US sanctions Cuba’s Castro for supporting Venezuela’s Maduro
The Trump administration on Thursday imposed diplomatic sanctions on Cuban Communist Party leader Raul Castro, accusing him of “gross violations of human rights” as it...
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Twitter blocks accounts of Raul Castro and Cuban state-run media
U.S. social media firm Twitter Inc has blocked the accounts of Cuban Communist Party Leader Raul Castro, his daughter Mariela Castro and Cuba’s top state-run...
Cuba swears in Miguel Diaz-Canel to replace Castro as president (Update)
Cuban Communist Party stalwart Miguel Diaz-Canel replaced Raul Castro as president on Thursday, a new chapter for the island after nearly sixty years of rule...
Cuba’s Castros are clearly robust, Raul quips after 85th birthday
The day after his 85th birthday, Cuba’s President Raul Castro quipped that the Castros were clearly “robust and long-lived” and he could easily manage several...
Castro, 84, says Cuba’s leaders are too old, proposes limits
Future top leaders of Cuba’s Communist party should retire at 70 to let in younger blood, President Raul Castro said on Saturday, suggesting older members...
US changing its policy with or without Cuba
President Barack Obama’s visit to Cuba reflects a new way of formulating and implementing U.S. policy toward Cuba. This new policy is different not only...
Obama urges political and economic change in speech to Cubans
By Jeff Mason and Matt Spetalnick US President Barack Obama challenged Cuba’s Communist government with an impassioned call for democratic and economic change on Tuesday,...
Obama meets Castro in the heart of revolutionary Havana (Updated with Video)
By Daniel Trotta and Matt Spetalnick US President Barack Obama and President Raul Castro held historic talks in Havana on Monday, discussing enduring disagreements over...
Cuba’s Fidel Castro appears in first photographs since August
By Daniel Trotta Photographs of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, 88, appeared in official media on Monday for the first time since August, showing him...
The perversity of the Cuban embargo
By Nicholas Wapshott THERE has been a lot of clucking about US President Barack Obama shaking hands with Raúl Castro at the funeral of Nelson...