Cuba will not beg to lift embargo: Fidel CastroHAVANA - Former Cuban president Fidel Castro Tuesday complained that the US had done nothing to end the decades-old embargo on his country, stressing that Cuba ‘will never beg’ for it to be lifted. Castro believes Obama wants to improve ties with CubaHAVANA - Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has said he believes US President Barack Obama wants to improve relations with Cuba, but the US political reality will not make that possible. US delegation to Cuba meets Fidel CastroWASHINGTON - Former Cuban president Fidel Castro met Tuesday with three visiting members of the US Congress in what they called a sign that Cuba wants to open a new dialogue with Washington. Cuba not afraid of talks with US: Fidel CastroHAVANA - Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has said his country is not afraid of dialogue with the US and did not want to extend the decades long confrontation with the powerful nation. Shashi Tharoor starts poll campaign - onlineNEW DELHI - Shashi Tharoor, former UN under-secretary general and now Congress candidate from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, started his election campaign Friday through a website. Castro denies his close associates replaced by those of RaulHAVANA - Cuban leader Fidel Castro rejected media reports that his close associates in the government have been replaced by younger brother President Raul Castro’s men. Raul Castro changes key figures in Cuban governmentHAVANA - Cuban President Raul Castro Monday undertook a major cabinet reshuffle removing key figures like Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque and Carlos Lage, secretary of the Cuban Council of Ministers. Sales of famed Cuban Habanos cigars downHAVANA - Habanos S.A., makers of the famed Montecristo, Cohiba and Partagas brands of Cuban cigars, had sales of some $390 million in 2008, down three percent from last year, a company official has said. Republican senator urges revision of US-Cuba policyWASHINGTON - Republican Senator Richard Lugar is pushing for a re-evaluation of US policy toward Cuba, considering that the economic embargo imposed in 1962 has not spurred democratic change in the communist-ruled state. Chavez makes surprise visit to CubaHAVANA - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has arrived on a surprise visit to Cuba and met his counterpart Raul Castro, according to an official communique Saturday. Chavez gets green light for unlimited re-electionCARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Sunday clinched his long-sought right to seek an unlimited number of terms in office as more than 54 percent of Venezuelan voters backed a constitutional change. Chilean president meets ‘agile, active’ Fidel CastroHAVANA - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has not been seen in public since 2006, was ‘very agile and active’, said Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, Cuban media reported Friday. Obama not able to solve economic problems: Fidel CastroHAVANA - Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has said Barack Obama and his team would not be able to solve the economic problems faced by the US. Obama unable to solve economic problems: Fidel CastroHAVANA - Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has said that Barack Obama is incapable of solving the problems faced by the US. Obama’s politics losing its virginity: Fidel CastroHAVANA - Cuban leader Fidel Castro has said that US President Barack Obama’s politics was ‘losing its virginity’, Spanish news agency EFE reported Saturday. Obama’s policies losing virginity: Fidel CastroHAVANA - Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has criticised US President Barack Obama saying his ‘politics is losing virginity’, the EFE news agency reported Saturday. No political concessions for Guantanamo return: Fidel CastroHAVANA - Cuba will not grant any political concessions to the US for a possible return of the Guantanamo Bay naval base, the country’s ailing revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has said. Raul Castro visits Russia, the first by a Cuban leaderMOSCOW - Raul Castro has begun the first official visit by a Cuban leader to Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Cuba willing to swap dissidents with spies held in US: MinisterHAVANA - Cuba’s foreign minister has said that his country is willing to release jailed dissidents in exchange for the return of the five Cuban intelligence agents imprisoned in the US, EFE reported Thursday. Open your fist to revive friendship, Chavez tells ObamaCARACAS - President Hugo Chavez has said that Venezuela and the US can revive their broken friendship if President Barack Obama ‘opens his fist’, EFE reported. Cuba urges US to act fast in improving relationsGUATEMALA CITY - Cuba has urged the new US administration of President Barack Obama to act fast towards improving relations between Washington and Havana, EFE news agency reported Saturday. Fidel Castro hails Obama’s ‘honesty’HAVANA - Ailing Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has called new US President Barack Obama a ‘honest’ person with good intentions, but expressed doubt whether he could transform those into action. Fidel Castro holds surprise meeting with visiting Argentinean presidentHAVANA - Ailing Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro received visiting Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner here, Cuban news agency Prensa Latina reported Thursday. Bush says ‘Cuba will be free from tyranny one day’WASHINGTON - US President George W. Bush Tuesday expressed solidarity with the Cuban people and assured them that one day they would be free from Raul Castro’s ‘cruel dictatorship’, EFE reported. Castro not to make public appearance anymore: ChavezCARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said that Cuban leader Fidel Castro would not appear at official public events in future because of his delicate health, EFE reported Monday. Chavez calls Israeli offensive in Gaza ‘cowardly’CARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has called the Israeli Army ‘cowardly’ for its offensive in the Gaza Strip, and said the people of Israel should protest the operation that has killed more than 580 people. Cuban Revolution survives 50 years despite changing worldHAVANA - Collapsed political systems, presidents who came and went, wars and attacks, broken alliances, rebuilt countries - 50 years of history unrolled across Latin America. Cuban revolution ’stronger than ever’ at 50: Raul CastroSANTIAGO DE CUBA - Cuban President Raul Castro said Thursday that the Cuban revolution after 50 years was ’stronger than ever despite the obsessive and revengeful hate of the United States.’ Cuban revolution ’stronger than ever’ at 50: Raul CastroSANTIAGO DE CUBA - At a subdued celebration far away from the capital Havana, President Raul Castro declared that the Cuban revolution after 50 years was ’stronger than ever’ despite the ‘unhealthy and vindictive hatred’ of the ‘powerful US’. Fifty years after revolution Cuba facing serious challengesHAVANA - As Cuba prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the revolution that installed the communist government, the Caribbean island nation looks mired in a time warp. |
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