http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Cuba 60 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:34:19 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1344148.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1344148.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:07 EST A retired State Department employee and his wife pleaded guilty Friday to a 30-year conspiracy to provide classified information from the U.S. to Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1343131.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1343131.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:00 EST Cuba's celebrated and increasingly brassy blogger Yoani Sánchez emerged Thursday as a player in U.S.-Cuba relations, scoring a lengthy reply from President Barack Obama to her questions and playing a starring role in a congressional hearing on efforts to let American tourists visit Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1342657.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1342657.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A high-octane effort to let U.S. tourists visit Cuba got a major endorsement Thursday from one of the island's leading dissidents, who suggested that ``along with suitcases, Bermuda shorts, and sunblock, support, solidarity, and freedom could come too.'' Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez, who this week drew the attention of President Barack Obama, wrote in an essay to House Foreign Affairs chairman Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., that lifting the ban on U.S. travel to Cuba ``could bring more results in the democratization of Cuba than the indecisive performance of Raúl Castro.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1341647.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1341647.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:52 EST U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen blasted efforts to open Cuba up to U.S. tourists Thursday during a House Foreign Affairs Coomittee meeting, suggesting the tourist dollars would only keep the regime in power. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1344839.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1344839.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Thirty years of spying for Cuba will send a retired State Department official to prison for life after he and his wife pleaded guilty Friday to sending secrets to the United States' longtime antagonist. http://www.miamiherald.com/1329/story/653899.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1329/story/653899.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:36 EDT <!--#include virtual="/static/blog_includes/cuban_colada.html" --> http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1341025.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1341025.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Cuba's government remains as repressive under Raúl Castro as it was under his brother Fidel, according to the first in-depth report on the island's human rights since the younger Castro took power. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1337133.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1337133.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Any goodwill Raul Castro enjoyed as Cuba's new leader has dissipated, according to a new poll indicating that more than four out of five Cubans surveyed inside the country are unhappy with its direction. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1330443.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1330443.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:52 EST Leading Cuban dissident Martha Beatriz Roque is extremely ill due to complications from her diabetes and a liquids-only fast launched to protest the government, another dissident reported Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1327702.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1327702.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:52 EST The U.S. State Department has told Cuba it deplores last week's ``assault'' on blogger Yoani Sánchez, one of the toughest of several expressions of support for the Havana writer. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1325230.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1325230.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST When a dozen Cuban bloggers wanted to stage a protest last month, they simultaneously tweeted, texted and posted messages like ``Freedom.'' <p/> One later used a blond wig to sneak into a government building and complain against censorship of the Internet. And the next day, she posted a video of her complaint on her blog. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1321116.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1321116.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST More than 50 House Democrats sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi supporting current Cuba policy, which embargo-supporters say effectively means that a bill to open Cuba to tourists is dead. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1321125.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1321125.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Famed Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez said Friday she and another blogger were punched and thrown violently into a car by presumed state security agents as they walked to participate in a peaceful march in downtown Havana. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1320034.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1320034.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:52 EST Sixteen Cuban crewmen were stranded Thursday in a backwater African port, with little cash and owed up to 11 months of salary, after their cargo ship began listing with a possibly illegal lumber cargo aboard. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1319270.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1319270.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A Miami sports agent sentenced to 15 years in a Cuban prison for trying to help Orlando ``El Duque'' Hernández and other baseball stars defect has been freed and will fly home Friday, his former business partner said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1317311.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1317311.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Two Czech tourists arrested in March after they shouted insulting remarks about Fidel and Raúl Castro during a scuffle at Havana's international airport will be tried next week, diplomatic sources confirmed Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1313282.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1313282.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Cuban purchases of U.S. food will fall by at least a third this year as the island slashes imports to stabilize an ever-weak economy further hammered by the global economic crisis, a top trade official said Monday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1346254.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1346254.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:52 EST Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is inviting his mentor Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela during the coming months. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1344659.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1344659.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47 EST The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1342224.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1342224.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:51 EST President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in "talking for the sake of talking" with Raul Castro and indicating he won't visit the island until the communist government changes its ways. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1341861.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1341861.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:31 EST President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in "talking for the sake of talking" with Raul Castro and indicating he won't visit the island until the communist government changes its ways. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1338572.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1338572.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:08 EST A hunger strike by a Cuban dissident has been a hot story for Miami-based Spanish-language media, and concern about her health even reached the halls of the U.S. Congress, where an anti-Castro lawmaker warned that she was "close to death." http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1336909.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1336909.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:24 EST Any good will Raul Castro enjoyed as Cuba's new leader has dissipated, according to a new poll, which found more than four out of five of those surveyed in Cuba were unhappy with the direction of the country. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1336626.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1336626.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:19 EST Softball has been a passion for Michael Eizenberg since he was a child, but the 63-year-old has never been as excited about a game as the one played Monday on a children's ball field at a faded sports complex under Havana's warm Caribbean sun. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1336491.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1336491.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:04 EST The Supreme Court is staying out of a dispute in Miami between school officials and civil libertarians over a book about Cuba that depicts smiling children in communist uniforms but avoids mention of problems in the country. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1335598.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1335598.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:06 EST Supporters of tough U.S. sanctions against the Cuban government have given more than $10 million to congressional campaigns over the last seven years, according to a study released late Sunday night by a group supporting campaign finance reform. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1331818.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1331818.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:37 EST "Pingpong diplomacy" thawed relations between the United States and China in 1971. Can "baseball diplomacy" help do the same for the U.S. and Cuba? http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1331159.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1331159.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:17 EST Think you're obsessed with President Barack Obama and the many challenges he faces at home and abroad? http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1343945.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1343945.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:02 EST Independent journalist Aini Martín says she was detained last week as she took photos of a policeman seizing merchandise from an elderly street vendor. http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1341962.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1341962.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:38 EST Former political prisoner Vladimir Alejo Miranda has painted the front of his house black, which, he says, is a sign of mourning for Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1339513.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1339513.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:11 EST Human rights advocate Edey Sánchez says he was arrested by national police agents following a five-hour search of his home that turned up an oven, a mixer and trays for making candy. http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1327801.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1327801.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:36 EST José Antonio Vázquez, a graduate of the Hotel and Tourism School, says he’s been unemployed as a chef for two months because of his opposition to the government and the fact he wears a “Change” bracelet. http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1324475.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1324475.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:09 EST Members of the National Police Force arrested five blind street vendors in the capital last week. http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1318067.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1318067.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:30 EST The City of Havana provincial court has punished 85 persons so far this year for illegally selling goods and food on the street. http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1315554.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1315554.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:48 EST The government has eliminated potatoes from from the subsidized basket of food purchased under the ration card in the capital. http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1313836.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1313836.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:08 EST Frustrated passengers protested last week at the local bus terminal when a departure was canceled because of mechanical problems with a bus and the fares weren’t returned. http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1308343.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1308343.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:05 EDT Former political prisoner Ángel Frómeta was ordered to appear in court Monday to prove that the 125 acres he inherited from his father legally belong to him. http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1306397.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1306397.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:08 EDT The request of dissident Carlos Manuel Pupo for 3.5 hectares (8.75 acres) of unused farmland has been rejected by the government. http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1304283.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1304283.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:25 EDT Twenty-eight people showed up Tuesday for the inauguraion of the Bloggers Academy of Cuba, held in the home of internationally known blogger Yoani Sánchez. http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1347293.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1347293.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:00 EST HUNDIMIENTO/ Unas 800 toneladas de azúcar se hundieron en el mar tras un accidente marítimo en el que no se registraron pérdidas de vidas humanas ni lesionados . http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1347292.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1347292.html Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:00 EST El presidente venezolano Hugo Chávez invitó este sábado al líder cubano Fidel Castro al congreso del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) que se celebrará hasta marzo, por considerar su experiencia ``iluminadora'' en un momento de ``clara urgencia política''. http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1347080.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1347080.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:33 EST El presidente venezolano, Hugo Chávez, sostuvo hoy en Caracas una reunión privada con altos funcionarios cubanos, preparatoria de la Cumbre de la ALBA que tendrá lugar en Cuba el próximo diciembre, informó el Ministerio de Información. http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1346971.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1346971.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:24 EST El presidente venezolano Hugo Chávez invitó este sábado al líder cubano Fidel Castro al congreso del Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV) que se celebrará hasta marzo, por considerar su experiencia ‘‘iluminadora'' en un momento de "clara urgencia política''. http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1346211.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1346211.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Cuando el peculiar cortejo de un centenar de enfermos mentales vestidos de negro se detuvo frente a la sala, la marcha fúnebre se trocó en conga, el ``Caballero de París'' resucitó y el director del Hospital Psiquiátrico de La Habana gritó con alborozo: ``¡Esto es una locura!''. http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1346210.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1346210.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST <p/> El ejercicio militar que realizará la próxima semana Cuba busca aumentar la preparación ante una eventual agresión de Estados Unidos, afirmó un alto jefe militar, citado este sábado por la prensa oficial. http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1346209.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1346209.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:00 EST STRINGER / EFE<p/>EL CINEASTA español José Luis Garci habla durante una entrevista en La Habana, Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1345792.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1345792.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:44 EST ARENAS OBANDO, María de 78 años, natural de Cuba. Servicios hoy a las 9 a.m. en Our Lady of Mercy. Misa en St. Kevin. Funeraria Bernardo García, Westchester. http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1346017.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1346017.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:14 EST El presidente del gobierno español considera que es "un imperativo biológico'' para España el mantener con Cuba un "diálogo exigente''... http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1345560.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1345560.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:07 EST El periodista cubano Reinaldo Escobar, esposo de la bloguera Yoani Sánchez, denunció en su bitácora que fue víctima el viernes de una "golpiza'' que demuestra la veracidad de una denuncia similar presentada por su mujer hace dos semanas. <img src="http://media.elnuevoherald.com/images/redesign/icons/video.gif" border="0" /><img src="http://media.elnuevoherald.com/images/redesign/icons/photo.gif" border="0" /> http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1345457.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1321/story/1345457.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:47 EST Después de 30 años de espiar para Cuba, un funcionario retirado del Departamento de Estado fue condenado a cadena perpetua luego de que él y su esposa se declararon culpables... http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1119455.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1119455.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:15 EDT If one person's freedom fighter is another's terrorist, the case of the Cuban Five illustrates the chasm that remains between Havana and Washington, despite recent overtures that are gradually easing tensions left over from the Cold War. http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1087239.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1087239.html Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:29 EDT Tell friends you have just been to Cuba, and depending on the circles in which you travel, you may be rewarded with a lot of envy. Cuba is hot, and we're not talking about the tropical weather. http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1087217.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1087217.html Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:10 EDT Come July, there will be another sign of Cuba’s New Labour-style accommodation of the capitalist 21st century: wealthy foreigners will be able to buy luxury holiday homes on the island. http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1082905.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1082905.html Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:52 EDT For a few hours this week, the Organization of American States appeared about to splinter: Leftist Latin American governments squared off against the United States over whether Cuba should be allowed to rejoin the main forum for political cooperation in the hemisphere. http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1077392.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1077392.html Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:12 EDT Latin American leaders usually have few qualms about lecturing the U.S. on what they regard as the folly of its Cuba policy, especially of late. Reintegrating Cuba has become a priority issue for many if not most of the region's governments, who see it as a way to break with the Cold War politics and U.S. hegemony that burdened the region in the 20th century. http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1071388.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1071388.html Fri, 29 May 2009 07:29 EDT The U.S. government is fighting an effort to allow Cuba to return to the Organization of American States after a 47-year suspension. But the resistance is putting it at odds with much of Latin America as the Obama administration is trying to improve relations in the hemisphere. http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1065807.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1065807.html Tue, 26 May 2009 08:04 EDT Meet the Forrest Gump of Cuban communism, Óscar Espinosa Chepe. Like the character played by Tom Hanks in the 1994 film, Chepe has spent the past half-century having the good (as well as the bad) fortune of being wherever the action is. http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1059166.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1059166.html Thu, 21 May 2009 11:56 EDT Emilio Izquierdo Jr. survived Cuba's gulag and came to America in 1980. His struggle instilled in him a love of liberty that would drive him to become a thriving businessman. It would also drive him to fight Castro's propaganda by forming the UMAP Political Prisoners Association. http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1057141.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1057141.html Wed, 20 May 2009 09:31 EDT Lawrence Journal-World photographer Richard Gwin recently attended the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution in Havana. During the May Day celebration, the streets began to fill at 6 a.m. as more than 1 million Cubans joined to march for the Revolution. http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1057140.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1057140.html Wed, 20 May 2009 09:28 EDT The Deena Stryker Photographs collection contains photographs and related materials generated by the journalist, then known as Deena Boyer, during two trips to Cuba between July 1963 and July 1964. http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1057027.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1322/story/1057027.html Wed, 20 May 2009 07:41 EDT The crowd of Cuban-Americans pressing against the airport ticket counter scorned those on the other side. Only a handful of American charter companies have landing rights in Cuba, and with the new White House policy letting Cuban-Americans visit relatives there as often as they want, ticket prices have become political. http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1163800.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1163800.html Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:23 EDT The Obama administration has caved to demands from Fidel and Raul Castro's government to shut down a U.S.-sponsored electronic billboard in Havana. This is a symbolic step backward in America's mission to promote freedom http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1152553.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1152553.html Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:51 EDT American and Cuban diplomats took the first small steps toward improving relations between our two countries with talks in New York this week on migration issues. The discussions revived a regular dialogue between Washington and Havana on migration issues for the first time in 6 years, and followed a pledge by President Barack Obama to reach out to all of America's neighbors in the Western Hemisphere. http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1124605.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1124605.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:24 EDT A few weeks ago, Normando Hernandez Gonzalez got the kind of news that usually prompts cheers and emotion-filled toasts. The Cuban journalist and poet had been awarded the annual Freedom of Expression award by the Norwegian Writers’ Union. A delegation traveled from Oslo to the island nation to present the award, which included a prize of 100,000 kroner (about $15,775). http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1121630.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1121630.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:43 EDT Why doesn't President Obama have time for Cuba's pro-democracy opposition? http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1120948.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1120948.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:06 EDT Latin America's leaders are right to condemn the coup in Honduras -- but wrong to give Havana a pass on democracy. http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1119431.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1119431.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:59 EDT Most Latin American leaders slammed the 47-year-old U.S. embargo of Cuba at the mid-April Summit of the Americas in Trinidad. Fidel Castro hadn’t been invited, so he ranted about the “blockade”—and President Obama—from Havana. This all sounds familiar, but there is an important new twist today. The Obama team, and shifts in Cuban American opinion, give hope that we may finally move toward eliminating the embargo—if we can jettison unrealistic demands and expectations. http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1119238.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1119238.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:29 EDT After nearly 50 years, America's cold war embargo against Cuba appears to be thawing at last. Earlier this spring, the Obama administration relaxed controls on travel and remittances to the communist island by Cuban Americans, and last week it agreed to open the door for Cuba's re-entry to the Organisation of American States. http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1119210.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1119210.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:08 EDT Bill Clinton and George W. Bush recently had a face-to-face debate in Canada to discuss current affairs. The only Latin American nation mentioned in their conversation? Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1119208.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1119208.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:04 EDT The Obama administration has made an excellent first step to eliminate some restrictions on travel to Cuba, to loosen constraints on remittances, and to re-engage in migration talks. Positive, multiple lines of engagement are clearly the way forward. Broader contact and leverage with Cuba through additional commercial and people-to-people contacts will in time help promote a more pluralistic, less impoverished, and more open society. http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1101357.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1101357.html Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:52 EDT If the United States lifted all restrictions on tourist travel to Cuba, what corporations would net the biggest gains? Two: Orbitz Worldwide of Chicago, Ill., and GAESA, S.A. of Havana. http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1101337.html http://www.miamiherald.com/1044/story/1101337.html Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:45 EDT Bill Clinton and George W. Bush recently had a face-to-face debate in Canada to discuss current affairs. The only Latin American nation mentioned in their conversation? Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1346254.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1346254.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:52 EST Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is inviting his mentor Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela during the coming months. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1344659.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1344659.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:47 EST The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Friday after he challenged the presumed state agents who earlier roughed up his wife to a street corner debate. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1342224.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1342224.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:51 EST President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in "talking for the sake of talking" with Raul Castro and indicating he won't visit the island until the communist government changes its ways. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1341861.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1341861.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:31 EST President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in "talking for the sake of talking" with Raul Castro and indicating he won't visit the island until the communist government changes its ways. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1338572.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/more/story/1338572.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:08 EST A hunger strike by a Cuban dissident has been a hot story for Miami-based Spanish-language media, and concern about her health even reached the halls of the U.S. Congress, where an anti-Castro lawmaker warned that she was "close to death."