Cuba publishes first photos of Fidel Castro in 5 months
Cuba has published the first photos of Fidel Castro in more than five months, showing the 88-year-old former leader engaged in what appears to be a lively conversation with a university student.
US companies eager to embrace Cuba still face hurdles
American businesses have begun imagining ways to capitalize on last week’s announcement that the United States will restore diplomatic ties with Cuba and ease curbs on trade.
No word yet from Fidel amid historic US-Cuba shift
Everyone in Cuba is talking about the startling turn in relations with the United States, with one notable exception: Fidel Castro.
Latin America cheers US-Cuba deal
Latin America is welcoming the renewal of ties between Cuba and the United States.
Paul: Trade with Cuba ‘probably a good idea’
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said Thursday the lengthy U.S. economic embargo against Cuba “just hasn’t worked.”
Cubans hope for better future with U.S.-Havana deal
Cubans cheered the surprise announcement that their country will restore relations with the United States.
Freed American endured years of declining health
Alan Gross spent five years wasting away in a Cuban prison.
U.S. co-opted Cuba’s hip-hop scene to spark change
For more than two years, a U.S. agency secretly infiltrated Cuba’s underground hip-hop movement, recruiting unwitting rappers to spark a youth movement against the government.
U.S. sent Latin youth undercover in anti-Cuba ploy
An Obama administration program secretly dispatched young Latin Americans to Cuba using the cover of health and civic programs to provoke political change, a clandestine operation that put those foreigners in danger even after a U.S. contractor was hauled away to a Cuban jail.
‘Cuban Twitter’ — overtly political, poking Castros
Draft messages produced for a Twitter-like network that the U.S. government secretly built in Cuba were overtly political and poked fun at the Castro brothers, documents obtained by The Associated Press show.
U.S. secretly built ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest
The U.S. government masterminded the creation of a “Cuban Twitter” — a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba, built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks, The Associated Press has learned.
Sticker shock: Cubans aghast at car prices
Cubans are eagerly flocking to Havana car dealerships as a new law takes effect eliminating a special permit requirement that has greatly restricted vehicle ownership in the country. To their dismay on Friday, the first day the law was in force, they found sharply hiked prices, some of them light years beyond all but the most well-heeled islanders.
U.S. man marks 4 years in Cuban prison, writes Obama
An American man who is marking four years in prison in Cuba has written a letter to President Barack Obama asking the president to get personally involved in securing his release.
Arms seizure could hurt US-Cuba relations
HAVANA — Cuba’s admission that it was secretly sending aging weapons systems to North Korea has turned the global spotlight on a little-known link in
Cuba calls weapons on ship ‘obsolete’
PANAMA CITY — Cuba said military equipment found buried under sacks of sugar on a North Korean ship seized as it tried to cross the
Panama finds suspected weapons on N. Korean ship
Panama’s president said the country has seized a North Korean-flagged ship carrying what appeared to be ballistic missiles and other arms that had set sail from Cuba on its way to the Pacific.
Could Kerry, Hagel drive reboot in US-Cuba ties?
The nominee for U.S. Secretary of State, Sen. John Kerry, once held up millions of dollars in funding for secretive U.S. democracy-building programs in Cuba. Defense Secretary hopeful Chuck Hagel has called the U.S. embargo against the communist-run island “nonsensical” and anachronistic.
Swimmer steady in Cuba-Fla. record attempt
Endurance athlete Diana Nyad forged ahead in the Straits of Florida with renewed vigor Sunday in pursuit of a record 103-mile (166-kilometer), unassisted swim in open waters without the aid of a shark cage.