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‘We don’t need presents from the empire,’ furious Fidel Castro says after Obama visit
The 1,500-word letter in state media titled “Brother Obama” was Castro’s very first response to the president’s three-day visit last week, in which the American president said he had come to bury the two countries’ history of Cold War hostility
King Midas, El Chapo’s alleged money man, is arrested in Mexico
Suspected chief financial officer of Sinaloa drug cartel is accused of laundering $400 million every year
Rolling Stones play Cuba
In pics: Mick Jagger and the Stones rock Havana
Rolling Stones arrive in Cuba
In pics: The Rolling Stones arrive in Cuba for historic free concert in Havana
Obama in Cuba, in pictures
In pics: President Barack Obama makes history as Air Force One touches down in Cuban capital Havana
Barack Obama tells Cuba: ‘I come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War’
In the first-ever live address by a US president to the Cuban people, Barack Obama says the two countries should no longer be “trapped by history”
Baseball politics comes to Cuba as Barack Obama and Raul Castro ready for the game of their lives
On Tuesday the Cuban national baseball team will take on the Tampa Bay Rays, observed by Barack Obama and Raul Castro, in a game which was always about more than sporting rivalry
Barack Obama says he would be willing to meet Fidel Castro – so why won’t it happen?
Barack Obama is the very first American president to visit Cuba in almost ninety years. Yet, unlike most visiting presidents, it seems unlikely he will meet Fidel Castro
Obama and Castro spar over human rights
Raul Castro, the Cuban leader, has attacked the US over its own human rights failures in an unprecedented press conference, as he denied that the country had any political prisoners
Obama caught in rain as he commences Cuba tour
Barack Obama and Very first Lady Michelle Obama, along with their daughters, get caught in the rain touring Old Havana locations on the very first day of the US president’s historic visit
Barack Obama arrives in Cuba: ‘I never thought I’d see this day’
Havana has flipped out the crimson carpet for Barack Obama – the very first American president to visit in eighty eight years
Trump accuses Castro of snubbing Obama
Billionaire asks why Cuban leader met Pope Francis on Tarmac but not American president making very first visit in almost ninety years
Colombia’s Farc rebels ‘to meet Kerry in Cuba during Obama excursion’
Marxist guerrillas, designated a foreign terrorist organisation by US in 1997, are close to reaching peace deal with government in talks hosted by Havana
Why Barack Obama will be hoping his visit to Cuba is more successful than the last presidential tour (1928)
Smuggling, sickness, bar crawls and hookers all featured in the wild few days in one thousand nine hundred twenty eight that marked the only previous Cuban visit by a US president
Is Cuba ready for the business boom?
As Barack Obama becomes the very first US president to visit in almost ninety years, Cuba’s “practically cherry” foreign business scene is drawing enlargening interest. But is Havana ready?
Cuban dissidents criticise Barack Obama’s historic visit
Cuban dissidents and human rights observers have spoken of their concern over the president’s visit
Barack Obama writes a letter to Cuban pensioner as very first direct mail sent in fifty years
A 76-year-old Cuban woman has received a letter from Barack Obama as direct postal services resume inbetween the island and its northern neighbour
Barack Obama’s journey aims to make Cuba opening ‘irreversible’
White House hopes US president’s “speech to the Cuban people” will be broadcast across the island
Fire ruins £1m luxury yacht
A luxury yacht worth over £1.Four million caught fire while docked in a harbour on the US Cherry Islands
16th century church resurfaces in Mexico
A 16th century church which was flooded along with a entire town to make way for a dam in one thousand nine hundred sixty two has once again resurfaced from a reservoir in Mexico
Mexico’s ‘sexiest police force’ instructed to dress down
Fresh security chief disbands Aguascalientes women-only group, who donned skintight leggings and heeled knee-high boots
Kate del Castillo accuses Sean Penn of deceiving her over El Chapo interview
Mexican actress insists she only helped arrange meeting with Joaquin «El Chapo» Guzman in order to make either a film or a documentary about drug lord`s life
Republican candidates vow to sever ties with Cuba
America’s embassy in Cuba will once again shut its doors if a Republican is in the White House, the candidates have said
Oliver Stone ‘orchestrated Sean Penn’s meeting with El Chapo’
Film director Oliver Stone desired Sean Penn to meet Chapo, so that Penn could play the drug lord in a film of his life, according to a fresh documentary
Mexico’s president accuses Donald Trump of bruising US
Enrique Pena Nieto, the Mexican president, says Donald Trump’s comments about Mexico illustrate his ignorance