Fired Argentine Envoy Says Cuba Won't Let Neurosurgeon Go
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Argentina will get nowhere pressing Cuba to allow a dissident neurosurgeon to travel to see her son and grandchildren in Buenos Aires, the country's former ambassador in Havana, Raul Taleb, said on Friday.
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A prominent Cuban doctor returned home Thursday after an overnight stay at the Argentine Embassy that raised tensions between the two nations amid reports she was seeking political asylum.
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Cuba said on Saturday it barred entry to three European lawmakers on a trip to support dissidents, setting back Spain&#39;s campaign to mend frosty
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The State Department said on Thursday it had denied visas to three Olympic gold medal-winning Cuban boxers, all of whom defected from Cuba, because of concerns they might settle in the United States.
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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.
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Cuba will not send a boxing team to the world championships in Chicago in October, heeding Fidel Castroâs fears about future defections after two fighters abandoned their teammates during the Pan American Games last month in Brazil.
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Venezuela's ambassador to Panama,  Flavio Granados, said late on Friday his country had asked him  to leave Panama after statements made by its leader in the  midst of a diplomatic scandal involving Cuba.
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A delegation of U.S. Congress members said on Sunday they were told by senior Cuban government officials during a visit there that ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is not dying, and does not have cancer.
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The State Department on Monday rejected an offer of talks with Raul Castro, Cuba's acting president, saying it saw no point in a dialogue with what it called the Caribbean island's "dictator-in-waiting."
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Cuba's ailing leader, Fidel Castro says he will not return to the presidency, in an letter published in the official press.
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Cuba HAVANA -- Cuban press authorities have told the Havana correspondents for the Chicago Tribune, the BBC, and a major Mexican newspaper that they can no longer report from the island. The Chicago Tribune said correspondent Gary Marx, based in the country since 2002, was told Wednesday that his stories were too negative. His press credentials were not renewed during ...
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Argentine President Nestor Kirchner on Friday asked Cuban leader Fidel Castro to allow dissident Hilda Molina to leave the communist-ruled island and travel to Argentina, a government source said.
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Cuba's ailing leader Fidel Castro - one of the world's longest serving leaders - says he will not return to the presidency.
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An American scholar said Friday that an official at the U.S. Embassy asked him to keep tabs on Venezuelan and Cuban workers in Bolivia. Washington said that any such request would be an error and against U.S. policy.
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Cuba is not ready for the throngs of American tourists who would be expected to visit the island if a U.S. ban is ever lifted, but it has the time to build new hotels, a senior Cuban official said on Wednesday.
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Cuban officials called a veteran human rights activist a "mercenary" for the United States on Monday, accusing him of exaggerating the number of political prisoners held on the island to make money and destabilize the communist system.
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There is no reason to believe that Cuban President Fidel Castro&#39;s life is in danger as he convalesces, Culture Minister Abel Prieto said late Friday.