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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (R) and Cuba's Raul Castro shake hands during a ceremony after his installation in Caracas on April 19, 2013.

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  • Beyonce defends trip to Cuba

    April 9 letter to the lawmakers that the trip had been approved by the Office of Foreign Assets Control as "an educational exchange trip organized by a group authorized by OFAC to sponsor and organize programs to promote people-to-people contact in Cuba."   Read more »

  • Cuban spy unrepentant, but hopes for better ties

    -- A Cuban-American who spent 13 years in a U.S. prison for espionage says he still has deep affection for the United States and hopes to see the two countries reconcile.But Rene Gonzalez adds in an interview with The Associated Press that he does not regret   Read more »

  • US keeps Cuba on state sponsors of terrorism list

    been released Tuesday, but has been delayed. Officials say it is likely to come out later in May.Wednesday was a holiday in Cuba and there was no immediate comment from the government.There had been speculation among analysts and others that the U .S. might   Read more »

  • May: Would closing Guantanamo prison satisfy hunger strikers?

    detention camp at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba, was established in 2002 to hold the most dangerous of those captured in what the George W. Bush administration called the Global War on Terrorism. Controversy over the facility has simmered ever since. In recent days,   Read more »

  • Medical reinforcements arrive at Guantanamo Bay

    -- Medical reinforcements have arrived at Guantanamo Bay to help deal with a hunger strike among prisoners at the U.S. base in Cuba.Lt. Col. Samuel House said Monday that the roughly 40 nurses and other specialists arrived over the weekend. They are U.S. Navy   Read more »

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About Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba (Spanish: Cuba or República de Cuba, IPA: [re'puβlika ðe ˈkuβa]), consists of the island of Cuba (the largest of the Greater Antilles), the Isle of Youth and adjacent small islands. Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean at the confluence of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Cuba is south of the eastern United States and the Bahamas, west of the Turks and Caicos Islands and Haiti and east of Mexico. The Cayman Islands and Jamaica are to the south.

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