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  • 14/04/2012 | World

    US makes plea to overcome 'Cold War diplomacy'

    US President Barack Obama called for the possibility of overcoming “the diplomacy of the Cold War,” today in reference to the dispute with Cuba, whilst participating in the CEO summit given prior to the inauguration of the VI Summit of the Americas taking place in Cartagena, Colombia.

  • 04/05/2012 | World

    Jailed US contractor in Cuba pleads for brief release

    A US contractor imprisoned in Cuba praised Raúl Castro's economic reforms but called the Cuban government's treatment of him "shameful" in his first media interview since he was jailed more than two years ago.

  • 06/03/2012 | World

    US watchful for ‘potential turbulence’ in Venezuela

    United States Air Force Commander, General Douglas Fraser, in charge of the US Southern Command, stated before Congress that the Department of Defence is “watchful for potential geopolitical turbulence that could impact US citizens,” and highlighted the uncertainties of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez health and economic instability.

  • 27/03/2012 | World

    Pope, Castro meet as official squashes reform hopes

    Pope Benedict and Cuban President Raúl Castro met on Tuesday for talks on a papal trip that has sparked hopes for economic and political change, but one national leader said there would be no political reform on the communist island.

  • 28/03/2012 | World

    Pope gives huge mass, urges for changes in Cuba

    Pope Benedict XVI wrapped up his visit to Cuba today with an enormous Mass before hundreds of thousands of people in emblematic Revolution Square. “Cuba and the world need change,’’ he said.

  • 29/07/2011 | World

    Cuba approves flights from 9 more US cities

    Air travel between the United States and Cuba will become easier with the opening of charter flights to the forbidden island from an additional nine US cities announced by Cuba authorities.

  • 24/10/2011 | World

    Castro accuses NATO for Gaddafi’s 'murder'

    Castro denounced NATO for its role in the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, saying the "brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression the history of humanity has known."

  • 10/12/2011 | World

    Cuba dissidents say 200 detained up to UN rights day

    Cuban opposition said toay that about 200 people had been temporarily detained by the Communist-led Caribbean island's security services ahead of the international UN human rights day.

  • 12/03/2011 | World

    US contractor sentenced to 15 years in Cuba trial

    US aid contractor Alan Gross has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for crimes against the Cuban state, state-run television reported, in the latest setback to relations between two Cold War enemies.

  • 26/03/2011 | World

    Carter to meet Castro, religious leaders in Cuba

    Former US President Jimmy Carter will meet with Cuban President Raúl Castro, the leader of Cuba's Catholic Church and the island's Jewish community during a Havana visit starting on Monday amid speculation he will seek the release of a jailed US aid contractor.

  • 16/05/2011 | World

    Cuba further loosens regulation of private sector

    Communist-run Cuba has given all small businesses the authority to hire labor and will loosen other regulations governing private enterprise, the government said in a statement.

  • 21/01/2011 | World

    Cuba stops US mail in new hiccup in relations

    Cuba has suspended postal deliveries to the United States, its mail firm said, in a step backward for ties between neighbouring countries that have made cautious progress in repairing a Cold War-era rift.

  • 08/02/2011 | World

    Cuba unblocks access to controversial blog

    Dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez said the Cuban government apparently has unblocked access to her blog, which had been off limits on the island's Internet since 2008.

  • 09/02/2011 | World

    Cuban dissident blogger talked to the Herald after her blog was liberated

    “I wonder if this is for good,” she told the Herald. “By blocking us (accesses to our blogs), the Government has been strengthening us,” she added in a phone conversation from the island.

  • 18/05/2012 | Latin America

    Chávez breaks silence with phone call

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez ended a weeklong silence after his latest cancer treatment with a call to state television, singing a folk song and vowing to deepen his self-styled socialist "revolution."

  • 26/04/2012 | Latin America

    Chávez back from Cuba after cancer treatment

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has returned home after 11 days of cancer treatment in Cuba as the state television showed images of the Head of State chatting with his vice president and other aides after arriving at Caracas' international airport early today.

  • 07/05/2012 | Latin America

    Chávez breaks silence, says governing Venezuela

    President Hugo Chávez broke a week-long silence to deny he had left Venezuela rudderless during his cancer treatment in Cuba and to promise a resounding re-election win in October.

  • 16/05/2012 | Latin America

    Daughter of Cuban leader Raúl Castro to visit US

    Cuban President Raúl Castro's daughter is scheduled to visit California next week to speak at a conference of experts on Latin America during a rare US trip by a member of Cuba's ruling family.

  • 23/04/2012 | Latin America

    Venezuela's Chávez calls home to squash death rumors

    A healthy-sounding President Hugo Chávez called Venezuelan state television from Cuba to dispel rumors fanned by a nine-day silence that he had died undergoing cancer treatment at a hospital in Havana.

  • 23/04/2012 | Latin America

    Cuba plans massive shift to 'non-state' sector

    Cuba will move nearly 50 percent of the state's economic activity to the "non-state" sector, a senior Communist party official said, the latest signal the island is headed toward a mixed economy.

  • 24/04/2012 | Latin America

    Chávez 'alive and kicking' in Cuba, pictures released

    Photos released by the Venezuelan government showed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez wearing a track suit and strolling in a garden in Havana with Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro, playing bowls with his brother, Adán, and kissing a crucifix as he hugged his daughter, María Gabriela.

  • 14/04/2012 | Latin America

    Chávez skips Americas Summit, heads to Cuba for radiotherapy

    Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, will not be participating in the VI Americas Summit which began today in Cartagena and is set to travel to Cuba in order to continue his radiotherapy treatment, Venezuela foreign minister, Nicolás Maduro informed today.

  • 15/04/2012 | Latin America

    Latin America rebels against US over Cuba

    Unprecedented Latin American opposition to US sanctions on Cuba left President Barack Obama isolated at a summit on Sunday and illustrated Washington's declining influence in a region being aggressively courted by China.

  • 16/04/2012 | Latin America

    Summit concludes without joint declaration, split over Cuba and Malvinas

    The 6th Summit of the Americas ended yesterday in the Colombian city of Cartagena de indias without a joint declaration thanks to divisions over Cuba and Argentina's sovereignty claim over the Malvinas Islands.

  • 06/04/2012 | Latin America

    Reflective Chavez weeps at Mass, asks for God’s help

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wept and asked God to spare his life during a pre-Easter Mass after returning from his latest session of cancer treatment in Cuba. Chavez has undergone three operations in less than a year, and received two sessions of radiation treatment.

  • 06/04/2012 | Latin America

    After half century, Cubans again celebrate Good Friday

    Bells rang from Roman Catholic churches throughout Havana on Friday to remember the death of Jesus Christ as Cubans celebrated a holiday on Good Friday for the first time in more than half a century.

  • 08/04/2012 | Latin America

    Venezuela's Chávez lands in Cuba for treatment

    Venezuelan President Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías returned to Cuba on Easter Sunday for a third round of radiation therapy.

  • 31/03/2012 | Latin America

    Cuba declares Good Friday a holiday at pope's request

    Cuba has declared next week's Good Friday a holiday following a request from Pope Benedict during his visit to the island, state media said on Saturday.

  • 02/04/2012 | Latin America

    Ecuador's Correa to skip Summit of the Americas

    Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said he will not attend this month's Summit of the Americas in Colombia, nor any other gathering that excludes Cuba or fails to address what he calls the region's most pressing issues.

  • 05/04/2012 | Latin America

    Chavez back in Venezuela after treatment in Cuba

    President Hugo Chavez returned home to Venezuela today after his latest session of cancer treatment in Cuba, as he aims to fight off the illness and win a new six-year term in an October election.

  • 28/03/2012 | Latin America

    Pope to end Cuba trip with mass, Fidel Castro meeting

    Pope Benedict will step onto Cuba's biggest stage today with a public mass in Havana's Revolution Square as he wraps up a trip that began with a blast at communism and will end with a visit with Fidel Castro.

  • 28/03/2012 | Latin America

    Pope meets with Fidel Castro

    Pope Benedict ended his visit to Cuba on Wednesday by urging the communist-run island to search for "authentic freedom" and condemning a 50-year-old US trade embargo while also making time to meet with ailing revolutionary icon Fidel Castro.

  • 29/03/2012 | Latin America

    Chavez back in Venezuela after radiation therapy

    President Hugo Chavez returned home to Venezuela today after a first session of radiation treatment in Cuba that he hopes will cure his cancer and allow him to win a new six-year term in October.

  • 24/03/2012 | Latin America

    Chávez returning to Cuba for radiation therapy

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez will return to Cuba to begin radiation treatment for cancer on Sunday, but said he was in good shape and would be back home in several days.

  • 26/03/2012 | Latin America

    Pope lands in Cuba for 3-day visit

    Pope Benedict arrived in Cuba for a three-day visit to showcase improving Church-state relations and push for a larger Church role at a time of change on the communist island.

  • 27/03/2012 | Latin America

    Pope calls for more justice, peace, freedom in Cuba

    Pope Benedict urged Cubans to build a better, "renewed and open society" and pressed the communist government to give the Catholic Church more liberties to help the country as it faced an uncertain future.

  • 16/03/2012 | Latin America

    Chávez returns to Venezuela from Cuba after surgery

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez flew home after cancer surgery in Cuba that will require him to have radiation therapy ahead of October's re-election bid.

  • 19/03/2012 | Latin America

    Cuba releases Ladies in White as pope visit nears

    Cuba released 70 members of the dissident Ladies in White group detained during the weekend but warned them not to attend activities related to next week's visit of Pope Benedict, the group's leader said.

  • 23/03/2012 | Latin America

    Cuba will listen to Pope Benedict with respect, foreign minister says

    “Cuba will receive and listen affectionately and respectfully to what Pope Benedict XVI has to say,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez told the international press today. His remarks come just a few hours after the international media published the Pope’s views on the island’s regime.

  • 08/03/2012 | Latin America

    Cuba calls exclusion from regional summit 'unacceptable'

    Cuba said it was "unacceptable" that it will not be invited to an upcoming hemispheric summit in Colombia and blamed the United States for insisting that Cuba be excluded.

  • 13/03/2012 | Latin America

    New photos show Chávez recovering in Cuba

    The Venezuelan government published several new photos showing president Hugo Chávez during his recovery stage in La Habana on Tuesday, after undergoing surgery to have a malignant tumor removed.

  • 14/03/2012 | Latin America

    Seeking pope's help, Cuban dissidents occupy church

    Cuban dissidents occupied a Roman Catholic church in Havana in what a Church spokesman said was part of a broader orchestrated action to get Pope Benedict to press for change when he visits later this month.

  • 01/03/2012 | Latin America

    Venezuela's Chávez 'working' after Cuba operation

    Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez is back working on government affairs from Cuba after a successful operation for his suspected recurrence of cancer, allies said.

  • 01/03/2012 | Latin America

    Cuban government to open new ministries

    Cuba will create two new ministries as part of President Raul Castro's campaign to reorganize the government and make it more effective, state media reported.

  • 02/03/2012 | Latin America

    Venezuela publishes photos of Chávez with Fidel

    Venezuela published photographs of President Hugo Chávez chatting with Cuba's Fidel Castro and walking in a hospital as he recovers from cancer surgery on the Communist-led island.

  • 23/02/2012 | Latin America

    Chávez goes to Cuba on Friday for cancer surgery

    Venezuela's ailing socialist leader, Hugo Chávez, will fly to Cuba on Friday for an unknown period to undergo new cancer surgery that has shaken the South American nation before an October presidential election.

  • 24/02/2012 | Latin America

    Emotional Chávez heads for surgery in Cuba

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez bade an emotional farewell to anxious supporters on Friday en route to Cuba for new cancer surgery, vowing to return for victory in the October election.

  • 28/02/2012 | Latin America

    Venezuela says Chávez's lesion 'completely' removed

    Surgeons "completely" removed a lesion from Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's pelvis and the socialist leader is in good physical condition after the operation in Cuba, Venezuela's vice president said on.

  • 30/01/2012 | Latin America

    Rousseff arrives to Cuba to talk trade, ties

    Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff arrived to Havana for a two-day visit focused on trade, but nagged by Cuba's ever-present human rights issues.

  • 31/01/2012 | Latin America

    Rousseff vows to maintain economic aid to Cuba

    Brazil is willing to keep its commitment to Cuba and maintain its economic cooperation with the island, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said on Tuesday during a two-day visit to Cuba in which she will be focused on trade.

  • 21/02/2012 | Latin America

    Venezuela's Chávez to undergo another operation

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said he will have to undergo another operation after doctors found a 2-centimeter lesion in his pelvis during medical tests in Cuba.

  • 11/01/2012 | Latin America

    Ahmadinejad starts one-day Cuba visit

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Havana today for a one-day visit amid heightened international tensions after an Iranian nuclear scientist was killed in a Tehran car bombing.

  • 20/01/2012 | Latin America

    Jailed Cuba dissident dies in hunger strike

    A 31-year-old jailed dissident, Wilmar Villar Mendoza, died in eastern Cuba from the effects of a 56-day hunger strike and what fellow opposition activists believe was mistreatment by the Cuban government, a Cuban human rights activist said.

  • 22/01/2012 | Latin America

    Cuba's Ladies in White call dissident death 'murder'

    The opposition group "Ladies in White" accused the Cuban government of "murdering" by neglect a 31-year-old dissident who died last week following a hunger strike in prison.

  • 25/12/2011 | Latin America

    At least 38 dead in Haitian shipwreck off Cuba

    At least 38 people died today when a boat carrying Haitian migrants sunk off the coast of Guantanamo province in far eastern Cuban, Cuban television reported.

  • 26/12/2011 | Latin America

    Cuba makes more reforms to retail sector

    Cuba will open up more of the country's retail services to the private sector next year, allowing Cubans to operate various services such as appliance and watch repair, and locksmith and carpentry shops, official media reported.

  • 06/01/2012 | Latin America

    Fidel Castro says world marching into abyss with shale gas

    Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said the world was on an "inexorable march toward the abyss," which he blamed in part on the discovery and exploitation of vast reserves of so-called "shale gas" around the world.

  • 22/12/2011 | Latin America

    Cubans wait, hope for end to travel limits

    Cuba is abuzz with speculation that President Raúl Castro will soon announce policy changes making it easier for Cubans to travel abroad from their communist island.

  • 23/12/2011 | Latin America

    Cuba says to release 2,900 prisoners

    Cuba, which is preparing for a visit by Pope Benedict XVI next spring, will release 2,900 prisoners in the coming days for humanitarian reasons, including some convicted of crimes against "the security of the state," the Cuban government said.

  • 24/12/2011 | Latin America

    US regrets Cuba failure to free Alan Gross

    The United States deplored Cuba's apparent failure to free Alan Gross, a US. citizen serving a 15-year prison term in a case that has stalled progress in US.-Cuba relations, as part of an announced humanitarian release of some 2,900 prisoners.

  • 09/12/2011 | Latin America

    Cuba govt supporters block march by dissident women

    Dozens of slogan-chanting Cuban government supporters faced off with dissident women on Friday and prevented them from marching in the street on the eve of international Human Rights Day.

  • 13/12/2011 | Latin America

    In Cuba, old clunkers and Soviet cars now for sale

    Want to buy a blue 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air for $11,000 or a Soviet-made Lada 1600 for $15,000? Or for that matter, sell one?

  • 19/12/2011 | Latin America

    US voices concerns over Venezuela’s Cuban, Iranian ties

    The United States believes increasingly warm ties between Venezuela, Iran and Cuba do not benefit the Venezuelan people, US President Barack Obama said in an interview with a Venezuelan newspaper published today.

  • 08/11/2011 | Latin America

    Castro daughter, dissident blogger clash on Twitter

    Social media moved into a new realm in technologically backward Cuba when Cuban President Raúl Castro's controversial daughter Mariela began tweeting and quickly got into the Twitter equivalent of a shouting match with dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez.

  • 28/11/2011 | Latin America

    Cuban government to contract with private sector

    The Cuban government will begin contracting out some services to the private sector next year in a break from the state-dominated past aimed at helping small business develop, government insiders said.

  • 02/12/2011 | Latin America

    Chávez hosts CELAC summit, snubs US, Canada

    Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez hosted fellow Latin American leaders to launch a new regional body that pointedly excludes the United States.

  • 20/10/2011 | Latin America

    Venezuela’s Chavez: ‘I'm free of illness’

    Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez declared himself cancer-free today, four months after surgery to remove a cancerous tumor that shook the South American nation ahead of a 2012 presidential vote.

  • 25/10/2011 | Latin America

    UN urges end to US Cuba embargo for 20th year

    The UN General Assembly called for the 20th straight year on the United States to lift its trade embargo against Cuba, as the communist-run island dismissed as fraudulent US moves to ease some restrictions.

  • 03/11/2011 | Latin America

    Cuba set to allow buying, selling of homes

    Cubans will be able to buy and sell houses for the first time in more than five decades in a long-awaited reform that legalizes what many have done for years but also restricts how much property they can own, state-run press said.

  • 14/10/2011 | Latin America

    Leader of Cuba's 'Ladies in White' dies at 63

    Laura Pollán, one of the founders of the dissident group Ladies in White, has died in a Havana hospital at the age of 63, fellow dissidents.

  • 15/10/2011 | Latin America

    Cuba's Ladies in White mourn leader, vow to go on

    "Ladies in White" leader Laura Pollán was remembered with a simple altar in her home in a crumbling Havana neighborhood and vows that the group she founded in defiance of Cuba's government would go on.

  • 19/10/2011 | Latin America

    Chávez plans 'thanksgiving' after Cuba cancer tests

    Venezuela's convalescing President Hugo Chávez said he would be home on Thursday for a thanksgiving ceremony at a religious shrine after checks in Cuba following cancer treatment.

  • 28/09/2011 | Latin America

    Obama: Cuba must reform before US eases stance

    The United States is ready to change its stern policy toward Cuba but has not seen steps from Havana that would justify lifting its embargo, President Barack Obama said today.

  • 29/09/2011 | Latin America

    Fidel Castro: 'Many things will change in Cuba in spite of the US'

    Former Cuban President Fidel Castro lashed out at US President Barack Obama today for suggesting bilateral relations could improve if Cuba became more democratic, and he said the communist nation would not bow to US pressure.

  • 07/10/2011 | Latin America

    Convicted Cuban agent released from Florida jail

    A Cuban spy convicted of infiltrating a Cuban exile organization in Florida was released from a US jail after serving 13 years of his 15-year-sentence, his lawyer said.

  • 03/09/2011 | Latin America

    Cuban defense minister dead at 75

    General Julio Casas Reguerio, Cuba's defense minister and longtime aide to President Raúl Castro, died of heart failure at the age of 75, the Cuban government said.

  • 10/09/2011 | Latin America

    Castro says rumours of his death make him laugh

    Fidel Castro, in an audio aired on Venezuelan state television late last night, joked about rumours circulating in the capital, Miami and on Twitter over the past few weeks that he was gravely ill or had died.

  • 17/09/2011 | Latin America

    Chavez heads to Cuba for more chemotherapy

    Venezuela's cancer-stricken leader Hugo Chavez said he will return to Cuba today for a fourth and probably last round of chemotherapy, vowing to be recovered and fit for a tough re-election campaign next year.

  • 17/08/2011 | Latin America

    Cuban singer's Miami concert plan drums up discord

    Cuban singer Pablo Milanés has not yet played a note of his planned Aug. 27 concert in Miami but the event has already drummed up unharmonious debate among Cuban exiles between opponents and supporters of the event.

  • 30/08/2011 | Latin America

    Cuba dissidents ask Church to stop harassment by state

    Leaders of the dissident group Ladies in White asked the Catholic Church to intervene with the Cuban government to end what they described as violent acts against them and other human rights activists.

  • 02/09/2011 | Latin America

    Venezuela's Chávez finishes third chemo session

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez ended a third round of chemotherapy, saying he "couldn't feel better" as he led a caravan to the presidential palace cheered on by thousands of supporters.

  • 05/08/2011 | Latin America

    Cuba upholds 15-year jail sentence for American contractor

    Cuba's Supreme Court upheld the conviction and 15-year prison sentence of jailed American aid contractor Alan Gross, the Cuban government said today, in the latest blow to US-Cuba relations.

  • 06/08/2011 | Latin America

    Chávez to return to Cuba for more chemotherapy

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said he will return to Cuba for a second session of chemotherapy to treat a cancer that has forced him to slow his pace ahead of a re-election bid next year.

  • 14/08/2011 | Latin America

    Singer Pablo Milanes urges more freedom in Cuba

    One of Communist-ruled Cuba's best-known singers, Pablo Milanes, said in quoted comments he would like to see more freedom to protest on the island as he prepared for a controversial concert this month in Miami.

  • 20/07/2011 | Latin America

    Cuba-US relations at stake in American contractor’s trial

    Future prospects for improving US-Cuba ties will be at stake when Cuba's highest court hears an appeal on Friday from jailed US aid contractor Alan Gross against his 15-year sentence for crimes against the state.

  • 22/07/2011 | Latin America

    Venezuela's Chavez says first chemo successful

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said his first phase of chemotherapy treatment for cancer was successful, and he is preparing for a second phase to eliminate the risk of malignant cells.

  • 30/07/2011 | Latin America

    Cuba readies new phase in retail sector reform

    Cuba will broaden private retail service beyond beauty parlors and barbers in October to include everything from coffee shops to locksmiths, and may even rent space on busy streets, an official told parliament.

  • 04/07/2011 | Latin America

    Venezuela's Chavez vows to win health battle

    Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Monday he had to submit to "strict" medical treatment but would win the battle to regain his health after an operation in Cuba for a cancerous tumor .

  • 05/07/2011 | Latin America

    Venezuela celebrates independence with Chávez home

    Venezuela celebrated the 200th anniversary of its independence with President Hugo Chávez back in his palace after a triumphant return from cancer surgery in Cuba that has left him weakened but defiant.

  • 16/07/2011 | Latin America

    Venezuela's ailing Chávez delegates some powers

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez delegated some powers to his vice president and finance minister, hours before a planned departure to Cuba for cancer treatment.

  • 29/06/2011 | Latin America

    New footage shows Venezuela's Chavez chatting with Fidel

    Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez was shown and heard chatting animatedly with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro in new video footage released today as rumors swirled over his health.

  • 01/07/2011 | Latin America

    Chávez is to go back soon, military assures calm

    Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is recovering "satisfactorily" from surgery to remove a cancerous tumor and will be home "soon," the head of the South American nation's military said today. General Henry Rangel Silva added.

  • 01/07/2011 | Latin America

    Cuba plans limited housing and auto market

    Cuba will authorize limited housing and car markets by 2012, the Communist party newspaper Granma said today, a move awaited by local residents since the early 1960s when home and most auto sales were banned.

  • 23/06/2011 | Latin America

    Chavez ‘stronger than ever’ but not home soon, says minister

    Nearly two weeks after surgery in Cuba, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is "stronger than ever" but will not rush home until he is ready, his defense minister said today.

  • 24/06/2011 | Latin America

    Venezuela's Chavez tweets from Cuba

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, not seen in public in over two weeks, ended his unusual silence with several Twitter messages today, but said nothing about his health after an operation in Cuba.

  • 27/06/2011 | Latin America

    Venezuela: opposition demands information on Chavez's health

    Demands by Venezuela's opposition for information on President Hugo Chavez's health grew louder today and bond prices rallied on speculation the socialist leader could be seriously ill.

  • 11/06/2011 | Latin America

    Venezuela's Chávez has successful surgery in Cuba

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez had a successful operation on in Cuba for an abscess in the pelvis discovered on the last stage of this week's tour around Latin America, his government said.

  • 13/06/2011 | Latin America

    Chavez recovers from surgery in Cuba, Castros at bed side

    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said today he had his "full faculties" after an operation in Cuba and was still managing government affairs despite being ordered to rest for several days more.

  • 16/06/2011 | Latin America

    Ban Ki-Moon in Brazil rallying for support, Cuba delays re-election

    UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon is in Brazil rallying for support for his candidacy for a second term as the head of the United Nations. The trip marks the conclusion of a South American tour that has taken him to Colombia, Argentina and Uruguay.

  • 31/05/2011 | Latin America

    Lula arrives in Cuba for work meeting with Raúl Castro

    The former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is to arrive today in Cuba to meet the island’s mandate Raul Castro in a tour that will also include a visit to Chavez’ Venezuela. According to the Cuban official newspaper Granma, Lula will hold “a work meeting” with Raúl Castro and will visit “sites of economic interest.”

  • 02/06/2011 | Latin America

    Lula meets Castro brothers in Cuba

    Brazilian former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met Cuba’s mandate Raúl Castro and former president Fidel Castro who Lula regarded as being “very talkative as usual” during short trip to Cuba.

  • 07/06/2011 | Latin America

    Body of Cuban dissident exhumed, family to emigrate

    The body of political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo, whose death by hunger strike last year provoked international criticism of Cuba was exhumed for cremation today, his family said, enabling them to take his remains when they emigrate to the United States.

  • 03/05/2011 | Latin America

    Cuban, breaking own record, rolls longest cigar

    A Cuban cigar roller broke his own record by rolling the world's longest cigar, a monster smoke that stretched 268 feet 4 inches (81.8 metres), or most of the length of a football field.

  • 09/05/2011 | Latin America

    Historic transition: Cubans might be able to travel abroad

    Cuba might be about to undergo a historic transition.Raul Castro’s government might allow Cubans to travel abroad, said local government in a new political reformed plan.it is going to be the first time in over fifty years that Cuba’s citizens are allowed to travel abroad as tourists.

  • 24/05/2011 | Latin America

    New entrepreneurs on the rise in socialist Cuba

    The salvation of socialism in Cuba is taking some odd turns, with words like "competition," "marketing" and "opportunity" being heard for the first time in decades on the communist-led island.

  • 17/04/2011 | Latin America

    Cubans welcome Castro call to limit leaders' terms

    Cuba will consider placing term limits on its leaders to assure new blood in the goverment, President Raúl Castro said in a speech kicking off a Communist Party congress on the island he and his brother led for more than five decades.

  • 18/04/2011 | Latin America

    Cuban communists approve landmark reforms

    Cuba's Communist Party approved landmark economic reforms and voted for new leaders in a key party congress to chart Cuba's future, state-run media reported

  • 30/04/2011 | Latin America

    Cuba hunger strikers seek release of jailed US man

    Two obscure Cuban dissidents who sewed their mouths partially shut and launched a hunger strike a month ago said they were prepared to die for their demands, which include freedom for jailed US contractor Alan Gross and improved human rights.

  • 27/03/2011 | Latin America

    Jailed US man likely focus of Carter Cuba trip

    Former US President Jimmy Carter will begin a three-day visit to Cuba on Monday for what is described as a "private, non-governmental mission" where the main topic may be the fate of a US aid contractor jailed for setting up illegal Internet service.

  • 28/03/2011 | Latin America

    Jimmy Carter starts Cuba visit, to discuss ties

    Former President Jimmy Carter, returning to Cuba for the first time since a groundbreaking 2002 trip, began a three-day visit on Monday to discuss troubled US-Cuba relations and is likely to talk about the fate of imprisoned US aid contractor Alan Gross.

  • 08/04/2011 | Latin America

    Anti-Castro Cuban exile cleared of lying over bombs

    A Texas jury acquitted an 83-year-old anti-Castro Cuban exile and former CIA operative, considered an archfoe by Havana, of charges he lied to US authorities about his role in bomb attacks against tourist areas in Cuba in 1997.

  • 26/02/2011 | Latin America

    Cuba to release eight more political prisoners

    Cuba will free eight more political prisoners and send seven of them to Spain, the Catholic Church said, as the government continued to release jailed dissidents.

  • 16/03/2011 | Latin America

    Cuba to free another prisoner from 2003 crackdown

    Cuba will release one of the last political prisoners still in jail from a 2003 government crackdown, the Catholic Church said.

  • 18/03/2011 | Latin America

    Cuban dissidents harassed on crackdown anniversary

    Supporters of Cuba's communist government harassed Cuban dissidents as they tried to mark the anniversary of a 2003 crackdown that sent 75 government opponents to prison for long sentences.

  • 12/02/2011 | Latin America

    Cuba frees political prisoner against his wishes

    A political prisoner who had refused to leave prison was freed against his wishes as Cuba continued to release jailed government opponents.

  • 19/02/2011 | Latin America

    Cuba frees another political prisoner

    Cuba has freed another political prisoner, leaving only six still behind bars from a group of 52 that President Raúl Castro has promised to release, the Catholic Church said.

  • 23/02/2011 | Latin America

    Cuban hunger striker remembered a year after death

    The family of late hunger striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo put flowers on his grave and sang the Cuban national anthem on the first anniversary of his death that provoked international condemnation of Cuba's human rights.

  • 02/02/2011 | Latin America

    Cuba to free four more political prisoners

    Cuba will soon free four more political prisoners and send them to Spain as it continues to clear jailed opponents from its prisons, the Roman Catholic Church said.

  • 04/02/2011 | Latin America

    Cuba to seek 20-year sentence for US contractor

    Cuban prosecutors will seek a 20-year prison sentence for jailed US aid contractor Alan Gross, who is accused of espionage in a case that has stalled US-Cuba relations, the Communist Party newspaper Granma said.

  • 11/02/2011 | Latin America

    Cuba releases another political prisoner

    Cuba released a political prisoner and told another he could go free as the government continued to clear dissidents from its prisons.

  • 12/01/2011 | Latin America

    US, Cuba hold fresh round of migration talks

    US and Cuban officials sat down for a fresh round of migration talks that have been overshadowed by the case of a US contractor jailed in Havana on suspicion of espionage.

  • 28/01/2011 | Latin America

    Cuban dissident arrested for third time this week

    A well-known Cuban dissident and about 15 associates were arrested as they tried to march down a street in central Santa Clara province, the third time in as many days they were detained for mounting peaceful protests.

  • 29/01/2011 | Latin America

    Cuban dissident home after arrest

    Internationally acclaimed Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas was home resting after being arrested on Friday and then hospitalized briefly for chest pains, his mother said.

  • 11/04/2012 | Sports

    Mexico's Calderón arrives in Cuba pledging better relations

    Mexican President Felipe Calderón pledged to improve his government's rocky relations with Cuba and seek new trade opportunities when he arrived for a short visit to the communist island.

  • 04/08/2011 | Entertainment

    Bolshoi celebrates Cuba's peerless ballerina Alonso

    Russia's Bolshoi Theater celebrated the 90th birthday of Cuban dancer Alicia Alonso with a gala performance this week of Russian classics performed by her pupils and countrymen.


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