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Cuban police published subpoenas on Thursday in the Gaceta Oficial (the country’s legal news periodical) for three nationals being investigated for corruption.

The Movimiento Democracia, which is made up of Cuban exiles who live in the United States, announced Tuesday that they will express their demands for free speech and a free flow of online information in Cuba by assembling a flotilla off the coast of Cuba on August 2nd.

The arrival in the United States of Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuban president Raul Castro, has provoked strong criticism of the Obama administration by Republican politicians.

Spanish police arrested four former political prisoners on Wednesday who were camping outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where they were demanding a “solution” to the cut off of financial support they had been receiving from that government.

A low pressure zone moving into the territory from the south-western tip of the island has interacted with a surface trough extending from central Florida, therefore creating the expectation of rainfall for the first half of the period. However, this system has virtually no chance of becoming a tropical cyclone over the next 48 hours.

The “University of Information Sciences” (UCI), the youngest institution of higher education in Cuba, will reach 10,000 thousand graduates since its creation a decade ago. Despite efforts to train significant numbers of computer scientists, public Internet access continues to be restricted by the Cuban government and operates at very low speeds for the few who do have access.

According to the article, the work of the Archbishop of Havana “has surpassed ecclesiastical work” to develop “a comprehensive agenda of dialogue” which has included “many citizens, intellectuals, academics and groups from civil society.”

The UN committee responsible for enforcing the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment called Havana to respond on Tuesday in Geneva.