This article was written by Havana-based CBS News producer Portia Siegelbaum. Fidel Castro, 81, is not the only Cuban who is aging. Thanks to the socialist island's free health care system — which ...

The decades-long battle to lift the U.S. travel ban on Cuba has started anew in the 110th Congress, as lawmakers in the House have introduced several bills that would modify or repeal the 40-year-old ...

There was no surprise, Sunday, when Cuba’s parliament elected Raul Castro, 76, to succeed his ailing, 81-year-old brother, Fidel, as President. But pundits who had expected an infusion of youth into ...

Orbitz stepped into the political arena and launched a website and petition drive that urges Congress and the Obama administration to end the decades-old Cuba travel ban. The petition, available at ...

HAVANA — Eusebio Leal Spengler, who oversaw the transformation of crumbling Old Havana to an immaculately restored colonial tourist attraction, becoming the de-facto mayor of the historic city center ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Cuba's new leader Miguel Díaz-Canel, meanwhile, seems unlikely to concede to U.S. pressure on that front either: "I confirm that Cuba's foreign policy will remain unchanged. Cuba will not accept ...

In the past year, Cuba has been torn by a power struggle between its old-guard, Moscow-lining Communists and the younger Fidelistas, whose hearts are closer to Peking. The Moscow old guard is clearly ...

ST. PAUL - A "farmer" who plants seeds the same way for years and they do not grow, "you probably are not a farmer," Cargill Inc. Vice President Devry Boughner Vorwerk told a Monday summit on ...