Chavez to go again to Cuba for radiotherapy
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he will be traveling to Cuba again Saturday to undergo a third round of radiotherapy in the hope of beating his cancer diagnosed last year.
"Tomorrow night I wi
Pope draws huge crowd in Cuba, meets with Fidel Castro
Pope Benedict urged Cubans on Wednesday to search for 'authentic freedom' and wound up his trip with a chat with the communist country's revolutionary icon Fidel Castro.
The two octogenarians spoke f
Pope to meet Fidel Castro on final day of Cuba visit
Pope Benedict XVI was to meet Fidel Castro and hold a huge outdoor mass in Havana on Wednesday as he wraps up a three-day visit in which he called for a more 'open society' on the Communist-run island
No political reforms planned in Cuba: Vice president
Cuba's vice president declared on Tuesday that there would be ‘no political reforms’ introduced on the communist island, despite a call one day earlier from Pope Benedict XVI for greater openness duri
Pope Benedict wins over Mexico; next stop Cuba
He donned a sombrero and was serenaded by mariachi bands, embraced by Mexicans who called him their brother.
Pope Benedict XVI has a bit of a tougher sell as he heads to a Cuba that until recently w
Havana gets gussied up for Pope
A flurry of house-painting and road-paving has spun into full tilt as the only Communist capital in the Americas puts on its Sunday best to welcome Pope Benedict XVI to Cuba this week.
'Welcome to Cu
'Eurocentric' pope hopes to win back Latin American pilgrims
Benedict XVI sets off for Mexico and Cuba this week, hoping to win over followers in a region with the largest concentration of Catholics, but where some critics say he has neglected them.
While the
Fidel Castro presents his memoirs – ‘Time Guerrilla’
Cuban leader Fidel Castro presented two volumes of his memoir entitled ‘Time Guerrilla’ in a ceremony that marked his first public appearance since last April, Cuban media reported.
The memoirs trace
38 Haitians found dead in shipwreck off Cuban coast
At least 38 Haitian migrants died after a boat in which they were trying to flee their country started taking in water and got stranded at sea, the Cuban government said.
The gruesome discovery was
Raul Castro says Cuba to pardon nearly 3,000 prisoners
President Raul Castro announced plans on Friday to pardon some 3,000 prisoners for 'humanitarian reasons,' a group amnesty of unprecedented size, and 'gradually' reform onerous laws restricting foreig