Havana, May 13 (EFE).- Corruption and illegal activities in areas like fuel distribution are of great concern for the Cuban government, the official media reported here Monday. Those issues were analyzed at a meeting of the Council of Ministers held last Friday at which President Raul Castro emphasized that the "great battle" being fought today in Cuba is against its own "limitations and deficiencies" in all sectors.

By Mary Wisniewski (Reuters) - The mother of Ariel Castro's children repeatedly went to authorities with accusations he was beating, abusing and threatening her. But her complaints never reached the point where Castro was imprisoned or triggered additional police investigations. The late Grimilda Figueroa's accusations against Castro began in 1989 and the last came in 2005, three years after he allegedly kidnapped the first of three women and held them in a run-down house in Cleveland.

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The man accused of imprisoning three women for a decade in his Cleveland home wrote a lengthy manifesto in which he contemplated suicide, referred to his own sexual abuse, and expressed a desire for the three women to inherit his wealth, a city councilman said on Friday. Ariel Castro, 52, has been charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape, and he could face more charges related to the women that might make him eligible for the death penalty.

A daughter of the man accused of kidnapping and raping three women held in captivity in the United States for a decade disowned him Friday and said the allegations were like a horror movie. Angie Gregg, daughter of Ariel Castro, the 52-year-old accused of separately abducting the women and fathering a child by one of the captives, told CNN she was appalled by Castro's actions and wanted nothing more to do with him.