Two prominent Cuban exile leaders dismiss conference in Havana

The president of the Cuban American National Foundation and a director of the Cuban Liberty Council ridicul...

CUBA

Support for U.S. programs that help Cuba running on empty

The money helps support dissidents, independent journalists and other peaceful civil society groups.

MEDICAL CARE

Cuban doctors help treat injured

Some Cuban doctors already were working in Haiti. More have joined them, but they're struggling with a lack...

CUBA

U.S. offers Cuba medical supplies for Haiti

The U.S. government has offered medical supplies to Cuban doctors in earthquake-devastated Haiti, but the C...

ANALYSIS

Steps to transition of post-Raul Castro Cuba envisioned

In a study on Cuba's future, an expert said leader Raúl Castro likely would strengthen the military ...

CUBA

Activist: 20 patients at Havana Psychiatric Hospital died in cold

A human rights activist said at least 20 patients at the Havana Psychiatric Hospital died from hypothermia ...

CUBA

U.S. captive was aiding Jews

The American contractor arrested in Cuba on spying charges was helping Jewish groups, sources said.

Relatives in eastern Cuba say woman has turned 125

Cuban musicians trickle into US under Obama

One by one, musicians from the renowned Cuban salsa band Los Van Van made their way past immigration offici...

Walesa: as superpower, US lacks moral leadership

Former Polish president Lech Walesa says as the last superpower, the U.S. needs to take a stronger moral st...

Cuba gives its citizens 2 months to register guns

Cuba has declared a two-month amnesty for citizens to register unlicensed guns, and says those passing apti...

Cuban band back in Miami after violent '99 protest

Cuban salsa stars Los Van Van drew hundreds of protesters and thousands of fans to their first concert in M...

Date set for Cuba-US immigration talks in Havana

Cuba wants to negotiate an agreement with the U.S. to slow the trafficking of its citizens fleeing the isla...

Date set for Cuba-US immigration talks in Havana

Cuba wants to negotiate an agreement with the U.S. to slow the trafficking of its citizens fleeing the isla...

CUBANET

Police try to stop sellers of bread

Since the beginning of the New Year, police in Santa Clara have been pursuing private sellers of bread, whi...

CUBANET

Independent librarian detained over children’s party

Independent librarian Ileana Margarita Pérez says she was detained by police on Three Kings Day and questio...

CUBANET

Dissident sends greetings on state radio stations

Gladys Escandell Martínez says she was threatened by police after she called three radio stations last week...

CUBANET

Dissident, 80, hurt in police crackdown

Alfredo Guillaume, an 80-year-old dissident, says he was beaten by a member of the government’s rapid respo...

CUBANET

Contaminated needles left in phone booths

Police are searching for the person or persons who left needles supposedly infected with the HIV virus in t...

CUBANET

Independent journalist detained for taking photos

Independent journalist Aini Martín says she was detained last week as she took photos of a policeman seizin...

CUBANET

Paints front of house black as sign of mourning

Former political prisoner Vladimir Alejo Miranda has painted the front of his house black, which, he says, ...

PULSO CUBANO

NICARAGUA/ Un total de 61,506 nicaragüenses han recuperado o mejorado su visión con el programa...

Anciana cubana reclama el récord mundial de longevidad

ISMAEL FRANCISCO / PRENSA LATINA/AP EN ESTA foto del 4 de febrero del 2010, se ve a Juana Bautista, quien ...

Esperan que la isla diga sí a Centroamericanos

El presidente del Comité Olímpico de Puerto Rico (Copur), David Bernier, informó ayer ...

Renacen nexos culturales con Rusia en Feria del Libro

Decenas de músicos, artistas de ballet y circo rusos y obras de teatro de esta nación se pres...

Empeora salud de preso político cubano en huelga de hambre

Defunciones de cubanos en la Florida

CALDERIN, Eleicta, de 80 años, natural de Cuba. Servicios hoy a las 11:30 a.m. Cementerio Graceland ...

Presidente Preval agradece a Fidel y Raúl Castro 'ayuda solidaria' a Haití

El presidente haitiano, René Preval, agradeció el lunes al líder cubano, Fidel Castr...

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Case appears closed on 'Cuban Five'

If one person's freedom fighter is another's terrorist, the case of the Cuban Five illustrates the chasm th...

MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL

Cuba's so hot it's cool

Tell friends you have just been to Cuba, and depending on the circles in which you travel, you may be rewar...

NEW STATESMAN

Cuba goes capitalist

Come July, there will be another sign of Cuba’s New Labour-style accommodation of the capitalist 21st centu...

THE WASHNGTON POST

U.S. pushed hard for OAS accord

For a few hours this week, the Organization of American States appeared about to splinter: Leftist Latin Am...

TIME

Inside the OAS's Cuba conundrum

Latin American leaders usually have few qualms about lecturing the U.S. on what they regard as the folly of...

THE WASHNGTON POST

U.S. urged to relax Cuba policy to boost regional relations

The U.S. government is fighting an effort to allow Cuba to return to the Organization of American States af...

BARRON'S

Relishing the idea of a Post-Castro Cuba

Meet the Forrest Gump of Cuban communism, Óscar Espinosa Chepe. Like the character played by Tom Hanks in t...

WASHINGTON TIMES

Editorial: America caves to Cuban censorship

The Obama administration has caved to demands from Fidel and Raul Castro's government to shut down a U.S.-s...

VOICE OF AMERICA

VOA Editorial | Engaging With Cuba

American and Cuban diplomats took the first small steps toward improving relations between our two countrie...

BLOOMBERG

Cuba keeps ill writer jailed as Norway awards prize

A few weeks ago, Normando Hernandez Gonzalez got the kind of news that usually prompts cheers and emotion-f...

THE WASHINGTON POST

EDITORIAL | A Cuban dissident deflected

Why doesn't President Obama have time for Cuba's pro-democracy opposition?

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Honduras and the Cuba exception

Latin America's leaders are right to condemn the coup in Honduras -- but wrong to give Havana a pass on dem...

THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE

Why and How to Lift the U.S. Embargo on Cuba

Most Latin American leaders slammed the 47-year-old U.S. embargo of Cuba at the mid-April Summit of the Ame...

OPPOSING VIEWS

Obama should lift embargo on Cuba immediately

After nearly 50 years, America's cold war embargo against Cuba appears to be thawing at last. Earlier this ...