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Nearly 50 years after a botched US-directed invasion of Cuba, the communist nation said Saturday it is holding a military exercise next week to boost preparedness against any future US attack.
The U.S. Government Has No Right To Restrict American Tourists From Traveling To Cuba, The Chairman Of The House Foreign Affairs Committee Said Thursday.
A high-octane effort to let U.S. tourists visit Cuba got a major endorsement Thursday from one of the island's leading dissidents, who suggested that "along with suitcases, Bermuda shorts and sun block, support, solidarity and freedom could come, too."
A former State Department official and his wife admitted in federal court Friday that they spied for Cuba over the past three decades, receiving coded instructions over a shortwave radio and passing along information to intelligence operatives in "dead drops" and "hand-to-hand" passes.
Cuba's Raul Castro has kept the system his brother Fidel used to repress critics, refusing to free scores of people imprisoned years ago and jailing others for "dangerousness," Human Rights Watch said in a report issued on Wednesday.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- A former U.S. State Department official and his wife pleaded guilty to charges they provided classified information about U.S. national defense to the Republic of Cuba for three decades.
A battle over Cuba policy is escalating in Congress, with proponents saying they have their best chance in years of repealing the ban on U.S. tourist travel to the island.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- A former U.S. State Department official and his wife pleaded guilty to federal charges they provided classified information about U.S. national defense to the Republic of Cuba for three decades.
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.
What's Your Reaction? HAVANA — The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate.
WASHINGTON — Human Rights Watch says conditions in Cuba have not improved under Raul Castro and in some ways are worse than they had been when his brother Fidel was president.
The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate.
WASHINGTON — A retired State Department employee will spend life in prison without parole after he and his wife pleaded guilty Friday to serving as covert agents for Cuba for three decades.
WASHINGTON - Human Rights Watch says conditions in Cuba have not improved under Raul Castro and in some ways are worse than they had been when his brother Fidel was president. In...
A high-octane effort to let U.S. tourists visit Cuba got a major endorsement Thursday from one of the island's leading dissidents, who suggested that ``along with suitcases, Bermuda shorts, and sunblock, support, solidarity, and freedom could come too.'' Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez, who this week drew the attention of President Barack Obama , wrote in an essay to House Foreign Affairs chairman ...
Human Rights Watch says conditions in Cuba have not improved under Raul Castro and in someways are worse than they had been when his brother Fidel was president.
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