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Rally designed to support the Ladies in White activists in Cuba After seeing women protesters dragged through the streets in Cuba, Gloria Estefan figured the best way to fight the injustice was to dress in white and carry on the march. The Cuba native is calling on all Cubans in Miami to come out and rally against the Castro government on Thursday in Little Havana at 6 p.m. Estefan called on participants to dress in white, walk in silence and hold flowers in the style of the Cuban group. "Cubans and non-Cubans alike that live in liberty need to take...

Fidel Castro has used his third written article in less than two weeks to condemn the release from prison in the US of an activist suspected of the deadly bombing of a Cuban jet. The ailing Cuban leader said the decision by a Texas judge to let Luis Posada Carriles walk free last week was done with the knowledge of George Bush, the US president.Posada, right, is suspected of the deadly bombing of a Cubana airlines flight in 1976 [AFP]

Jesús Díaz Jr., publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald, its Spanish-language sister paper, resigned yesterday over a growing controversy involving payments from the Bush administration to some reporters of El Nuevo Herald for their commentary broadcast on the US government sponsored anti-Castro outlets Radio and TV Martí.

One of the most virulent anti-Castro radio station's in Miami is WRMI. YOU CAN LISTEN LIVE ONLINE in Spanish. For those who speak Spanish and want to translate and get the latest, please listen and give us the reports. Unfortunately, my Spanish is really far to rusty to understand. I guess I should be working on it since it will soon be the official language in California.

Supporters of an old anti-Castro rebellion are having difficulties getting asylum in the United States because the Patriot Act labels them terrorists. WASHINGTON - Four decades ago, thousands of Cubans took to the Escambray mountains in a CIA-backed guerrilla war against Fidel Castro. Today, U.S. law brands them as terrorists.

Vaclav Havel has opened an international conference in Prague on promoting democracy in Cuba. He told delegates that Cuba's situation would change soon and that opponents to Fidel Castro's 45-year rule should prepare for the end of "dictatorship". The meeting is also attended by former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar and former Latin American leaders. A Cuban diplomat told the BBC that the US was behind the event, which she called an unwanted meddling. In the 1970s and 1980s Mr Havel was one of the most prominent dissidents within Europe's communist bloc. He was in office for 12 years...

Anti-Castro Diplomat Gets Key White House Post Otto Reich, the Cuban-born former head of the State Department's Latin American Affairs Office, has been named to a newly created White House post as a "presidential envoy" to the Americas. The administration feared he might not win Senate confirmation to his old job at State. Long known as a vehement critic of Castro's communist regime in Cuba and of other leftist movements in Latin America, Reich was forced to step down from his temporary appointment as assistant secretary for Latin American affairs when that appointment expired last November. As NewsMax.com reported, the...