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Any goodwill Raul Castro enjoyed as Cuba's new leader has dissipated, according to a new poll indicating that more than four out of five Cubans surveyed inside the country are unhappy with its direction. (MiamiHerald.com)

Sixteen Cuban crewmen were stranded Thursday in a backwater African port, with little cash and owed up to 11 months of salary, after their cargo ship began listing with a possibly illegal lumber cargo aboard. (MiamiHerald.com)

A Miami sports agent sentenced to 15 years in a Cuban prison for trying to help Orlando ``El Duque'' Hernández and other baseball stars defect has been freed and will fly home Friday, his former business partner said. (MiamiHerald.com)

The ailing son of one of Cuba's revolutionary heroes has been detained by security officials after protesting that authorities won't let him leave the country for treatment, a human rights leader on the island said Monday. (MiamiHerald.com)

Any good will Raul Castro enjoyed as Cuba's new leader has dissipated, according to a new poll, which found more than four out of five of those surveyed in Cuba were unhappy with the direction of the country. (MiamiHerald.com)

Softball has been a passion for Michael Eizenberg since he was a child, but the 63-year-old has never been as excited about a game as the one played Monday on a children's ball field at a faded sports complex under Havana's warm Caribbean sun. (MiamiHerald.com)

Human rights advocate Edey Sánchez says he was arrested by national police agents following a five-hour search of his home that turned up an oven, a mixer and trays for making candy. (MiamiHerald.com)

Frustrated passengers protested last week at the local bus terminal when a departure was canceled because of mechanical problems with a bus and the fares weren’t returned. (MiamiHerald.com)

Una organización de derechos humanos reclamó la "excarcelación'' de Juan Juan Almeida, al que reporta como detenido desde el viernes... (MiamiHerald.com)

After nearly 50 years, America's cold war embargo against Cuba appears to be thawing at last. Earlier this spring, the Obama administration relaxed controls on travel and remittances to the communist island by Cuban Americans, and last week it agreed to open the door for Cuba's re-entry to the Organisation of American States. (MiamiHerald.com)

If the United States lifted all restrictions on tourist travel to Cuba, what corporations would net the biggest gains? Two: Orbitz Worldwide of Chicago, Ill., and GAESA, S.A. of Havana. (MiamiHerald.com)

Bill Clinton and George W. Bush recently had a face-to-face debate in Canada to discuss current affairs. The only Latin American nation mentioned in their conversation? Cuba. (MiamiHerald.com)

The ailing son of one of Cuba's revolutionary heroes has been detained by security officials after protesting that authorities won't let him leave the country for treatment, a human rights leader on the island said Monday.

Share + Nov 29, 2009 7:05 pm US/Eastern For more than a decade the mystery surrounding the secrets behind the shootdown of two Brothers to the Rescue airplanes by Cuban military jets has remained elusive.

By John Andrew Prime * jprime@gannett.com * November 23, 2009 The cigar-chomping, no-nonsense general who lifted New Orleans from the depths of Hurricane Katrina in late 2005 thinks Cuba has some important lessons to teach the United States in storm-fighting, and he wants warmer relations with the nation's neighbor to the south for that reason.

HAVANA: Nearly 50 years after a botched US-directed invasion of Cuba, the communist nation said yesterday it is holding a military exercise next week to boost preparedness against any future US attack.

It has been reported from Algeria that a court has acquitted two former detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.

The U.S. State Department has told Cuba it deplores last week's ``assault'' on blogger Yoani Sánchez, one of the toughest of several expressions of support for the Havana writer. (MiamiHerald.com)

Two Czech tourists arrested in March after they shouted insulting remarks about Fidel and Raúl Castro during a scuffle at Havana's international airport will be tried next week, diplomatic sources confirmed Wednesday. (MiamiHerald.com)

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is inviting his mentor Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela during the coming months. (MiamiHerald.com)

The Supreme Court is staying out of a dispute in Miami between school officials and civil libertarians over a book about Cuba that depicts smiling children in communist uniforms but avoids mention of problems in the country. (MiamiHerald.com)

Cuba dijo a la Unión Europea (UE) que no reconoce a ningún Estado autoridad moral alguna para dar consejos ni lecciones en materia de democracia y derechos humanos, según un comunicado de la cancillería emitido este sábado, a propósito de las conversaciones en Bruselas. (MiamiHerald.com)

Juan Formell y los Van Van, la orquesta de salsa más importante de Cuba en cuatro décadas, realizará 70 conciertos a lo largo y ancho de Estados Unidos en los próximos meses. (MiamiHerald.com)

Un marco bilateral haría que Cuba asumiera "compromisos'' e incluiría un capítulo ‘‘claro y muy contundente'' en materia de derechos humanos, dijo el ministro español de Exteriores, Miguel Angel Moratinos, tras una reunión entre la "troika'' de Exteriores de la UE y el canciller cubano, Bruno Rodríguez. (MiamiHerald.com)

Reconocido como el mejor árbitro de las Series Nacionales y uno de los tres grandes en la historia de la pelota cubana, Nelson Díaz se encuentra en Miami después de un retiro forzado por los dirigentes del béisbol de un país que fue durante más de 100 años la segunda potencia del mundo. (MiamiHerald.com)

If one person's freedom fighter is another's terrorist, the case of the Cuban Five illustrates the chasm that remains between Havana and Washington, despite recent overtures that are gradually easing tensions left over from the Cold War. (MiamiHerald.com)

Come July, there will be another sign of Cuba’s New Labour-style accommodation of the capitalist 21st century: wealthy foreigners will be able to buy luxury holiday homes on the island. (MiamiHerald.com)

For a few hours this week, the Organization of American States appeared about to splinter: Leftist Latin American governments squared off against the United States over whether Cuba should be allowed to rejoin the main forum for political cooperation in the hemisphere. (MiamiHerald.com)

Latin American leaders usually have few qualms about lecturing the U.S. on what they regard as the folly of its Cuba policy, especially of late. Reintegrating Cuba has become a priority issue for many if not most of the region's governments, who see it as a way to break with the Cold War politics and U.S. hegemony that burdened the region in the 20th century. (MiamiHerald.com)

The U.S. government is fighting an effort to allow Cuba to return to the Organization of American States after a 47-year suspension. But the resistance is putting it at odds with much of Latin America as the Obama administration is trying to improve relations in the hemisphere. (MiamiHerald.com)

Meet the Forrest Gump of Cuban communism, Óscar Espinosa Chepe. Like the character played by Tom Hanks in the 1994 film, Chepe has spent the past half-century having the good (as well as the bad) fortune of being wherever the action is. (MiamiHerald.com)