Cuba News

The head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services USA crossed between the Navy base at Guantanamo and Guantanamo province, worshipping in both places.

Once the nation's most secure prison, the federal lockup in southern Illinois has housed everyone from spies to a Colombian druglord to dapper mob boss John Gotti.

Peter Kent, minister of state of Foreign Affairs for the Americas, has had his trip to Cuba postponed.

President Barack Obama has ordered the detention facility closed next year. It holds more than 200 terror suspects whose cases are undergoing review for their potential release, prosecution or continued confinement.

Cuba is letting workers hold multiple government jobs for the first time under an overhaul of the island's labor system.

Lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee charged with terrorism crimes have asked the U.S. government to preserve overseas locations where he was subjected to "physical and psychological ill-treatment" at secret CIA prisons known as "black sites" until they can inspect them.

Attorneys for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner asked a federal judge Wednesday to exclude as evidence against him the statements he made during at least 57 interrogations since his capture, saying they were the result of torture and other coercion.

Bogota, Jun 30 A warm welcome was given to participants to the 1st Cartagena-La Habana Son Festival in Cartagena, a Colombian city that shares cultural similarities with Havana.

Angelenos with family in Cuba will have another option for travel today, when a Long Beach-based company kicks off nonstop flights from LAX to Havana.

To record his next hit El Micha, one of the rising stars of Cuba's reggaeton music blending reggae, Latin and electronic rhythms, just has to knock on his neighbour's door.

Approximately 229 detainees from "about two dozen countries" are still held in Guantanamo, according to the latest Pentagon figures, provided to AFP.

U.S. President Barack Obama will fulfill his promise to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by January next year, the White House said Monday.

Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:48pm EDT HAVANA - Cuba on Sunday condemned the military coup in Honduras as "criminal, brutal" and demanded the immediate return to office of deposed leftist President Manuel Zelaya.

I want to be very clear that our goal is to construct a legitimate legal framework for Guantanamo detainees - not to avoid one.

ARLINGTON, Va. - The Obama administration has made an excellent first step to eliminate some restrictions on travel to the island, to loosen constraints on remittances, and to re-engage in migration talks.

Havana, Jun 25 A well-known narrator and writer, Juan Bosch , former president of the Dominican Republic, will be commemorated on the centennial of his birth date during the Festival of the Caribbean to be held in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.

So far stymied by Congress, the White House is considering an executive order to imprison indefinitely a small number of Guantanamo Bay detainees considered too dangerous to prosecute or release, two administration officials said Friday.

Communist Cuba may boast a doctor on every block and schools for all its children, but when it comes to telephones, computers and the Internet it lags behind other countries in the hemisphere, a government report showed on Thursday.

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Havana, Jun 24 An unusual demonstration of the traditional Honduran people''s culture will be appreciated by the people of Santiago de Cuba, when the Garifuna Folkloric Ballet of that country performs in that city, as part of the also known as Fire Festival.