If the political dynamics of Cuba's political transition are to be understood, the three aspects of by Fidel's withdrawal from the leadership - retirement, succession and acceptance - merit ...

Cuba freed two more inmates, dissidents said on Thursday, as Havana began to release 53 people the United States considers political prisoners, as part of an agreement between the two nations ...

Cuba, a dictatorship holding 1,000 political prisoners after 64 years in power, has announced its candidacy to join the UN Human Rights Council for the period of 2024 to 2026. The Human Rights Coun… ...

The following is an outline of Cuba's one-party communist system. * Cuba is a one-party socialist republic, in which political power is vested solely in the Cuban Communist Party (PCC).

WESTERN governments and mainstream media routinely refer to Cuba as a “dictatorship,” pointing out that the island has only a single party, the Communist Party of Cuba (Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) ...

Raul Castro, who is retiring from high public office, for most of his life toiled in the shadow of his older brother, Fidel Castro. Yet he also played a key role in Cuba's 1959 leftist revolution ...

Cuba ended 2009 with slightly fewer political prisoners but continues to have the worst human rights in the Western Hemisphere with no improvement in sight, a rights group said on Tuesday.

Cuba vows to keep its political system despite pope’s comments David Ariosto, CNN 2 min read Updated 10:08 AM EDT, Wed March 28, 2012 ...

Heritage Foundation Research Associate Ana Quintana on Cuba’s response to the Obama administration’s diplomatic outreach. Photo: Getty Images Who and where are the 53 Cuban political prisoners ...

During his nearly five decades of rule in Cuba, Fidel Castro built a repressive system that punished virtually all forms of dissent, a dark legacy that lives on even after his death. As other ...

The island of Cuba is facing political uncertainty following the news that President Fidel Castro has temporarily handed over power because of ill health. President Castro is recovering from stomach ...