HAVANA – Guillermo "Coco" Farinas became one of Cuba's best-known dissidents by starving himself — launching two dozen hunger strikes demanding government concessions on human rights. He started his ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - The U.S. contractor serving a 15-year prison term in Cuba for trying to start an illegal Internet service has gone on a hunger strike to protest his treatment by the Cuban and U.S.

Judy Gross, (C) the wife of Alan Gross, a U.S. contractor jailed in Cuba after being convicted of crimes against the state, speaks a rally for her husband's release in West Palm Beach, Florida in this ...

Alan Gross, an American subcontractor for the US Agency for International Development who was imprisoned in Cuba in 2009, has gone on a hunger strike to press for his release, his lawyer said Tuesday.

When Ariel Maceo Tellez walks the streets of Jaimanitas, west of Havana, Cuba, he says it feels like they are full of "ghosts" — most of his friends are gone, having fled the island to escape the ...

HAVANA - Cuba's state-run media said Saturday that an opposition activist who has refused food and water for 129 days has actually gained weight due to intravenous feeding, but that he has suffered a ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba fired back against international criticism on Saturday, saying in state-run press a prisoner who died of a hunger strike this week was a common criminal used by Cuba's enemies ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Three Miami women traveled thousands of miles to go on a hunger strike, demanding that the United Nations intervene in Cuba and send more aid to the country, which is now dealing ...

Cuban artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara uses a garrote in one of his performances. The weapon was used by the Spanish as a capital punishment method during colonial times. Miami A Cuban dissident’s ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - An American imprisoned in Cuba for more than four years says he's on a hunger strike. Alan Gross released a statement through his lawyer Tuesday saying he began fasting to protest ...

I was shocked by the economic deterioration since my visit a year ago. There are mountains of garbage throughout Havana, with people rummaging among them for food. Cuba’s request in February for ...