BC-CB–Cuba-Obit-Jose Ramon Fernandez HAVANA (AP) — Jose Ramon Fernandez, a retired brigadier general who was key in forming the communist country’s new army and commanded Cuban defenses at the Bay of Pigs, has died, state media reported. He was 95. Tall and spindly with the rigid posture of a military man, Fernandez in his final…
CUBA, Mo. (AP) — An eastern Missouri home where a racial slur was recently spray-painted on a wall has been destroyed by fire, prompting state and local investigations. The fire broke out Saturday near Cuba, Missouri, about 85 miles southwest of St. Louis. The family was out of town at the time. The Crawford County…
St, Louis, MO (KTRS) A St. Louis area veterinarian narrowly escaped Hurricane Irma while on a church mission in Cuba. Dr. Daniel Wentz of Ferguson Animal Hospital had been in Havana since late August with his fellow church members from Gateway Church of the Nazarene, when they received word of the dangerous storm last week.…
HAVANA (AP) — Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has died at age 90, his brother, President Raul Castro announced late Friday on state television.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says he would consider opening a Trump hotel in Cuba under certain conditions. In an interview with CNN’s Situation Room Monday, the billionaire real estate mogul said that “Cuba has certain potential,” but that there are other factors, namely the 49 percent interest rate, that need to…
HAVANA (AP) – President Obama says he believes the Cuban trade embargo is going to end, and while he can’t predict when that will be, he believes it will happen at some point because the embargo has not served the interest of the U.S. or the Cuban people. Obama says the U.S. has exercised as much…
( KTRS/AP ) President Barack Obama says his trip to Cuba is an “historic opportunity to engage with the Cuban people.” Obama spoke to a few dozen embassy staff and families at a Havana hotel in his first stop after arriving in Cuba. He says it’s wonderful to be in Cuba and is noting that…
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says his upcoming visit to Cuba will advance U.S. efforts to restore ties with the communist nation and improve the lives of Cubans. Obama will be making the first trip to Cuba by a sitting president in more than half a century. He says on Twitter there’s already been…
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says the process of normalizing relations with Cuba will take time, but there’s progress already. Obama is marking the one-year anniversary of the announcement by the United States and Cuba of plans to restore relations. Obama says both countries have taken important steps in that year to normalize relations.…
