NEWS
January 20, 1992 | RICHARD BOUDREAUX, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Cuba announced Sunday that its highest government council has upheld the death penalty against one of three Miami-based Cuban exiles convicted of landing on the Communist-ruled island armed for a sabotage mission. The Council of State, led by President Fidel Castro, also commuted the death penalty against a second convicted man to 30 years in prison. The third man had also been condemned to death but the Supreme Court commuted his sentence Thursday to 30 years, the maximum prison term in Cuba.
NEWS
July 14, 1989 | From Times Wire Services
Cuban war hero Gen. Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, who fought alongside Fidel Castro in the revolution 30 years ago, was executed by firing squad at dawn Thursday along with three other officers after being convicted in a $3-million drug-smuggling and corruption scandal. Their deaths, reported by the Cuban news agency AIN, came as no surprise to a nation that for a month watched the progress of the trial on television.
BUSINESS
October 20, 2003 | From Reuters
Three dozen U.S. travel industry executives defied a Bush administration crackdown on American travel to communist Cuba and visited the island on Sunday to study its future business potential. The group, whose industry stands to gain the most from the lifting of a U.S. ban on travel to Cuba currently being debated in Congress, was welcomed with a champagne breakfast to the strains of salsa music and a tour of the city's hotels.