Hundreds of thousands of Cubans crammed Havana’s Revolution Square Sunday for the historic “Peace without Borders” concert organized by Colombian singer Juanes, who has received death threats from Miami-based Cuban exiles.
An award-winning Colombian musician, Juanes, is set to play a huge concert in Cuba Sunday, but the concert is seemingly becoming less about music and more about politics. The Cuban community in the US has slammed the musicians taking part.
Eduardo Manet was born in Cuba in 1930 and took French nationality in 1979. But as we see in his latest novel, “A Cuban in Paris,” he might have left Cuba, but Cuba never left him.
Cuban President Raul Castro has delayed a much-anticipated Communist Party congress, where Fidel Castro's position as head of the party was to be discussed. No new date has been set.
President Raul Castro (pictured) says that Cuba will not make moves to appease the United States, although Castro says he is open to more dialogue. US President Barack Obama recently called for Havana to make goodwill "gestures".
Former Cuban supremo Fidel Castro appeared in good health during his first known talks with US officials since he underwent surgery in 2006. Congress Representative Barbara Lee said Castro was "very energetic, very clear thinking".
Cuban President Raul Castro has sacked some of the country's best-known politicians in a cabinet reshuffle that he said would make his government more efficient. Castro said he wanted to gradually reduce the "breadth" of the island's government.
As Russia and Cuba plan to sign a series of agreements, including one on energy cooperation, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met Cuban President Raul Castro on Thursday for lunch at a former Politburo hunting lodge.
Cuban President Raul Castro offered late Friday to enter talks with US President-elect Barack Obama, "without intermediaries." Castro said he hoped Obama could "do a great deal, could take positive steps."
Cuba is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power on Jan. 1, 1959. Watch the special field reports from special correspondent Virginie Herz.
