US Senators Meet Cuba's Castro About ContractorABC NewsA senior US senator met with imprisoned American Alan Gross and discussed the man's case in a long sit-down with Cuban President Raul Castro, but told The Associated Press on Friday that Gross… Full Story

Pro-govt crowds surround Cuban dissident homeBoston.comthe government partisans shouted, the latter a reference to Cuban President Raul Castro. The standoff began in the afternoon and stretched on for hours. Thursday marked the second anniversary of the… Full Story

SolvisiónCuba names econ chief a VP on ministers' councilBoston.comOver the decades he rose steadily through the ranks and came to lead a number of military-run businesses under then-Defense Minister Raul Castro, according to his biography on the… Full Story

Austin American-StatesmanIs Chavez sacrificing cancer care for privacy?San Jose Mercury NewsBy BRADLEY BROOKS AP A woman sits in front of posters with images of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, right, Argentinean born Cuban revolution leader Ernesto… Full Story

Sean Penn, Hugo Chavez's Honored GuestFrontPage MagazineBy April 1959, almost a thousand Cubans had been “judged” (see above) and murdered by Castro and Che's firing squads. Cuba's prisons were packed to suffocation with ten times the… Full Story

Boston.comPope Benedict wants to meet Fidel Castro on Cuba tripGlobalPostThe pope is scheduled to visit Cuba in March and will meet President Raul Castro, but also wishes to see the ailing Fidel Castro. (Photo by Stefano Carofei-Pool/Getty Images)… Full Story

Daily MailVenezuela's Chavez assures backers: 'I will live!'Atlanta Journal ConstitutionA mural of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, left, standing with Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, covers a wall in the street in Caracas, Venezuela,… Full Story

Cuba Visit by Daughter of 'Peter Pan' ExileHavana Times... in the United States 50 years ago via Operation Pedro Pan — a secret evacuation program run by the US State Department, the CIA, and the Catholic Welfare Bureau of Miami that brought… Full Story

The Birmingham News - al.com (blog)No conditions for pope on Cuba trip - envoyMoneycontrol.comHe said Castro was in "excellent" overall health. Delgado, 69, said Cuba saw the visit by Benedict as an opportunity to further deepen Church-state… Full Story

Yahoo!7 NewsCuban corruption video warns of Canadian company's 'cancer'Montreal GazetteHAVANA — A Canadian company is at the centre of Cuban President Raul Castro's corruption fight, as videos showing a Canadian businessman as a cancer… Full Story