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May 4, 2010 (Reuters) - Canadian captive Omar Khadr was hooded, crying and chained to a door outside his cell in Afghanistan around the time he turned 16, a former U.S. medic testified on Monday in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal.

April 26, 2010 (AFP) – Cuba challenged the United States Sunday  to lift a decades-old trade embargo "even for a year" to test its contention that the island's leaders do not want the embargo lifted or normal relations with Washington.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.