Baseball defectors seen on Cuban TV for first time
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Cubans saw one of their greatest baseball players, Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez, on television on Saturday night for the first time since he defected to the United States a decade ago.
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One of five Cuban dissidents who have been released from prison this week has been told he should consider leaving the country. The Miami Herald reported Wednesday that writer Raul
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Among the seven pitchers in camp as nonroster invitees are a former All-Star closer, a Cuban defector, a former Team USA star who made it to the big leagues two years after being drafted, a player who wasn't drafted out of high school and college, and three Red Sox minor leaguers in their first big league ...
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Cuban President Fidel Castro put on a brave face after he was injured in a tumble Wednesday night. Although it was not broadcast live on Cuban television, cameras caught Castro&#39;s misstep Wednesday night, as
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has not been seen in public for 10 months, will appear on Cuban television on Tuesday in his first interview since undergoing emergency surgery last year, a TV announcer said on Monday.
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Fidel Castro appeared more vigorous on Sunday in the first television images of the Cuban leader to be broadcast in Cuba in four months, adding weight to reports that he has put his health crisis behind him.
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After hearing his unmistakable voice in a good-humored chat played on state television, many Cubans are now convinced Fidel Castro is no longer at death's door and could even return to lead them.
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The New York Mets signed Cuban defector Alay Soler on Friday, giving the pitcher a three-year deal worth &#36;2.8 million.
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro,   looking well along the road to recovery, was shown on   television on Friday meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo   Chavez and brother Raul Castro, to whom he temporarily ceded   power a month ago to undergo intestinal surgery.
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Two players from the Cuban national soccer team may have defected before a match against Honduras on Wednesday in Houston, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
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Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro,   looking well along the road to recovery, was shown on   television on Friday meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo   Chavez after temporarily ceding power a month ago to undergo   intestinal surgery.
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A Cuban troupe of 44 dancers, singers  and musicians appearing in Las Vegas will seek asylum in the  United States, the show's creator said on Monday, in one of the  largest mass defections by Cubans performing abroad.
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WASHINGTON -- Iranian television yesterday aired images of two imprisoned Americans for the first time and said it will show a documentary tomorrow that includes confessions by scholar Haleh Esfandiari, of Potomac, Md., and New York-based social scientist Kian Tajbakhsh.
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For the first time in four months, Cuban leader Fidel Castro was shown standing and talking in video footage that aired on state-run Cuban TV.
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Most Cubans did not see Fidel Castro fall after a televised speech, but by Thursday morning street corners, living rooms and workplaces were filled with hushed chatter.
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The business world is populated with successful Cuban-Americans who left their homeland as children when Fidel Castro took power. But even before Carlos Gutierrez was
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In the heartland of opposition to Fidel Castro, some Miami exiles expressed relief at the Cuban leader's resignation on Tuesday but others said they doubted it would end his overwhelming influence on their homeland.