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President Bush said Wednesday that Cuba's post-Fidel Castro leadership has made only "empty gestures at reform"
President Bush said Wednesday that Cuba's post-Fidel Castro leadership has made only "empty gestures at reform" and rejected calls for easing of U.S. restrictions on the communist island.
Cuba said Wednesday that its crucial tourism industry appears to be recovering from a two-year slump, with a 15 percent increase in visitors during the first quarter of the year.
Having promised a Communist Party congress in 2009, Raul Castro has challenged himself to improve Cubans' lives in order to consolidate his rule
President Raul Castro announced Monday that Cuba will convene its first Communist Party congress since 1997 -- a gathering that could chart the island's political future long after he and his older brother Fidel are gone.
After Fidel Castro announced that he was resigning the presidency of Cuba on Feb. 19, shares of OfficeMax rose 12%. The reason? It has a claim worth $2.5 billion dating back to when its property there was seized in the wake of the 1959 revolution. Similar claims made by nearly 6,000 companies are currently valued at $20 billion, and U.S. laws require all claims to be settled before trade can be normalized.
A newspaper report says Cuban President Raúl Castro wants to improve relations with Mexico.
The retired Cuban leader may have given up power to his younger brother, but that doesn't mean he can't snipe from the sidelines
For the first time since Fidel Castro's official resignation, Cubans are talking more about what the government is doing than what it's not doing.
Cuba will allow its citizens to stay in hotels previously reserved for foreigners, the latest in a series of decisions to lift bans on goods and services that the average Cuban can't afford.
President Bush said Wednesday that Cuba's post-Fidel Castro leadership has made only "empty gestures at reform"
President Bush said Wednesday that Cuba's post-Fidel Castro leadership has made only "empty gestures at reform" and rejected calls for easing of U.S. restrictions on the communist island.
Cuba said Wednesday that its crucial tourism industry appears to be recovering from a two-year slump, with a 15 percent increase in visitors during the first quarter of the year.
Having promised a Communist Party congress in 2009, Raul Castro has challenged himself to improve Cubans' lives in order to consolidate his rule
President Raul Castro announced Monday that Cuba will convene its first Communist Party congress since 1997 -- a gathering that could chart the island's political future long after he and his older brother Fidel are gone.
After Fidel Castro announced that he was resigning the presidency of Cuba on Feb. 19, shares of OfficeMax rose 12%. The reason? It has a claim worth $2.5 billion dating back to when its property there was seized in the wake of the 1959 revolution. Similar claims made by nearly 6,000 companies are currently valued at $20 billion, and U.S. laws require all claims to be settled before trade can be normalized.
A newspaper report says Cuban President Raúl Castro wants to improve relations with Mexico.
The retired Cuban leader may have given up power to his younger brother, but that doesn't mean he can't snipe from the sidelines
For the first time since Fidel Castro's official resignation, Cubans are talking more about what the government is doing than what it's not doing.
Cuba will allow its citizens to stay in hotels previously reserved for foreigners, the latest in a series of decisions to lift bans on goods and services that the average Cuban can't afford.
A casual observer at CONCACAF's Olympic qualifying tournament may not be able to pick out the supposed regional powers after the competition's rocky start.
Expectations of an infusion of youth into the communist leadership were dashed, as Raul Castro looks to consolidate his authority
Fidel Castro's nearly five decades of rule ended Sunday when Cuba's National Assembly chose his younger brother Raul to be the country's new president.
Cuba's National Assembly convened Sunday to choose a head of state -- and for the first time since the 1950s, it won't be longtime leader Fidel Castro.
As Cuba's National Assembly meets to reshuffle its leadership following Fidel Castro's retirement, TIME.com surveys 20 political players to watch
The Pope's Secretary of State is the first important figure to visit Cuba, part of the Catholic Church's attempt to mediate a post-Fidel transition
Although the news that one of the longest-serving leaders in the world was officially stepping down sent ripples around the globe, Fidel Castro's resignation announcement barely registered in Cuba.
The U.S. embargo on Cuba will remain in place despite Fidel Castro's announcement that he's resigning as Cuba's leader, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said Tuesday.
Presidential candidates from both parties said Tuesday they welcome the decision by Cuban President Fidel Castro to step down.
Cuban dictator Fidel Castro announced his resignation Tuesday, sending stocks that could do more business in Cuba surging amidst hopes that the four-decade-long trade embargo against the Communist nation might finally be lifted.
Now that Fidel has resigned, expect a freer economy, a more pragmatic agenda and perhaps other reforms as well
Fidel Castro's resignation brings an end to nearly 50 years of rule and looks likely to see his brother named as President
Philip B. Agee, the former CIA agent who broke with the agency 40 years ago and then published a book about it, has died in Havana, Cuba's state-run newspaper Granma reported Wednesday.
Tropical Storm Noel weakened Tuesday over most of Cuba after lashing the island's northern coast, but heavy rains continued to deluge the Dominican Republic, Haiti and portions of the Bahamas, forecasters said.
Cuba issued a tropical storm warning for the Camaguey, Las Tunas and Ciego de Avila provinces as Tropical Storm Noel approached the island.
Bush's speech on Cuba simply resurrected the old anti-Castro bromides -- and may not help the cause of dissidents there
U.S. President George W. Bush ruled out any easing of the decades-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba but proposed loosening some restrictions on contacts with the communist-ruled island, if more freedoms were allowed.
Add another name to the list of political observers who think a Clinton-Obama ticket would be unbeatable: Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
In opposing Bush's hard-line policy, the Democratic candidate has challenged a golden rule of Florida politics. But he may have outmaneuvered his opponents
As Ronald Reagan might have put it, here we go again.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Tuesday said the Bush administration blundered by tightening restrictions on Cuban-Americans who want to visit the island or send money home and promised to reverse the measures if elected.
Working on an old computer with a burned-out monitor, Cuban rapper Aldo Rodriguez painstakingly lays the tracks for his next song.
Synonymous with Cuba, just like Castro and Che Guevara, cigars are revered by connoisseurs and part of the country's political landscape.
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The two shortstops, the two hombres who share a position and a homeland, were scooping up ground balls on a back field at the Seattle Mariners' training camp in Peoria, Ariz., one morning last month, taking turns gliding to the ball and firing to first base. The efficient spectacle that is a Major League Baseball batting practice session buzzed around them, balls zipping point to point: pitcher to batter, batter to outfield, fielder to first baseman.
This month, Art of Life is in Cuba, a country brimming with character. We explore the riches of the country which, behind the crumbling facades, lie in the spirit of its people.
Sometime later this year, less than 70 miles from Florida, a consortium of Spanish, Indian and Norwegian companies will likely start drilling for oil. It could mark the beginning of a Cuban oil rus...
When a delegation of 14 Cubans tried to stay at their usual hotel in Oslo for a travel fair in January, they found themselves bounced from the reservations roster.
Tiempo Libre named their new CD "What You've Been Waiting For/Lo Que Esperabas." And this week, the guesswork is easy: The seven members of Tiempo Libre are waiting for their Grammy.
Ernesto weakened to a tropical storm Sunday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center said, but forecasters warned the storm could regain hurricane status as it moved toward Cuba.
Cuba, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands were under hurricane watches Saturday night as Tropical Storm Ernesto gained power in the Caribbean.
President Bush offered "full and unconditional" support Thursday for a democratic transition in Cuba, urging Cubans "to work for democratic change."
If age and illness are in fact ending Fidel Castro's reign, then nature will have accomplished something that 10 American presidents have tried and failed to do through a remarkable history that stretches back almost half a century.
Long before Cuban President Fidel Castro's intestinal surgery, his latest foe in the White House was already preparing for the aftermath of his eventual death in the hemisphere's only communist state.
The U.S. should have assistance in Cuba within weeks of President Fidel Castro's death to support a transitional government and help move the country toward democracy, a government report recommends.
I arrive in Cuba via Nassau from Miami. This is a much more complex process than you would have thought.
Where's the best place to hang out in Havana? Who's your favorite Cuban musician? Send us your comments and we'll publish them below.
The Scene discusses Cuban music with Buena Fe frontman Israel Rojas.
Check out our recommendations for the Cuban capital and send us your ideas and suggestions below.
"My mother taught me you don't need to be rich to share your wealth." She came to the U.S. from Havana in 1961 and worked odd jobs--as a seamstress, a tarot card reader--but she always managed to s...
"My mother taught me you don't need to be rich to share your wealth."
Hurricane Dennis reached Category 4 strength Thursday night as it churned just off the coast of Cuba, while Florida officials ordered a mandatory evacuation of the lower Florida Keys.
People in Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti braced late Wednesday for the menace of Dennis, which strengthened earlier in the day to become the first full-fledged hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic season.
Workmen Thursday were putting the final touches on tile floors and toilets built in the back yard of a Cuban dissident, the venue for what would be -- if police don't stop it -- an unprecedented meeting of opponents of Cuba's communist government.
President Bush ordered the Treasury Department to pay nearly $200,000 in frozen Cuban government assets Friday to the unwitting former wife of a Cuban double agent.
Church bells rang out on the Communist island of Cuba Saturday to announce the death of Pope Paul II, the only pontiff ever to visit the country. He went there in January 1998.
In a move intended to centralize and strengthen Communist Party control of Cuban society, the island's government has introduced regulations barring Cubans who work in the tourist industry "from having personal contact with foreigners."
Cuba's 78-year-old president walked offstage Wednesday after giving a speech to graduating art teachers when he tripped.
Hurricane Ivan, packing maximum sustained winds near 160 mph (260 kph), began moving away from western Cuba late Monday, toppling power lines, uprooting trees and causing extensive flooding.
Hurricane Ivan, blamed for at least 42 deaths in the Caribbean, pounded the Cayman Islands on Sunday and regained strength as it headed toward the western tip of Cuba.
Odlanier Solis maintained Cuba's grip on the showcase heavyweight boxing title by outpointing Viktar Zuyev of Belarus in the Olympic final.
The wife and two daughters of New York Yankees pitcher Jose Contreras have escaped by boat from Cuba to the United States.
Mexico has recalled its ambassador to Cuba following a blistering May Day speech by the island nation's communist leader, Fidel Castro.
Five of the nine British citizens detained at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba are to be returned to Britain, the UK government says.
After December, you can say adios to Cuba. That's when licenses held by groups that sponsor educational trips to the island expire. (In response to President Bush's tougher stand on Fidel Castro, t...
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Philip Agee has gone legit. Sort of. The infamous ex-spy who spilled the dirt on the CIA in several books in the 1970s and '80s has a new job: Internet entrepreneur. But the man who tangled with th...
Listen up, Republicans. It's time to change the subject. Trying to drive Clinton from office ended up driving people away from the GOP. What you need now is less Cotton Mather and more Ronald Reaga...
Proponents of the American embargo against Cuba argue as follows: By squeezing the Cuban economy enough, the U.S. government can make Cubans even poorer than Fidel Castro has managed to over the pa...
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LONDON -- Cuba's creditor banks have offered the country $50 million in new loans as part of a rescheduling package . . . However, Cuba appears set on holding out for more funds from the West . . ....
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