A gaggle of photographers, relatives and fashion advisors traipse after Yuniesky Collazo as she twirls for the camera in a rented pink ball gown in one of Havana's picturesque plazas.
In Latin America, Cuba stands out as one of the most effective deployers of soft power. Rather than exporting revolution, Cuba today exports doctors -- with more than 30,000 Cuban doctors working in more than 100 underdeveloped countries around the world.
The cake has been cut. The guests have all gone home. And now, even the honeymoon may be over.
The brief detention in Havana, Cuba, last week of a Portland, Oregon, church group comes on the heels of the detention of an American contractor and could indicate an increasingly chilly reception for some American visitors, according to the church travelers.
U.S. diplomats gained access this week to an American subcontractor detained earlier this month by Cuban authorities, the U.S. Interests Section in Havana said Tuesday.
The United States is out to destabilize Cuba, President Raul Castro charged Sunday in an address to the National Assembly.
An American citizen has been detained in Cuba for the past week, the U.S. State Department said Saturday.
A few hundred pro-government demonstrators swarmed Havana's streets on Thursday, encircling a small group of female protesters marching in support of International Human Rights Day.
A group of prominent African-Americans has challenged Cuba's race record, accusing the island nation of harassing its black citizens and cracking down on civil rights activists.
Since it was created in 1962 the ration book has been an integral part of life for millions of Cubans giving them access to cheap food basics which they would otherwise be unable to afford.
A gaggle of photographers, relatives and fashion advisors traipse after Yuniesky Collazo as she twirls for the camera in a rented pink ball gown in one of Havana's picturesque plazas.
In Latin America, Cuba stands out as one of the most effective deployers of soft power. Rather than exporting revolution, Cuba today exports doctors -- with more than 30,000 Cuban doctors working in more than 100 underdeveloped countries around the world.
The cake has been cut. The guests have all gone home. And now, even the honeymoon may be over.
The brief detention in Havana, Cuba, last week of a Portland, Oregon, church group comes on the heels of the detention of an American contractor and could indicate an increasingly chilly reception for some American visitors, according to the church travelers.
U.S. diplomats gained access this week to an American subcontractor detained earlier this month by Cuban authorities, the U.S. Interests Section in Havana said Tuesday.
The United States is out to destabilize Cuba, President Raul Castro charged Sunday in an address to the National Assembly.
An American citizen has been detained in Cuba for the past week, the U.S. State Department said Saturday.
A few hundred pro-government demonstrators swarmed Havana's streets on Thursday, encircling a small group of female protesters marching in support of International Human Rights Day.
A group of prominent African-Americans has challenged Cuba's race record, accusing the island nation of harassing its black citizens and cracking down on civil rights activists.
Since it was created in 1962 the ration book has been an integral part of life for millions of Cubans giving them access to cheap food basics which they would otherwise be unable to afford.
Cuba is wrapping up its biggest military exercises in five years, saying it wants to be prepared in the event of a U.S. invasion.
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.
A former State Department employee and his wife, accused of illegally aiding the government of Cuba for nearly 30 years, pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges.
A metaphorical timeout has been in place between the United States and Cuba for nearly 50 years. But that could all be changing with the help of sports.
A former State Department analyst and his wife have a court date Thursday as a federal judge reviews their possible trial on charges of spying for Cuba.
My wife always knows what's coming whenever her hometown of Cuba, Kansas comes up in conversation.* She always knows I'm going to tell the story of the first time I went there with her. We've been married for more than 11 years, so we're now in that early stage of finishing each other's stories. And I suspect that the "first time I went to Cuba" story has been told more than most.
For the 18th year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted to condemn the 47-year embargo against Cuba by the United States.
As the man in the Dodgers jersey walked quickly around the perimeter of the infield, fans poured down from the bleachers begging for autographs.
A senior American diplomat had high-level talks with the Cuban government in Havana, the State Department said Tuesday.
The United States and Cuba should show some flexibility and take steps to improve relations, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said Friday during a weeklong trade mission to the island nation.
Cuban President Raúl Castro has postponed what would be the first Communist Party Congress since 1997, state media reported Friday.
Talks on migration between the United States and Cuba will resume Tuesday in New York, the U.S. State Department said in a statement.
Cuba has a new political leader but the Buena Vista Social Club lives on, thanks to 12 brilliant musicians, including four from the group made famous in the Wim Wenders' documentary featuring American guitarist Ry Cooder as he delved into Havana's pre-Castro musical past.
A federal judge Wednesday questioned a decision by a former U.S. State Department employee and his wife to use the same team of attorneys to fight charges of spying for Cuba.
A former State Department employee and his wife, who are accused of spying for Cuba for nearly 30 years, will remain in jail as they await trial, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Cuba will not rejoin the Organization of American States, even though the multinational organization has lifted the 47-year-old suspension of the country's membership, a Cuban official said Thursday.
The U.S. has offered to resume immigration talks with the government of Cuba, a State Department official said Friday.
If Americans wonder what it's like to travel to Cuba, just ask a Canadian.
The Cuban government, long the object of a U.S. economic blockade, is prepared to meet with the Obama administration, Cuba's leader said.
It is amazing to watch politicians and activists try as hard as they can to rip into Fidel Castro and Cuba with the fury of a hurricane, yet sound like a whimpering dog when you bring up China and America's absolute double standard when dealing with that communist country.
A new poll shows that two-thirds of Americans surveyed think the U.S. should lift its travel ban on Cuba, and three-quarters think the U.S. should end its five-decade estrangement with the country.
A pair of Republican congressmen ripped Congressional Black Caucus members for ignoring Cuba's "myriad gross human rights abuses" Thursday, saying this week's caucus trip to the island nation ignored the plight of political prisoners under the Castro regime.
Hip hop is one U.S. commodity that has made it past the trade embargo to Cuba.
Since the revolution in 1959 Cuba has been many things to many people, but the collapse of the Soviet Union meant few have seen the island state as a vision of the future.
A group of senators and other supporters unveiled a bill Tuesday to lift the 47-year-old travel ban to Cuba.
The $410 billion budget President Obama signed Wednesday will make it easier for U.S. residents to travel to Cuba and to send money to family members on the island. It also could facilitate the sale of agricultural and pharmaceutical products to Cuba.
President Obama should lift travel restrictions and adopt other measures to start normalizing relations with Cuba, a Washington think tank said in recommendations unveiled this week.
Cuba is more than a thousand miles from my home in New York, but it's a place close to my heart.
Sen. Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released a draft report Monday saying it is time to reconsider longtime U.S. economic sanctions on Cuba.
Growing up in America, Joshu Harris was captivated by the mystique, music and history of Cuba.
Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, when Fidel Castro and a group of guerrillas toppled a longstanding U.S.-backed dictator.
Hurricane Paloma, an "extremely dangerous" storm, made landfall Saturday night in southern Cuba after lashing Grand Cayman with high winds and heavy rain, forecasters said.
Many Cubans thought they'd left behind forever the grim, hungry days that were the norm just after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and, with it, the loss of billions of dollars in subsidies for the Communist state.
Hurricane Ike barreled across the warm, energizing waters of the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday on its way toward the Texas coast after crashing through Cuba's tobacco country
Hurricane Ike's winds and massive storm surge ripped apart houses and toppled trees as the deadly storm roared across Cuba
Cuban police have arrested dissident musician Gorki Aguila on a charge of "dangerousness," fellow band members said Tuesday.
Tropical Storm Fay had weakened slightly but was reorganizing as it approached eastern Cuba moving westward from Haiti, the National Hurricane Center said Saturday.
Communist officials decreed Friday that private farmers and cooperatives can use up to 100 acres (40 hectares) of idle government land
The European Union on Thursday agreed to lift its diplomatic sanctions against Cuba, but imposed tough conditions on the communist island to maintain sanction-free relations
Having promised a Communist Party congress in 2009, Raul Castro has challenged himself to improve Cubans' lives in order to consolidate his rule
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.
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.
Expectations of an infusion of youth into the communist leadership were dashed, as Raul Castro looks to consolidate his authority
Presidential candidates from both parties said Tuesday they welcome the decision by Cuban President Fidel Castro to step down.
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.
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.
SOMETIME LATER this year, less than 70 miles from Florida, a consortium of Spanish, Indian, and Norwegian companies will probably start drilling for oil. It could mark the beginning of a Cuban oil ...
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.
The Scene discusses Cuban music with Buena Fe frontman Israel Rojas.
"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."
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.
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.
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.
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...
Forty-two years is an awfully long time to hold a grudge, but that's how long the U.S. has shunned commerce with Cuba. Forgiveness, however, may finally be around the corner, as a diverse group of ...
Vietnam and Cuba may be on opposite sides of the globe, but these days they send tingles up the spine of the same sorts of people: financiers, investors, and entrepreneurs who peruse cutting-edge e...
Cuba's real miracle? The fact that Fidel Castro is still hanging on. The economy is decaying rapidly without the prop of Soviet aid, and rumors persist that the dictator's health isn't much better....
-- KARL POHL, 58, president of West Germany's Bundesbank: ''It is one of my responsibilities to give the impression that I am not nervous, that I'm in control.''
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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