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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.
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.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that congressional efforts to end the US ban on travel to Cuba would take a back seat to overhauling US health care and fostering job creation.
WASHINGTON - A retired State Department worker and his wife accused of a decades-long plot to spy for Cuba pleaded guilty Friday in a deal that will leave him behind bars for the rest of his life but gives her a chance at freedom in six years.
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.
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.
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.
Nov. 19, 2009 -- A bust of Protestant reformer John Calvin was recently unveiled in a park in Havana, Cuba, as a way to cap a year-long celebration of Calvin?s 500th birthday.
WASHINGTON - A retired State Department worker and his wife accused of a three-decade-long plot to spy for Cuba have pleaded guilty in federal court.
Washington - Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the US House of Representatives, said Thursday she expected no quick action on ending the United States' decades-long travel ban with Cuba. House Speaker Pelosi said it was one of a long list of legislat...
Softball has been a passion for Michael Eizenberg since he was a child, but the 63-year-old has never been as excited about a game as the one played Monday on a children's ball field at a faded sports complex under Havana's warm Caribbean sun. Eizenberg is one 56 Americans -- all at least 55 years old -- who are in Cuba this week for friendly games of slow-pitch softball against their...
Willy Chirino, Pedro Pan kid turned Cuban-American salsero, has an offer for Raúl. Yeah, that Raúl, Fidel Castro's little brother now running that prison paradise across the Florida Straits.
U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen blasted efforts to open Cuba up to U.S. tourists Thursday during a House Foreign Affairs Coomittee meeting, suggesting the tourist dollars would only keep the regime in power.
Civil liberties in Cuba remain severely curtailed, despite hope among activists that Raul Castro would end Cold War-era limits on dissent and the media, a Human Rights Watch report says. Restrictions on civil liberties in Cuba have continued to be harsh since President Raul Castro assumed power from his brother Fidel three years ago, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
Washington - Cuba maintains its repressive machinery under new leader Raul Castro, the non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released Wednesday. Raul Castro inherited a system of abusive laws and institutions, as ...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A former U.S. State Department official and his wife pleaded guilty to a 30-year conspiracy to give classified data to Cuba, the Justice Department said.
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