by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 15, 2017 | World
Cuban President Raul Castro said Donald Trump’s hardline stance towards the country was a “setback” in relations with the United States after ties were gradually restored under Barack Obama in 2015. Castro criticized Trump’s partial rollback of...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Nov 26, 2016 | World
Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied Washington’s efforts to topple him, died on Friday at the age of 90. Castro had been in poor health since an intestinal ailment nearly killed...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 22, 2016 | World
Havana- US President Barack Obama arrived in Cuba on Sunday on a trip that comes 15 months after he and Raúl Castro agreed to end five decades of Cold War-era enmity and work to normalize relations. On the first full day of his visit, he went to the heart of...
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | May 3, 2015 | Opinion
I recently visited Cuba, as I wanted to see this country—one that almost caused a third world war, and which along with North Korea is the world’s last remaining insular communist nation—before it finally begins to open up to the world and become like other...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 20, 2014 | World
Havana, AP—Everyone in Cuba is talking about the startling turn in relations with the United States, with one notable exception: Fidel Castro. So far, the larger-than-life retired Cuban leader has made no public comment on the biggest news in years—that the US and his...
