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The European Union (EU) foreign ministers expressed today in Luxembourg their desire to deepen the dialogue with Cuba including concerns over human rights issues, reported IPS.

The US Supreme Court rejected a request today to review the case of the Cuban Five, imprisoned already for nearly 11 years for having infiltrated Miami based Cuban exile groups that under the complacent eye of Washington plot illegal actions against Cuba.

Cuban neurosurgeon Hilda Molina traveled over the weekend to Argentina to meet with her family, after receiving from her country’s authorities the exit permit she had been demanding for some 15 years.

Clinton did not say whether the Myers put in jeopardy terrorist actions planned against Cuba by Miami exiles with US government support, a practice that has been steadfast policy practically since Fidel Castro rode into Havana in 1959.

Bolivian President Evo Morales begins a visit to Cuba on Wednesday where he is scheduled to meet with Cuban President Raul Castro, announced the Cuban press this morning. It is not known whether Morales will also meet with Fidel Castro.

A retired couple in their seventies, the man a former US State Dept. employee, were accused in a Federal Court this week of passing on secrets to Cuba for several decades. The announcement came on the heels of Latin America and the Caribbean pushing through a resolution at the Organization of American States (OAS) that rescinded the hemispheric body’s suspension order on Cuba, in effect since 1962.

A Canadian tourist, 62, was the fifth person detected with the A (H1N1) virus in Cuba as she arrived at the airport in Santiago de Cuba from Toronto. Cuban health authorities said Sunday that the patient is under treatment and evolving favorably.