TRADE

Cuban spending on U.S. food may decline

Cuba's government is estimated to spend less than $590 million on American food in 2009 -- down at least 32...

UNITED NATIONS

U.N. again condemns U.S. embargo of Cuba

The vote was 187-3, with two abstentions, as the United Nations once again denounced the U.S. embargo of Cuba.

Cubans fear more gov't control of farmers markets

The habanero peppers, oranges and peanuts cost more at Cuba's free-market "agros" - farmers markets where v...

MIAMI BEACH

Cuba is focus of conference

Charles Shapiro, the senior advisor for economic initiatives in the State Department's Bureau of Western H...

Castro's sister: My work with CIA didn't threaten brothers' lives

Juanita Castro was recruited by the CIA in 1961 through her friend Virginia Leitao de Cunha, wife of the B...

FORWARD LOOK

Fidel Castro's sister says she worked with CIA while in Cuba

CUBA

Poll shows shift in Cuba travel opinions

A new poll of Cuban Americans shows a strong majority favor allowing all Americans to travel to the island,...

Vatican official seeks more access to Cuban media

A senior Vatican official said Friday he has asked Cuba's government to allow the Roman Catholic Church mor...

Cuban blogger says she is briefly detained

A Cuban blogger who has gained international attention for her searing commentary about life on the communi...

Winery incubator opens with praise and hope

Officials believe a new winery incubator tucked away on Chicago Street in Caldwell could emerge as a major ...

EU leader: Cuba must make human rights gestures

The European Union's development commissioner wants Cuba to show signs it's serious about protecting fundam...

BVI judge hears requests before sentencing US man

A Rhode Island man convicted of killing his wife during a 1999 scuba trip should serve at least 25 years in...

Kentucky mans dies scuba diving off Florida coast

A Kentucky man has died scuba diving in caverns off Florida's Gulf Coast.

Kentucky mans dies scuba diving off Florida coast

A Kentucky man has died scuba diving in caverns off Florida's Gulf Coast.

CUBANET

Crackdown on illegal vendors

The City of Havana provincial court has punished 85 persons so far this year for illegally selling goods an...

CUBANET

Subsidized potatoes dropped from ration book

The government has eliminated potatoes from from the subsidized basket of food purchased under the ration c...

CUBANET

Bus breaks down but fares not returned

Frustrated passengers protested last week at the local bus terminal when a departure was canceled because o...

CUBANET

Ex-political prisoner threatened with seizure of his farm

Former political prisoner Ángel Frómeta was ordered to appear in court Monday to prove that the 125 acres h...

CUBANET

Dissident denied unused land

The request of dissident Carlos Manuel Pupo for 3.5 hectares (8.75 acres) of unused farmland has been rejec...

CUBANET

Independent bloggers school opens in Cuba

Twenty-eight people showed up Tuesday for the inauguraion of the Bloggers Academy of Cuba, held in the home...

CUBANET

Polls show 69% oppose Raúl Castro

Polls conducted by two independent non-governmental organizations (NGOs) show that 69 percent disapprove of...

Legisladores demócratas se oponen a libertad de viajes a la isla

Más de 50 legisladores demócratas enviaron una carta a la presidenta de la Cámara, Na...

Madrid

Grupo disidente pide "no más linchamientos y secuestros''

Cuba Democracia Ya pidió en un comunicado al ministro español de Asuntos Exteriores, Miguel A...

Defunciones de cubanos en la Florida

ARTEAGA, Esteban, de 80 años, natural de Cuba. Misa hoy a las 9 a.m. Iglesia St. Michael. Woodlawn P...

Grupos del exilio denuncian torturas "sistemáticas'' en Cuba

La tortura, las ejecuciones extrajudiciales y la violencia desde el poder son recursos sistemáticos...

Cineasta serbio Emir Kusturica dará concierto único en La Habana

Omara Portuondo gana el Grammy Latino a Mejor Album Tropical Contemporáneo

La diva del Buena Vista Social Club, Omara Portuondo, se alzó el jueves con el Grammy Latino a Mej...

Leyes de comunicación 'despiertan fantasmas' de censura, dice Yoani Sánchez

La bloguera cubana Yoani Sánchez, ganadora de numerosos premios internacionales, entre ellos el es...

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Case appears closed on 'Cuban Five'

If one person's freedom fighter is another's terrorist, the case of the Cuban Five illustrates the chasm th...

MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL

Cuba's so hot it's cool

Tell friends you have just been to Cuba, and depending on the circles in which you travel, you may be rewar...

NEW STATESMAN

Cuba goes capitalist

Come July, there will be another sign of Cuba’s New Labour-style accommodation of the capitalist 21st centu...

THE WASHNGTON POST

U.S. pushed hard for OAS accord

For a few hours this week, the Organization of American States appeared about to splinter: Leftist Latin Am...

TIME

Inside the OAS's Cuba conundrum

Latin American leaders usually have few qualms about lecturing the U.S. on what they regard as the folly of...

THE WASHNGTON POST

U.S. urged to relax Cuba policy to boost regional relations

The U.S. government is fighting an effort to allow Cuba to return to the Organization of American States af...

BARRON'S

Relishing the idea of a Post-Castro Cuba

Meet the Forrest Gump of Cuban communism, Óscar Espinosa Chepe. Like the character played by Tom Hanks in t...

WASHINGTON TIMES

Editorial: America caves to Cuban censorship

The Obama administration has caved to demands from Fidel and Raul Castro's government to shut down a U.S.-s...

VOICE OF AMERICA

VOA Editorial | Engaging With Cuba

American and Cuban diplomats took the first small steps toward improving relations between our two countrie...

BLOOMBERG

Cuba keeps ill writer jailed as Norway awards prize

A few weeks ago, Normando Hernandez Gonzalez got the kind of news that usually prompts cheers and emotion-f...

THE WASHINGTON POST

EDITORIAL | A Cuban dissident deflected

Why doesn't President Obama have time for Cuba's pro-democracy opposition?

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Honduras and the Cuba exception

Latin America's leaders are right to condemn the coup in Honduras -- but wrong to give Havana a pass on dem...

THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE

Why and How to Lift the U.S. Embargo on Cuba

Most Latin American leaders slammed the 47-year-old U.S. embargo of Cuba at the mid-April Summit of the Ame...

OPPOSING VIEWS

Obama should lift embargo on Cuba immediately

After nearly 50 years, America's cold war embargo against Cuba appears to be thawing at last. Earlier this ...