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A group of prominent African-Americans has challenged Cuba's race record, accusing the island nation of harassing its black citizens and cracking down on civil rights activists.
Havana - The Caribbean island of Cuba is investing heavily in its heritage after years of letting its buildings go to rack and ruin. There are now plenty of boulevards, handsome old house and theatres to be admired and the charm of Cuba's colonial pa...
A judge reduced from a life term to a 30-year sentence the punishment for a high-profile member of a Cuban spy ring that has long been a key dispute between communist Cuba and the United States.
When Christopher Columbus arrived in Cuba, he named the island's south-central coastal area Los Jardines de la Reina, or The Queen's Gardens. Five centuries later, the extensive and pristine coral reefs are still here. Rare cooperation between U.S. and Cuban research scientists is seeking to save them.
A judge Tuesday reduced from a life term to a 30-year sentence the punishment for a high-profile member of a Cuban spy ring that has long been a key dispute between communist Cuba and the United States.
A cyberspace petition started by the Orbitz travel site to open Cuba to American tourists now has more than its goal of 100,000 signatures.
Cuba hit back Thursday at 60 prominent U.S. black leaders who challenged its race record, with island writers, artists and official journalists calling the criticism an attack on their country's national identity.
Fifty and 60. Not just numbers. They capture the journey of 50 years in a crumbling island and a sea of change in perspective among 60 prestigious people to the north who opened their eyes and told the truth, exposing Cuba's dirty little secret.
HAVANA, Cuba — The small-time entrepreneurs who rent out private rooms to tourists in this country may be the future business leaders of a post-Castro economy, but for now they are a beleaguered tribe.
The last time Pedro Ferreira saw his father was March 23, 1962. He was 15 years old and his parents had just put him and his 13-year-old brother, Enrique, on a plane in Havana, Cuba, for a short hop to Miami.
Dinner is served beginning Thursday at D. Rodriguez Cuba, chef Douglas Rodriguez's new venture at the Hotel Astor, 956 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, where first-time diners can have a mojito or daiquiri on the house through December. ``My vision is to offer guests a truly authentic experience with a twist of South Beach glam,'' the James Beard Award-winning chef-owner said in statement. To wit ...
Unlike any other godfather I ever have seen — except in the movies — this man took that responsibility very seriously. He was an amazing father to his two daughters, and he treated his godson like the son he never had.He is the one who launched fireworks on the day the godson was born, the one who drove for a long distance to get the magical eardrops that took away the godson’s pain, the one who ...
Pro-government Cuban writers and artists Friday rejected allegations by African-Americans of racism and repression on the island, calling the charges "delusional" and part of "an anti-Cuban campaign."
A U.S. judge Tuesday reduced the prison terms of two convicted Cuban spies in the latest twist of a high-profile espionage case that has strained already hostile ties between Havana and Washington.
A spy case that exploded after Cuba's 1996 shoot-down of two Miami exile planes over the Florida Straits formally ended Tuesday, when a federal judge reduced the prison sentences of two convicted Castro agents.
A Cuban musician barred from the United States by the Bush administration performed in Washington on Thursday and had lunch with a White House official in a new sign of a thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations.
