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A European Union commissioner Monday told CNN's Christiane Amanpour that Europe's policy toward Cuba in the future will place less emphasis on human rights in the island nation than now.
HAVANA (AP) — 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.
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.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras The coup last summer in this tiny, Central American country blew up into an international incident with thousands of Hondurans taking to the streets while everyone from President Obama to Fidel Castro of Cuba lined up behind ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Now, with Mr. Zelaya still holed up in the Brazilian Embassy, voters will choose a new president Sunday from the ...
Talk about trying to beat the reaper. Prosecutors preparing the case against accused 1960s hijacker Rafael Pena Soltren want to depose an aging accomplice who's in failing health and may be "unavailable" to testify at trial. Miguel Castro, 78, "has s...
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.
Continuing my periodic posting of the work of my fellow bloggers, I am posting here today the most recent essay by Miriam Celaya, where she discusses the role of bloggers in the politics of Cuba today.
MIAMI, Nov. 24 / Christian Newswire / -- During the weekend of November 12th to 15th the semiannual medical mission of 2009 to the Hospital Manuel J. Centurion at ILAC Center, Licey al Medio medical facility in the Dominican Republic was undertaken, under the leadership of Doctors Jorge Echenique, MD and José Joaquín Centurión, MD both Knights of Malta and members of the Cuban Association ...
MIAMI -- Facing a group of presidents loudly critical of Washington, the U.S. government's Voice of America broadcast is expanding its audience in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua, VOA officials said.
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.
Here are some brief happenings at Chico State University: Professor to deliver lecture on Cuba Sara Cooper, a professor in Chico State's department of foreign languages and literature, will give a talk titled "Cubans Speak Out!
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.
Time to fine cell phone drivers Dear Editor:In Mark Strain’s Nov. 13 column, as usual, he knew what he was talking about when he wrote, “... controlling cell phone use while driving would prevent more accidents.” There is scientific data that overwhelmingly supports Strain’s contention.In spite of the fact that using a cell phone while driving is more dangerous than DUI, people still insist on ...
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...
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