Cuba move triggers war of words
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The US and Cuba have launched into another bitter war of words following Cuba&#39;s decision to ban transactions in dollars on the island.
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Cuba retaliated for the US diplomatic mission&#39;s Christmas display supporting Cuban dissidents by putting up a billboard Friday emblazoned with photographs of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners and a huge swastika overlaid with a
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Fidel Castro wrote Tuesday U.S. President George W. Bush is threatening the world with nuclear war and famine Â an attack on Washington a day before the White House plans to announce new plans to draw Cuba away from communism.
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Six months after Cuba's sick leader Fidel Castro handed over power provisionally to his brother Raul, signs of an opening in public debate are emerging in the communist-run country.
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President Fidel Castro, in an announcement that raised eyebrows at energy companies, disclosed that oil deposits were discovered off Cuba.
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By Anthony Boadle HAVANA  - Cuban President Fidel Castro tripped andshattered a kneecap in a tumble captured on live televisionthat raised new questions about the political future of thecommunist-run country he has led for 45 years.
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He fled Cuba in 1961, but still calls Fidel Castro his friend. He can't stand communism, but bitterly opposes the U.S. embargo. He lives in Miami, but travels regularly to Havana, even appearing on state-run television.
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Cuba is scheduled to hold military exercises nationwide in mid-December as part of its All-people's War policy to test the country's reaction to foreign aggressions, said a communique of the Ministry of the ...
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Thousand of people wave Cuban flags during a rally to draw attention to the upcoming UN vote to condemn the four-decade embargo against Cuba in Havana on Saturday Oct. 23, 2004.
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Still the main challenger to the United States in the Pan American Games medals race, Cuba suddenly has some doubts about one of its strongest sports.
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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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Spain has called in Cuba&#39;s ambassador to Madrid to protest the Cuban expulsion of a conservative Spanish lawmaker who arrived in Havana Friday in hopes of meeting with human rights activists.
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Leftist intellectuals and human rights activists from around the world pleaded with the United States on Monday not to interfere with Cuba while Fidel Castro recovers from intestinal surgery, and Cuba's parliament speaker warned the U.S. would face dire consequences if it did.
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Chicago Tribune - The top U.S. diplomat in Havana said Tuesday that Cuban officials have threatened to take retaliatory action unless he removes a large sign symbolizing Cuba's jailed dissidents from the front lawn of the U.S. diplomatic mission.
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HAVANA, Cuba -- The spat between US diplomats and the Cuban government escalated Friday when billboards showing a swastika and photographs of Iraqi prisoners being abused by American soldiers were put up on a main highway facing the US mission&#39;s offices.
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Cuban authorities forced a group of protesters to leave a Havana park where they planted themselves two days earlier to demand the transfer of a jailed dissident to the capital for medical treatment, one of the protesters said.
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The largest delegation from the U.S. Congress to visit Cuba since 1959 arrived in Havana on Friday seeking to open a dialogue with the communist government of acting President Raul Castro despite White House opposition to such contacts.