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GOP presidential nominee John McCain, who has taken a hit in the polls in recent weeks, is slightly behind his Democratic rival Barack Obama in Florida, which offers 27 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win ...

By Marc Frank

HAVANA (Reuters) - 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, official media said this week.

The move could not come at a better time, local economists said, as the country struggles with food shortages after hurricanes Ike and Gustav devastated crops last month.

"First parcels of vacant land handed over in Granma" said a headline in Demajagua, the Communist party newspaper for the southeastern province of Granma.

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

WASHINGTON -- John McCain and Barack Obama made little mention of Latin America during their foreign policy debate.

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If you think that the most important issue to Latino voters in this presidential election is immigration -think again.

A communist experiment is letting average government workers in this eastern city enjoy a few things only foreigners and monied Cubans can usually afford: a good burger, a kicking jazz bar and stiff cocktails.

HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 3 Chile sent on Thursday 13 tons of humanitarian aid to Cuba as a contribution to the ongoing recovery efforts in the Caribbean country after the devastation caused by hurricanes Gustav and ...

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In 2000 Cuban-Americans represented 70 percent of Florida's Hispanic electorate, today the make up less than half thanks to a large influx of new voters originally from Puerto Rico, Columbia, Venezuela and ...

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.

Hurricanes Gustav and Ike devastated Cuba. Preliminary estimates put damages at more than US$5 billion.

After Friday night's presidential debate, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger defended Sen.

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at a military parade just outside Tehran, on Sunday, Sept.

Havana, Sep 22 Cuban President Raul Castro welcomed in a fraternal and friendly embrace his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez in Havana at the Jose Marti International Airport, Granma newspaper reported ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.- U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez told an audience at Harvard University on Monday night that Cuba will soon return to the forefront of U.S. foreign policy because of an inevitable ...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Cuba late on Sunday to meet with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, as Caracas's firebrand leader sets out on a tour that includes China, Russia, Portugal and France.

HAVANA NOCTURNE: How the Mob Owned Cuba ... and Then Lost It to the Revolution, by T.J. English.