HAVANA --Cuba's ruling Communist Party, which sets the guidelinesfor foreign and domestic policies in this one-party state, will hold a four-day congress beginning Saturday morning with the delivery ...

Raul Castro said Friday he is resigning as head of Cuba's Communist Party, ending an era of leadership that began with his brother Fidel and the country's 1959 revolution. The 89-year-old Castro made ...

HAVANA – A day after Cuban media revealed that a Communist Party summit had approved sweeping economic changes and elected a new leadership — without saying what the changes were or who is now in ...

Raul Castro is stepping down as the head of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most powerful position on the island, with few expectations of significant change among Cubans. It is however, a historic ...

Communist Party leaders in Cuba are convening in Havana to discuss the island’s future at a moment of economic crisis, mounting social tensions and the COVID-19 pandemic. Party leader Raúl Castro is ...

President Obama (left) and Raul Castro during Obama's trip to Havana last month. Cuba experts say the visit may have changed the dynamic of Cuba's upcoming Communist Party Congress. On Saturday, ...

There's a bigger threat to Cuba than the United States. President Raul Castro delivered a full-throated defense of Cuba's one-party political system on Sunday, and a sharp warning to Communist Party ...

In many ways, Cuba's new maximum leader is nothing like those who have governed the island for the past six decades. Miguel Díaz-Canel was never a guerrilla fighter and was for only a few years, like ...

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Cubans will find out on Tuesday whether President Raul Castro's call for younger blood in the Communist Party will mean some of the septuagenarian and octogenarian leadership in power since a 1959 ...

MINSK, 19 October (BelTA) – The Belarusian political party Belaya Rus and Cuba’s Communist Party have signed a roadmap on avenues of inter-party cooperation. The signing ceremony took place in the ...

To help readers better understand the nuances of foreign policy, CFR staff writers and Consulting Editor Bernard Gwertzman conduct in-depth interviews with a wide range of international experts, as ...