Cuba

Brazil plan to import thousands of Cuban doctors criticized

2013-05-11 07:00:00

SAO PAULO, Brazil -- A Brazilian government plan to import 6,000 Cuban doctors to practice in needy areas is being greeted with criticism from� local medical professionals. Much of the medical care in Brazil is concentrated in rich, densely populated...

Travel letters: Impressions of Alabama

2013-04-28 00:00:00

I am a graduating senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. I'm not your typical Alabama college student and Birmingham isn't your typical Alabama city. I wanted to say thanks for the story ["Moving Ever Forward," by Alice Short, April 14] on our...

Come to papa: Ernest Hemingway's papers return from Cuba

2013-05-07 09:06:00

Records from the estate in Cuba where Ernest Hemingway wrote many of his most famous books have been digitized and brought to the United States, the Associated Press reports. The materials will be held at Boston's John F. Kennedy Library, which holds a...

Man convicted of spying in the U.S. is allowed to return to Cuba

2013-05-06 18:10:00

MEXICO CITY -- A man convicted of spying in the U.S. for the Castro regime has been allowed to return to Cuba after more than a decade in an American prison, and on Monday he began the paperwork to make his homecoming permanent (link in Spanish). Rene...

Beyonce discusses Cuba trip on 'GMA,' says she wants more kids

2013-05-06 11:43:00

Beyonce appeared on "Good Morning America" on Monday to set the record straight about her trip to Cuba and open up about expanding her family. Bey, who is in the middle of the European leg of her world tour, the Mrs. Carter Show, spoke with�Amy Robach...

Obama renews call to close Guantanamo prison

2013-04-30 21:43:00

WASHINGTON — Confronted with a mass hunger strike and the use of forced feedings to keep inmates from starving, President Obama broke a long silence on the military prison for suspected foreign terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, declaring it "not...

Letters: Hawaii issue sets memories afloat

2013-05-05 00:00:00

Mahalo nui loa ("thank you very much") for the Special Hawaii Issue [April 21]. Fabulous memories of several visits to the islands in paradise were made vivid by the stories, pictures and maps of Oahu, Molokai and the cruise with stops at the Big Island,...

Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th anniversary in Havana, Cuba

2013-04-05 16:31:00

Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their...

Boys allegedly abducted to Cuba are playful for reporters in Florida

2013-04-11 10:11:00

Two young boys, allegedly abducted by their parents last week and taken to Cuba, were frolicking and mugging for reporters Thursday outside the Florida home of their grandparents, who have legal custody of the children. “When you are in the middle...

Brazil's Rousseff takes nuanced approach to foreign policy

2013-04-25 17:45:00

SAO PAULO, Brazil — Shortly before Venezuela's presidential election, former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva recorded a video supporting Nicolas Maduro, saying he had "stood out brilliantly in the struggle" for a more democratic...

Review: Cicely Tyson's acting in 'Trip to Bountiful' is plentiful

2013-04-23 17:34:00

Broadway for Cicely Tyson is clearly like riding a bike. Her last rendezvous in the rialto was in "The Corn Is Green" in 1983, but you'd never know that 30 years had passed by her exquisitely understated performance in the revival of Horton Foote's "The...

Jay-Z addresses Cuba trip 'mudslingers' in 'Open Letter' track

2013-04-11 16:04:00

Jay-Z is none too pleased with lawmakers questioning the validity of his and Beyonce's recent trip to Cuba, and he's rapping all about it in a new track called "Open Letter," released Thursday. Travel to Cuba for the sake of tourism is prohibited...

Beyonce appeared on "Good Morning America" on Monday to set the record straight about her trip to Cuba and open up about expanding her family. Bey, who is in the middle of the European leg of her world tour, the Mrs.

2013-05-10 17:45:00

Rene Gonzalez, one of the "Cuban Five" group convicted of espionage in the United States, speaks with journalists outside the U.S. Interest Section in Havana.

2013-05-06 00:00:00

Although the Mojito, favored beverage of "Miami Vice's" detective Sonny Crocket, only became popular among cocktail drinkers in recent decades, it can be traced as a staple of Cuban culture as far back at the late 1500s.

2013-05-03 16:01:43