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Cuban blogger Yoani SA nchez was astounded this week by President Barack Obama's decision to respond a written questionnaire SA nchez submitted to the White House.

A former U.S. State Department official and his wife pleaded guilty to charges they provided classified information about U.S. national defense to the Republic of Cuba for three decades.

Cuban dissidents holed up in a Havana house for 36 days started a liquids-only fast this week that led a doctor to order one of them to go home for health reasons, one of the protesters told CNN on Friday.

United States House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs Full Committee Howard L. Berman , Chairman Is it Time to Lift the Ban on Travel to Cuba? You are respectfully requested to attend the following open hearing of the Full Committee to be held in Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office Building.

U.S. President Barack Obama praised dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez and said in a posting on her website on Thursday that he looks forward to the day "all Cubans can freely express themselves." Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez during an interview with Reuters in her house in Havana November 9, 2009.

Lincoln Diaz-Balart gave a speech. His subject was the persecution of Cuban democrats, and the general ignoring of this persecution by the American press.

A metaphorical timeout has been in place between the United States and Cuba for nearly 50 years.

US President Barack Obama says the deadline set for the closure of the Guantanamo prison will be missed.

Despite is claims that progress is being made in closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, President Barack Obama acknowledged on Wednesday that the administration won't make the January 2010 deadline he set when he took office, according to Michael Carden of the American Forces Press Service .

Women in Cuba cite a variety of reasons to explain their decision to have only one child, ranging from the housing shortage to the rising cost of living and the many work responsibilities they have to shoulder.

A A A' The rights of a Guantanamo detainee facing trial in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa were not violated when the military took away his uniformed lawyers, a judge ruled Wednesday.

US President Barack Obama has for the first time admitted that the US will miss the January 2010 deadline he set for closing the Guantanamo Bay prison.

HAVANA, Cuba - A hunger strike by a Cuban dissident has been a hot story for Miami-based Spanish-language media, and concern about her health even reached the halls of the U.S. Congress, where an anti-Castro lawmaker warned that she was "close to death." But Martha Beatriz Roque's condition and the extent of her fast were not clear until the ...

As the Obama administration considers a plan to move Guantanamo Bay detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, including possible sites in Illinois and Michigan, proponents and critics are spinning the facts.

Via PAZale, the blog of Dr. Alexis PA©rez SA nchez in Las Tunas, Cuba: A Una situaciA3n compleja? [A complex situation?] Excerpt, with my translation: Respecto a la Influenza A H1N1, segAon los especialistas, las acciones deben estar dirigidas a la vigilancia y a la pesquisa activa de casos con sA ntomas respiratorios en la comunidad y en los ...

One of seven Cuban dissidents who recently launched a fast to protest harassments suffered from complications due to diabetes, but is stable.

In a move both politically and legally risky, the Obama administration plans to put on trial the professed mastermind of the Sept.

Havana is not a common tourist destination for Canadians. Though some 700,000 Canadians travel to Cuba each year, most go to the popular resort areas of Varadero, Cayo Coco and Holguin, with maybe a day trip to Havana.

Several dozen people held a rally in downtown Edmonton to demand that Omar Khadr be sent back to Canada to face trial in a civilian court.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez says he will join a team of Cuban scientists on flights to "bomb clouds" to create rain amid a severe drought that has aroused public anger due to water and electricity rationing.