11.   Even the U.S. Coast Guard insists that Cuban authorities have been cooperative in a joint U.S.-Cuba effort to stop smuggling.

12.   Even with the ears and eyes of Cuban authority monitoring their moves, the Harlistas find innovative ways to keep their traditions going.

13.   He has been trying to get a tourist visa, as well as permission from the Cuban authorities to travel to the United States.

14.   In early June, the Cuban authorities released six political prisoners, two of them relatively well-known dissidents.

15.   In the past, the Cuban authorities generally punished people trying to leave the island by raft with jail sentences or stiff fines.

16.   In the U.S. Congress, conservatives angrily denounced the policy of handing over refugees to Cuban authorities.

17.   It is being performed by a company of eight Cuban actors allowed into the United States through an exchange program between the theater and the Cuban authorities.

18.   On a fishing trip to Belize two years ago, he got lost and Cuban authorities bailed him out.

19.   Several prominent leaders remain in jail or have left the country, delaying attempts to launch an umbrella organization that was squashed by Cuban authorities.

20.   Since some profits are plowed back into the country, he says, Cuban authorities are often keen to help.