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Admin - Feb 25, 10
Feb. 24 (BBC News) - Cuba's leader Raul Castro "laments" the death of a detained activist who had been on hunger strike for nearly three months, its foreign ministry says.
Admin - Oct 19, 09
October 19, 2009 (Press TV) - Leftist Latin American leaders have agreed on using a new intra- regional trading currency, dubbed as Sucre, instead of the US dollar.
Admin - Jun 05, 09
June 5, 2009 (Huffington Post) - A former State Department official and his wife have been arrested on charges of serving as illegal agents of the Cuban government for nearly 30 years and conspiring to provide classified U.S. information to the Cuban government.
Admin - May 14, 09
WASHINGTON May 14, 2009 (AFP) — As part of its plans to close Guantanamo Bay, the Obama administration is considering holding some of the detainees indefinitely and without trial on US soil, US media reported Thursday.
Manjit Singh - Apr 17, 09
The United States and Cuba have exchanged high-level diplomatic overtures for the first time in decades. Although both countries’ highest officials are publicly delivering the ‘warmest’ words exchanged with each other in two generations, concrete steps have yet to follow, and no plan for furthering the thaw has yet emerged.
Manjit Singh - Feb 16, 09
Yesterday, in a special referendum, Venezuelan voters overturned constitutionally mandated term-limits, allowing Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and his allies unlimited rights to hold public office. Thus, Venezuela’s path towards a revolution-cum-dictatorship appears inevitable.
NICO - Jan 22, 09
WASHINGTON January 22, 2009 (AP) – President Barack Obama will begin overhauling U.S. national security policy Thursday with orders to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, review military trials of terror suspects and end harsh interrogations, two government officials said.
NICO - Dec 26, 08
HAVANA December 26, 2008 (RIA Novosti) - Russian-Cuban relations will serve as the starting point to advance Russia's interests in the entire Latin American region, a Russian diplomat said on Friday in an interview with RIA Novosti.
NICO - Nov 27, 08
November 27, 2008 (AFP) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Cuba Thursday to revive ties with the former Soviet Union's Cold War ally, on the last leg of a tour to boost Russia's reach in Latin America.
NICO - Nov 20, 08
MOSCOW November 20, 2008 (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visits to Venezuela and Cuba during a week-long trip to Latin America look set to irk Washington, highlighting a foreign policy challenge facing President-elect Barack Obama.












