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An appeal hearing for imprisoned US citizen Alan Gross takes place on Friday in Havana. Gross has already served 20 months in jail of his 15-year sentence for endangering Cuba’s national security.

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa arrived in Havana on Thursday and met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and hosts Fidel and Raul Castro. Correa had made an unplanned trip to Cuba to see Chavez who is undergoing chemotherapy treatment.

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa will travel to Cuba on Thursday to visit with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who is in Havana for chemotherapy treatment to fight cancer, reported cubadebate.cu

The fourteen-vehicle 22nd Pastors for Peace Caravan with humanitarian aid for Cuba is now on the Mexican highway in route to the port city of Tampico. The group is being escorted by the Mexican Federal Police to avoid any incidents along the way.

Throughout the entire period we will be under the influence of an anti-cyclonic zone with weak pressure gradients and whose center will be in the northeastern part of the Gulf of Mexico. Due to the heating produced during the day, isolated rains could occur at the end of the afternoons, which will be more likely starting Saturday.

The 22nd Pastors for Peace caravan of humanitarian aid for Cuba crossed into Mexico from Texas early Wednesday afternoon, but US Customs officials “seized seven computers that were to be donated to Cuban hospitals and a veterinary clinic.”

Luis Posada Carriles, a self confessed terrorist crusader and Cuba’s public enemy number one, is the subject of a radio documentary to be broadcast by the BBC World Service on Thursday July 21.

Before leaving Cuba, Humala said he hopes to see strengthened economic and cultural relations with island. He showed special interest in applying Cuba’s “Yo Si Puedo” (Yes I Can) literacy program in his country, noting “that it has shown great success in Venezuela, Bolivia and other nations.”