In Havana, a British man and his Cuban wife have just opened the Caribbean island’s first curry house.

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VIDEO: Cuba gets its first curry house

Even with a less storied past than baseball, which has long been considered as Cuban as hand-rolled cigars, soccer has made inroads in Cuba in recent years.

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Havana Journal: Soccer Gains in Cuba, Where Baseball Is King

Miami Marlins Manager Ozzie Guillen apologized for and explained his laudatory remarks about Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in an hourlong press conference in Miami that alternated between English and Spanish. Read full article > >

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Ozzie Guillen, suspended five games, says, “I feel like I betrayed my Latin community”

Miami Marlins Manager Ozzie Guillen apologized for and explained his laudatory remarks about Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in an hourlong press conference in Miami that alternated between English and Spanish. Read full article > >

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Ozzie Guillen, suspended five games, says, “I feel like I betrayed my Latin community”

Pope Benedict XVI meets Cuban President Raul Castro on the second day of his visit to the communist-run island, and is to meet Fidel Castro later.

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Pope meets Raul Castro in Havana

Pope Benedict XVI meets Cuban President Raul Castro on the second day of his visit to the communist-run island, and is to meet Fidel Castro later.

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Pope meets Raul Castro in Havana

Pope Benedict XVI leaves Mexico and heads for Cuba for a three-day visit, after making critical comments of the Cuban Marxist system.

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Pope heading for key Cuba visit

HOW IS CUBA preparing for the visit next week of Pope Benedict XVI? By rounding up dissidents , of course. Four score or so were detained over the weekend, including the leaders and most of the members of the Ladies in White, the group that regularly marches in support of political prisoners. Many were released Monday, but they can expect regular harassment in the coming days. The regime’s practice is to carry out short-term arrests rather than formal imprisonments: According to the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, there were more than 600 such detentions in February alone. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Can the Pope bring hope to Cubans?

Cuban authorities detained about 70 members of the dissident group Ladies in White over the weekend, including 18 who staged its weekly Sunday march in the Cuban capital.

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Cuba Detains 70 Ladies in White Ahead of Pope Visit

After a yearlong oil drilling moratorium, BP and other companies have intensified exploration and production in the gulf, and drilling will soon be expanded to Mexican and Cuban waters.

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Deepwater Oil Drilling Picks Up Again as BP Disaster Fades

On a bustling street in downtown Frederick last week, a group of businessmen chatted in rapid Spanish inside a new Cuban restaurant. Down the block, two Mexican-born painters listened to peppy Latin radio music as they touched up a storefront facade. Read full article > >

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In Frederick, English language law sows conflict amid Hispanic immigrant boom

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro once again dominated his country's airwaves Monday during the televised presentation of an event for his new memoir, “Fidel Castro: Guerrilla of Time.”

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Cuba TV airs Castro book-release party

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has made a rare public appearance to launch his memoirs.

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VIDEO: Fidel Castro launches memoirs

At least a dozen teams have an interest in the Cuban defector Yoennis Cespedes, who has an athletic body and a home run bat.

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Cuba’s Yoennis Cespedes Could Be Baseball’s Hottest Free Agent

Talks JFK, Cuban Missile Crisis on new tapes.

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