PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Most people don’t think of Haiti as a shopping destination. Unless they’re Cuban. Every afternoon, hundreds of Cubans swarm a rutted...
HAVANA: Miguel Diaz-Canel has been the presumptive next president of Cuba since 2013, when Raul Castro named the laconic former provincial official to the...
SANTA CLARA, Cuba: Raul Castro travels in motorcades of gleaming imported sedans. Rings of grim-faced bodyguards protect him, pistols under crisp guayabera...
HAVANA: In 2008 Raul Castro took over a country where most people couldn’t own computers or cellphones, leave without permission, run most types of private...
WASHINGTON: It sounds sort of like a mass of crickets. A high-pitched whine, but from what? It seems to undulate, even writhe. Listen closely: There are...
HAVANA: Frightening attacks on U.S. personnel in Havana struck the heart of America’s spy network in Cuba, with intelligence operatives among the first and...
CARACAS, Venezuela: Chanting "freedom!" and waving their country's tri-color flag, thousands of Venezuelans lined up across the country on Sunday to vote in a...
HAVANA: Cuba’s best friends in the U.S. used to be a smattering of Washington policy wonks and leftists who sent donated school buses and computers to the...
SANTA CLARA, Cuba: It took an hour and a $330 paper check to buy the printed blue ticket for my one-way charter flight from Havana to Miami, the last I will...
HAVANA: Fidel Castro greeted his 80th birthday from his sickbed, gripping a newspaper to show he was alive two weeks after stepping down as president. For the...
HAVANA: Cuba is a land of architectural splendors, stunning scenery, warm, welcoming people and some of the world’s worst hotels. Communist states aren’t...
HAVANA: The Rolling Stones unleashed two hours of shrieking, thundering rock ’n’ roll on an ecstatic crowd of hundreds of thousands of Cubans and...
HAVANA: Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro flew to Cuba on Friday for a day of high-level meetings and ceremonies that appeared designed to send a message of...
HAVANA: The United States and Cuba are on the verge of a deal to restore regular airline flights, jumpstarting economic relations that have languished despite...
HAVANA: A U.S. foundation will ship nearly $900,000 in supplies to build a state-of-the-art facility to preserve Ernest Hemingway’s books, letters and photos...
HAVANA: A third round of U.S.-Cuban negotiations over the restoration of full diplomatic relations has ended after a day of talks, Cuba said in a terse...
HAVANA: The jubilation that greeted the announcement of U.S.-Cuban detente two months ago has faded to resignation for many Cubans who are realizing they’re...
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica: Cuban President Raul Castro demanded on Wednesday that the United States return the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, lift the half-century...
HAVANA: A U.S. agency’s secret infiltration of Cuba’s underground hip-hop scene to spark a youth movement against the government was...
ACAPULCO, Mexico: The death toll in massive flooding in southern and central Mexico rose to 57 Wednesday as desperation mounted in the cutoff resort of...
PIFO, Ecuador: Gino Descalzi used to fret about things like aphids, mildew and the high cost of shipping millions of roses a year from Ecuador to florists in...
PORTOVIEJO, Ecuador: Edward Snowden is "under the care of the Russian authorities" and can't leave Moscow's international airport without their consent,...
CARACAS, Venezuela: A spectator has rushed the stage at the inauguration of late leader Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor, briefly interrupting the...
MEXICO CITY: New President Enrique Pena Nieto has been fast out of the blocks in attacking some of Mexico's toughest issues in a country often stymied by...
MEXICO CITY: A gas buildup ignited by an electrical spark or other heat source caused the blast that killed 37 people and wounded dozens of others last week...