Cuba

The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, described as barbaric the police repression against protesters in major cities in the United States and Europe.»

Cuban President Raul Castro welcomed his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez, who will continue receiving the radiotherapy sessions that he began here last week, as part of his treatment against pelvic cancer.»

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he was traveling to Cuba on Saturday to continue with his radiotherapy treatment, which he started last week.»

The Cuban government agreed to adjourn the work activities on Holy Week Friday, in consideration of Pope Benedict XVI, who made that request to President Raul Castro during his recent visit to the island.»

Rene Gonzalez,  one of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly held in U.S. prisons for more than 13 years, arrived at noon in Havana, Cuba, as reported by the national television.»

The General Director of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, and the director of the Pan American Health Organization, Mirta Roses, will meet with the Cuban Minister for Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodriguez.»

Raul Castro saw Pope Benedict XVI off this Wednesday afternoon, at Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport. The  Cuban president was accompanied by governmental officials, Cardinal Jaime Ortega and other Catholic authorities.»

Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro, and Pope Benedict XVI met in this capital on Wednesday, shortly after a mass officiated by the Supreme Pontiff to hundreds of thousands of people.»

Pope Benedict XVI officiates a public mass in the Cuban capital at the open in the Jose Marti Revolution Square in the third day of his apostolic visit to the Caribbean island.»

President Raul Castro was present at Havana’s Jose Marti Revolution Square, where Pope Benedict XVI officiated an open-air mass, on the last day of his apostolic visit to Cuba. Raul also attended the mass celebrated in Santiago de Cuba on Monday.»