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Castro says he was misinterpreted on Cuban economy (AP)

September 10th, 2010

FILE - An Aug. 23, 2010 file photo provided by the state media Cubadebate web site shows Fidel Castro at a meeting with scientists in Havana, Cuba,  Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba's communist economic model doesn't work. (AP Photo/Cubadebate/file)AP - Fidel Castro says his comments about Cuba’s communist economic model were misinterpreted by a visiting American journalist.


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Report: Castro says Cuban model doesn’t work (AP)

September 8th, 2010

Report: Castro blasts Ahmadinejad as anti-Semitic (AP)

September 7th, 2010

A woman walks past graffiti on a wall that reads AP - Fidel Castro criticized Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what he called his anti-Semitic attitudes and questioned his own actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 during interviews…

Fidel Castro dusts off military uniform (AP)

September 3rd, 2010

Soldiers place a flag covered coffin containing the remains of Cuba's late Brig. Gen. Calixto Garcia on a military vehicle during his state funeral in Havana, Cuba, Thursday Sept. 2, 2010. Garcia, who died Wednesday at age 78, participated in the attack led by Fidel Castro on a Cuban military barracks in 1953. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Fidel Castro dusted off his military fatigues for the first time since stepping down as president four years ago, a symbolic act in a Communist country where little…

New photos show Fidel Castro with US journalist (AP)

August 31st, 2010

In this photo released by the state media Cubadebate web site, Fidel Castro, left, stands with U.S. journalist of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, second from right, and Cuban Jewish Community President Adela Dworin, third from right, at the National Aquarium in Havana, Cuba, Monday Aug. 30, 2010. Goldberg is a national correspondent for the magazine who has written on the Middle East and Iran. (AP Photo/Estudios Revolucion, Cubadebate)AP - Cuba on Tuesday released pictures of Fidel Castro with an American magazine correspondent and a Washington-based policy expert, while a Mexican newspaper published an interview in which the…

Fidel Castro makes 1st official gov’t appearance (AP)

August 7th, 2010

Fidel Castro, center, arrives to attend a special session of parliament, his first official government appearance in front of lawmakers in four years in Havana, Cuba, Saturday Aug. 7, 2010. Castro, who turns 84 on Aug. 13, is making near daily appearances in and around Havana after spending four years almost completely out of the public eye following emergency intestinal surgery that forced him to cede power to his younger brother Raul. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - A lively and healthy-looking Fidel Castro appealed to President Barack Obama to prevent a global nuclear war in an emphatic speech Saturday that marked his first official government…

Fidel Castro to attend session of Cuba parliament (AP)

August 7th, 2010

In this photo released by the state media Cubadebate web site, Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro, right, gestures during the presentation of his book 'La Victoria Estratégica' or 'The Strategic Victory' in Havana, Cuba, Friday July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Cubadebate, Roberto Chile)AP - Fidel Castro will attend a special session of parliament on Saturday, his first appearance in official government proceedings or in front of lawmakers since falling seriously ill four…

Raul Castro says state will reduce economic role (AP)

August 1st, 2010

Cuba's President Raul Castro attends a session of the National Assembly of Popular Power in Havana, Cuba, Sunday Aug. 1, 2010.  The empty seat at left belongs to Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro who did not attend the session.  (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Raul Castro said Sunday that his government will scale back controls on small businesses, lay off unnecessary workers and allow more self-employment — significant steps in a country…

Castro accuses US of torture in ‘Cuban Five’ case (AP)

July 31st, 2010

In this photo released by the state media Cubadebate web site, Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro, right, shakes hands with Yailin Orta Rivera, Juventud Rebelde journalist and professor at the Communications College at the University of Havana, during a meeting with youth at the Havana Convention Center in Havana, Cuba, Friday July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Cubadebate, Estudios Revolucion)AP - Fidel Castro accused U.S. authorities of torturing a convicted Cuban spy, telling a meeting of communist youths that the agent had been placed in solitary confinement in California.


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Raul Castro prepares Cuban Revolution Day speech (AP)

July 25th, 2010

A man with an umbrella walks in the rain by the former Saint Francis of Assisi convent, currently a museum, in Old Havana, Cuba, Saturday July 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - It would be easy for Raul Castro to make headlines in a major Revolution Day speech Monday. All he has to do is bring up the 52 political…