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Ecuador's president says that Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez is now undergoing cancer surgery in Cuba.

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Obama gains with Cuban Americans, but effect on policy remains unclear

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.

Cuban leader Fidel Castro confers with Gutiérrez-Menoyo, centre, and William Morgan in 1959

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Rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated: Fidel Castro proves he's alive...and gardening

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Colombian peace talks to begin in Cuba

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Cuba relaxes its grip on exit visas

Cuba eases travel abroad for many citizens

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Defendants boycott 9/11 terrorism tribunal

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The President has modestly liberalised Cuba’s Soviet-style economy

Cuba ready to relax travel restrictions

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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