/10/01/350558/index.htm</guid><description>After December, you can say adios to Cuba. That's when licenses held by groups that sponsor educational trips to the island expire. (In response to President Bush's tougher stand on Fidel Castro, t...</description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2003 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Business To Bush: Let Us Into Cuba!</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/05/27/323679/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/05/27/323679/index.htm</guid><description>Forty-two years is an awfully long time to hold a grudge, but that's how long the U.S. has shunned commerce with Cuba. Forgiveness, however, may finally be around the corner, as a diverse group of ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2002 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Now What? The Post-Trial GOP</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/03/15/256506/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/03/15/256506/index.htm</guid><description>Listen up, Republicans. It's time to change the subject. Trying to drive Clinton from office ended up driving people away from the GOP. What you need now is less Cotton Mather and more Ronald Reaga...</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 1999 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>WHY OUR CUBA POLICY IS WRONG OPINION</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/10/13/232497/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/10/13/232497/index.htm</guid><description>Proponents of the American embargo against Cuba argue as follows: By squeezing the Cuban economy enough, the U.S. government can make Cubans even poorer than Fidel Castro has managed to over the pa...</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 1997 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>HOW INVESTORS CAN MAKE IT TO VIETNAM--AND CUBA</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/10/02/206533/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1995/10/02/206533/index.htm</guid><description>Vietnam and Cuba may be on opposite sides of the globe, but these days they send tingles up the spine of the same sorts of people: financiers, investors, and entrepreneurs who peruse cutting-edge e...</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 1995 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>READY TO DANCE ON CASTRO'S GRAVE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/04/06/76281/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/04/06/76281/index.htm</guid><description>Cuba's real miracle? The fact that Fidel Castro is still hanging on. The economy is decaying rapidly without the prop of Soviet aid, and rumors persist that the dictator's health isn't much better....</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 1992 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>CUBA: PUSHING FOR CHANGE Its economy is dying, its people restless. U.S. policy makes things worse: Treating Castro like a Cold </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/08/26/75403/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/08/26/75403/index.htm</guid><description>THE FEUD that has trapped the U.S. and Cuba in a time warp for a whole generation is living its last days. On one side of the Gulf Stream sits the 32-year-old regime of Fidel Castro still pretendin...</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>NOW HEAR THIS </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/12/21/70008/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/12/21/70008/index.htm</guid><description>-- KARL POHL, 58, president of West Germany's Bundesbank: ''It is one of my responsibilities to give the impression that I am not nervous, that I'm in control.'' </description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 1987 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bias Against Readers, USX Meets Z, Spelling and All That, and Other Matters Great Moments in International Banking</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/08/18/67911/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/08/18/67911/index.htm</guid><description>LONDON -- Cuba's creditor banks have offered the country $50 million in new loans as part of a rescheduling package . . . However, Cuba appears set on holding out for more funds from the West . . ....</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 1986 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>