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Elsa Morejón, wife of Cuban dissident Oscar Elías Biscet, said the Cuban government is “worried” more about assigning resources to criticize opponents while ignoring the most urgent needs of the population. (MiamiHerald.com)

Pope Francis exchanged a brief greeting Wednesday with Cuban dissident Berta Soler, leader of the Ladies in White, in the Vatican at the end of a general audience held in St. Peter’s Square. (MiamiHerald.com)

A Cuban intelligence agent who spent 13 years in a U.S. prison said Monday he still has affection for America and hopes to see the two countries reconcile, but added that he does not regret for a moment his decision to spy for Cuba. (MiamiHerald.com)

A three-judge panel affirmed an earlier ruling by a federal judge in Miami blocking the law from taking effect. (MiamiHerald.com)

The publication’s criticism follows visits to the United States and elsewhere by several dissidents in recent months. (MiamiHerald.com)

While most Americans have never seen Ernest Hemingway's home in Cuba where he wrote some of his most famous books, a set of 2,000 recently digitized records delivered to the United States will give scholars and the public a fuller view of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist's life. (MiamiHerald.com)

José Ignacio Oropesa Almora says he was fired from his job as a truck driver for the state oil company because he’s an independent librarian (MiamiHerald.com)

More than 60 passengers on a bus protested the seizure of a 20-pound sack of rice and forced the police to return it to the owner. (MiamiHerald.com)

Since the beginning of the New Year, police in Santa Clara have been pursuing private sellers of bread, which is considered a crime. (MiamiHerald.com)

A frequent Cuban hunger striker is scheduled to be in Miami ahead of Cuban Independence Day. (MiamiHerald.com)

A Cuban intelligence agent who served 13 years in a U.S. prison has officially been stripped of his American citizenship. (MiamiHerald.com)

A federal appeals court agreed Monday on the unconstitutionality of a Florida law banning companies from bidding on government contracts if they also do business in Cuba and Syria. (MiamiHerald.com)

A Cuban intelligence agent who spent 13 years in a U.S. prison said Monday he still has affection for America and hopes to see the two countries reconcile, but added that he does not regret for a moment his decision to spy for Cuba. (MiamiHerald.com)

While most Americans have never seen Ernest Hemingway's home in Cuba where he wrote some of his most famous books, a set of 2,000 recently digitized records delivered to the United States will give scholars and the public a fuller view of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist's life. (MiamiHerald.com)

Sean Kelly announces Irreversible, an exhibition of new work by Los Carpinteros.

Farinas, a Cuban government opponent, has said he was told in the past that if he wanted to be granted permission to leave the country, he would forfeit his right of return.

As the spring arts season builds to a crescendo, there are so many exhibits and performances to take in that you really have to consult our calendar for all the options.

WASHINGTON: - Guantanamo officials have warned detainees at the widely reviled US prison that they will have to be patted down thoroughly each time they meet their lawyers, an attorney said Friday.

A transvestite holds a gay rights banner and a Cuban national flag while posing for photographers during celebrations marking the upcoming International Day Against Homophobia, in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, May 11, 2013.

Scholars and activists who talked about discrimination in Cuba as part of AfricAmericas events.

The ongoing hunger strike by detainees at the Guantanamo detention camp is doing exactly what a nonviolent protest is intended to do: call attention to the plight and grievances of those who feel they are being treated unjustly.

Cuban leader Raul Castro's daughter, a sexologist and supporter of gay rights, has urged Cubans to join a traditional "conga" dance against homophobia taking place in Havana on Saturday.

Cash-strapped Cuba is looking to further boost its long-vital tourism sector, the crown jewel of which the famed resort town, Varadero, is located 138 kilometers east of Havana.

Five years after Obama said he'd shut it, over 100 prisoners, including a British resident - are still chained in Guantanamo.

Cubana de AviaciA3n will offer the first direct flight between Cuba and Brazil on June 10.

They are now living in exile in Kentucky, but two Cuban Damas De Blanco have not forgotten the people of Cuba, especially those in Holguin province in the eastern part of the country.

Under the title, " Tampa seeks to do business with Cuba ," in The Miami Herald , I learned that Tampa City Council members Harry Cohen, Yvonne Yolie Capin, and Mary Mulhern, along with [Congresswoman] Kathy Castor, will soon be traveling to Cuba.

Christie's has salesrooms around the world, including New York, Paris, Dubai and Geneva, where this particular sale will take place.

Cuban agent Rene Gonzalez, 56, holds up his U.S. certificate of loss of nationality during a press conference in Havana, Cuba, Friday, May 10, 2013.

Bikes For Cuba is sending our 200th donated bike to junior cycling teams in Cuba on Saturday, May 11.

Linda Feldman is a journalist for the Christian Science Monitor who proudly proclaims to have followed in the footsteps of Beyonce and Jay-Z on her vacation to Cuba as a guest of the Castro dictatorship.