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Cuba to pardon over 3,500 prisoners ahead of Pope's visit

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Cuba will release 3,522 prisoners on the occasion of the upcoming papal visit, but the fate of political prisoners -- which Havana denies having -- remains unclear. Jillian Kitchener reports.

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