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Cuba Law for LGBT Rights on the Table

Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuba’s president, hopes the upcoming January 28 conference of the country’s communist party will help end the stalemate around a draft law intended to grant rights to transsexuals and homosexuals on the island.

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Jazz Artist Chucho Valdes Back in the US

Renowned Cuban jazz composer and pianist Chucho Valdes will perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 21 to kick off his latest US tour. Throughout January and February, Chucho will perform on more than 20 stages in New Jersey, Virginia, Connecticut, Michigan, Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and California.

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Cuba Moves On with Economic Reforms, says R. Castro

President Raul Castro said yesterday, after bidding farewell to visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Havana airport, that the Cuban government will comply fully with the economic program approved by the Communist Party Congress held this past April.

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Nine Tons of Drugs Seized in Cuba in 2011

Cuban authorities foiled two naval operations in 2011 in which they arrested three Bahamians and one Jamaican, after detecting some 50 vessels suspected of international drug trafficking. In the end, 10.1 tons of drugs were seized.

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Northern Cuba Cays Now Linked

The recently completed La Pasa bridge now connects Cayo Coco, Cayo Romano and Paredon Grande — which are islets that make up the Jardines del Rey tourism complex on the northern coast of Ciego de Avila Province.

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Cuba: Castro Says Reforms Advancing

Cuban President Raul Castro said today that his government “will comply with the entire program” of reforms approved at the last Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba. However he lowered expectations around the “First Party Conference,” to be held on January 28 and 29.

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