Press freedoms in countries throughout the Western Hemisphere are facing serious threats from authoritarian governments, especially in Venezuela and communist-led Cuba, a group representing news media from across the Americas warned Sunday. Alejandro Aguirre, president of the Inter American Press Association, singled out Cuba as the ...

SAN LUIS, Cuba (Reuters) - Cuban tobacco legend Alejandro Robaina celebrated his 91st birthday on Saturday, weakened by ill health but surrounded by friends and family and the tobacco fields that have been his life. The man known in international cigar circles for producing the finest of Cuba's famous tobacco had to be helped to walk but puffed contentedly on ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck near Guantanamo city in eastern Cuba on Saturday, sending residents fleeing into the streets but a local government official said there were no casualties. A spokesman at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay reported no damage there. "It's all calm. There's no damage and no victims either," said a ...

A moderate earthquake and smaller aftershock rattled houses and nerves in eastern Cuba on Saturday near the U.S. holding facility at Guantanamo Bay. No damages or injuries were reported. The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6, struck just after 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT ...