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A recently freed Cuban political prisoner has won permission to immigrate to the United States and plans to leave next week, his brother said Thursday.
Ariel Sigler, a 44-year-old who is paralyzed from the waist down, was released to his home in...
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At a state project to refurbish a decaying building in Old Havana, one worker paints a wall white while two others watch. A fourth sleeps in a wheelbarrow positioned in...
made popular Jul 20 2010
The Cuban government on Wednesday agreed to release 52 political prisoners in the coming months, a dramatic move that may ease international criticism as well as save...
made popular Jul 8 2010
The little refugee boy whose photogenic face was flashed around the world when he became embroiled in an international custody battle after arriving in the US from Cuba...
made popular Jul 1 2010
The moves come ahead of a visit to Havana next week by Vatican Foreign Minister Dominque Mamberti, who is likely to press Cuba on its estimated 190 political prisoners...
made popular Jun 12 2010
Cuba has relaxed the prison regime for political detainees after talks with Roman Catholic leaders, a prominent dissident has said.
Prisoners held far from their homes...
made popular May 25 2010
Cuban President Raul Castro has held a rare meeting with leading members of the Catholic Church.
Mr Castro met Cardinal Jaime Ortega, head of the country’s...
made popular May 21 2010
Celebrations have been taking place in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, to mark the country’s bicentenary.
A large parade included the military and different...
made popular Apr 20 2010
Cuban President Raul Castro said Wednesday he regretted the death of a prisoner after a prolonged hunger strike, even as human rights activists reported 30 people were...
made popular Mar 11 2010
It marks a rare expression of sorrow by the country’s leadership, often rebuked over its human rights record.
Orlando Zapata Tamayo died in hospital in Havana on...
made popular Feb 25 2010
Raul Castro on Sunday declared the global climate summit in Copenhagen a failure from the start and urged leftist Latin American leaders to devise their own plan on how...
made popular Dec 14 2009
I think one has to qualify as an idiot before becoming a leader of a communist country......the Castro brothers in Cuba and Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, are 3 of many...
made popular Nov 28 2009
Obama Should Replace Failed Embargo With Effective Multilateral Policy
By José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch
(Washington, DC) - Raúl...
made popular Nov 19 2009
Any good will Raul Castro enjoyed as Cuba’s new leader has dissipated, according to a new poll, which found more than four out of five of those surveyed in Cuba...
made popular Nov 17 2009
Juanita Castro, the younger sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, worked for the CIA during some crucial years of the Cold War, she says in her new...
made popular Oct 27 2009
Costa Rican President, Oscar Arias, re-established relations with Cuba in the spirit of progress. He felt that the official coldness that had characterized diplomatic...
made popular Mar 31 2009
Cuban farmers are going to farm on state-owned land as the government has moved to tackle food shortages amid mounting global food prices.
According to a governmental...
made popular Jul 26 2008
An old Cuban looking at a Dvd player in an electronics shop.
What’s so interesting when people buy cellphones, DvD players, motorcycles and pressure cookers?...
made popular May 25 2008
Although it might seem that there is change brewing in Cuba, since Fidel’s brother Raul Castro has taken over the mantle of chief honcho, don’t be...
made popular May 22 2008
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From the first hours of dawn this Thursday, the First of May, International Workers Day, Cuba is showing its unity, firmness and proletariat victory the length and...
made popular May 2 2008
There they were, piled up one atop another, Chinese-made rice makers selling for $70 each. Beside them, sleek DVD players. Across the well-stocked electronics store...
made popular May 2 2008
New Cuban President Raul Castro announced on Monday that all death sentences had been commuted to prison terms of 30 years to life, with the exception of three people...
made popular May 1 2008
New Cuban President Raul Castro announced on Monday that all death sentences had been commuted to prison terms of 30 years to life, with the exception of three people...
made popular Apr 30 2008
In a campaign that bears much similarity to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s 1980s appeal for glasnost, Cuba’s President Raul Castro has been urging the...
made popular Apr 30 2008
he first revolution in Cuba was bloody. A fiery rebel named Fidel Castro declared war on Fulgencio Batista, energizing the working class to rise up against...
made popular Apr 21 2008
n the past few weeks, Cuban President Raul Castro has begun to implement some of his promised reforms.
Initial agricultural liberalization aims to raise food...
made popular Apr 3 2008
Cubans snapped up DVD players, motorbikes and pressure cookers for the first time Tuesday as Raul Castro’s new government loosened controls on consumer goods and...
made popular Apr 2 2008
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