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Castro meets with Cuban intellectuals in 9-hour meeting
AVANA (Reuters) – Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro held his second lengthy public event in a week, this time a nine-hour session with writers and intellectuals, Cuban state media said on Saturday, in another showing he is doing well after serious health problems. “Fidel with intellectuals: More than nine hours…
Cuba to pardon nearly 3,000 prisoners
Cuban President Raul Castro has unveiled plans to pardon some 3,000 prisoners for “humanitarian reasons,” a group amnesty of unprecedented size, and “gradually” reform onerous laws restricting foreign travel. The pardons include 86 foreign nationals from 25 countries, and will take place “in the coming days,” Castro said in a…
Communist Cuba set to end travel restrictions
President Raul Castro is Friday expected to announce an end to onerous, unpopular travel restrictions that have been in place for almost 50 years and which keep most Cubans from traveling abroad. The Roman Catholic Church and regime-friendly musicians like Silvio Rodriguez and Pablo Milanes have joined a chorus of Cubans calling…
US Jews urge Castro to free contractor
American Jews urged Cuban President Raul Castro on Saturday to release a US contractor “on humanitarian grounds” after the communist island’s highest court upheld a 15-year sentence. In his appeal, Elan Steinberg, vice president of The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Their Descendants, noted that Alan Gross has…
Cubans upset at video game that aims to kill Fidel Castro
Cuba’s state-run media and bloggers are not amused at “Call of Duty: Black Ops,” a new video game in which the player can join a secret operation in the 1960s to assassinate former leader Fidel Castro. “What the United States government did not manage to do in 50 years, now…
House committee passes bill that would end Cuba travel ban
A bill to end the effective ban on US nationals’ travel to Cuba, and allow Havana to buy US goods on credit, has been moving through a legislative panel, though it still has a long way to go before it could actually take effect. The bill was passed in the…
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