Raul Castro extends olive branch to U.S.
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Cuba's acting president, Raul Castro, departing from his brother's confrontational approach to their arch-enemy the United States, said this weekend he was open for talks with Washington.
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HAVANA -- Just days before the US presidential election, which could alter US-Cuba relations, communist officials were designing deals to buy $150 million more in US farm products at a trade fair opening today.
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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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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is tipping Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up and win the U.S. presidential election.
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In his first public comments since becoming Cuba's acting president, Raul Castro said his brother Fidel is recovering and that thousands of troops were mobilized soon after his illness was announced, according to an interview published Friday.
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The Bush administration remains hopeful that the death of Fidel Castro will unleash grassroots pressure among Cubans for democratic change &#151; but many analysts see little threat to the regime under the thus-far seamless succession of brother Raul.
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With Cuban President Fidel Castro ailing, the Bush administration said the United States is prepared to support a democratic transition on the island.
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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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President Bush will be committed during his second term to the "liberation of Cuba" by extending moral and political support to the Cuban people, a top State Department official said Friday.
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The United States remained Cuba's main supplier of food and farm products in 2007, selling the communist-run island more than $600 million in agricultural exports despite its trade embargo, a top official said Monday.
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Regardless of changes in the world, China and Cuba have pledged to stay the course of independent development. The two countries should further expand their mutually beneficial
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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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CARACAS -- Fresh from victory and emboldened by a decisive mandate, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has the opportunity to extend an olive branch to a seething opposition and a suspicious US ...
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The Cuban government appears to be increasing Fidel Castro's media exposure to emphasize his recovery from stomach surgery but has avoided any clear signals about his political future, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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Fidel Castro is accusing President Bush of threatening the world with nuclear war and famine Â an attack on Washington that comes as the White House is set to announce new plans to draw Cuba away from communism.
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Acting Cuban President Raul Castro said on Thursday his brother Fidel was improving and "on top of everything" in his first comments to the foreign press since stepping in for the 80-year-old Cuban leader six months ago.
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Venezuela's ambassador to Cuba says Fidel Castro is gaining strength and has begun eating again.