Policy allowed any Cuban who reached US soil to stay and become a legal resident

Our elected leaders should be less effusive about foreign leaders – living or dead

Cuba begins 9 days of mourning as state media filled with tributes to former leader

Contrasting reactions to death as world leaders pay tribute to ‘revolutionary leader’

Former tánaiste was involved negotiations between Farc delegation and government

Cruises can bring in money without placing demand on Cuba’s maxed-out food supplies

Weekend Read: The US president’s historic visit to Cuba this week was a victory lap for his doctrine of diplomacy. But it's one of Obama’s few foreign-policy success stories

Eldest Castro never took up arms in 1959 guerrilla movement led by brothers

Republicans oppose Cuba visit, which marks first by a US president in nearly 90 years

UN hears call for Guantanamo return and an end to the economic and financial blockade

John Kerry entourage travels to Cuba as countries restore diplomatic relations

Change is evident on the streets of Havana but young people are sceptical about their government

Freeze stretched five decades and outlasted the Cold War and nine US presidencies

Hailing ‘historic step’, Obama to send John Kerry to raise US flag in Havana this summer

Barack Obama tells US Congress he plans to remove Cuba from list of terrorism sponsors

First delegation to visit island since Obama announced he was restoring diplomatic ties

US president determined to defy Republicans and push his agenda

Obama calls time on five-decade policy of isolation and for a new approach to Havana

Single-engine plane trailed by F-15 jets until it entered Cuban airspace

The 23-year-old still refuses to discuss the circumstances of his escape from Cuba

State Department says communist island ‘provides aid to fugitives’ from US justice