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Cuba dismisses its transportation and sugar ministers, citing professional mistakes. President Raul Castro has fired Cuba's transportation minister for professional mistakes and replaced the head of the Sugar Ministry after he admitted incompetence, the latest in a growing series of leadership shake-ups.

Cuban academic says corruption, not political protest, is island's big threat. Corruption at the highest levels of government ? not the meddling of a small band of dissidents ? is the greatest threat to Cuba's communist system, a leading academic said in a highly unusual opinion posted Thursday on a state Web site.

Corruption at the highest levels of government ? not the meddling of a small band of dissidents ? is the greatest threat to Cuba's communist system, a leading academic said in a highly unusual opinion posted Thursday on a state Web site.

Chilean businessmen found dead in Havana after being detained during investigation by Cuba. A top Chilean executive was found dead in his Havana apartment after being detained by Cuban authorities investigating his company, which is owned by a revolutionary-turned-businessman and friend of Fidel Castro.