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commonsensewonder.blogspot.com - 16 hours ago
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U.N. Nuclear Agency Calls Iran Inquiry ‘Dead End’
Iran rebuked over nuclear 'cover-up' by UN watchdog The...
UN nuclear watchdog's governing body has passed a resolution condemning Iran for developing a uranium enrichment site in secret. The IAEA resolution was passed with rare Russian and ...
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ElBaradei's work is done. He's covered for Iran nuclear ...
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huffingtonpost.com - 2 days ago
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Phill Carter, a key Pentagon appointee in charge
of detainee affairs, has resigned. Carter told the Washington...
Post that he was leaving for "personal and family reasons." Carter, an Iraq war veteran, worked on new policies that helped Guantanamo ...
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Phil Carter Resigns: Key Pentagon Appointee Worked On ...
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miamiherald.com - 4 days ago
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T he title of the latest Human Rights
Watch report on Cuba succinctly describes the dismal state...
of civil liberties on the island since Ra l Castro took over for his ailing brother in July of 2006: ``New Castro, Same Cuba.'' Anyone who thought that ...
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Cubans Still in Agony
nypost.com - 5 days ago
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The five men facing trial in the Sept.
11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they...
can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said today. Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz ...
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9/11 fiends to use trial as soapbox
politicalnewslive.blogspot.com - 5 days ago
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politicalnewslive.blogspot.com —
In the United States, the Congress debated lifting
the five-decade long travel embargo for American citizens to...
Cuba.
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Video: Debating US travel ban to Cuba
faustasblog.com - 6 days ago
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Here’s a bit of news on that “excellent
free Cuban healthcare” sure to warm your heart… or...
something: Agence France Presse story at Noticias 24: Cuba realiza implantes gratuitos de prótesis de penes Cuba operating free penile prosthesis surgeries. There are 28 lucky ...
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Cuba: Get yer free penile implant!
news.bbc.co.uk - 6 days ago
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A retired US state department official and his
wife have admitted spying for Cuba for nearly three...
decades. The former official, Walter Kendall Myers, 72, had access to top-secret government information. Under a plea deal, Mr Myers will spend the rest ...
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Retired US official and wife admit spying for Cuba
faustasblog.com - 7 days ago
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Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez submitted seven questions to
pres. Obama and to Raul Castro. Only Obama replied....
You can read her post here . The Miami Herald reports, Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez gets answers — from President Obama A spokesman for the U.S. State Department’s Western ...
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Yoani Sanchez gets reply from Obama
babalublog.com - 7 days ago
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I wholeheartedly support the work and efforts of
Yoani Sanchez. She has, in many ways, singlehandedly exposed...
the realities of life in Cuba under the castro dictatorship for all of the world to see. She is courageous, puts herself on the line with ...
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Seven Questions
thehill.com - 7 days ago
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It may not quite be time to start
planning that trip to Havana....
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Skepticism greets bill to lift 50-year-old Cuba travel ...
mcclatchydc.com - 8 days ago
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New Florida Sen. George LeMieux's first foray into
foreign relations has drawn brickbats from former high-ranking State...
Department officials who say his effort to block the Obama administration's new ambassador to Brazil is damaging U.S. relations ...
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Florida Sen. LeMieux blasted for blocking appointment of ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 9 days ago
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On the House floor last night, Rep. Lincoln
Diaz-Balart (R., Fla.) gave a speech. His subject was...
the persecution of Cuban democrats, and the general ignoring of this persecution by the American press. This has been a longstanding grievance of Cubans ...
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Who Cares about Cuba? -- By: Jay Nordlinger
hrw.org - 9 days ago
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This 123-page report shows how the Raúl Castro
government has relied in particular on the Criminal Code...
offense of "dangerousness," which allows authorities to imprison individuals before they have committed any crime, on the suspicion that they are ...
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New Castro, Same Cuba
sunherald.com - 9 days ago
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sunherald.com —
Military tribunals are the appropriate setting for the
trials of suspected 9/11 terrorists and the tribunals have...
the added advantage of safeguarding the nation’s security and intelligence operations.
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Leave justice for 9/11 suspects to the military
pajamasmedia.com - 9 days ago
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The international press finally reports on Castro's violence.
Perhaps because the victim is a darling of the...
left as well as the right.
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Cuban Blogger Beaten by Regime Thugs — This Time, the ...
swamppolitics.com - 10 days ago
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by David G. Savage and Josh Meyer The
plotters of the 9/11 attacks on New York City...
and Washington will be tried as terrorists and criminals in a federal court in New York, the Obama administration will announce today. Five men, including ...
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9/11 plotters bound for trial in New York
nyupress.org - 10 days ago
faustasblog.com - 10 days ago
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In today’s podcast at 11AM Eastern, The curious
cases of Americans jailed in Cuba while visiting relatives....
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Americans jailed in Cuba while visiting family: 15 ...
thewashingtonnote.com - 11 days ago
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Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw "Radek" Sikorski , husband
of Washington Post editorial writer (and Polish cuisine expert)...
Anne Applebaum , is a compelling, brilliant, eclectic political intellectual who I admire a great deal. In part, I ...
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Neocon-Realist Collaboration on Ending Cuba Embargo?
miamiherald.com - 11 days ago
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U.S. law lets American citizens travel to any
country on earth, friend or foe -- with one...
exception: Cuba. It's time for us to scrap this anachronistic ban, imposed during one of the chilliest periods of the Cold War.
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Lift the ban -- let Americans visit Cuba
csmonitor.com - 11 days ago
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The Supreme Court Monday declined to hear a
challenge to a Miami school board decision that removed...
a book about Cuba from public schools. The book was seen as presenting too cheery a view of life in Cuba. By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The ...
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Supreme Court: Miami school can ban book on Cuba
faustasblog.com - 11 days ago
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Welcome to the Carnival of Latin America and
the Caribbean. The must-read post of the week: Yoani...
Sanchez’s Shadow Beings ARGENTINA Las FARC, Chávez, Irán, Bolivia y ¿Argentina? Argentina-Brazil Trade Spat Threatens Weaker Peso BRAZIL Presidential politics in Brazil Her ...
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The Nov. 16 Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean
babalublog.com - 11 days ago
chicagobreakingnews.com - 11 days ago
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chicagobreakingnews.com —
A delegation from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons
is scheduled to tour and inspect the Thomson Correctional...
Center Monday as part of a White House proposal to buy the facility and use it to house some terror suspects now detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba , ...
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U.S. prison officials to tour Thomson Monday
thehill.com - 12 days ago
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An Illinois congressman wrote the president on Saturday
to try to preemptively block terror suspects from being...
moved to his state for trial. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), who is running for President Barack Obama's old Senate seat, sent Obama a letter ...
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Kirk looks to halt transfer of Gitmo detainees to Illinois
news.yahoo.com - 14 days ago
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Reuters - Five men accused of plotting the
September 11, 2001 attacks, including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh...
Mohammed, will be sent to criminal court in New York from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an Obama administration ...
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9/11 suspects to be tried in New York: official
...
themoderatevoice.com - 14 days ago
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CAPTIONS SAYS: ‘DREAM OF THE ARABS’ AS A
JEWISH ARM PUNCTURES THE BALLOON OF THE DREAM Continuing...
our coverage of the global reaction to the Fort Hood killings, we came across this Arabic op-ed from the United Arab Emirates – a moderate Arab state considered friendly ...
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America’s ‘Black Knights’ and the Fort Hood Tragedy: Dar ...
commonsensewonder.blogspot.com - 15 days ago
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Cuba orders extreme measures to cut energy use
11 Nov 2009 21:58:49 GMT 11 Nov 2009 21:58:49...
GMT ## for search indexer, do not remove --> Source: Reuters * Cuba's energy situation termed "critical" * Some factories, workshops to be closed through December * Most other economic activities to be ...
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The media still covering for the failed communist system
boston.com - 15 days ago
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Havana, the capital city of the island nation
of Cuba is home to nearly 4 million people...
- 20% of the entire population of Cuba. On November 16th the city will celebrate its 490th anniversary, being founded by the Spanish in 1519. Havana is also the ...
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Scenes from Havana
boingboing.net - 15 days ago
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Joe sez, "The McDonald's franchise at the Guantanamo
Bay Naval Base in Cuba is looking for an...
assistant manager. The ideal candidate will have previous restaurant management experience, a valid U.S. passport and a willingness to relocate to Cuba. ...
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McDonald's Gitmo is hiring!
alertnet.org - 16 days ago
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* Cuba's energy situation termed "critical" * Some
factories, workshops to be closed through December * Most...
other economic activities to be reduced By Marc Frank HAVANA, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Cuba has ordered all state enterprises to adopt "extreme ...
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Cuba orders extreme measures to cut energy use
nationalreview.com - 16 days ago
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May 13, 2005, 9:45 a.m. Travels in Fidel-land
What a visit revealed. By Radek Sikorski EDITOR'S NOTE:...
This piece appears in the May 23, 2005, issue of National Review . A s we started speaking about my visit, Father José María removed the telephone ...
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Radek Sikorski on Cuba on National Review Online
reason.com - 16 days ago
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But not for Cubans. The Miami Herald reports
that Cuban blogger Yaoni Sanchez, one of Time 's...
"heroes and pioneers" of 2008 , was beaten and detained by the secret police, though fails to mention that her free health care will cover all ...
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The Cold War Ended For Some
rightofcourse.com - 17 days ago
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Liberals are drooling over Obama’s Ft. Hood speach
today. Obama did manage not to alienate anyone with...
today’s speach. This is an improvement over his previous Ft. Hood speach where he barely acknowledged the attack after giving “shout outs” to some homies at the ...
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Random Raving - Obama’s Ft. Hood speach, Carrie ...
state.gov - 18 days ago
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The U.S. government strongly deplores the assault on
bloggers Yoani Sanchez, Orlando Luis Pardo, and Claudia Cadelo....
On November 6, these three activists were forcibly detained by plain clothes security personnel and beaten while en route to a ...
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Assault on Cuban Bloggers
faustasblog.com - 18 days ago
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Welcome to the Carnival of Latin America and
the Caribbean. Today’s top story: Yoani Sánchez and Orlando...
Luís Pardo Lazo last Friday, November 6, were kidnapped off a street in Havana just as they were about to participate on a peace demonstration. They were severely beaten by three ...
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The beaten Cuban bloggers Carnival of Latin America and ...
powerlineblog.com - 18 days ago
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powerlineblog.com —
Our friend Monical Showalter writes regarding the victimization
of the heroic Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez (of Generación...
Y ) by one of the dictators with whom Barack Obama takes no issue: Yoani Sanchez, the adorable and vividly good Cuban ...
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Dictatorships and double standards, part 2
babalublog.com - 18 days ago
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babalublog.com —
The detention and beating of Yoani Sanchez and
friends is business as usual for the Castro brothers....
Their so-called people’s revolution has in fact been a half-century reign of terror against the Cuban people. Bombings , executions , hijackings , ...
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Reign of terror in Cuba
babalublog.com - 18 days ago
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babalublog.com —
Via Capitol Hill Cubans : November 7, 2009
(Washington, DC) – Cuban authorities should cease all attacks...
on human rights defenders, journalists, bloggers and civic activists, Human Rights Watch said today. The international community should ...
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Human Rights Watch denounces attack on Yoani
alekboyd.blogspot.com - 18 days ago
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alekboyd.blogspot.com —
La ultima vez que visite el Alcatraz antillano,
tuve la fortuna de conocer y departir brevemente con...
Yoani Sanchez . Cogimos la guagua y nos presentamos en su casa, así no mas. Recuerdo que el dial del ascensor de su edificio tiene dos números 5, ...
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Yoani contra la barbarie
latinamericanstudies.org - 20 days ago
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Airline and Boat Hijacking to Cuba 1965-1975 Accused
Hijacker Held By FBI After Release By Cuban Government...
Cuba Returns 3 Accused U.S. Hijackers Cuban Exile, Skyjacking Suspect, Held For Grand Jury Father, Son Give Up in '72 Killings 1st Hijacker's ...
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Airline and Boat Hijaking to Cuba
fiu.edu - 20 days ago
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- 154 - REPORT Nº 47/96 CASE 11.436
VICTIMS OF THE TUGBOAT "13 DE MARZO" vs. CUBA...
October 16, 1996 I. BACKGROUND 1. On July 19, 1994, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights received a complaint stating that in the early morning hours of July ...
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REPORT Nº 47/96 CASE 11.436 VICTIMS OF THE TUGBOAT "13 ...
cubaverdad.net - 20 days ago
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Main Page The regime The CDR School Social
Control Repressive Laws Repression Repressive Machinery Link to Stasi...
Cubafacts Stalinist Archive search on "Stasi" Stasi archive files The Stasi archives in Germany The Cuban Ministry of the Interior ...
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The link between East Germany's Stasi and Cuba
cubaverdad.net - 20 days ago
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In Cuba control starts at school . Main
Page The regime The CDR School Social Control Repressive...
Laws Repression Repressive Machinery Link to Stasi Cubafacts Stalinist A copy from a Cuban school report listing "good revolutionary behavior". Quote: ...
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Education in Cuba as part of social control
ctp.iccas.miami.edu - 20 days ago
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The provision of food in Cuba has undergone
a significant transformation due to the necessities of the...
“Special Period,” (1) moving from centralized production and distribution to a mixed system where options are available outside the ration card, ...
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Focus on Cuba
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video.google.com - 20 days ago
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COVERING CUBA 5 ACT OF REPUDIATION ACTO DE
REPUDIO © 2007 ABIP All Rights Reserved AB INDEPENDENT...
PRODUCTIONS/CC4 distributed by www.CubaCollectibles.com running time: 58' Color/B&W VIDEO DVD & VHS HI-FI Stereo In English with Spanish subtitles ...
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CC5: Act of Repudiation [trailer] (video)
asiapacific.amnesty.org - 20 days ago
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José Rivero García, who is the Vice-President of
CubaPress , has been threatened with imprisonment on several...
occasions if he does not cease his work as an independent journalist or leave the country. Most recently, on 9 June 1996 State Security ...
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Cuba: Dissidents imprisoned or forced into exile
hrw.org - 20 days ago
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Dr. Hilda Molina with her mother in Cuba.
She was told she could not travel because her...
brain was property of the government.© 2005 Private
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Cuba/United States: Families Torn Apart: II. Cuba's ...
hrw.org - 20 days ago
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hrw.org —
Cuba remains the one country in Latin American
that represses nearly all forms of political dissent. The...
government continues to enforce political conformity using criminal prosecutions, long- and short-term detentions, mob harassment, surveillance, ...
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Human Rights Watch
miamiherald.com - 20 days ago
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miamiherald.com —
CUBA Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez detained, beaten on
way to march Cuba's best-known blogger Yoani Sanchez said...
state security officials seized and assaulted her in an effort to block her participation in a march against violence. BY JUAN O. TAMAYO ...
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Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez detained, beaten on way to march
