Cuban President Raul Castro told reporters he’s willing to discuss the 50-year-old U.S. trade embargo against Cuba with President-elect Barack Obama.

Cuban President Raul Castro spent Sunday in private meetings with socialist ally Hugo Chavez after publicly thanking the Venezuelan president for helping Cuba through difficult times.

Cuban President Raul Castro launched his first international trip on Saturday, visiting with longtime ally Venezuela before heading to a regional integration summit in Brazil.

Cuban President Raul Castro is in Venezuela on his first international visit as Cuba’s leader.

Russia’s president paid tribute to Fidel Castro Sunday after a meeting with the Cuban revolutionary icon.

Cuban President Raul Castro says he would like to meet President-elect Barack Obama on “neutral ground” _ and he suggests the American base at Guantanamo Bay.

Fidel Castro said last Friday that the election of a new president will not bring change to the United States, but failed to mention Barack Obama by name.

Fidel Castro looks thin and frail but alert in a photograph from last month posted on the Web site of the Russian Orthodox Church and obtained by the Associated Press on Thursday.

Cuba on Wednesday presented a new book by Fidel Castro, who has not appeared in public since undergoing emergency intestinal surgery in July 2006 but who authorities claim spent more than 400 hours working on the manuscript.

Fidel Castro praised Barack Obama Tuesday as smarter and less warlike than John McCain, but stopped short of endorsing either U.S. presidential candidate.