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...Cuba howled, but anti-Castro exile, former CIA operative and alleged terrorist Luis Posada Carriles was freed on bail pending his trial on immigration fraud. Even the U.S. Justice Department objected to the release of Posada, who some believe was linked to a 1976 airline bombing that killed 73 people, including 24 members of the Cuban fencing team, and who escaped from a Venezuelan prison in 1985. Posada, 79, who denies any involvement in the bombing, has been ordered to remain under house detention at his wife's apartment in the Miami area, where reaction was a mix of support...
Biofuels are touted as a planet-friendly substitute for coal and oil. While ethanol (made from corn or sugarcane) and biodiesel (made from soybean or palm oil) burn cleaner and produce less greenhouse gas than fossil fuels do, critics warn that biofuels have their own dark side. Cuba's Fidel Castro even called powering cars with food "sinister" policy, but here's a more level-headed breakdown of the impact and limitations of farming for fuel...
...Abortion on demand, even in the first trimester of a pregnancy, is still illegal in all but three small countries in predominantly Roman Catholic Latin America (Cuba, Guyana and Barbados). In fact, abortion prohibitions in some countries there have gotten stricter - even in Nicaragua, where the former Marxist revolutionary Daniel Ortega recently became President again, but where the staunchly pro-life Catholic Church last fall influenced passage of the hemisphere's most draconian ban on abortion...
CARL BILDT, Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Prime Minister of Sweden, which is involved in a diplomatic row with Cuba after Bildt criticized Cuba's human-rights record recently; a Cuban representative shot back by saying Cuba "does not persecute migrants or carry out ethnic cleansing that only allows ... former Viking conquerors to remain in the country...
ESTEBAN BOVO, Hialeah, Fla., city council president, about Mitt Romney, Republican presidential contender, who asserted in a Miami speech that the slogan "¡Patria o muerte, venceremos!" [Fatherland or death, we shall overcome!] belongs to a "free Cuba." The phrase is actually Fidel Castro's trademark sign...