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Seventy-two foreigners—hailing from every continent except Antarctica—are being held at the notorious military prison.
Despite the 'glossy' impression Hollywood gives of the United States, the country is 'no utopia', a writer says.
In keeping with protocols, it is appropriate to end this drama of trading places with another conceit. At the end of the eighteenth century ...
Cuba was expected to release 553 prisoners, many of whom were swept up in antigovernment protests, and in exchange, the US was supposed to ease its sanctions against the island.
Cuba’s brief removal from the list of state sponsors of terrorism was preceded by a May decision last year to no longer blacklist Cuba as “ not cooperating fully” with anti-terrorist efforts.
Cuba would have become the first nuclear power in Latin America 50 years ago, if not for the dynamics captured in this remarkable verbatim transcript -- published here for the first time -- of ...
Latin American literature in the 1960s was inextricable from its politics. After lawyer-turned-revolutionary Fidel Castro defeated Cuba’s military dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959, power ...
02/26/2025 Under its policy of "strategic autonomy," India has been expanding its presence in Latin America. Countries in the region have welcomed the push and hope to diversify their own ...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 1963 (UPI)-President Kennedy said Thursday that the United States never planned to provide air cover for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. He also told a news ...
‘Oceans Are the Real Continents’ Review: A Lush and Lyrical Vision of Contemporary Cuba in Black and White Reviewed online, Jan. 7, 2025. In Venice Film Festival. Running time: 119 MIN.
President-elect Donald Trump’s foreign policy vision includes controversial ambitions like buying Greenland, reclaiming the Panama Canal, and annexing Canada. Over the weekend, Trump accused Panama of ...
An American flag and a Cuban flag are seen along a street in Old Havana as Cuba prepares for the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama on March 18, 2016. Joe Raedle/Getty Images ...