Communist Cuba's shift from Fidel Castro's leadership to President Raul Castro's has brought continued serious human rights violations including persistent aggression against dissidents. ...
US rights group says Cubans' lives unimproved under 2nd Castro and worse in some ways Human Rights Watch says conditions in Cuba have ...
President Raul Castro is taking a bold gamble to ease communist Cuba's cash crunch by eliminating a costly government lunch program that feeds almost a third of the nation's population every workday. The Americas' only one-party communist government, held afloat largely by ...
HAVANA (Reuters) - A solemn President Raul Castro placed a red rose at a memorial to Juan Almeida on Sunday, then looked silently at a photograph of the man whose death on Friday was the loss of both an old friend and ...
Thousands pay respects to Cuban revolutionary hero Juan Almeida Bosque Tens of thousands of Cubans lined up Sunday to pay their respects to Juan Almeida Bosque, a vice president and hero of the country's 1959 revolution whose death at the age of ...
Thousands pay respects to Cuban revolutionary hero, Juan Almeida Bosque Thousands of Cubans lined up early Sunday to pay their respects to Juan Almeida Bosque, a vice president and hero of the country's 1959 revolution whose death at the age of 82 ...
HAVANA (Reuters) - Vice President Juan Almeida, one of the leaders of the Cuban revolution and a stalwart in Cuba's aging old guard, died of heart failure at age 82, state-run media said on Saturday. Almeida was at the side of Fidel ...
HAVANA (Reuters) - Fit-looking former leader Fidel Castro appeared on Cuban television for the first time since June 2008 and his photograph was published in an official newspaper on Sunday in a signal that his once-failing health has improved. Castro, 83, looked ...
HAVANA (Reuters) - An official Cuban newspaper on Sunday published a photograph of 83-year-old former President Fidel Castro apparently in good health and meeting visiting Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa. The photograph of Castro, covering most of the front page of the Juventud ...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez flew to Cuba earlier this week to meet with Cuban ex-leader Fidel Castro and said his ailing Communist mentor had fully recovered, officials said Saturday. Upon his return to Caracas Friday from the unannounced visit, Chavez said the ...
Patricia Rondon CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez flew to Cuba this week to celebrate Fidel Castro's 83rd birthday and said his close friend had recovered from a long illness. The former Cuban leader is in "total control of his mental ...
Fidel Castro marked his 83rd birthday with a bleak warning over US handling of the global economic crisis, as photos emerged of the Cuban former president apparently in better health. The two images surfaced as Cuba's government-run newspapers ran a signed opinion ...
