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December

• Obama-Castro Handshake Draws Attention at Mandela Tribute VOA 10 Dec 2013 -- Tuesday's memorial service for Nelson Mandela generated some informal diplomacy and political controversy, alongside the praise for the late South African president.

November

October

September

August

• Panama: UN Report Finds NKorean Ship Violated Sanctions VOA 29 Aug 2013 -- Panama says United Nations experts have determined Cuban weapons seized from a North Korean cargo ship in the Panama Canal were a violation of U.N. sanctions.
• Castro Denies Cuba Caved In to US Pressure on Snowden RIA Novosti 28 Aug 2013 -- Fidel Castro, the former leader of Cuba, has denied that Cuba succumbed to US pressure to deny fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden entry.
• Cuba Gets 3rd An-158 Plane, Signs Deal for 3 More RIA Novosti 28 Aug 2013 -- Ukraine’s Antonov aircraft maker has handed over a third An-158 passenger airliner to Cuba and signed a contract for the delivery of three more.
• Snowden Stayed in Moscow Due to Cuba’s Position – Report RIA Novosti 26 Aug 2013 -- US fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden stayed in Moscow in late June and did not fly to Cuba because Cuban authorities would have denied him landing under US pressure.

July

June

May

• Cuba Readies Corruption Trials of Western Businessmen VOA 14 May 2013 -- Canadian and British executives of three foreign businesses shut in 2011 by Cuban authorities, ostensibly for corrupt practices, have been charged after more than a year in custody.
• On May Day, Cuba Remembers 'Best Friend' Chavez VOA 01 May 2013 -- Hundreds of thousands of Cubans filed through Havana's Revolution Square on Wednesday in a May Day parade that paid tribute to Hugo Chavez.

April

March

February

• Raul Castro To Step Down In 2018 RFE/RL 25 Feb 2013 -- Cuban leader Raul Castro has announced he will step down from power after his second term as president ends in 2018.

January

• Presidential Memorandum - Delegation of Authority to Suspend the Provisions of Title III of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 The White House 31 Jan 2013
• Letter from the President - LIBERTAD Act The White House 16 Jan 2013
• Cuba Eases Travel Rules RIA Novosti 14 Jan 2013 -- Cuban authorities have lifted decades-old travel restrictions allowing citizens to go abroad without exits visas and spend more time overseas starting Monday.