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Hijacker of 1968 Pan Am Flight Gets 15-Year Sentence

A man who hijacked a plane to Cuba in 1968 was sentenced today to 15 years in prison by a federal judge who called the offense "a frightening crime." Luis Armando Pena Soltren, 67, who is a U.S. citizen, spent four decades as a fugitive before voluntarily returning to the U.S. from Cuba in 2009. He pleaded guilty in March...

Cuba Announces Date for Important Party Congress

HAVANA (Nov. 8) -- Cuba will hold a long-delayed, and much-anticipated, Communist Party Congress next April and leaders will use the meeting to chart a new economic future for the island, President Raul Castro announced Monday. The congress, which last took place in 1997, is traditionally used to announce major policy...

Cuban TV Says Airline Crashes With 68 Aboard

HAVANA (Nov. 4) -- A Cuban airliner flying from the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba to the capital crashed Thursday night with 68 people aboard, including 28 foreigners, state media reported. There was no immediate word on whether any survived. The AeroCaribbean plane went down near the village of Guasimal in Santi...

Weakened Paula Lacks Punch of 2008 Storms That Hit Cuba

HAVANA (Oct. 15) -- A weakening Paula dumped heavy rains on Cuba's capital, turning some of the streets into shallow rivers and knocking out power before sliding along the island's northern coast. Paula was behaving far less destructively than three monster hurricanes that devastated Cuba in 2008, however. Cuban officials...

Castro to Go to Parliament for 1st Time in 4 Years

(Aug. 7) -- Fidel Castro has called a special session of Cuba's parliament today, where he'll appear before lawmakers for his first time in four years. It's all part of Castro's mysterious reemergence into public life this summer, giving interviews on Cuban TV, attending communist youth meetings, touring a scientific...

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06/01/12 Cuban and Chinese Communist Party Leaders Meet in... Source: Radio Cadena Agramonte (English) Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, second secretary of Cuba's Communist Party and first Cuban vice-president held talks in Havana on Thursday with Hu Chunhua, member of China's Communist Party Central Committee and party secretary in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia.
06/01/12 Cubans and Puerto Ricans Demand Release of Political... Source: Radio Cadena Agramonte (English) Cubans, Puerto Ricans and activists from around the world urged US President Barack Obama to release Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera, who has served 31 prison years for his struggle in favor of his country's self-determination.
05/31/12 Yoani Sanchez: The Russians, Back in Cuba With Their... Source: Huffington Post Latino Voices The plane touches down in the middle of a Havana night and tourists pass through the international airport terminal where dozens of Cubans offer them taxis, rooms for rent, rum or mulatas.
05/31/12 Cuba marks British rule 250 years on Source: Morning Star The grey RFA Fort Rosalie arrived on Wednesday morning with more than 100 crew members aboard.
05/31/12 Razorlight, Kids In Glass Houses, Deaf Havana for... Source: NME Razorlight , Kids In Glass Houses and Deaf Havana are among the first acts to be confirmed for this year's Merthyr Rock Festival.