Michael Weissenstein

Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, third from left, walks away from the site where a Boeing 737 plummeted into a yuca field with more than 100 passengers on board, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, May 18, 2018. The Cuban airliner crashed just after takeoff from Havana's international airport on Friday.

Passenger jet crashes near Havana with at least 110 aboard

May 18, 2018 at 2:46 p.m.

A Cuban-operated airliner with at least 110 people on board crashed into a cassava field just after takeoff from Havana's international airport on Friday. There appeared to be mass casualties...

Diaz-Canel replaces Raul Castro as Cuba’s president

April 19, 2018 at 1:40 p.m.

Raul Castro said Thursday that he expected 57-year-old Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez to serve two five-year terms as president and eventually take Castro's place as head of the Communist Party,...

Raul Castro leaves Cuba with new freedoms, deep problems

April 15, 2018 at 10:20 p.m.

In 2008 Raul Castro took over a country where most people couldn't own computers or cellphones, leave without permission, run most types of private businesses or enter resort hotels.

Dangerous sound? What Americans heard in Cuba attacks

October 12, 2017 at 11:34 p.m.

It sounds sort of like a mass of crickets. But not quite. A high-pitched whine, but from what? It seems to undulate, even writhe. Listen closely: Some hear multiple, distinct...

Bizarre attacks in Havana hit U.S. spy network in Cuba

October 2, 2017 at 10:40 a.m.

Frightening attacks on U.S. personnel in Havana struck the heart of America's spy network in Cuba, with intelligence operatives among the first and most severely affected victims, The Associated Press...

Castro denies responsibility for attacks on U.S. diplomats, clouding investigation

September 15, 2017 at 5:31 a.m.

Raul Castro seemed as rattled as the Americans.

U.S. diplomats attacked in bed, safe a few feet away: Cuba mystery deepens

September 15, 2017 at 5:26 a.m.

The blaring, grinding noise jolted the American diplomat from his bed in a Havana hotel. He moved just a few feet, and there was silence. He climbed back into bed....

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