Cuba News

COCODRILO, Isla de la Juventud, Cuba, Jul 31, 2010 - Only hurricanes disrupt the tranquility of Cocodrilo, a Cuban coastal village founded by immigrants from the Cayman Islands in the early 20th century.

Activists from the U.S.-based group "Pastors for Peace" met on Friday with relatives of five Cubans imprisoned in the United States on espionage charges.

SANTA LUCIA, Cuba a ' Being trapped on a tropical island for three months likely sounds like a dream come true to most people.

Boiled plantain-flavored water as soup. A greasy scoop of bland, yellowing beef fat as a side dish.

Fidel Castro accused U.S. authorities of torturing a convicted Cuban spy, telling a meeting of communist youths that the agent had been placed in solitary confinement in California.

Canadian tourists should think twice before getting behind the wheel during trips in Mexico, China, Guatemala and Cuba, the Foreign Affairs Department warns.

Moscow, Jul 29 Young people from the Friends of Cuba Society in the Russian city of Sayanogorsk, Siberia, climbed the Moncada Peak of the Borus Massif to commemorate Cuba''s Day of National Rebelliousness.

A Cuban who has been in prison in the United States since 1998 on espionage charges is in poor health, a top Cuban official has said, warning that Washington would held responsible for his condition.

Havana Cross , photo by Harold Davis . View this image larger . In downtown Havana, Cuba, near the Capitolio Nacional and across the street from the Floridita - a bar favored by Hemingway in Cuba - I wandered into a dark passageway.

The Cuba Libre originated around 1900 in Havana, Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

Cuban nationals can be found every day at the busy corner of Amazonas and Naciones Unidas avenues in the Ecuadorean capital, where the National Civil Registry Office is located.

ON JULY 7th a terrorist was brought to justice. Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi, a Sudanese man who was said to have worked in Afghanistan as Osama bin Ladena TMs bodyguard, driver, cook and paymaster, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and supporting terrorism.

In this file photo, Omar Khadr listens to Interrogator 1 testify during his military hearing in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in this court sketch.

Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro says he plans to publish a book next month that focuses on the Cuban revolution that brought him to power more than 50 years ago.

Another day, another secret bar. yawn. you'll find the staircase that leads to Cienfuegos tucked away in the back of the Cuban sandwich shop Carteles.

A view of Capitol plaza in Havana, Cuba. Photograph by: Dave Makichuk, for the Calgary Herald Cody LeCompte's story is a sad cautionary tale about visiting Cuba -- a popular destination for Canadian tourists and one full of pitfalls of the kind that trapped LeCompte.

A recently freed Cuban political prisoner was preparing to board his Wednesday flight to the U.S from Havana's airport.

Havana, Jul 27 Cuban deputies are fine-tuning details for two days of debates commencing on July 28 in the 12 Permanent Commissions in preparation for the 5th sessions of the 7th Legislature of the National Assembly of People''s Power.

Havana, 28 jul "The Strategic Victory" is the most recent reflection by the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro.

Three generations of jazz musicianship strong, the legendary Valdes family roots continue on with the Chuchito Valdes Afro-Cuban Ensemble, the featured act in tonight's Glenwood Springs Summer of Jazz series concert.