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    <title>Latin American Herald Tribune - 36 Cubans Ride a Raft to Honduras</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-27T10:49:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2349568&amp;CategoryId=23558</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[More than 1,500 Cubans have arrived in Honduras to date in 2014, most of them headed for the United States]]></description>
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    <title>Cuba and the outside world: Rekindling old friendships | The Economist</title>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cuba-watchers have paid close attention to the visits of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, in recent weeks]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Gross is also now refusing to see officials from the U.S. Interests Section in Havana]]></description>
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    <title>The EU has recognized that its Common Position has failed to improve human rights in Cuba. It's time for the U.S. to do the same with its embargo. | Americas Quarterly</title>
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    <title>¿A quién beneficia el intercambio cultural entre Cuba y EEUU? - Cuba - ElNuevoHerald.com</title>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Durante el pasado año fiscal se otorgaron 2,327 visas B1 a cubanos para viajes profesionales y de negocios, 40 por ciento más que en el 2012]]></description>
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    <title>BBC News - Putin denies Russia plans to reopen spy base in Cuba</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-18T09:49:10+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Speaking at the Brics summit in Brazil, Mr Putin said Russia could "meet its defence needs without this component"]]></description>
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    <title>Russia Plans to Reopen Post in Cuba for Spying - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-18T09:48:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[President Vladimir V. Putin agreed with Cuba’s leader, Raúl Castro, during a visit to Cuba last week to reopen the post. In exchange, Mr. Putin agreed to forgive about 90 percent of Cuba’s Soviet-era debt to Russia]]></description>
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    <title>Detentions of Dozens of Activists in Cuba</title>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On Sunday Cuban authorities rounded up and detained over one hundred courageous members of the Damas de Blanco]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2014-07-11T09:45:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.wola.org/commentary/cuba_s_new_labor_code_and_foreign_investment_law_implications_for_workers</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[While many hoped that the new code would address various questions relevant to Cuba’s changing economy—including the rights of private sector and cooperative workers— it largely fell short of expectations]]></description>
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    <title>Migration Talks With Cuba</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-10T11:09:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, July 9, U.S. and Cuban officials met in Washington to discuss the implementation of the 1994 and 1995 U.S.-Cuba Migration Accords. These talks are held semi-annually]]></description>
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    <title>US, Cuba Hold Migration Talks in Washington - ABC News</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-10T11:04:28+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A U.S. State Department statement called the talks routine and said they did not indicate a change in policy toward Cuba]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sen-robert-menendez-seeks-probe-of-alleged-cuban-plot-to-smear-him/2014/07/07/e9ba25a0-efe8-11e3-914c-1fbd0614e2d4_story.html">
    <title>Sen. Robert Menendez seeks probe of alleged Cuban plot to smear him - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-08T11:02:13+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sen. Robert Menendez is asking the Justice Department to pursue evidence obtained by U.S. investigators that the Cuban government concocted an elaborate plot to smear him with allegations that he cavorted with underage prostitutes]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/agencia-efe/140701/opposition-group-slams-cubas-963-political-arrests-june">
    <title>Opposition group slams Cuba's 963 political arrests in June | GlobalPost</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-08T10:57:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/agencia-efe/140701/opposition-group-slams-cubas-963-political-arrests-june</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The dissident Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, or CCDHRN, said Tuesday that at least 963 arrests were made for political reasons last month on the Communist-ruled island]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/07/07/america_finally_grounds_its_anti_castro_propaganda_plane_for_good">
    <title>America Finally Grounds Anti-Castro Propaganda Plane for Good</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-08T10:41:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/07/07/america_finally_grounds_its_anti_castro_propaganda_plane_for_good</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Since launching in 2006, the program was plagued by a simple problem: Every day the plane flew, Havana jammed its broadcast signal]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2014/06/29/actualidad/1404006277_637124.html">
    <title>El presidente de Google visita Cuba | Internacional | EL PAÍS</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-30T12:17:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2014/06/29/actualidad/1404006277_637124.html</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[La bloguera cubana Yoani Sánchez fue quien dio la noticia de la llegada a la isla del presidente de Google, Eric Schmidt, junto con los directivos de Google Ideas]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.voanews.com/content/panama-court-releases-north-korean-soldiers/1946844.html">
    <title>Panama Court Releases North Korean Sailors</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-30T11:05:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.voanews.com/content/panama-court-releases-north-korean-soldiers/1946844.html</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The ship was carrying an undeclared cargo of Cuban arms as it tried to enter the Panama Canal last year]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/cuba-punishes-baseball-players-exit-attempts-24300607">
    <title>Cuba Punishes 6 Baseball Players for Exit Attempts - ABC News</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-27T10:10:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/cuba-punishes-baseball-players-exit-attempts-24300607</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Six more baseball players have been ruled out of the current national squad for trying to defect]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/06/25/4200621/lawyer-alan-gross-plans-to-end.html">
    <title>HAVANA: Wife of US man jailed in Cuba says he's despondent - Latest News - MiamiHerald.com</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-26T13:56:15+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:date>2014-05-08T10:51:48+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Récord de detenciones de disidentes en Cuba - Cuba - ElNuevoHerald.com</title>
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    <dc:date>2014-05-06T12:49:05+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>While Brazil Sambas with Cuba, the U.S. Dances Alone | Americas Quarterly</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-02T10:30:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As Brazil engages in a wise game of hemispheric chess, the U.S. is playing solitaire: the result of the self-imposed embargo]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2014-05-02T10:04:28+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Country Reports on Terrorism - State Sponsors of Terrorism</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-01T11:04:02+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Question: What is the criteria for getting a country off the State sponsor terrorist list? Is there a trigger for a review?]]></description>
<dc:subject>140501 cuba uspolicy terrorism [x]usgovtdocument</dc:subject>
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    <title>Cuba, EU Approve Road Map on Normalization Talks - ABC News</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-01T10:41:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[While EU officials say concerns about democracy and human rights will continue to influence the bloc's policy, recent visits by Cabinet-level officials from France and the Netherlands suggest an increasing openness to engaging]]></description>
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    <title>Cuba Gives State-Run Companies More Autonomy - ABC News</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-29T10:38:15+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dialogue and discreet diplomacy — what the Canadians call "constructive engagement" — have functioned better than external pressure toward Cuba]]></description>
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    <title>Charles Lane: Gabriel García Márquez was a gifted writer but no hero - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-24T14:26:58+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[García Márquez’s Cuba apologetics will forever mar his legacy]]></description>
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    <title>Lawyer: US Man Held in Cuba Seeks to Go Home Soon - ABC News</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-24T09:58:22+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/cuban-doctors-in-eye-of-venezuelan-hurricane/2014/04/16/3d090c64-c51c-11e3-9ee7-02c1e10a03f0_story.html">
    <title>Cuban doctors in eye of Venezuelan hurricane - The Washington Post</title>
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    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/cuban-doctors-in-eye-of-venezuelan-hurricane/2014/04/16/3d090c64-c51c-11e3-9ee7-02c1e10a03f0_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cuba is believed to have sent around 100,000 professionals, mostly health care workers but also athletes, engineers and even circus artists, to Venezuela since Chavez came to power in 1999]]></description>
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    <title>BBC News - Cubans hungry for internet revolution on the Communist island</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-16T12:23:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27033208</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's a month since Cuba's government started permitting people to have email on their mobile phones but the queues to sign up for the service are still enormous]]></description>
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    <title>Cuba fed a president’s fears and took over Venezuela - FT.com</title>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Venezuela is nine times bigger than Cuba, three times more populous, and its economy four times larger. The country boasts the world’s largest oil reserves. Yet critical functions of the Venezuelan state are either overseen or directly controlled by Cuban officials]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/04/15/when-is-foreign-aid-meddling/secret-programs-hurt-foreign-aid-efforts">
    <title>Secret Programs Hurt Foreign Aid Efforts - NYTimes.com</title>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The solution is simple: ban U.S.A.I.D. from conducting such covert operations in the name of advancing democracy]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/04/15/when-is-foreign-aid-meddling/when-us-aid-undermines-local-voices">
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Much more could be accomplished to this end simply by expanding President Obama’s totally transparent people-to-people policy by lifting the travel ban against Americans and putting an end to our anachronistic and counterproductive embargo]]></description>
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    <title>Letter from Cuba: To Embargo or Not | World Affairs Journal</title>
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    <link>http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/letter-cuba-embargo-or-not</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cubans would still suffer under a power-mad police state, and the US would have exhausted its leverage for nothing]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268779/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=6aUGPJoX">
    <title>AP News : Window opens on secret camp within Guantanamo</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-14T11:38:13+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Camp 7 prison unit is so shrouded in secrecy that its location on the U.S. base in Cuba is classified and officials refuse to discuss it. Now, two separate but related events are forcing it into the limelight]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2014/04/13/1724939/la-crisis-golpea-a-los-servicios.html">
    <title>La crisis golpea a los servicios de inteligencia de Venezuela - Venezuela - ElNuevoHerald.com</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-14T10:43:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2014/04/13/1724939/la-crisis-golpea-a-los-servicios.html</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[La falta de dinero está impactando las costosas operaciones en el exterior del régimen de Nicolás Maduro]]></description>
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    <title>BBC News - US contractor Alan Gross ends Cuba jail hunger strike</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-14T09:44:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-26997267</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Alan Gross said he suspended his fast because his mother, 91, had asked him to end it, but added that "there will be further protests to come"]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.voanews.com/content/french-foreign-minister-makes-historic-visit-to-cuba/1892260.html">
    <title>French Foreign Minister Makes Historic Visit to Cuba</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-14T09:20:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.voanews.com/content/french-foreign-minister-makes-historic-visit-to-cuba/1892260.html</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cuba has been subject to a U.S. embargo for five decades. It is eager to eliminate the EU's ``common position,'' enacted in December 1996, which links human rights and democracy conditions to improved economic relations]]></description>
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    <title>U.S. Contractor Held in Cuba Begins a Hunger Strike - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-09T11:12:05+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Mr. Gross and his wife expressed frustration with Mr. Obama and the United States government, saying that they have not done enough to try to free him]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2014/04/07/actualidad/1396896066_516518.html">
    <title>Apertura en la prensa cubana, dentro de un orden | Internacional | EL PAÍS</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-09T11:10:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2014/04/07/actualidad/1396896066_516518.html</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[El diagnóstico de los problemas en los ideologizados y aburridos medios de comunicación cubanos es claro, pero no las soluciones para que dejen de serlo]]></description>
<dc:subject>140409 cuba politicsandsecurity pressfreedom</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/08/usaid-worker-alan-gross-cuba-hunger-strike">
    <title>Former USAid worker Alan Gross goes on hunger strike in Cuban prison | World news | theguardian.com</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-09T11:08:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/08/usaid-worker-alan-gross-cuba-hunger-strike</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Alan Gross, 64, said he began fasting to protest his treatment by the governments of both Cuba and the United States. He said he began fasting last Thursday]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://blog.usaid.gov/2014/04/eight-facts-about-zunzuneo/">
    <title>Eight Facts About ZunZuneo | USAID Impact</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-09T11:08:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.usaid.gov/2014/04/eight-facts-about-zunzuneo/</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It makes for an interesting read, but it’s not true]]></description>
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    <title>Cuba Social Media Project Was No Plot, Agency Says - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-09T10:08:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/world/americas/us-agency-defends-social-media-project-in-cuba.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;_r=0</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Rajiv Shah, U.S.A.I.D.’s administrator, told members that the program was similar to others that the agency has financed in Africa, Asia and Latin America]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bloggingsbyboz.com/2014/04/the-zunzuneo-challenge-part-1.html">
    <title>The ZunZuneo challenge. Part 1 | Bloggings by boz</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-08T11:08:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bloggingsbyboz.com/2014/04/the-zunzuneo-challenge-part-1.html</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[They could build a ZunZuneo 2.0, this time transparently, collaboratively and learning from the good and bad of their previous effort]]></description>
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    <title>The Fall of Internet Freedom: Meet the Company That Secretly Built ‘Cuban Twitter' - Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-08T10:01:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/the-fall-of-internet-freedom-meet-the-company-that-secretly-built-cuban-twitter/360168/</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If ZunZuneo looks ridiculous in retrospect, it’s because 2011 is a different country. We now know U.S. security apparatus may threaten the "open Internet" as much as an oppressive government, if not more]]></description>
<dc:subject>140408 cuba uspolicy newsemail</dc:subject>
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    <title>Cuban Moviemakers Feeling Burden of U.S. Embargo - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-07T10:11:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/movies/cuban-moviemakers-feeling-burden-of-us-embargo.html</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The embargo is hindering the growth of a cinema that is increasingly independent of the state and often offers a raw reflection of Cuban life or pokes fun at the government]]></description>
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    <title>A U.S. plan to help Cubans communicate should be applauded - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-07T08:59:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-us-plan-to-help-cubans-communicate-should-be-applauded/2014/04/06/28ba5794-bc2b-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[USAID pronounced itself “proud” of trying to help Cubans “speak freely among themselves,” and it should be — even if someone else probably should have gotten the assignment]]></description>
<dc:subject>140407 cuba uspolicy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://wlrn.org/post/cuba-clueless-covert-twitter-scheme-tweets-us-policy-failure#.U0CiPBDQtvV.twitter">
    <title>Cuba Clueless: Covert Twitter Scheme Tweets U.S. Policy Failure | WLRN</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-07T00:47:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://wlrn.org/post/cuba-clueless-covert-twitter-scheme-tweets-us-policy-failure#.U0CiPBDQtvV.twitter</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What we’re left with is one more exasperating instance of Washington trying to jam the square peg of 20th-century Cold War cloak-and-dagger into the round hole of 21st-century Latin American politics]]></description>
<dc:subject>140407 cuba uspolicy</dc:subject>
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    <title>ZunZuneo vs the Cuba embargo | Bloggings by boz</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-04T14:26:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bloggingsbyboz.com/2014/04/zunzuneo-vs-cuba-embargo.html</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Where this ZunZuneo program went too far was in the proposal, even before its creation, that the ZZ platform could or should be used to trigger smart mobs or even a “Cuban Spring”]]></description>
<dc:subject>140404 cuba uspolicy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21600128-cuba-eases-investment-rules-many-cuban-americans-turn-against-embargo-strait-talk?fsrc=rss|ame">
    <title>Investment in Cuba: Strait talk | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-04T14:25:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21600128-cuba-eases-investment-rules-many-cuban-americans-turn-against-embargo-strait-talk?fsrc=rss|ame</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Younger Cuban-Americans are less obsessed with Cuba than their exiled elders. Like other Americans, pollsters say, they now think more pragmatically; Cuba is not the only voting issue that they care about]]></description>
<dc:subject>140404 cuba uspolicy newsemail</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:isacson/b:ef446a436c25/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/04/03/the-u-s-thinks-it-can-invent-a-cuban-spring-puh-leez-say-internet-freedom-scholars/">
    <title>The U.S. thinks it can invent a Cuban Spring? Puh-leez, say Internet freedom scholars.</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-04T11:17:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/04/03/the-u-s-thinks-it-can-invent-a-cuban-spring-puh-leez-say-internet-freedom-scholars/</link>
    <dc:creator>isacson</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Just because Washington says ZunZuneo is above board doesn't mean it has an effective grasp on technology's role in social movements, Internet scholars say]]></description>
<dc:subject>140404 cuba uspolicy</dc:subject>
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