Out of Cuba last week came ... by firing squads at La Cabana fortress overlooking the entrance to Havana Bay; 27 were sentenced to from two to 30 years in prison. Last week Havana radio, still ...

The prison complex at the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba naval station built after the Sept. 11 attacks that was billed as the venue for the “worst of the worst” in international terrorism now seems be ...

According to dissident sources in La Havana eight associates were also found guilty but sentenced to lesser prison terms. Gonzalez Leiva, founder and president of the Cuban Human Rights Foundation ...

Castro, a young revolutionary, had seized Cuba’s imagination with ... Valladares would spend time in different prison camps for the next 22 years. The first, La Cabaña, forged some of the ...

In the name of legality, armed security forces, aided by state-controlled mass organizations, silence dissent with heavy prison ... and the Cuban Economy (Ley de Protección de la Independencia ...

He will serve every day of a 20-year prison ... in Cuba. July 21: University of Havana professor Ricardo Bofill organizes a clandestine seminar called Los Derechos Humanos a la Luz del Derecho ...

Disgraced former Los Angeles City Councilman José Huizar surrendered on Monday, Oct. 7, to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to begin serving his 13-year prison sentence for accepting bribes from ...

Former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in federal prison for aiding a bribery scheme involving developers led by former Councilman José Huizar.

If it goes wrong, they could wind up in prison. If it goes right, they could be chipping away at the dictatorship (finally) and opening the possibility of democratic change in Cuba. The latest ...

The man accused of commandeering an LA Metro bus at gunpoint in South LA, holding a driver and passenger hostage, and of murdering another passenger, previously served time in state prison for ...

A look at the L.A. Times’ top 25 high school football teams in the Southland heading into Week 8. The Torrance High linebacker has a simple credo: Fear no man. His coach says, “We put him ...