Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has accused the United States of complicity in the Colombian government's attack on FARC rebels inside Ecuador last Saturday.

Raul Castro, Cuba's first new president in nearly half a century, crushed hopes that a new generation might begin shaping the country's future by surrounding himself with elderly military men and promising to defer to his ailing brother Fidel and the Communist Party's old guard on every major matter.

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has reacted to former Cuban President Fidel Castro’s announcement that he will not return to political leadership ”as the end of an epoch and the beginning of the end of another Communist dictatorship.”

Fidel Castro resignes as Cuba's president, ending his nearly 50-year rule of the Caribbean nation, quotes Granma news paper of Cuba. VOA's Sean Maroney reports with details from Washington.

Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has not been seen in public in more than 16 months because of ill health, says that he will not obstruct the rise of a new generation of leaders.

Cuba’s vice president described Fidel Castro as “working hard, every day more.” Castro, 81, "is already assuming tasks," Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage told Chilean state television.

Cuban President Fidel Castro has met with the president of Angola in his first official meeting for three and half months, said a government press release.

Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro has appeared in a recorded interview on Cuban television, his first television appearance in three months.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says Cuban President Fidel Castro has almost fully recovered from last July's intestinal surgery.

Cuban state television says Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has made a surprise visit to Cuba to meet with his friend and ally, Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Bolivian President Evo Morales has met with ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro and said the leader appears to have recovered well from last year's intestinal surgery.

Cuban President Fidel Castro is urging industrialized nations to press President Bush on climate change at a summit next week.