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A few weeks ago, Normando Hernandez Gonzalez got the kind of news that usually prompts cheers and emotion-filled toasts. The Cuban journalist and poet had been awarded the annual Freedom of Expression award by the Norwegian Writers’ Union. A delegation traveled from Oslo to the island nation to present the award, which included a prize of 100,000 kroner (about $15,775).
On June 24, five Cuban dissidents received the annual Democracy Award given by the National Endowment for Democracy. José Daniel Ferrer, Iván Hernández and Librado Linares are serving long prison terms for their peaceful opposition. Imprisoned for 17 years, Jorge Luis García, known as Antúnez, was released in 2007. He and wife Iris Tamara Pérez, a fellow awardee, are under virtual house arrest.
The latest revelation in the curious case of accused Cuban spies: They kept a copy of 'The Spy's Bedside Book' in their apartment.
A charter company has started offering non-stop flights between Los Angeles and Havana after the Obama administration lifted travel restrictions on Cuban-Americans.
Cuba is letting workers hold multiple government jobs for the first time under an overhaul of the island's labor system.
Cuba's tourism industry will have enough capacity for the surge of American travelers expected should U.S. ...
A Washington democracy group honored five Cuban dissidents -- but none can attend the ceremony.
The State Department said it is looking to confirm dates for biannual talks with Havana.
The couple arrested June 4 and accused of spying for Cuba filed a petition seeking to be released from jail.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a bid by five convicted Cuban men to hear their Miami spy case, closing the b...
Retired State Department employee Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn, told friends they had summe...
Cuban factories are closing down and production is being cut at other workplaces as the international finan...
A Cuban pitcher considered by many baseball scouts to be the No. 1 left-handed prospect in the world left h...
El pitcher Aroldis Chapman, la mayor promesa entre los lanzadores de la Isla, abandonó el equipo nacional d...
With little official support or air time on state-controlled radio, the songs Cuban reggaeton artists recor...
Why doesn't President Obama have time for Cuba's pro-democracy opposition?
Some Jews in Cuba are greeting with caution the recent thaw in relations between their island nation and th...
Authorities at the Quivicán Prision in Havana province are x-raying and taking blood samples of prisoners a...
Isabel Ramos continues her hunger strike in support of her son, Arturo Suárez, a political prisoner who sta...
Ariel Sigler Amaya, a designated prisoner of conscience who was one of the 75 dissidents arrested and impri...
Border guards and national police carried out a roundup last Saturday of fishermen, boaters and divers off ...
The dissident Foundation for Freedom of Expression (Fundación por la Libertad de Expresión) yas announced t...
Human rights activist Osmany Fuentes and four other prisoners at the Kilo 8 prison in Camagüey started a hu...
La ciudad de Holguín, en el noreste de Cuba, será la sede del acto central de la principal fi...
Los medios cubanos se han hecho eco de versiones que implican al Gobierno de Estados Unidos con el reciente...
Los frutales en Cuba ''prácticamente han desaparecido'', y las frutas escasean en los mercados y son...
Cuba sigue preparándose para una agresión militar de Estados Unidos, porque cree que es la me...
Los frutales en Cuba "prácticamente han desaparecido'', y las frutas escasean en los mercados y son...
Cuba sigue preparándose para una agresión militar de Estados Unidos, porque cree que es la m...
CASTILLO, Antonia, de 86 años, natural de Cuba. Servicios hoy a las 10:15 a.m. Cementerio Graceland ...
If one person's freedom fighter is another's terrorist, the case of the Cuban Five illustrates the chasm th...
Tell friends you have just been to Cuba, and depending on the circles in which you travel, you may be rewar...
Come July, there will be another sign of Cuba’s New Labour-style accommodation of the capitalist 21st centu...
For a few hours this week, the Organization of American States appeared about to splinter: Leftist Latin Am...
Latin American leaders usually have few qualms about lecturing the U.S. on what they regard as the folly of...
The U.S. government is fighting an effort to allow Cuba to return to the Organization of American States af...
Meet the Forrest Gump of Cuban communism, Óscar Espinosa Chepe. Like the character played by Tom Hanks in t...
On June 24, five Cuban dissidents received the annual Democracy Award given by the National Endowment for D...
Why doesn't President Obama have time for Cuba's pro-democracy opposition?
The Obama administration has made an excellent first step to eliminate some restrictions on travel to the i...
Latin America's leaders are right to condemn the coup in Honduras -- but wrong to give Havana a pass on dem...
Most Latin American leaders slammed the 47-year-old U.S. embargo of Cuba at the mid-April Summit of the Ame...
After nearly 50 years, America's cold war embargo against Cuba appears to be thawing at last. Earlier this ...
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