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Wednesday 12 December 2012
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Hugo Chavez undergoes cancer surgery in Cuba, says Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa
Tuesday 11 December 2012
Ecuador's president says that Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez is now undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba.
Hopes rise for Guantanamo's last UK inmate
Sunday 02 December 2012
UK police to interview Shaker Aamer in Cuba, as his family send appeals to President Obama
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Monday 12 November 2012
We love… Simply charming
Album: Various artists, Diablos del Ritmo – The Colombian Melting Pot 1960-1985 (Analog Africa)
Sunday 11 November 2012
This is another one of those indispensable compilations where you can only marvel at the heroic dedication of the man who put it together.
B&B and Beyond: Habanavista, Havana
Sunday 11 November 2012
A penthouse overlooking Havana's Malecón seaside wall is a new breed of 'casa particular', says Claire Boobbyer
Obama gains with Cuban Americans, but effect on policy remains unclear
Saturday 10 November 2012
President Barack Obama won a historic share of Cuban American ballots in Florida this week, challenging the Republican Party's lock on a voting bloc that for decades has defined US policy toward Cuba and the Castro brothers.
Eloy Gutiérrez-Menoyo: Fidel Castro's dissident Spanish comandante
Wednesday 31 October 2012
He told Castro that he would follow the family tradition and die for his beliefs
Back to Blood, By Tom Wolfe
Sunday 28 October 2012
A quarter-century after 'The Bonfire of the Vanities', one of America's great chroniclers is disgusted at where his country is headed
Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated: Fidel Castro proves he's alive...and gardening
Monday 22 October 2012
Former leader hits back at claims he had a stroke and had only weeks to live
Colombian peace talks to begin in Cuba
Friday 19 October 2012
Colombia's government and Marxist Farc rebels will move to Cuba in mid-November to start substantive peace talks after nearly five decades of war, according to a joint declaration in Norway yesterday.
Cuba eases travel abroad for many citizens
Wednesday 17 October 2012
FIFTY years after the Cuban missile crisis, there are signs even Cuban government is beginning to relax.
Defendants boycott 9/11 terrorism tribunal
Wednesday 17 October 2012
The military tribunal for the 9/11 terrorism case resumed yesterday without three of the five defendants – the result of a judge's ruling that the men could not be forced to attend the session.
Cuba ready to relax travel restrictions
Wednesday 17 October 2012
Cuba will scrap much-reviled travel restrictions starting in January, easing most Cubans' exit and return, state media said yesterday, in the communist island's first major immigration reform in more than half a century.
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