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30 Apr 2008, 7:26 am
Past Monday, new Cuban President Raul Castro announced that all death sentences had been commuted to prison terms of 30 years to life, with the exception of 3 people charged with terrorism. [read post]
18 Mar 2008, 8:06 am
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) [advocacy website; CPJ report], Human Rights First (HRF) [advocacy website; press release] and other groups urged new Cuban President Raul Castro [JURIST report] to release 55 [read post]
13 Mar 2008, 8:10 am
Communist Cuba has authorized the unrestricted sale of computers and DVD and video players in the first sign that its new president, Raul Castro, is moving to improve Cubans' access to consumer goods. [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 9:16 am
[JURIST] The Cuban National Assembly on Sunday, by a unanimous show of hands, officially voted Raul Castro [BBC profile], 76, to the position of president, and also chose Jose Ramon Machado Ventura [GlobalSecurity profile], 76, as the first vice president. [read post]
24 Feb 2008, 12:51 am
CNN is reporting that Cuba's National Assembly has named Raul Castro, Fidel Castro's younger brother, as the country's president. [read post]
23 Feb 2008, 10:01 pm
"Castro told me that the headline of the story the next day would be 'President Castro challenges President Kennedy to a friendly game of golf,'" he says. [read post]
23 Feb 2008, 10:07 am
Let's not get too optimistic just yet, but here is some evidence that Raul Castro might lean more toward Brazil's Lula da Silva than Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. [read post]
26 Nov 2007, 3:05 pm
KEYWORDS: cuba; fidel castro; anti-castro; embargo; trade; tourism; With 80-year-old Fidel Castro temporarily turning over power to his brother Raul, many countries around the world--including the U.S. [read post]
13 Aug 2007, 3:13 pm
KEYWORDS: cuba; fidel castro; anti-castro; embargo; trade; tourism; With 80-year-old Fidel Castro temporarily turning over power to his brother Raul, many countries around the world--including the U.S. [read post]