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Cuba Nostalgia, a three-day event that celebrates pre-Castro Cuba, once again drew those wanting to relive the past and those trying to reconnect with their roots.
President Barack Obama will discuss the legality of his administration’s secret drone program and his plans to close the prison camps at Guantánamo during a speech Thursday on counterterrorism practices, a White House official said.
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The illegal battery smelter so contaminated children here that some of them have been found with what are s...
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Cuba Nostalgia, a three-day event that celebrates pre-Castro Cuba, once again drew those wanting to relive ...
If you are a Cuban balsero and were spotted in the Florida Straits by a Brothers to the Rescue plane betwee...
Military officials would not comment on whether the current 102 hunger strikers include alleged 9/11 conspi...
Manuel Cuesta Morua says Cuban blacks need affirmative action to catch up to whites.
Part of the decline could be the result of devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in agriculture-rich Easter...
Like many teenage girls in Cuba, Lydia Hortensia de Castroverde yearned to be a quinceañera — t...
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Elsa Morejón, wife of Cuban dissident Oscar Elías Biscet, said the Cuban government is “wo...
Haitian President Michel Martelly defended his administration Tuesday as he marked two years in office, poi...
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