CUBA | HUMAN RIGHTS

Report: Cuba's Raúl Castro as ruthless as Fidel

A report by Human Rights Watch paints Raúl Castro's regime in Cuba as little more than a continuati...

ECONOMY

Poll: Cubans `frustrated' over life in Cuba

A poll conducted in Cuba shows residents unhappy with their government and pessimistic about the economy.

Cuban hunger striker reported very ill

Leading Cuban dissident Martha Beatriz Roque is extremely ill due to complications from her diabetes and a ...

U.S. expresses outrage over `assault' on Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez

The U.S. State Department has told Cuba it deplores last week's ``assault'' on blogger Yoani Sánchez...

CUBA

Cuba's blogosphere has developed a sharper edge

Cuba's blogosphere has taken on a decidedly harsher face in recent months, an act of online defiance in the...

TRAVEL TO CUBA

More Democrats oppose lifting Cuban travel ban

The bill to lift the ban on travel to Cuba could be in peril as more Democrats say they are against it.

CUBA

Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez detained, beaten on way to march

Cuba's best-known blogger Yoani Sanchez said state security officials seized and assaulted her in an effort...

Hugo Chavez invites Fidel Castro to Venezuela

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is inviting his mentor Fidel Castro to visit Venezuela during the coming m...

Pro-Castro mob attacks spouse of top Cuban blogger

The husband of an acclaimed dissident Cuban blogger was punched and shouted down by a pro-government mob Fr...

Obama answers questions from top Cuban blogger

President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't inte...

Obama answers questions from top Cuban blogger

Cuba dissident ends protest fast amid health rumor

Poll shows unhappiness, pessimism in Cuba

Any good will Raul Castro enjoyed as Cuba's new leader has dissipated, according to a new poll, which found...

US softball players try sports diplomacy in Cuba

Softball has been a passion for Michael Eizenberg since he was a child, but the 63-year-old has never been ...

CUBANET

Independent journalist detained for taking photos

Independent journalist Aini Martín says she was detained last week as she took photos of a policeman seizin...

CUBANET

Paints front of house black as sign of mourning

Former political prisoner Vladimir Alejo Miranda has painted the front of his house black, which, he says, ...

CUBANET

Making candy leads to charges against human rights advocate

Human rights advocate Edey Sánchez says he was arrested by national police agents following a five-hour sea...

CUBANET

Cook says he’s unemployed because of his dissidence

José Antonio Vázquez, a graduate of the Hotel and Tourism School, says he’s been unemployed as a chef for t...

CUBANET

Police arrest five blind street vendors

Members of the National Police Force arrested five blind street vendors in the capital last week.

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...

Estrenan en La Habana obra sobre el Caballero de París

Cuando el peculiar cortejo de un centenar de enfermos mentales vestidos de negro se detuvo frente a la sala...

Preparan ejercicio militar de gran envergadura

El ejercicio militar que realizará la próxima semana Cuba busca aumentar la preparaci&oa...

Cuba seduce a cineasta español

STRINGER / EFE EL CINEASTA español José Luis Garci habla durante una entrevista en La Habana...

Defunciones de cubanos en la Florida

BOAN, Emma C., de 81 años, natural de Cuba. Maspons Funeral Home, Miami. Solemn Cremations. BREU...

Zapatero cree en un 'diálogo exigente' con La Habana

El presidente del gobierno español considera que es "un imperativo biológico'' para Espa&ntil...

Cuba

Bloguero denuncia golpiza en su bitácora

Pareja de Washington admite que espió para Cuba

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 ...