ALABAMA/CUBA CHICKEN TRADE RESUMES
"Alabama's poultry industry has resumed sales to Cuba that were interrupted by the island nation's concerns about avian influenza."
(AP, unearthed by Cuba Daily News Digest)

FCC SUCKS!
"Media companies, artists and civil rights activists have joined together to protest a ruling last month by the U-S Federal Communications Commissions against U2 lead man Bono for his use of an expletive on last year's Golden Globes broadcast. The FCC received hundreds of complaints after Bono said, 'This is really, really, f------ brilliant.' "
(CFRA)

THE TUG OF HOME
"In their work and in their lives, exiled artists struggle with the place they once called home"
(BOSTON GLOBE, Suggested by Cuba News Digest)

DIFFERENT TIMES, DIFFERENT TACK
"AUBURN, Ala. (AP) As Fidel Castro worked his way through a line of American agricultural officials in Havana last summer, he complimented a visitor on his excellent Spanish.
Diego Gimenez smiled. He didn't tell the Cuban dictator that he learned the language growing up there or that he was a prisoner of war during his last visit to the island. "
(WASHINGTON TIMES, unearthed by Cuba News Digest)