U.S. rejects talking to Cuba's "dictator-in-waiting"
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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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The Bush administration chose Thursday to urge change in Fidel Castro's Cuba rather than speculate on the health of its aging leader.
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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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Cuba condemned the decision by outgoing Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso to set free four notorious terrorists of Cuban origin and announced that it was breaking diplomatic relations with the Central American country indefinitely.
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Venezuela rejected criticism by a U.S. State Department spokesman of a proposed media law that government legislators are trying to approve in the National Assembly, said an official Wednesday.
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Cuban scholars charged Wednesday that the U.S. government denied visas to more than 60 Cubans seeking to attend conference on Latin America in the United States.
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EL PASO, Texas  - The U.S. Justice Department filed objections on Thursday to a U.S. court's proposal to free an anti-Castro militant accused of bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976, killing 73 people.
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"But it is positive that we are talking about it. Surely, when we talk our positions will become more understandable."  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Cuba was on the verge of a 'major transition,' and chided Spain on Friday for doing business with Fidel Castro while not working more to support dissidents in the communist island nation.Rice's one-day visit here was meant to smooth over a three-year downturn in relations between Washington and the government Madrid, but the disagreement over Cuba has threatened to wash away any growing good will. At issue is Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos's decision to snub Cuban dissidents on a visit to Havana in April. Read more
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Cuba sought fresh support from the American people and the United Nations to end the four-decade U.S. embargo on the island, and dismissed the Bush administration's campaign to topple Fidel Castro as a failure.
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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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The State Department says Cuba&#39;s move to ban the circulation of dollars underscores the weakness of Fidel Castro&#39;s communist government.
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The United States will have to wait until Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies to see if a better future is in store for his communist-ruled Caribbean island, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said on Saturday.
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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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U.S. diplomats on Wednesday ignored a warning from the Cuban government to immediately take down Christmas decorations outside its offices or face unspecified consequences.
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Cuba accused the United States on Tuesday of issuing too few visas for Cuban emigres, saying the delay was part of Washington's efforts to overthrow the Cuban government.
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Authorities in Cuba denied entry to a conservative Spanish politician and two Dutch colleagues hoping to meet with dissidents, Spain's Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
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China has appealed to the United States not to send the "wrong signal" after Washington said a handful of detained Uighurs being held at the US military base in Guantanamo Bay would not be returned to China.