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Communist Party of Cuba

NPR | 1 day ago

Arrest Brings New Chill In U.S.-Cuba Relations

...serving long sentences in U.S. prisons. Jean Guy Allard, a Canadian-born reporter who works for Cuba's Communist Party newspaper Granma, says that Cubans are "fed up" with the actions...

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boston.com - Health news | 4 days ago

Cuba’s health care now pays for sex changes

...many Cubans said their country was too poor to pay for the procedure, writing letters to the editor in the Communist Party newspaper Granma after the first successful Cuban surgery was...

"Cuban mercenaries can be detained and tried according to applicable laws - in no country can you violate the law," Enrique Ubieta Gomez wrote. Zapata Tamayo died Tuesday after refusing solid food for weeks. Imprisoned in 2003 for disrespecting authority, he was eventually sentenced to 25 years for activism behind bars and was considered a "prisoner of conscience"

Cuban media acknowledges jailed dissident's death Kansas City Star | 2 weeks ago

AP Online | 5 days ago

Cuban hunger striker in hospital after passing out

...it was made after a "sullied debate." Cuba kept up the angry rhetoric on Friday, with a long article in the Communist Party daily Granma titled: "European Parliament allies...

Miami Herald - Opinion | 1 week ago

Business as usual

The Cuban regime knows no shame. On March 8, Granma, the Communist Party daily, foretold the death of Guillermo Farinas Hernandez. On a hunger strike since Feb. 24, he is demanding that...

washingtonpost.com | 1 week ago

In paying for sex changes, Cuba breaks from past

...many Cubans claimed their country was too poor to pay for the procedure, writing letters to the editor in the Communist Party newspaper Granma after the first successful Cuban surgery was...

NBC | 1 week ago

Cuba Pays For Sex Change Operations

...many Cubans claimed their country was too poor to pay for the procedure, writing letters to the editor in the Communist Party newspaper Granma after the first successful Cuban surgery...

WGN | 1 week ago

Cuba once persecuted homosexuals, transsexuals, now quietly pays for sex-change operations

...many Cubans claimed their country was too poor to pay for the procedure, writing letters to the editor in the Communist Party newspaper Granma after the first successful Cuban surgery...

New York Times | 1 week ago

World Briefing The Americas: Cuba: A Castro Comrade Is Replaced

...has been replaced as the official in charge of Cuba's airlines and airports, according to a statement in the Communist Party newspaper Granma. The general, Rogelio Acevedo, 68, was...

AP Online | 1 week ago

Cuban hunger striker rejects Spain asylum offer

...intravenously. On Monday, the government criticized foreign media coverage of the protest, declaring in the Communist Party newspaper Granma that Cuba would "not accept pressure or...

AP Online | 1 week ago

Cuba replaces head of civil aviation

...the current No. 2 in the Air Force air defense unit, according to an announcement published Tuesday in the Communist Party newspaper Granma. No reason was given for the change at the...

Washington Times | 1 week ago

Briefly

...not be "blackmailed" by another dissident hunger striker, whom it accused of being a convicted criminal. The Communist Party newspaper Granma, which reflects government policy, said in an...

The Times of India - World | 1 week ago

Cuban TV runs series on attempts to kill Castro

...who stepped down from the presidency in favour of his younger brother, Raul, 79, after being stricken by a serious illness in July 2006, remains the leader of the Cuban Communist Party.