Cuba Severs Diplomatic Ties With Panama
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Cuba severed diplomatic ties with Panama on Thursday, retaliating within hours for the president's pardoning four Cuban emigres accused of trying to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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Venezuela withdrew its ambassador from Panama on Friday to protest outgoing President Mireya Moscoso's argument that she pardoned four Cuban emigres for fear they might be sent to Venezuela and executed.
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President Hugo Chavez rejected a U.S. government report accusing Venezuela of funding efforts by Cuba&#039;s Fidel Castro to subvert democracy in Latin America, saying it indicated Washington&#039;s aggressive intentions toward Havana.
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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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Panama&#39;s outgoing president has pardoned four Cuban emigres convicted for their role in an assassination attempt on Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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Venezuela has recalled its ambassador to Panama to protest comments by the outgoing Panamanian president regarding her reasons for pardoning four men convicted in a plot to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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Panama's president on Thursday pardoned four Cuban emigres accused of trying to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro despite Havana's threat to cut diplomatic ties over such a move.
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Cuba hailed on Wednesday a decision by  the new United Nations human rights watchdog to drop the  communist nation from a list of countries with poor rights  records, calling it a major diplomatic victory over its  longtime ideological foe the United States.
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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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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela recalled its  ambassador from Panama Friday in protest at comments by  Panama's outgoing leader about the pardon of four Cuban exiles  who plotted to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro in 2000.
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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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Cuba announced on Monday that it was  ending circulation of the U.S. dollar in its territory as of  Nov. 8 in response to tightened U.S. economic sanctions.
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Cuba and the US trade bitter words after Cuba announced it was banning the use of dollars on the island.
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Venezuela withdraws its ambassador from Panama, in an on-going row about a pardon for four Cuban exiles.
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Bush administration officials denied any role yesterday in the politically fortuitous pardon of four Cuban exiles by the outgoing Panamanian government.
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Cuba broke off diplomatic relations with Panama after Panama&#39;s President Mireya Moscoso pardoned four Cubans convicted over a plot to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro, Agence France-Presse reported.
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HAVANA/MADRID  - Cuba said on Saturday it barred  entry to three European lawmakers on a trip to support  dissidents, setting back Spain's campaign to mend frosty ties  between the EU bloc and the communist-ruled island.