Conserving Cuba, After the Embargo
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Environmentalists are thinking ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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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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A day after moving to nullify the Bush administration's new rules restricting family travel to Cuba, the House on Wednesday voted to remove barriers to agriculture sales and student exchanges in the island nation.
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Cuba is to close more than 100 factories for all of October as part of a plan to deal with power shortages.
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The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, in Bangkok has concluded, with conservationists and many of the 166 member nations supportive of steps taken to regulate the trade in rare species.
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Scenes from the extraordinary life of Fidel Castro, the revolutionary president who weathered the 1962 missile crisis, the US embargo, the fall of the Berlin Wall and economic woe to lead a communist Cuba for nearly five decades
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WASHINGTON, DC, Oct 20 (OneWorld) The administration of US President George W. Bush has lifted a 13-year arms embargo on Haiti, amid sporadic violence that threatens to plunge the western hemisphereï¿½s poorest nation back into chaos.
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Cuba's communist state is rising from  the ashes of its post-Soviet economic crash with greater  control over its economy and help from China and Venezuela,  President Fidel Castro said on Saturday.
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CASILDA, Cuba -- Tiny flames jump and sputter in the night here, suspended above the roadbed as if held by an invisible wand.
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cuba HAVANA -- Cuba released dissident lawyer Rene Gomez Manzano yesterday after holding him in jail for 18 months with no charges, a fellow dissident said. The outspoken critic of Cuba's communist government was arrested in his home July 22, 2005, for allegedly planning to take part in a protest outside the French Embassy in Havana. Gomez Manzano is the ...
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HAVANA - Fidel Castro may have recently stopped circulation of US dollars in Cuba, but that isn&#39;t stopping a multi-million dollar agricultural deal between the two countries.
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MANICARAGUA, Cuba -- It's early afternoon in this sweltering town, but air conditioners are off, the lights are out, and stereos are silent.
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An oil deposit with an estimated 100-million-barrel reserve has been discovered off Cuba's coast by Canadian companies Sherritt International Corp.  and Pebercan Inc. , President Fidel Castro said.
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A silence has settled over Cuban political life that ordinary Cubans find at once disconcerting and a big relief.
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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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Convalescing Cuban President Fidel Castro charged on Sunday the release of classified CIA documents detailing past abuses was a smoke screen behind which the Bush administration hoped to hide even worse methods.
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Havana, Dec 26 (Prensa Latina) An oil field discovery, the promising evolution of the nickel industry and benefits from strengthening ties with China and Venezuela, are among the good news given by President Fidel Castro to the Cuban people.