It will be the rarest of sights: a black-hulled, two-masted replica of a slave-carrying schooner slipping into Havana's harbor flying two flags — those of the United States and Cuba. That's how it is for the Amistad, a symbol of both a dark 19th century ...

The US State Department said Thursday it is "dismayed" that authorities in communist Cuba disrupted a demonstration by women relatives of political prisoners. President Barack Obama's administration, which has tried to engage diplomatically with Havana, is "dismayed that a peaceful march was disrupted by the Cuban government authorities, department spokesman Gordon Duguid said. The authorities, he said, "interfered with ...

Hundreds of government supporters surrounded a small group of Cuban dissidents as they marched through Havana on Thursday on the seventh anniversary of the arrests of their loved ones, screaming abuse but otherwise allowing the protest to proceed peacefully. The Ladies in White, most of them mothers and wives of some ...