Castro meets with 5 Cuban intelligence agents freed from U.S.
The last of the agents returned to Cuba in December following a prisoner swap that also freed U.S. State Department contractor Alan Gross who was jailed in Cuba. The swap…
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DAPA-Eligible Immigrants Face Threat Of Deportation, Advocates Say
Brenda Castro, an undocumented immigrant from Honduras, has two U.S.-born children, lives in New Orleans and has been in the country since 2008. Though she has a misdemeanor for attempted…
Fidel Castro Photographs Published in Cuban Newspaper
MEXICO CITY — Photographs of Fidel Castro taken 10 days ago appeared on an official website late on Monday, the first to be published since rumors about Mr. Castro’s death…
Cuba Publishes First Photos Of Fidel Castro In 5 Months
Cuba has published the first photos of Fidel Castro in more than five months, showing the 88-year-old former leader engaged in what appears to be a lively conversation with a…
New photos of Fidel Castro appear on Cuban media
Amid recent rumors of ill health or even possible death, Cuban state media has released 21 photos of former leader Fidel Castro. The photo spread appeared late Monday in the…
Julián Castro: Obama’s housing chief wants to talk about the middle class, not politics
But Castro said he is confident that 2015 can be “a year of housing opportunity.” Falling gas prices, easing home prices and low interest rates mean “more folks will have…
W.H.: No, Castro, you can’t have Guantanamo back
Among them, Castro asked for the return of the Guantanamo Naval Base to Cuba, an end to the five decades-old trade embargo, a ceasing of U.S.-run television and radio broadcasts…
Fidel Castro Fast Facts
Birth place: Biran, Cuba Birth name: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz Father: Angel Castro, a wealthy Spanish landowner. Mother: Lina Ruz, a cook and maid to Angel Castro’s first wife. Marriage:…
Fidel Castro Shares Views on Warming of Relations
MEXICO CITY — Fidel Castro has ended his silence of almost six weeks over the deal to restore diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba, writing in a letter…
5 things to know for your New Day — Tuesday, January 27, 2015
1. WEATHER The weather outside is frightful: Manhattan is a ghost town. The Boston Common is buried in white. The New England coastline is being whipped by near hurricane-force winds…
Letter: Fidel Castro supports diplomatic talks with U.S., despite misgivings
In a letter, published on the website of the communist party newspaper Granma, Castro said that although he didn’t “trust U.S. policies and have not exchanged a word with them,…
Fidel Castro Issues Statement Apparently In Support Of U.S.-Cuba Diplomacy
HAVANA, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Monday appeared to lend his support to talks with the United States in his first comments about his longtime…
U.S. Outpost in Cuba to Step Out of the Shadows
HAVANA — Fidel Castro called the building a “nest of spies,” routinely marshaling tens of thousands of people to protest at its doorstep. His government even made a television mini-series…
2014 in White House Photos
The White House released its “Year in Photographs” on Tuesday. Chief White House Photographer Pete Souza’s sixth annual roundup of 2014’s memorable “behind-the-scenes” moments captured by official White House photographers…