The four top candidates in the race to become Florida's next U.S. senator vied Monday to show the state's politically powerful Cuban-American community why each would be the best to fight for democracy in Cuba. ...more

December 22, 2009

CORAL GABLES (AP) — The four top candidates in the race to become Florida's next U.S. senator vied today to show the state's politically powerful Cuban-American community why each would be the best to fight for democracy in Cuba. ...more

December 21, 2009

The Cuban government has arrested an American citizen, and U.S. diplomats in Havana are trying to learn more about the case, the State Department said today. ...more

December 12, 2009

The Tampa Bay Council of World Affairs & Commerce has scheduled a Sept. 10 debate titled "The U.S. Cuba Embargo: Should It Be Suspended?" ...more

August 7, 2009

The House on Wednesday approved language that would allow Cuban-Americans to visit relatives on the island more frequently and also ease some U.S. restrictions on trade with Cuba. ...more

February 26, 2009

The House on Wednesday approved language that would allow Cuban-Americans to visit their relatives on the island more frequently and also ease some U.S. restrictions on trade with Cuba. ...more

February 25, 2009

Florida Sen. Mel Martinez lashed out at a Senate report Monday that says there is little evidence to suggest a democracy will soon arise in Cuba's post-Castro era unless the United States changes its own policies toward that country. ...more

February 24, 2009

Florida Sen. Mel Martinez lashed out at a Senate report Monday that there is little evidence to suggest a democracy will soon arise in Cuba's post-Castro era unless the United States changes its own policies toward that country. ...more

February 23, 2009

The U.S. policy of shunning communist Cuba by imposing a strict trade embargo has failed to prod the island nation toward democracy and should be re-evaluated, according to the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. ...more

February 22, 2009

Fidel Castro on Thursday threw his first punch at President Barack Obama after several weeks of praise for the new leader, demanding the U.S. return Guantanamo Bay military base to Cuba and criticizing the U.S. defense of Israel. ...more

January 29, 2009