In her new memoir, Juanita Castro says that, before going into exile, she began working with the CIA against her brother and his Cuban regime. She is the younger sister of Fidel Castro.

The president of Cuba Raul Castro sacked most of Fidel's cabinet, thus distancing himself from Fidel's legacy and signaling change in Cuba.

SAN SALVADOR - It's been fifty years since El Salvador cut all diplomatic ties with Cuba, but now that the Central American country has elected a new leftist president, Cuba will soon have a new friend.

Cuba has been a dominant theme at the Summit of the Americas. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and other leaders are pressing Mr. Obama to lift the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba. Mr. Obama says he wants to see a change in U.S.-Cuban relations, but also democratic change on the communist-led island. Cuba is excluded from the summit.

Various Latin American leaders have visited Cuba in a show of support for the nation as well as an overt gesture directed at newly inaugurated President Barack Obama to end the 47 year old U.S. embargo.

Latin American and Caribbean leaders have called on U.S. president-elect Barack Obama to lift Washington's economic blockade of Cuba.

Electing Barack Obama president could significantly change the balance of power in Cuba and among Latinos in the U.S. because Cuba would be forced to deal with the first American administration in decades poised to strengthen ties with the country's military government, the director of the University at Buffalo's Caribbean Studies Program said today.

On September 21, the 141 King Long (Golden Dragon) luxury buses made by Xiamen King Long Auto were loaded onto a freight ship at Xiamen Dongdu port. This is the first big batch of King Long buses exported to the Cuban market and also the biggest-ever order from South America for King Long buses, said a Xiamen newspaper.

In June, European Union member states are expected to consider whether to normalize relations with Cuba. This follows a call by the EU's Commissioner of Development to permanently lift diplomatic sanctions. In 2003, a Cuban government crack down on dissidents prompted Brussels to freeze relations with Havana. All high level visits were halted and Cuba told the EU it did not need its aid. The EU temporarily suspended its actions 2005, but now Europeans will debate a permanent thaw.

Reuters gushes as citizens of the island prison get to line up and wait to get a crack at buying a cell phone. Oh joy. They'd have ordered them online except hardly anyone has a computer. All I know is the fellow in orange may want to make calling a fashion consultant his first priority.

A Sudanese terrorism suspect held by the U.S. military in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has become the latest detainee to declare he will boycott a U.S. military court that will try him for war crimes.

President Bush has rejected the idea of meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro, saying such talks would be embracing a "tyrant."