Gary Marx

In a startling setback for prosecutors in a politically charged case, a U.S. appeals court Tuesday overturned the convictions of five Cubans sentenced in 2001 to long prison terms on...

Renowned poet and journalist Jacques Roche was visiting his younger brother last month when gangs kidnapped him at gunpoint. Roche's friends and colleagues quickly scraped together $10,000 for ransom. It...

David Carwell bowed his head in prayer before easing into the cockpit of his single-engine Cessna and heading out onto the rocky airstrip. "Don't worry, I'm not taxiing into the...

David Carwell bowed his head in prayer before easing into the cockpit of his single-engine Cessna and heading out onto the rocky airstrip. "Don't worry, I'm not taxiing into the...

It's Tuesday evening in the working-class neighborhood of Cerro, but the lights are out and the streets are pitch-black. Illuminated only by the occasional battery-powered lamp or by a passing...

There were no cameras in place, no anchors and no frenzied producers pushing to make deadline. But Aram Aharonian said everything was on schedule as he toured the partly completed...

Standing before a group of nascent entrepreneurs, Carlos Lanz looked less like a former communist guerrilla than an aging university professor as he laid out the next phase of Venezuela's...

As military officials barked orders, more than 300 civilians gathered in the morning hours to practice saluting and precision marching in preparation for possible war. There were homemakers and retirees,...

Isabel Guerrero last saw her husband and 20-year-old son 14 months ago. They set off from near this fishing village in southeastern Cuba in the dead of night, heading across...

In a further sign of economic retrenchment, Cuban officials have closed scores of foreign businesses that were welcomed here a decade ago to bail out the nation's faltering economy. Some...