The report appeared on the same day that members of the UN Committee Against Torture in Geneva demanded the Cuban government provide information about the recent deaths of several political prisoners and the repression of dissident groups.read more Continue reading
Mariela Castro, the outspoken daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro who is gay and lesbian rights activist and self-described "sexologist," has controversially received a US visitor's visa to attend a major conference in San Francisco.read more Continue reading
Aroldis Chapman is also being sued in his native Cuba for $18 million by a man who claims that the athlete falsely accused him of human trafficking.
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The "chaotic scene" drew out the preliminary hearing for hours. read more Continue reading
Khalid Shaikh Mohammad (KSM), the self-proclaimed architect of 9/11, will finally stand accused, and face his accusers, in a US military court in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after nine years in custody.
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators of Al Qaeda will be arraigned in Guantanamo for 9/11 crimes but the world will put US on the stand for torture.read more Continue reading
Analysis: Cuba policy costs Obama at the Summit of the Americas, and leaves future meetings in doubt.read more Continue reading
HAVANA – As Latin American leaders fume over Washington's drug war and its Cuba embargo, the US president may show who's no longer boss in the Americas this weekend in Colombia.read more Continue reading
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has returned home after a third round of radiotherapy in Cuba, insisting that he is "doing well".
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Armas is the third Cuban soccer player this year to defect after two women fled their team in Vancouver in January..
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“I respect Fidel Castro,” Guillen was quoted as saying. “You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that (expletive) is still here."
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HAVANA — When Mexican President Felipe Calderon arrives here Wednesday for his first official visit to Cuba, the trip may do more to highlight the ongoing estrangement between the two countries than it will their historic ties.read more Continue reading
Fidel Castro's latest editorial for state media has even harsher words for Canada.
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The Vatican has welcomed the move, saying it will allow Cuba's Catholics to have "happy Easter celebrations".
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The holiday will initially be for 2012 only, and the Cuban government will decide later whether to make it permanent.
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has returned to Venezuela after his first session of radiotherapy in Cuba, coinciding with the pope's visit to the Communist island.read more Continue reading
Fidel Castro has met with Pope Benedict XVI in Havana, with the two reportedly joking about their age and Castro asking, "What does a pope do?"
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Visiting Roman Catholic leader Pope Benedict XVI presses for change in Cuba in remarks seen as unusually political.
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HAVANA – The Marxist model “no longer corresponds to reality,” Pope Benedict told reporters before leaving for Latin America. But the pontiff hasn’t said anything nearly as pointed since arriving in Cuba Monday. Today is his final opportunity.r... Continue reading
“Today it is evident that Marxist ideology, in the way it was conceived, no longer corresponds to reality,” the Pope said on the way to Cuba.
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The timing of Chavez's treatment in Cuba — coinciding with the pope's visit to the island — could not be better to cement the Venezuelan president's Catholic credentials ahead of a general election.read more Continue reading
The 57-year-old had been recovering from surgery in the Cuban capital city of Havana on February 26 which he said removed a tumor from his pelvic region, following the extraction of a first tumor in June last year.
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"New models must be found with patience and in a constructive way....we want to help," Benedict said.read more Continue reading
HAVANA — By reputation, Pope Benedict XVI is known as an ecclesiastical conservative, a man who hews close to church doctrine when it comes to matters of faith and Catholic tradition.read more Continue reading
Over 50 protesters with the "Ladies in White" organization were arrested in Cuba this weekend, just one week ahead of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the country. read more Continue reading
"The conditions here at Combinado del Este are subhuman, and the food is unfit for human consumption," says Douglas Moore, an inmate in one of the videos who says he is an American convicted of a drug offense.
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is to return to Caracas next week after cancer surgery, according to his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos who visited the socialist leader in Cuba yesterday.read more Continue reading
Colombia is a close ally of the US, but President Juan Manuel Santos was eager to avoid a boycott of the summit on April 14-15 by leftist Bolivarian Alliance members like Venezuela and Ecuador.
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HAVANA — Sometimes diplomacy resembles a middle school party. Colombia is going to throw a very big party. The question everyone is talking about: should Cuba be invited? Cuba's friends want it to go — so much that they're threatening to stay home ... Continue reading
"We are all human, we are all extinguishable, more so with the life I have had, where one year seems like a hundred," Chavez said.
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Majid Khan, a high-value US prisoner, pleads guilty to five war crimes.
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Chain-link fences topped by barbed wire surround the 28,000-square-foot “super-rec” area. Two guard towers, lights and surveillance equipment monitor inmates below.
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HAVANA — Fidel Castro was 28 and fresh out of prison when he left Cuba for Mexico, where he would meet Che Guevara and go on to topple a dictator back home.read more Continue reading
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