http://www.news24.com/Tags/People/fidel castro Argotic Syndication Framework, http://www.codeplex.com/argotic http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:44:20 +0200 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has wrapped up a two-day visit to Cuba in which the two allies reaffirmed their strategic alliance, signing $1bn in co-operation agreements. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Venezuela-signs-1bn-agreement-with-Cuba-20130429-3 The daughter of Cuba President Raul Castro cannot visit Philadelphia to receive an award because the State Department has denied her permission to travel there, officials say. http://www.news24.com/World/News/US-wont-allow-Castros-daughter-to-visit-20130426 Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has been shown on Cuban TV looking near tears as he listened to a song about his friend and ally, the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Fidel-Castro-near-tears-over-Chavez-on-TV-20130411 Communist icon Fidel Castro has called on North Korea and the US to avoid confrontation and reminded both sides of their "duties" towards peace. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Castro-urges-calm-in-North-Korean-crisis-20130405 Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles has vowed to end the nation's shipments of oil to Cuba, slamming acting President Nicolas Maduro as a puppet of Havana. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Capriles-vows-to-end-giveaways-to-Cuba-20130318 Cuba's Fidel Castro has praised the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as a champion of the poor and has said Cubans have lost their best friend ever. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Chavez-death-Cuba-has-lost-best-friend-20130311 Venezuelans have filed past the open casket of late President Hugo Chavez as he lies in state after throngs of weeping loyalists gave the firebrand leftist a rousing farewell on the streets. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Chavez-lies-in-state-for-farewell-20130307 Latin America has mourned the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as the United States expressed hope his passing would lead to improved relations with the oil-rich state. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Latin-leaders-mourn-Chavez-20130306 Cuba has declared three days of national mourning after the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the Communist nation's closest regional ally and main economic support. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Chavez-a-true-son-to-Cubas-Fidel-20130306 The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has left a large void in the leftist leadership of Latin America and has raised questions about whether the oil largesse he spread would continue. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Death-of-Chavez-leaves-leftist-void-20130306 Cuban-Americans in Miami have reacted with a collective shrug over the news that Raul Castro plans to retire from Cuba's presidency within five years. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Tepid-response-over-Castro-retirement-20130225 Cuban President Raul Castro has won re-election in what will be his last term, and finally unveiled a 52-year-old political heir to take the regime into the future. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Castro-picks-young-heir-20130225 President Raul Castro has welcomed a delegation of US lawmakers, the first to come to Communist Cuba since US President Barack Obama's re-election, state media reports. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Castro-meets-US-lawmakers-in-Cuba-20130220 President Hugo Chavez has shocked and delighted Venezuelans by returning home after spending more than two months in Cuba for cancer surgery and treatment. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Chavez-back-home-after-cancer-surgery-20130218 Cuban leader Fidel Castro has made a surprise appearance in Havana to vote in parliamentary polls, expressing confidence in the revolution despite a decades-long US trade embargo. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Castro-makes-surprise-appearance-in-Cuba-20130204 Enrique Meneses, the Spanish journalist who scored a historic scoop photographing Fidel Castro and his rebels in the Cuban mountains during their revolution, has died aged 83. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Historic-Castro-photographer-dies-20130107 Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has reappeared in public, meeting at a Havana hotel with a Venezuelan politician - squashing swelling rumours that the former leader was on his death bed. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Fit-Fidel-Castro-appears-in-public-20121022 The rumour mill surrounding the health of Fidel Castro is churning anew despite a letter from the aging Cuban revolutionary published by state media and denials by relatives that he is on death's door. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Castro-rumour-mill-continues-to-churn-20121020 The first public statement in almost four months from Fidel Castro has appeared in Cuba's state media, as rumours persist about the 86-year-old revolutionary icon's health. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Fidel-Castro-statement-issued-amid-rumours-20121018 As Fidel Castro's long public absence set rumors swirling, son says he's just fine http://www.news24.com/World/News/Fidel-Castro-fine-son-says-20121012