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Scientists say they've found traces of a hidden microcontinent they've dubbed Mauritia.

The Cuban president announced he will not seek re-election in 2018, as he named Miguel Diaz-Canel his top deputy Sunday.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is still suffering complications caused by a lung infection he contracted in Cuba following cancer surgery.

While American citizen Alan Gross spends his third year in Cuban custody, a delegation of U.S. lawmakers is in Cuba aiming to thaw relations with Havana in an effort to eventually secure his release.

Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez has been met with protest in Brazil by supporters of the Cuban government, which she believes is coordinating an international smear campaign against her as she embarks on a world tour.

Hugo Chavez returned from Cuba 10 weeks after undergoing a fourth operation related to his undisclosed form of cancer.

Mercader’s road to his fateful encounter with Trotsky took some unexpected turns.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is undergoing "complex" alternative treatments more than two months after his cancer surgery in Cuba, his vice president said Wednesday.

The Farc rebels in Colombia called for the legalization of some narcotic plant crops during peace negotiations with the Colombian government in Cuba.

The National Defense Authorization Act and Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act are back, which may surprise those fighting for citizens' rights.

Cuba’s aging Communist patriarch Fidel Castro appeared in public for the first time in several years to vote in the parliamentary elections.

In a YouTube video that has gone viral a toddler was allegedly forced to get a tattoo after being restrained by a woman who is thought to be his mother.

Cuba now has high-speed access to the Internet, but it is far from reaching the vast majority of the public.

The acting leader of Venezuela said infiltrators are plotting violence, then headed off to Havana to meet his convalescing boss.

FARC has launched a series of attacks against government and energy infrastructure targets.

A mutiny in Asmara has raised new questions about the nature of dissent in Eritrea.

Richard Blanco is the inaugural poet for the ceremonial swearing-in of President Barack Obama. Blanco is the youngest inaugural poet and was selected to deliver a poem during the inauguration events on January 21.

A cholera outbreak in Cuba has infected at least 51 people in the capital Havana - a city of 2.2 million residents.

Venezuela and Cuba's longtime political and economic alliance could change if Chavez prematurely leaves office.

As Cuba lifts its travel restrictions, will a new class of Cuban-American binationals emerge?

When a country's power structure is dominated by a single leader, things can turn messy quickly if the leader gets sick.