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Harry Belafonte stands as the model and the epitome of the celebrity activist. None could match his stature as go-between in Hollywood, Washington and the civil rights movement.

Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved international stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the world,” died in Rome.

The 58-year-old said he has no intention of changing his platform or his tone, despite winning no seats and garnering less than two per cent of the vote in the last election.

<p> Venezuela's vice-president says Chavez undergoing rigorous treatment CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela's vice-president says President Hugo Chavez is undergoing "rigorous treatment" as he recovers from surgery to remove a cancerous tumour. Vice-President Elias Jaua says Chavez is going through a "delicate pr</p>

MIAMI - Cuban musician Pablo Milanes says he chose to play in Miami this summer for the first time because it is home to so many Cubans and Latin Americans. Yet for years, he had stayed away from the city for precisely the same reason.

<p> Chavez cancer scare causes jitters in Cuba, beneficiary from billions in Venezuelan trade HAVANA - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's battle with cancer has high stakes not only for his country but for Cuba, which relies on its South American ally for billions of dollars in preferential trade. If Chavez h</p>

<p> Cuba academic who wrote anti-corruption essay says expulsion from Communist Party overturned HAVANA - A Cuban historian who came under fire for an unusually frank article denouncing high-level corruption says an order expelling him from the Communist Party has been overturned. Esteban Morales writes on hi</p>

Fidel Castro said Tuesday he resigned five years ago from all his official positions, including head of Cuba's Communist Party, a pre-eminent job in the island's political pantheon that he was thought to still hold.

<p> South Fla concert organizer announces Cuban music icon Pablo Milanes to play in Miami <p>MIAMI - Cuban music icon Pablo Milanes is finally coming to Miami, a South Florida concert organizer announced Thursday.</p> <p>Milanes helped found Nueva Trova, a form of political folk music that emer</p>

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made a surprise return from Cuba early Monday, stepping off a plane before dawn amid rampant speculation about his fitness to continue in office following the removal of a cancerous tumour from his pelvic region.

HAVANA - Eloy Gutierrez-Menoyo, who went from rebel commander fighting alongside Fidel Castro to a foe launching commando raids against the island before settling inside Cuba as a moderate, pro-dialogue dissident, died early Friday. He was 77.

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MIAMI - The Miami Marlins' celebrity manager was a bust, so they're calling one up from the minors.

Mitt Romney's campaign is running a Spanish-language ad in Florida that claims Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro's niece would support President Barack Obama. <br /><br />

HAVANA - In a country where money is perennially tight, it might seem a fantastic gift: A celebrity ballet star pledges to raise millions of dollars to rescue the ruins of an architectural masterpiece abandoned in mid-construction five decades ago in his native Cuba.

HAVANA - Cuban news media on Thursday published the first new writing in months from retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

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HAVANA - Fidel Castro mocked President Barack Obama on Thursday for saying he's open to changing U.S. policy toward Cuba if there is change on the island first, calling the U.S. leader "stupid."

HAVANA - Fidel Castro mocked President Barack Obama on Thursday for saying he's open to changing U.S. policy toward Cuba if there is change on the island first, calling the U.S. leader "stupid."

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Benedict XVI is looking into visiting Cuba and Mexico next spring, travelling to a region where about half of the world's Catholics live and where Pope John Paul II made historic visits during his pontificate.