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Cuba's arrest of a U.S. government contractor employed to help Cuban dissidents may rattle U.S. President Barack Obama's initiative to improve ties with Havana but should not derail it, analysts said.
MIAMI — Cuba is counterattacking its cyber-foes with government backers calling them mercenaries and CIA agents, but...
A Washington-area firm issued a statement Sunday confirming that one of its subcontractors is behind bars in Cuba, an arrest that may have resulted from possibly distributing electronics to activist Cubans to communicate with one another on the isolated island nation.
Cuba is counter-attacking its cyber-foes with government backers calling them mercenaries and CIA agents, but sometimes admitting it's difficult to fight Internet critics like well-known blogger Yoani Sanchez.
Worker, an employee for a Md. company, was distributing cellphones and laptops in the country.
Cuba and Venezuela are set to sign cooperation deals worth about $3 billion later on Saturday, underscoring Caracas' role as the communist-run island's closest political and commercial ally.
The U.S. State Department said on Saturday that an American citizen was detained in Cuba and the U.S. government was seeking access to him.
MEXICO CITY -- The Cuban government has arrested an American citizen working on contract for the U.S. Agency for International Development who was distributing cellphones and laptop computers to Cuban activists, State Department officials and congressional sources said Saturday. Featured Advertiser NEC Ads by Pheedo
WASHINGTON -- Cuba has detained a U.S. development worker, on contract with the U.S. government, who was distributing communications equipment in Cuba including cellphones and laptops, the New York Times reported Friday.
The Senate approved a provision on Sunday to facilitate cash sales of U.S. farm goods to Cuba, overturning restrictions by former President George W. Bush's administration, a senator said.
HAVANA It was a story meant to captivate the United Nations: A dozen Cuban children with heart defects were forced to endure unnecessary surgery because the U.S. embargo blocked them from receiving American-made catheters. The embargo as a whole "could be classified as an act of genocide," Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said before the U.N. General Assembly voted 187-3 in October to condemn U ...
Cuba and Venezuela signed cooperation deals worth nearly $3 billion on Saturday, underscoring Caracas' role as the communist-run island's closest political and commercial ally.
A U.S. government contractor confirmed Saturday that Cuba has detained one of its subcontractors' employees but did not comment on a report he went to the island as a tourist and was handing out laptops and communications equipment.
After years of largely uncritical support of the Castro regime, the African-American intelligentsia has finally been nudged into looking at the racial legacy of the revolution. The result is the “Declaration of African-American Support for the Civil Rights Struggle in Cuba.”
Cuba has detained a U.S. development worker, on contract with the U.S. government, who was distributing communications equipment in Cuba including cell phones and laptops, the New York Times reported on Friday.
Fidel Castro says President Barack Obama's "friendly smile and African-American face" are hiding Washington's sinister intentions for Latin America -- more evidence of a new cooling in U.S.-Cuba relations after a thaw had seemed possible just months ago.
