Despite US President Barack Obama’s promise to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, 171 men are still locked up there. Our reporters went to the two villages closest to the barbed wire surrounding the military base and met the Cubans living beside these awkward neighbours. It is a sensitive zone, just a few metres from the American watchtowers.
At least 38 Haitian migrants were killed when their boat sank after being stranded at sea. Another 87 people were rescued on Saturday and moved to a migrants camp at Point Maisi off the Cuban coast.
Cuban President Raul Castro (pictured, left) on Friday announced plans to pardon over the next few days some 3,000 prisoners, including 86 foreigners from 25 countries, for "humanitarian reasons".
The Jazzycolors festival in Paris takes you around the world in one city. We’re meeting one of the groups, AMC Trio, who tell us about their particular brand of Slovakian-flavoured jazz. We’ve also got a taster of a sizzling, sweaty, sexy stage show, “Soy de Cuba”. And we’re finding out why St Peterburg ballet's performance of "Swan Lake" is still enchanting audiences.
Brazil's police moves in to take back the favelas from the drug lords, two years ahead of the football World Cup. Also, Cuba overturns a 50-year ban on property sales - we look at the latest signs of reform under Raul Castro. Finally, with gaffes, scandals and roller-coaster approval ratings, the US Republican race is keeping us all entertained.
Cuba announced Thursday it would allow its residents to buy and sell real estate for the first time since the revolution, in yet another bold free-market reform that effectively legalises a practice Cubans have been secretly engaging in for years.
Following student riots in Chile we meet one of the leaders behind the country's worst unrest since the fall of General Pinochet. Also, the disillusioned and the unemployed are welcome in Manhattan's Zucotti Park as the “Occupy Wall Street” movement gains pace. Finally, Cuba's peaceful protesters mourn one of their leading lights. We have a special report from Havana.
The leader of Cuba’s dissident group Ladies in White, Laura Pollan, died Friday aged 63. The Ladies in White group has been at the centre of efforts to promote change in Cuba after five decades of singe-party communist rule.
Veteran US negotiator Bill Richardson (pictured) arrived in Cuba Wednesday to seek the release of Alan Gross, a US national and government subcontractor sentenced to 15 years in prison for bringing communications equipment to the island nation.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Cuba Sunday for cancer treatment after the Government gave him permission to leave the country despite arguments that it was unconstitutional for him to exercise power outside the country.
