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The defense attorneys for Gerardo Hernandez, one of the five Cubans imprisoned in the US for fighting terrorism, on Monday presented a new legal action to overturn his conviction, said the National Committee to Free the Five.

Members of the Cuban political opposition on Thursday described the request by the prosecutor of seven years in prison for Spanish citizen Angel Carromero as “excessive.” The young man was driving the vehicle in which opposition leaders Oswaldo Paya and Harold Cepero died

The registration of voters for the upcoming general elections in Cuba already includes 8.5 million people, said Julio Torres, a member of the National Electoral Commission (CEN), who spoke on Thursday in Havana.

Cuban prosecutors have asked for a seven-year prison sentence of the young Spanish politician Angel Carromero, who is charged with manslaughter stemming from the deaths of political opposition figures Oswaldo Paya and Harold Cepero.

Venezuela’s ambassador in Havana, Edgardo Ramirez, on Wednesday unveiled for the first time in Cuba the “true face of Simon Bolivar.

The hemorrhaging type of the dengue virus that plagues Cuba’s Camaguey Province claimed its first human life early Monday morning, reported the Café Fuerte website.

Journalist Luis Lopez Viera on Tuesday ducked away from the official Cuban delegation that participated in the Olympic Games in London and applied to British authorities for asylum.

A perceptible earthquake of 2.4 on the Richter scale occurred on Wednesday in the town of Caibarien, in the center of the island, though there were no reports of human injuries or material damage.

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