Raul Castro comments on Cuba-U.S. ties
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Acting President Raul Castro said Cuba remains open to normalized relations with the United States, but warned the Bush administration in his first comments since assuming power that it will get nowhere with threats or pressure.
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MEXICO CITY, Feb. 19 -- RaÃÂ¿l Castro has long operated in the backstage of Cuban politics. But his public record, which has emerged over his 19 months as interim president, suggests he might pursue reforms to allow more political and economic latitude on the island.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao visits Cuba's Fidel Castro, as the two communist countries seek closer ties.
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Looking gaunt -- but appearing lucid -- ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro spoke about a variety of issues in a taped interview that aired on Cuban state television Friday.
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Brazil's President Lula meets ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro  on a visit to boost economic ties with Havana.
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro said President Bush appeared "deranged" during his inauguration speech, and he expressed little enthusiasm for renewed diplomatic ties with the European Union.
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Acting president Raul Castro is the "guardian" of Cuba's communist government in the absence of his brother Fidel Castro and in the face of U.S. threats, a hard-line member of the Cuban leadership said on Thursday.
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro,   looking well along the road to recovery, was shown on   television on Friday meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo   Chavez and brother Raul Castro, to whom he temporarily ceded   power a month ago to undergo intestinal surgery.
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HAVANA -- President Fidel Castro of Cuba said yesterday that the man the United States and Mafia contracted to poison him in the early 1960s would not have been able to get close enough to him to be successful.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao left in Havana for home Tuesday after concluding his two-day state visit to Cuba. During his visit, Hu, who arrived in Havana on Monday, held talks with Cuban leader Fidel Castro
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Cuban President Fidel Castro scoffed at moves by the European Union to offer improved ties with the communist country based on its human rights record, and said Cuba does not need Europe.
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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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Cubans are increasingly talking in the past tense about Fidel Castro, the man who governed their lives for 47 years.
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President Felipe Calderon's administration has held discussions with Cuba on improving relations after a series of diplomatic spats in recent years, Mexico's foreign secretary said.
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HAVANA, Aug. 26 -- Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro signed a lengthy essay published Sunday saluting a Cuban political figure but giving no hint of how he is feeling, at a time of persistent rumors of his death.
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It wasn't the Bay of Pigs invasion or the U.S. embargo against Cuba that turned Fidel Castro against the United States. He was in the anti-American camp long beforehand.
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A transfer of power in Cuba to acting President Raul Castro could pave the way for a debate on its return to the Organization of American States, the head of the hemispheric forum said on Monday.