Cuba's 94-year-old ruler Raúl Castro, who is officially retired, reappeared this week to preside over a rare national defense ...

El expresidente cubano Raúl Castro, de 94 años, reapareció públicamente al presidir una inusual reunión del Consejo de ...

HAVANA, Cuba -- A 57-year-old bureaucrat replaced Raul Castro as the president of Cuba on Thursday, launching a new political era as a government led by a single family for six decades tries to ensure ...

HAVANA — Raúl Castro, who took over from his brother Fidel 12 years ago and led Cuba through some of its biggest changes in decades, is expected to step down Thursday and hand power to someone outside ...

SANTIAGO, Cuba (AP) — After a week of national mourning that reached near-religious peaks of adulation, Cuban President Raul Castro announced Saturday that his government would prohibit the naming of ...

HAVANA (AP) - Cuban President Raul Castro told legislators Saturday that the future of the country's revolution is at stake as the government tries to institute sweeping economic reforms, adding that ...

Juanita Castro, the sister of Cuban dictators Fidel and Raúl Castro who worked with the CIA to undermine their communist government, died Monday. She was 90. Castro, an expatriate who spent most of ...

HAVANA, Aug. 2 -- -- HAVANA, Aug. 2 -- In this island capital's long bus-stop lines and open markets, its offices and restaurants, the question keeps popping up: Where's Raúl? Raúl Castro has yet to ...

As Cuba faces its worst economic crisis since the fall of the Soviet Union, President Raul Castro is calling on people to work harder and take advantage of Cuba's underused farmland. At a Sunday rally ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - At workplaces and in neighborhoods across Cuba, people are complaining about the state of their country in a national debate on economic reform opened by acting President Raul ...

Raul Castro is Cuba's first new president in 50 years. Castro, is the younger brother of longtime leader Fidel Castro, has been the country's interim president since 2006. NPR's Tom Gjelten and author ...