May 09 Watch Immigration Charges Dropped Against Cuban Exile Suspected of Bombing A federal judge on Wednesday threw out immigration fraud charges against Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, a fierce Fidel Castro opponent who is suspected in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner. A reporter who covered the case explains. Continue watching
Mar 30 Watch Change in U.S. Policy Toward Cuba Could Be on Horizon Americans with family in Cuba have long struggled with restrictions that limit travel back home, among other issues. With Democrats in charge of Congress and Fidel Castro relinquishing power to his brother, a change in U.S. policy toward Cuba could… Continue watching
Aug 14 Photographs Show Cuba’s Castro Ailing, But Alert After Surgery By PBS News Hour Cuba's Communist daily newspaper published photos of President Fidel Castro in his bed during a visit with his brother Raul and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in town for Fidel Castro's 80th birthday Sunday. Continue reading
Aug 08 Watch Cubans in Miami Prepare for a Post-Castro Cuba Neither Fidel Castro nor his brother Raul has been seen in public since the temporary transfer of power more than a week ago. As the possibility of the end of Castro's regime approaches, some Cubans in Miami are optimistic while… Continue watching
Aug 01 Watch Reaction Mixed to Castro’s Turnover of Power Cuban President Fidel Castro took ill and temporarily relinquished power to his brother Monday. A Time magazine correspondent talks about what the power shift may mean for the communist country. Continue watching
Aug 01 Cuban Leader Castro Temporarily Transfers Power to Brother By PBS News Hour In a surprise announcement Monday night, Cuban President Fidel Castro handed power to his younger brother Raul while he undergoes intestinal surgery. Continue reading
Jun 12 Watch Guantanamo Suicides Stir Criticism of U.S. Policy Over the weekend, news of three suicides at the Guantanamo detention facility in Cuba raised new questions about the manner in which the United States is treating terror suspects. Continue watching
May 19 Watch U.N. Panel Urges Closure of Guantanamo Detention Center A United Nations panel on torture called on the United States Friday to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and expressed concern over reports of secret prisons. Continue watching
Jul 17 U.S. Accuses Cuba of Jamming Broadcasts to Iran The U.S. government and corporate officials have accused Cuba of jamming U.S.-based satellite broadcasts of news and other information into Iran. Continue reading
Apr 11 Cuba Executes Three for Ferry Hijacking; Crackdown on Dissidents Continues Cuba's Supreme Tribunal and the Council of State upheld the death sentences, and, according to the televised statement, "at dawn the sanctions were applied."… Continue reading