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The Obama administration is calling on the Cuban government to free a political prisoner -- one of the dozens released from prison a year ago as a rapprochement gesture, only to be re-arrested a few months later. Vladimir Morera Bacallao, 53, is reportedly near death due to the hunger strike he started behind bars in October. Morera Bacallao, a labor activist, was arrested in April in the run-up to the regime's sham municipal elections for posting a sign outside his home stating: "I vote for my freedom and not in an election where I cannot choose my president." A month...

Politics: President Obama removed Cuba as a state sponsor of terror Friday, forgetting the dictatorship's long record of killing, smuggling and, yes, terror. If this is the new standard, why not just scrap the list entirely? The lifting of Cuba from the list of nations that support terrorism was a farce that may well come back to the haunt the United States. After all, the ruling Castro regime that benefits from it in the name of normal relations with the U.S. and new access to World Bank loans is the same regime that once tried the first 9/11, aligning itself...

The pugnacious Ms Pollan was one of Cuba's leading opposition voices and deeply involved in promoting change on the Communist island. in a March 2003, after 75 dissidents, including Laura's husband were imprisoned crackdown known as Havana's Black Spring, the schoolteacher organized the Ladies in White... Along with family members of other prisoners dressed in white and each carrying a single white flower, they walked silently along a main Havana avenue after services at the Santa Rita Catholic Church… Public protests were unheard of at the time and still rare today. The government tried to stop them by sending out...