Cuba has released prominent dissident José Daniel Ferrer from jail, as part of a Cuban government decision to gradually free more than 500 prisoners as part of talks with the Vatican HAVANA ...

20. Cuba then informed Pope Francis it would gradually release 553 convicts as authorities explore the legal and humanitarian ways to make it happen. Havana said, however, that the gesture to the ...

during a meeting with President Barack Obama at the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba, March 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) ...