# cuba - Monday 26 March, 2012
# Cuba
# Cuba
The Pope was welcomed by Cuba n President Raul Castro, who told him that his country favours complete religious freedom.
# cuba - Sunday 25 March, 2012
# Your Say
# Your Say
A US politician has written to the Taoiseach urging him to stop the statue being built – but supporters of the project say the statue will commemorate Che’s Irish heritage. What do you think?
# cuba - Wednesday 21 March, 2012
# Che
# Che
Enda Kenny is presented with a letter from the chairman of the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs committee.
# cuba - Saturday 17 March, 2012
# Venezuela
# Venezuela
The Venezuelan president rallied thousands of supporters who welcomed him home after receiving cancer treatment in Cuba .
# cuba - Friday 2 March, 2012
# Hugo Chavez
# Hugo Chavez
The Venezuelan leader has undergone surgery for another potentially cancerous tumour.
# cuba - Wednesday 29 February, 2012
# Che Guevara
# Che Guevara
Galway City Council plans to erect a monument marking the revolutionary fighter’s links with the City of the Tribes.
# cuba - Tuesday 28 February, 2012
# Che Guevara
# Che Guevara
A proposal to build a monument to the Cuba n revolutionary has been harshly criticised by local businessman Declan Ganley.
# Saddle Sore
From The42
# Saddle Sore
Stunning images from a very rough ride.
# cuba - Monday 27 February, 2012
# Hugo Chavez
# Hugo Chavez
The Venezuelan leader says he will still run in October’s presidential election despite the recurrence of his illness.
# cuba - Monday 6 February, 2012
# Guantánamo
# Guantánamo
The Tunisian had spent eight years in the Cuba n facility before Italy accepted him into the country two years ago.
# cuba - Thursday 26 January, 2012
# US 2012
# US 2012
The former Cuba n leader has slammed the Republican Party candidates vying for the nomination to face Barack Obama in the autumn.
# cuba - Tuesday 24 January, 2012
# Buena Vista
From The42
# Buena Vista
The nation best associated with Olympic boxing could be training Laganside prior to this summer’s Olympic games.
# cuba - Friday 20 January, 2012
# Cuba
# Cuba
The 31-year-old was protesting a four-year prison sentence imposed for his part in a demonstration.
# cuba - Wednesday 11 January, 2012
# Guantánamo
# Guantánamo
The notorious detention centre has now been open for ten years and, with indefinite military detention now enshrined in US law, hope is fading that it will be closed down as pledged.
# cuba - Wednesday 4 January, 2012
# Cuba
# Cuba
A state-run website says Twitter allowed the phrase ‘fidelcastro’ to trend, furthering a false rumour that he had died.
# cuba - Monday 2 January, 2012
# Doomsday
# Doomsday
*According to a council of Afro-Cuba n priests, anyway…
# cuba - Sunday 25 December, 2011
# cuba - Tuesday 20 December, 2011
# Your Say
# Your Say
Ireland has no plans to send its condolences to North Korea on the passing of Kim Jong Il. Should we send formal sympathy?
# North Korea
# North Korea
China, Russia and South Korea send messages of condolence, while other countries have merely ‘noted’ the Dear Leader’s passing.
# cuba - Sunday 18 December, 2011
# Sitdown Sunday
From The Daily Edge
# Sitdown Sunday
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
# cuba - Wednesday 9 November, 2011
# Guantánamo
# Guantánamo
The price of keeping a prisoner at the notorious detention centre is more than 30 times the cost of imprisoning a person in the United States mainland.
# cuba - Thursday 3 November, 2011
# Viva La Revolution
# Viva La Revolution
The move is part of a series of free-market changes introduced by Raul Castro since he took over from Fidel.
# cuba - Thursday 20 October, 2011
# Chavez
# Chavez
The Venezuelan president has been undergoing treatment in Cuba and now says he is free of the illness.
# cuba - Monday 17 October, 2011
# Chavez
# Chavez
The Venezuelan president said he expects to return home within the coming days with “good news” after undergoing tests in Cuba .
# cuba - Tuesday 27 September, 2011
# Gibberish
# Gibberish
The former Cuba n leader has dismissed Barack Obama’s recent UN speech and condemned Nato’s campaign in Libya as a “monstrous crime”.
# cuba - Sunday 25 September, 2011
# Diana Nyad
# Diana Nyad
US swimmer Diana Nyad has abandoned her latest attempt to become the first person to swim across the Florida Straits without a shark cage.
# cuba - Sunday 4 September, 2011
# Eh?
From The Daily Edge
# Eh?
Farmer Mannorkys Santamaria said the piglets also take milk from their mothers, but when they see Yeti, they run to her for a meal.
# cuba - Thursday 1 September, 2011
# Manchester City
From The42
# Manchester City
With a shot-putter running the 100m, French cyclist Thomas Voeckler racing a horse and the San Diego Chargers launching a wine, this week’s list is a tribute to sporting incongruity.
# cuba - Saturday 27 August, 2011
# Brace Yourself
From The Daily Edge
# Brace Yourself
Known as polydactyly, Yoandri Hernandez Garrido’s condition is relatively common, but it’s rare for the extra digits to be so perfect.
# cuba - Sunday 14 August, 2011
# Cuba
# Cuba
A gay man and a transgender woman have tied the knot in Cuba in a first-of-its kind wedding for the country.
# cuba - Saturday 6 August, 2011
# Hugo Chavez
# Hugo Chavez
The Venezuelan leader underwent surgery on a tumour in June.
# cuba - Friday 22 July, 2011
# Venezuela
# Venezuela
The Venezuelan president has also had plenty to say about his country’s performance at the Copa America.
# cuba - Saturday 16 July, 2011
# Venezuela
# Venezuela
The socialist revolutionary is battling cancer but remains upbeat.
# cuba - Wednesday 13 July, 2011
# Zombies
From The Daily Edge
# Zombies
A new zombie horror film brings a different type of revolution to Cuba .
# cuba - Tuesday 5 July, 2011
# Venezuela
# Venezuela
The Venezuelan president appeared in public in his home country for the first time since his cancer battle was announced.
# cuba - Monday 4 July, 2011
# Venezuala
# Venezuala
The Venezuelan president arrives home after four weeks in Cuba , where he underwent emergency surgery.
# cuba - Friday 1 July, 2011
# Hugo Chavez
# Hugo Chavez
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez made a statement on television last night explaining his recent absence.
# cuba - Wednesday 29 June, 2011
# Venezuela
# Venezuela
New pictures have emerged of the Venezuelan president chatting with his Cuba n counterpart.
# cuba - Sunday 26 June, 2011
# Venezuela
# Venezuela
The Venezuelan president reappeared on Twitter on Friday, but he hasn’t been seen in public for two weeks after undergoing surgery in Cuba .
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