Gov't supporters break up Cuba march
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Scores of government supporters broke up a silent march by a small group of dissidents marking International Human Rights day on Sunday, roughing up participants and accusing them of being mercenaries and "worms."
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Spain has called in Cuba&#39;s ambassador to Madrid to protest the Cuban expulsion of a conservative Spanish lawmaker who arrived in Havana Friday in hopes of meeting with human rights activists.
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Description: The Cuban government has demanded the US Interests Section in Havana take down its Christmas decorations. Among the trimmings is a sign that reads 75, symbolizing 75 dissident writers and journalists put in jail over the last year.
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Leftist protests forced President   Vicente Fox to abandon plans to lead Mexico's main independence   day ceremony in the capital on Friday, reducing the risk of   violence over a hotly contested election.
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Repression is increasing in Cuba under the control of Raul Castro, and the domination of the government by his brother, Fidel, is nearing an end, Bush administration officials said Tuesday.
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Dozens of political prisoners in Cuba should be freed, former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar said Friday at an international conference examining ways to support resistance to Fidel Castro's regime.
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Hungary's Fidesz opposition on   Thursday called off its planned anti-government rally at the   weekend, which the government had warned would cause week-long   violent protests to escalate.
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Cuba's armed forces will marshal their Soviet-era arsenal in a parade on Saturday to show the world, especially the arch-enemy United States, they remain a force to be reckoned with as their ailing leader Fidel Castro fades.
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Riot police on Wednesday broke up a protest by several dozen students denouncing the police beating of a top opposition leader during a demonstration against a referendum that allows authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko to stay in power.
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A rights group in Cuba says there are fewer political prisoners but widespread repression continues.
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HAVANA -- Retaliating against the US diplomatic mission's Christmas display supporting Cuban dissidents, the Cuban government put up a billboard yesterday emblazoned with photographs of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners and a huge swastika overlaid with a "Made in the USA" stamp.
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A squad of Cuban security agents on  Thursday shut down a protest by wives of jailed Cuban  dissidents who camped out in Havana's Revolution Square to  demand one ailing husband be moved to a hospital.
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Supporters of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday ended the street protest that clogged the heart of the capital for nearly seven weeks, but they vowed to find other ways to resist the incoming conservative president.
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Venezuelan police on Sunday used water cannons and what appeared to be tear gas to break up thousands of demonstrators protesting the government's decision to close the country's most-watched television station.
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Thousands of people march in Caracas to protest against a decision to force a state TV channel off air.
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Cuba condemned the decision by outgoing Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso to set free four notorious terrorists of Cuban origin and announced that it was breaking diplomatic relations with the Central American country indefinitely.
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HAVANA, Cuba -- The spat between US diplomats and the Cuban government escalated Friday when billboards showing a swastika and photographs of Iraqi prisoners being abused by American soldiers were put up on a main highway facing the US mission&#39;s offices.