Cuba News

Country Captain Chicken - 'chicken in some type of green sauce,' according to Lance Cpl.

It's been nearly 45 years since Ed Elias first set foot on American soil, but he may never forget the hardships his family endured when they emigrated from Cuba.

ANDREA RODRIGUEZ Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez says she is briefly detained, harrassed by state security agents HAVANA - HAVANA a ' A Cuban blogger who has gained international attention for her searing commentary about life on the communist island said she was briefly detained Friday and warned by state security agents about her opposition activity.

And now for the important news .... By Argus Hamilton WalMart began selling caskets on its web site Thursday which prompted fears by funeral parlors that they'll be undersold.

Since the election of President Obama, there has been no change whatsoever in the implementation of the blockade SPEECH BY FOREIGN MINISTER BRUNO RODRA GUEZ PARRILLA AT THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY UNDER THE ITEM "NECESSITY OF ENDING THE ECONOMIC, COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL EMBARGO IMPOSED BY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AGAINST CUBA". Mr.

The Obama administration on Wednesday defended the long-running U.S. economic embargo against Cuba in the face of another overwhelming U.N. General Assembly vote condemning American policy toward the island nation.

A husband and wife from Perry have entered pleas of not guilty in Cattaraugus County Court to insurance fraud and related charges involving a mobile home.

The Seneca Nation of Indians have started work on their latest retail operation - a convenience store and gas station in the heart of its Oil Spring Territory.

Susan Lynch of Vernon has been interested in the art field since childhood. Originally from Cuba, New York , she was director of advertising for several years before moving to Connecticut.

Since starting their alpaca breeding business in 1999, Tom and Doreen Lamoreaux have grown to love their fluffy animals whose fleece is softer than cashmere.

The fourth goat in recent months was found wandering in the vicinity of the busy Hutchinson River Parkway in the Bronx over the weekend.

Yoani Sanchez is a 34-year-old Cuban writer, editor and linguistics scholar who last week became the first blogger to win one of the Maria Moors Cabot Prizes given by Columbia University for journalism that advances inter-American understanding.

A defense lawyer says a U.S. citizen accused of hijacking a plane from New York to Cuba in 1968 has been trying to return to the United States for years.

One phone call brought the 41-year-old memory back to George Hopkins instantly, flooding him with the terror of having a .38-caliber pistol jabbed into his face.

A man accused of helping to hijack a Pan Am flight out of John F. Kennedy Airport more than 40 years ago has pleaded guilty in a New York Federal Court FBI agents brought Luis Aramndo Pena Soltren back through JFK on Sunday -- the very airport where decades earlier he and three others boarded Pan Am flight 281 to Puerto Rico and hijacked it to ...

Louis Armando Pena Soltren, 66, listens via a translator in court on Oct. 13, 2009 in NYC.

A federal judge in Miami approved a lighter sentence Tuesday for one of five Cubans convicted in 2001 of spying on anti-Castro Cuban exiles.

Longtime fugitive Luis Armando Pena Soltren is expected to be arraigned Tuesday in a Manhattan courtroom after his arrest Sunday at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport more than 40 years after he allegedly hijacked a plane and diverted it from Puerto Rico to Cuba.

A Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her country's communist system said she was denied government permission Monday to travel to New York to receive a top journalism prize.

A year from now, it isn't going to matter who President Barack H. Obama picked to be the Democratic nominee for governor of New York, be it Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Caroline Kennedy or Eliot Spitzer.