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This New Year's Eve will mark the half-century anniversary of a night when Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista , in anticipation of Fidel Castro's advancing revolutionary army, abandoned the island he had ruled on ...

Fidel Castro says a 'profound racism' in the United States will stop millions from voting for Barack Obama in next month's presidential election.

The ailing, 82-year-old former Cuban president says it is 'a miracle that the Democratic candidate hasn't suffered the same luck as (assassinated leaders) Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and others who harbored dreams of equality and justice.'

Castro's written comments were published by state media Saturday. In them, he insists a 'profound racism' exists in the U.S. and that millions of whites 'cannot reconcile themselves to the idea that a black person ... could occupy the White House, which is called just that: white.'

In a matter of weeks, a Russian naval squadron will arrive in the waters off Latin America for the first time since the Cold War.

Havana, Oct 10 Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro recalled Angolans and Cubans' heroism in the 1983 battle in Cangamba, where they fought restlessly with no food or water and suffered 78 casualties and 204 ...

MIAMI : The Freedom Tower in Miami is now a National Historic Landmark. U.S. Sen.

HAVANA * Communist Cuba has begun leasing land to private farmers, cooperatives and state companies for the first time in decades in a step forward for one of President Raul Castro's main economic reforms, ...

VIENNA, Austria : A bronze bust of Latin American revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara has been unveiled in the Austrian capital.

On Oct. 9, 1967, Che Guevara was killed by CIA operatives and members of the Bolivian army.

If conservative Republicans are right and the $700 billion financial-sector rescue plan signals America's slide into socialism, you'd think Seth Dellinger would be celebrating.

Trying to find a Venezuelan in Delaware who supports the oil-exporting country's President Hugo Chavez is about as easy as finding a Cuban in Miami who admires Fidel Castro.

October 6 is a sad and unforgettable date for the relatives of 73 people who died in the terrorist bombing in midair of a Cubana airliner, off the coast of Barbados, in 1976.

Watches still make Gedalio "Gerry" Grinberg tick, even at age 77. The native of Cuba who was instrumental in turning mainstream Americans on to luxury timepieces, will step down on Jan.

In 1998, five Cuban men were arrested for infiltrating groups in the US that were plotting attacks on Cuba.

As I mentioned last week, this year's New York Film Festival isn't the showcase for future Oscar prospects that it was last year.

EVERY year for well over a decade now without fail, Cuba presents to the United Nations a report outlining the effects of sanctions on the populace of the largest island in the Caribbean.

Today is Saturday, October 11, the 285th day of 2008. There are 81 days left in the year.

Here's one way of anticipating what will be the next U.S. president's policy on Cuba, Venezuela and other anti-American governments in the region: If either candidate wins the White House without winning ...

Two Taliban assassins on a motorbike shot and killed a senior policewoman as she left for work in Kandahar on Sunday and gravely wounded her son.

Poll finds 60 percent of likely voters favor revised policies toward Cuba; 76 percent believe war on drugs is failing 11:10 a.m., Thursday, October 2, 2008 The views of likely voters on issues involving other ...