Fidel Castro News

Nearly 50 years after a botched US-directed invasion of Cuba, the communist nation said on Saturday it would hold a military exercise this week to boost preparedness against any future US attack.

A couple who professed admiration for Fidel Castro are sentenced to prison and will pay the federal government $1.7 million for spying for Cuba.

President Hugo Chavez is inviting his mentor Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela during the coming months.

Raul Castro's government has locked up scores of people in Cuba for exercising their fundamental freedoms and allowed scores of political prisoners arrested during Fidel Castro's rule to languish in detention, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Friday.

A former US State Department official and his wife pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that they spied for almost three decades for the Communist-led Cuban government.

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By Mary Beth Sheridan Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 19, 2009 A battle over Cuba policy is escalating in Congress, with proponents saying they have their best chance in years of repealing the ban on U.S. tourist travel to the island.

The debate over U.S. policy towards Cuba heats up this week as the House Foreign Affairs Committee holds a hearing Thursday on whether to lift the U.S. travel ban against Fidel Castro's island-prison. Senator Richard Lugar and Rep.

"Rather than dismantle the repressive machinery, Raul Castro has kept it firmly in place and fully active." From BBC: Cuban conditions 'remain harsh' Cuba is continuing to violate human rights and is using draconian laws to repress its citizens, according to a new Human Rights Watch report.

Critics of relaxing travel restrictions to Cuba said today that the Castro regime first has to agree to return criminal fugitives, including a woman who murdered a New Jersey state trooper in 1973.

The United States should "scrap" a ban on its citizens travelling to Cuba, two key US lawmakers said Tuesday, blaming the policy for hampering Washington's efforts to promote democratic reforms there.

Back in the 1990s, Ann Louise Bardach -- who speaks Sunday at 11 a.m. with Gerald Posner at the Miami bookfair, made herself infamous in Miami by scoring a huge interview with Fidel Castro for Vanity Fair .

United Nations, Nov 15 Cuba sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urging the US to act with regards to terrorists in that country operating against Cuba, and demanded the release of the five Cuban anti-terrorists in US jails.

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History suggests that there is nothing wrong with the Jamaican Government being careful with its decision regarding the United States' , request for the extradition of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.

There are studies enough and statistics galore to prove to the most ignorant and obscurantist amongst us that retaliatory crime and violence is not a policy to defeat crime or criminality.

President Hugo Chavez is inviting former Cuban leader Fidel Castro to next month's meeting of the regional ALBA trade bloc being held in Havana.

A group led by the head of the United States' biggest science organization is in Cuba this week to discuss ways to rekindle scientific cooperation as U.S.-Cuba relations slowly improve under U.S. President Barack Obama.

President Hugo Chavez is stirring trouble with Colombia to disguise domestic failures and Venezuela would be "mad" to enter a conflict with its neighbor, a prominent opposition leader said.

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