Russian President Medvedev meets with Cuban leader Raul Castro
Cuban leader Raul Castro sits during a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in the official residence Zavidovo, 75 miles northwest of Moscow, on January 29, 2009. Medvedev hosted Castro during his first visit to Russia in more than two decades. (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Brazil is easing Cuba into the free market economy with a generous package of aid in cash and kind and joint projects.
HAVANA, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Human rights activists and U.S. officials criticized the Cuban government after the death of an imprisoned Cuban activist who had been on a hunger strike.
MIAMI, Jan. 13 (UPI) -- The Catholic Archdiocese of Miami will sponsor two pilgrimages in March to attend the pope's visit to Cuba.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won support from Latin America's left-wing populist leaders in Venezuela and Nicaragua as he set off for talks in Havana with Cuban President Raul Castro and conclusive meetings in Ecuador.
VATICAN CITY, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Pope Benedict the XVI is scheduled to visit Mexico and Cuba in March, the Vatican said Monday.
HAVANA, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- As seismic shifts go, Cuba's embrace of a socialist-coated market economy is going ahead in full stream as if it was the most natural thing for its authoritarian government to do in between Communist Party conferences and populist pep talkathons.
VATICAN CITY, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Pope Benedict XVI will visit Cuba next year in the second trip by a pope to the Communist island, a senior Vatican official said.
HAVANA, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Cuba is opening its state-run banking and financial sector to another small dose of capitalism -- loans to help individuals get going with private enterprise.
HAVANA, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Some three-quarters of the people of Communist Cuba largely favor switching to democracy and a market economy, results of a poll indicate.
HAVANA, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Cuba is easing communist rules and nudging its agriculture toward a market economy model as part of a stepped up government effort to boost food production.
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