Cuba enjoys warm relations in Caribbean
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Looking for foreign aid after his election, Haitian President Rene Preval stopped in Havana. When Trinidad's prime minister needed heart surgery, he twice turned to Cuban doctors. And when the U.N. held its annual vote to denounce the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, the Caribbean Community trade bloc gave its unanimous support.
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Cuba releases four political prisoners in what diplomats call a positive move by acting leader, Raul Castro.
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HAVANA  - Cuba said Monday it was resuming formal ties with all of Europe, ending a deep freeze in relations following a 2003 crackdown on dissidents and the firing-squad executions of three men who tried to hijack a ferry.
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Britain pledged emergency aid to Cuba as Hurricane Ivan, which has killed at least 71 people in the Caribbean, left part of the island battered and hurtled on towards the United States coast.
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The Communist leadership assured Cubans on Friday that Raul Castro was in firm control as acting president, and the health minister said Fidel Castro was "recovering satisfactorily" from intestinal surgery.
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Two years ago in December, fewer than 30 U.S. business representatives came to Havana to sign agreements with Cuban officials to export food to the Caribbean island. This week, Cuba expects more than 340 people &#151; primarily producers of American farm goods &#151; to attend the latest round of talks, in which communist officials hope to sign deals worth about &#36;100 million.
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The Cuban government announced it was renewing diplomatic contacts with eight European Union countries that have stopped inviting dissidents to official embassy functions.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's President Hugo   Chavez said he visited Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Friday and   that his close ally was doing well after intestinal surgery.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro, looking notably better than he did when last seen almost three weeks ago, happily greeted Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a brief visit aired on state television Friday.
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HAVANA, Sept. 1 -- Cuban leader Fidel Castro, looking notably better than he did when last seen almost three weeks ago, happily greeted Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez during a brief visit Friday aired on state television.
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But the collaboration on the deal has contributed to improved relations between the two nations.
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U.S. food producers significantly increased their sales to Cuba last year despite a long-standing trade embargo against the communist island, according to a Cuba-U.S. business group.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez  bolstered his cooperation with Cuba on Saturday by signing  energy, farming and finance accords, including a deal to expand  of one of his socialist ally's oil refineries.
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Havana ends its "cocktail wars" with the EU, resuming ties with the union and four member states still out in the cold.
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Cuba publishes an article signed by President Fidel Castro amid speculation among exiles about his health.
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Brazil's President Lula visits Cuba to strengthen economic ties and amid hopes of seeing the ailing Fidel Castro.
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Cuban President Fidel Castro's health is improving because he is now eating, the ambassador to Cuba from ally Venezuela said on Thursday, without making clear when Castro had been unable to eat.