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• Cuba: Not much has changed in Cuba-U.S. relationship

  In a hard-lined speech to the 2009 United Nations General Assembly, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said that despite the election of Barack Obama, not much has changed in the relationship between Cuba and the United States.

• Latin American economies on the rebound

  The construction industry here in Lima is booming, middle-class residents are once again snapping up new apartments in Rio de Janeiro and software companies in Santiago, Chile, are expanding.

• Bills could transform U.S./Cuba business

  When it comes to crafting Cuba policy, Congress has been in the back seat of late. The sweeping new rules released last month that loosen the 49-year-old U.S. embargo against the island came from the executive branch and the Office of Foreign Assets Control.
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  IMMIGRATION

  Cubans tell of capture and torture on Mexican journey

  Yurizán González thought his ordeal was over after his kidnappers made a cut on his ear in a room of an old abandoned house in Cancún, the resort southeast of Mexico where he was held captive. But the torture session continued, he said, when the captors removed the cloth plug they had placed in his mouth to mute his screaming and replaced it with a gun muzzle.

• Juanes complained about being followed

  A Miami radio station broadcast Tuesday a recording of a heated discussion Colombian rocker Juanes had with Cuban authorities a few hours before his concert ``Peace Without Borders'' in Havana.

• THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

  Details emerge of Cuba's nuclear threat

  Cold War documents recently made public reveal Castro called for a tougher Soviet line on the U.S., up to and including nuclear strikes.

• Cuba's pace of U.S. patent filings picks up

  It was a brief item in a newsletter that tracks U.S. government activities: U.S. Patent No. 7,556,726 was awarded on July 7 to the National Center for Scientific Investigations in Havana.

• A day after Juanes show, emotions in Miami still mixed

  When Fabio Diaz settled in with 15 members of his extended Cuban family to watch Colombian singer Juanes' historic concert in Havana on television Sunday, he -- and the rest of his clan -- had mixed feelings. Diaz, who is 35 and came to Miami at 19, thought the event should have been staged in an intermediary location between the island and Miami, as a bridge between the two sides. And he wanted Juanes to speak out directly about freedom in Cuba.

• JUANES CONCERT IN CUBA

  Juanes in Havana:`This is the power of music'

  Hundreds of thousands of revelers filled Havana's Plaza of the Revolution on Sunday for Juanes' historic mega-concert, while in Miami, exiles watched on TV with mixed emotions.

• NEWS ANALYSIS | CUBA

  Concert `without borders' not without politics

  After weeks of controversy, pop star Juanes performs Sunday in a country where even entertainment has becomea great divider.

• CORAL GABLES HIGH TRAGEDY

  Mother arrives from Cuba for son's funeral

  The Cuban mother of Juan Carlos Rivera, the teen stabbed to death at Coral Gables Senior High School, was reunited with her family in Miami on Saturday.

• Mom arrives from Cuba -- to bury slain son

  As she arrived in Miami to bury her teenage son, slain this week at Coral Gables Senior High School, Anais Cruz collapsed into the arms of her own mother.

• CUBA

  Russia to modernize and train Cuban military

  The chief of the Russian military's General Staff, visiting Cuba, says his country will help Havana modernize and train its military and that Moscow warships will visit Cuba soon, according to reports published Friday.
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  CUBA

  Cubans on island wary of politics behind Juanes concert

  Many Cubans see politics behind Sunday's concert by Colombian rocker Juanes, but they expect the event to attract a large crowd.

• TRAGEDY AT CORAL GABLES HIGH

  Slain boy's mom waits for Cuba to let her leave

  The mother of the teenager stabbed to death at Coral Gables Senior High got approval from the U.S. government to travel from Havana to Miami for her son's funeral.

• CUBA

  Havana singer: Let exiles perform in Cuba

  A Havana singer who will take part in the Juanes concert Sunday has said that exiled Cuban artists should be allowed to perform on the island and criticized the notorious jailing of a Havana man for his drunken complaint of widespread hunger as ``an awful error.''

• TRADE AND POLITICS

  'Old friends' Cuba, China strengthen ties

  In a series of deals, China is working to deepen its relationship with Cuba. Trade between the two countries is estimated at more than $2.5 billion.

• U.S.-CUBA SANCTIONS

  White House renews trade ban on Cuba

  President Barack Obama extends the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba for another year in a symbolic step used by past presidents.

• Connecting businesses in Cuba

  Cuba's business institutions could play a key role, as trade between the U.S. and the island accelerates in spite of the half-century embargo.

• If Cuba embargo ended, U.S. businesses ready for rush, but not island

  While U.S. companies dream of a post-embargo Cuba, infrastructure woes, a lack of financing and Cuba's legal system may present challenges.

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