Caretaker Raul Castro keeps Cuba stable
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Ten months ago, a camera-shy general stepped out from the shadow of his famous elder brother Fidel Castro to run the Western Hemisphere's only communist state.
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Cuba's ailing leader, Fidel Castro, says he does not want to 'cling' to power
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Cuban officials have assured visiting US lawmakers that Fidel Castro does not have cancer and is not dying, despite his failure to appear in public since July, members of the US delegation told reporters.
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US lawmakers back from a trip to Cuba said officials there had insisted Fidel Castro was not dying, and that his brother Raul Castro is not Havana's new leader.
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Raul Castro said Monday that Communist Party leaders support his brother Fidel's re-election to parliament, saying he is exercising two hours daily and gaining weight while keeping his mind healthy with reading and writing.
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HAVANA  - Cubans saw President Fidel Castro in awheel-chair on Sunday in television images that showed theCuban leader looking rested after shattering his left knee andfracturing his right arm in a fall on Oct. 20.
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Ramon Castro, the older brother of leader Fidel Castro, said Saturday his more famous sibling is steadily improving after intestinal surgery that has left their younger brother Raul temporarily in charge of the country.
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HAVANA, Cuba -- Cuban leader Fidel Castro says he is fine after falling off of the stage in Santa Clara, Cuba. The fall is bringing back memories of when he collapsed two years ago.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro called in to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's radio talk show on Tuesday, declaring he's "more energetic, stronger" and his country is running smoothly without him at the helm.
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BOGOTA, Colombia -- Ariel Perez was, like thousands of fellow Cuban doctors, a devoted soldier in Fidel Castro's most important overseas mission -- providing medical care to the poor in oil-rich Venezuela, Cuba's most vital ally. But last year, Perez and two Cuban companions, carrying rucksacks with...
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Cuban officials told a group of visiting U.S. lawmakers that Fidel Castro did not have cancer or a terminal illness.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro is making a satisfactory recovery from intestinal surgery, says his son.
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In a televised address, President Fidel Castro of Cuba announced Monday night that United States dollars, which have kept his country&#39;s ailing economy afloat for the
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Raul Castro, Cuba's likely new leader after his ailing brother Fidel Castro bowed out on Tuesday, is a pragmatist more concerned with putting food on Cuban tables than spreading revolution abroad.
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Cuba's interim president, Raul Castro, says his brother Fidel is healthy enough to run for parliament in January.
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Before disappearing from public life in 2006 and officially stepping down as Cuba's president Tuesday, Fidel Castro ruled the country with an iron fist, despite numerous attempts by his enemies to do away with him.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Cuban President Fidel   Castro says he has started putting on weight again, in his   first interview since the 80-year-old communist leader fell ill   and adding to growing evidence he is recovering from   life-threatening surgery.