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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.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk turned down the rhetoric today on Democratic-backed plans to use the largely vacant Thomson Correctional Center to house suspected terrorist detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying he wants a "dispassionate and specific" discussion of the issue. "The key point is, is this a necessary risk?" asked Kirk, a five-term congressman from the North Shore ...
WASHINGTON - A couple with ties to South Dakota who were 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. Retired State Department employee Walter Kendall Myers, 72, and his wife, Gwendolyn, 71, were caught in an undercover FBI sting operation, arrested in June ...
The government says an accused spy for Cuba has agreed to plead guilty.
The husband of Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez said he was attacked by government supporters as he waited on Friday to confront state security agents accused of detaining and beating his wife two weeks ago.
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By Rachel Pulfer Walruss Magazine Canada Infosearch: José Cadenas Analyst Bureau Chief US. Reearch Dept. La Nueva Cuba November 17, 2009 The sun is rising over Old Havana, but the man standing at the balcony rail is in the shade.
HAVANA (AP) — President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn’t interested in “talking for the sake of talking” with Raul Castro and indicating he won’t visit the island until the communist government changes its ways.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- A former Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainee was not going to any terrorism centers when he was arrested in Pakistan last summer, his Swedish lawyers say.
WASHINGTON — Any good will that Raul Castro enjoyed as Cuba's new leader has dissipated, according to a new poll, which found that more than four out of five of those surveyed in Cuba were unhappy with the direction of the country.
“Cuba has insulted not only the state of New Jersey but also the entire justice system of the United States,” Rep. Scott Garrett, R-Wantage, said
NEW YORK, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- The New York trial of a former Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainee holds lessons for the planned trial of the self-avowed Sept. 11, 2001, mastermind, analysts say.
A hunger strike by a Cuban dissident has been a hot story for Miami-based Spanish-language media, and concern about her health even reached the halls of the U.S. Congress, where an anti-Castro lawmaker warned that she was "close to death."
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The very slightest hint of a thaw in cultural relations between the United States and Cuba has quietly brought the Cuban band Septeto Nacional to New York.
(RTTNews) - A former US State Department official and his wife have admitted spying for Cuba for about three decades, reports said. In guilty plea agreements, Kendall Myers, agreed to a sentence of life in prison, while his wife Gwendolyn, will serve a term of no more than seven-and-a-half years.
