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Several Republicans insist: U.S. government officials must avoid Castro’s funeral

CNSNews.com) – Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich are among the Republicans urging the Obama administration to steer clear of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's funeral. "It's going to be an interesting test just in the next few

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Raul Castro retains top Cuban Communist Party post

HAVANA (AP) — Raul Castro will hold the Cuban Communist Party's highest post for another five years alongside his hardline second-in-command, state media reported Tuesday, in a resounding message that the island's aging revolutionary leaders will retain control in the face of detente with the United States

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Cuban poet Valladares to receive Becket’s Canterbury Medal

WASHINGTON – "They've taken everything away from me – or almost everything – I still have my smile, the proud sense that I'm a free man, and an eternally flowering garden in my soul," wrote Armando Valladares, a Cuban poet and artist jailed for 22 years after

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Fidel Castro to Obama: We don’t need your ‘presents’

HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro responded Monday to President Barack Obama's historic trip to Cuba with a long, bristling letter recounting the history of U.S. aggression against Cuba, writing that "we don't need the empire to give us any presents." The 1,500-word letter

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The day freedom died in Cuba

In 1959, Fidel Castro and his communist henchmen put a bullet through the head of freedom. Proclaiming the era of equality, they threw dissidents in jail or shot them, cracked down on free speech, closed their markets and seized private property. Thousands of Cubans fled to the liberty of the

Barack Obama

Victims of communism in Cuba: 73,000

As President Barack Obama currently visits Cuba, it merits noting that the Communist regime south of Florida has killed an estimated 73,000 people since the dictator Fidel Castro seized power in 1959, according to the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, which was established by an act of Congress in

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Obama will take McGovern on trip to Havana

WORCESTER – When President Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. commander-in-chief to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge landed on the island in January 1928, he'll be accompanied by Worcester congressman James P. McGovern. The Democrat announced his traveling plans Thursday in Worcester, according to the Worcester Telegram

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US mulls abstention on Cuba embargo vote at UN

Written by Bradley Klapper and Matthew Lee WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, the United States may be willing to accept a United Nations condemnation of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba without a fight, The Associated Press has learned.