Raul Castro
President Obama Says He Will Make a Historic Trip to Cuba This Spring
President Obama will become the first sitting president to visit Cuba in nearly 90 years, marking one more step toward the normalization of relations between the US and Cuba.
US and Cuba Strike Historic Deal to Allow Regular Commercial Flights
On Tuesday, US and Cuban officials met in Havana to do away with long-standing barriers that banned regular US commercial carriers from operating on the island, allowing Americans to soon purchase a plane ticket from the US to Cuba.
Cuban Migrants Heading to the US Can't Make it out of Costa Rica
Over 1,000 Cubans migrants have been stuck in Costa Rica since Sunday when Nicaragua shut the border to them. The numbers keep growing as ever more Cubans arrive at the bottleneck spurred by fears of imminent changes to their special immigration status.
The Internet Has Helped Hipsters in Cuba Discover American Fashion
Thanks to loosened internet restrictions Cuban cool kids are plugging into global fashion trends for the first time ever.
There’s a Big Increase of Cubans Heading Through Mexico to the US
Ballooning numbers of Cubans are entering Mexico and heading north. They say they fear that improved US-Cuban relations will lead to changes in the laws that currently allow them to stay if they reach US soil.
Raul Castro Tells Obama He Must Lift Cuban Embargo — and Return Guantanamo
President Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro met for the second time this year, on Tuesday in New York, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Colombia Will See Peace in Six Months, President and FARC Leader Announce
Their handshake in Havana, although awkward, provided a stirring image of reconciliation after decades of mutual contempt and distrust between Colombia's government and largest rebel army.
Pope Francis Meets Fidel Castro and Delivers Mass in Havana's Revolution Square
Addressing tens of thousands of Cubans, the pope warned of the dangers of power and ideology when others are excluded.
Pope Francis to Meet With Raul Castro on Trip to Cuba — But No Dissidents
Francis won’t meet with any Cuban dissidents on his trip, but a Vatican spokesman suggested the pope could broach the subject of human rights in a private meeting with Castro.
Pope Francis Warms Communist Leader's Heart Ahead of Cuba Visit
The pope’s visit to Cuba on his way to the US is the latest sign of increasingly friendly relations between the island nation's Communist government and the Vatican.
An American Startup Is Letting Cubans Share Internet Connections for Free
Cubans use 'Connectify' to sidestep the government's tightly-controlled wifi networks.