Fidel Castro News

Fidel Castro has found something to sneeze at in Washington's decision to ease visits by Cuban-Americans to his island: he says more Americans mean more swine flu.

Havana, Nov 6 Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro asserted Friday that anyone moderately informed can understand immediately that the sweetened Complementary Agreement for Defense and Security Cooperation and Technical Assistance between the governments of Colombia and the United States amounts to the annexation of the South American nation.

A Cuban blogger who has gained international attention for her searing commentary about life on the communist island said she was briefly detained Friday and warned by state security agents about her opposition activity.

Cuba has cut two staple foods from the monthly ration books that most islanders depend on, edging closer to a risky full elimination of the decades-old subsidies.

As one of the biggest new stars to emerge during the mid-'80s, singer Gloria Estefan predated the coming Latin pop explosion by a decade, scoring a series of propulsive dance hits rooted in the rhythms of her native Cuba before shifting her focus to softer, more ballad-oriented fare.

Cuba's Fidel Castro slammed US President Barack Obama yesterday for treating Latin America with "scorn" on the anniversary of the US leader's election as president.

President Hugo Chavez said he met privately with actor Sean Penn on Wednesday, and that the Oscar-winning celebrity may film a movie in Venezuela.

Havana, Nov 4 Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro stated that Cuba shall keep on restlessly struggling to free the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unfairly imprisoned in the United States.

Cuba's state-run media on Monday condemned a just-published book in which Fidel Castro's sister admits she spied for the Central Intelligence Agency.

Luther Castillo, who represents the National Resistance Front against the Military Coup in Honduras, brought to San Francisco the echoes of Cubaa s former President Fidel Castro on Thursday night at the Centro del Pueblo.

Havana - An official Cuban publication on Monday dismissed as "a bad taste commercial operation" a memoir by the younger sister of Fidel and Raul Castro that revealed she worked for the CIA in Cuba in the early 1960s.

Horrified by the excesses of dictatorship, Latin Americans discarded the strongman model at the end of the 20th century and limited politicians' time in power.

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In America, immigrants continue to thread their way into that colorful tapestry called Florida.

As predictable as the sun rising every day, the United Nations General Assembly last Wednesday overwhelmingly condemned, for the 18th year in a row, the U.S. embargo of Cuba .

Americans have been conditioned to fear Islamic terrorism, but most Americans have been told little about how much of the international terror web was created by the former Soviet Union.

With the UN poised to condemn the US trade embargo on Cuba, we look at ties between the two countries since the 1959 revolution Cubans watch a vintage American car go by in Havana on February 19 2008.

Even with all the awards and accolades our president has already received for "talking about" change, hope, diplomacy and peace, President Barack Obama seems to know little about being a change agent, about building hope in anything but getting a government stimulus "bailout" or about seeking "peace" through bipartisan diplomacy with those ...

The UN general assembly is expected to overwhelmingly condemn the US economic embargo against Cuba today, adding pressure on the Obama administration to abandon its 47-year-old policy.

Today is Thursday, October 29, the 302nd day of 2009. There are 63 days left in the year.