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Cuba: Cleaning Up for Papal Visit?

Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, Citizen Media, Human Rights, Politics

El Cafe Cubano [1] reports that residents who live close to the Basilica of the Patron Saint of Cuba, a destination that is on Pope Benedict XVI's itinerary when he visits Cuba next month, are being evicted in en effort to “[cover] up the prevailing misery that the Cuban people are suffering in the island.”