<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Cuba News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=65&amp;catid=220</link><description>News Feed for - Cuba</description><item><title>Cuba offers free penis implants</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96114808&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T10:26:00</pubDate><description>?© istockphoto.com/ jesse Karjalainen CUBAN government has offered its first free penis implants, part of a program set to be expanded across the communist island, an official newspaper reported. It </description><source>Byron Shire News</source></item><item><title>Cuban Army Plans Bastion 2009 Exercise</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96296799&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T10:47:00</pubDate><description>The Cuban Army will begin a three-day military effort on 26 November to enhance its defence capabilities, the Ministry of Revolutionary Armed Forces (MINFAR) has announced. The drills, codenamed Bastion </description><source>Army Technology</source></item><item><title>Cuba ready for attack</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96279926&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T06:39:00</pubDate><description>HAVANA ?? Nearly 50 years after a botched US-directed invasion of Cuba the communist nation said on Saturday it would hold a military exercise next week to boost preparedness against future US attack. </description><source>Sowetan</source></item><item><title>Top Cuban blogger has Obamas attention2 days ago</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96303339&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T12:20:00</pubDate><description>Cuban blogger has Obamas attention, - - Mumbai Mirror,Mumbai Mirror gaJsHost (('https:' ? 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It is a </description><source>PrisonPlanet</source></item><item><title>Cubans are still in agony</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96279873&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T06:38:00</pubDate><description>The title of the latest Human Rights Watch report on Cuba succinctly describes the dismal state of civil liberties on the island since Ral Castro took over for his ailing brother in July of 2006: ''New </description><source>Cay Compass</source></item><item><title>Commonwealth Foreign Ministers?? Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago and visit to Cuba</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96267060&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T06:47:00</pubDate><description>I will leave Australia today to attend the Commonwealth Foreign Ministers?? Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago from Tuesday 24 to Thursday 26 November. The meeting will prepare the ground for the 2009 Commonwealth </description><source>Australian Government</source></item><item><title>Cuba Spy Suspect Expected to Plead Guilty</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96243421&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T05:21:00</pubDate><description>WASHINGTON - The government says an accused spy for Cuba has agreed to plead guilty. Retired State Department official Walter Kendall Myers, 72, and wife Gwendolyn were caught in an undercover FBI sting </description><source>Military.com</source></item><item><title>Obama answers questions from top Cuban blogger</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96000318&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T00:43:00</pubDate><description>In an unusual written response to Yoani Sanchez, who has gained international acclaim for daring to criticize her government online, Obama also said it is up to Cuba to act if it wants normal relations </description><source>News Channel 21</source></item><item><title>Hugo Chavez invites Fidel Castro to Venezuela</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96129105&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T04:44:00</pubDate><description>CARACAS, Venezuela Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is inviting his mentor Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela during the coming months. Chavez read aloud a letter to the 83-year-old former Cuban leader during </description><source>South Carolina Enquirer-Herald</source></item><item><title>Spanish daily urges EU to pressure Cuba</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96256424&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T23:21:00</pubDate><description>The influential Spanish newspaper El Pais ?? normally a left-of-center daily ?? has sided with hardliners who would like Spain and the European Union to pressure Raúl Castro into relaxing his control </description><source>Miami Herald</source></item><item><title>Cuban Tourism 4% Up in 2009</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96245355&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T20:23:00</pubDate><description>The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please try the following: Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of </description><source>Destinations of the World News</source></item><item><title>Kuwaiti fund, Cuba sign loan agreement at KD4.4m</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96231693&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T15:33:00</pubDate><description>MENAFN - Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) - 22/11/2009 Deputy Director General of KFAED Ghanem Al-Ghenaiman, signs the agreement with the Cuban side represented by National Institute of Water Resources Rene </description><source>MENAFN</source></item><item><title>US: Virginia's farm exports to Cuba expected to increase Virginia's agricultural </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96200420&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T02:20:00</pubDate><description>Virginia's agricultural exports to Cuba are expected to be up by more than 10 percent this year, even as overall U.S. food exports to the communist country decline, state officials said. The state's exports </description><source>Fresh Plaza</source></item><item><title>Retired US Official, Wife Admit Spying For Cuba</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96156580&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-21T13:05:00</pubDate><description>US Economic News European Economic News Asian Economic News All Economic News FX Top Stories Currency Alerts Mkt Sensitive News Politics European Mkt Updates Asian Mkt Updates Treasury Mkt Updates Pop </description><source>RTTNews.com</source></item><item><title>Engaging Cuba on Human Rights</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96253270&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T22:25:00</pubDate><description>Normalization of U.S. relations with Cuba was widely seen as exactly the kind of high-value, low-hanging fruit that would be ideal for a president elected under the banner of 'change.' But a scathing </description><source>Human Rights Watch</source></item><item><title>Calvin's Cuba unveiling highlights Christian and human aspirations</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96244456&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T20:03:00</pubDate><description>A bust of the Protestant reformer John Calvin has recently been unveiled in a park in Havana, Cuba, as a way to cap a year-long celebration of his 500th birthday. Calvinism plays a role in the religious </description><source>Ekklesia</source></item><item><title>Elledge, The return of Cuba's sugar economy?</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96239913&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T18:25:00</pubDate><description>?Central America and the Caribbean, historical sugar-producing economies where the sugar-ethanol infrastructure already has a foundation, labor costs are low, and the political conditions are more or </description><source>The Panama News</source></item><item><title>Influential US Congress members call for an end to Cuba travel ban</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96215718&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T07:04:00</pubDate><description>Two key United States lawmakers say that Washington should allow its citizens to travel to Cuba to help promote ??democratic reforms?? in that country. Veteran Republican Senator Richard Lugar and Democratic </description><source>Merco Press</source></item><item><title>"Generous" contributions to US lawmakers to uphold embargo of Cuba</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96215704&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T07:04:00</pubDate><description>Since the United States 2004 election cycle, a network of Cuban-American donors and political action committees (PACs) has donated in excess of 10 million US dollars to more than 300 US federal candidates </description><source>Merco Press</source></item><item><title>Che Guevara, "the worst that could have happened to Cuba" says Juanita Castro</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96211974&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T07:03:00</pubDate><description>The presence of Ernesto Che Guevara in Cuba was ??the worst that could have happened to my country? said Juanita Castro, sister of the ruling brothers of Cuba, (Fidel and Raúl Castro) and fellow fighters </description><source>Merco Press</source></item><item><title>WILL CONGRESS OPEN TRAVEL TO CUBA?</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96209632&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T05:23:00</pubDate><description>HERE IS A SUGGESTED LEAD: IS THE TIMING RIGHT FOR CONGRESS TO END THE 47-YEAR-OLD BAN ON USA TRAVEL TO CUBA. MANY FARMERS AND RANCHERS HOPE SO, BECAUSE THE ISLAND NATION COULD BE A BILLION DOLLAR EXPORT </description><source>American Farm Bureau</source></item><item><title>U.S diplomat advice against Solomon Islands dealing with Iran, Cuba</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96206434&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T04:31:00</pubDate><description>The U.S ambassador to Solomon Islands, Teddy Taylor says the United States prefers Solomon Islands not to do business with countries like Iran and Cuba. Mr Taylor who's made a visit to Honiara this week </description><source>Individual.com</source></item><item><title>Cuban government battling to provide electricity</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96176023&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T04:05:00</pubDate><description>With more than 115,000 barrels per day of Venezuelan oil flowing to Cuba, the country gets more than enough crude to cover its electricity needs. But the government may not have enough cash to keep the </description><source>Kazakhstan News</source></item><item><title>Debating US travel ban to Cuba</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=95964665&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=220</link><pubDate>2009-11-22T02:50:00</pubDate><description>November 2009 In the United States, the Congress debated lifting the five-decade long travel embargo for American citizens to Cuba. Read full story at theNewsRoom.com... 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