REUTERS

Cuban art market shows signs of vitality

The Cuban art market is showing signs of vitality as the economic recession weakens demand for works from elsewhere in Latin America, collectors said.

AFP

Power cuts and fewer beans for crisis-hit Cubans

Smaller bean rations and longer bus lines are among the new hardships hitting Cubans in their already difficult lives as the world economic crisis tightens its grip on the communist island

USA TODAY

Clinton adopts low-key style at State Dept.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton won a small diplomatic victory in Honduras recently. Few Americans are likely to have heard about it. The issue was Cuba, and the details were arcane.

XINHUA

Cuba to reform in face of economic crisis

The Cuban government announced that it will soon make "inevitable" reforms in the country to tackle the international economic crisis, local press said on Monday.

ABC NEWS

'Shock' over retirees' alleged spying for Cuba

They're accused of spying for Cuba for three decades. And if prosecutors are able to prove the charges against Washington, D.C., couple Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers in court, neighbors will be left scratching their heads, wondering just how the retirees pulled it off.

BBC

Cuba spy scandal a shame

The story of Walter Kendall Myers and his wife Gwendolyn reads like a John Le Carre novel, perhaps crossed with a Miss Marple whodunnit.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

White House, State Department briefing on OAS

Transcript of White House and State Department media briefing on OAS vote on Cuba.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Secretary Clinton's statement

Statement by Secretary Clinton

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Carlos Pascual nominated as U.S. ambassador to Mexico

President Obama nominated Carlos Pascual, a Cuban-born U.S. diplomat, as ambassador to Mexico, the State Department said Thursday.

AFP

Cuba return to OAS not automatic: Clinton

Cuba's return to the Organization of American States will not be automatic, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday after the body voted to lift a 47-year ban on Havana.

CHRSTIANEXAMINER.COM

Detained Cuban pastor faces 7-year prison sentence

Pastor Omar Gude Pérez, whom supporters allege is a victim of religious persecution, is facing seven years in prison by request of a state prosecutor.

BUSINESS WIRE

Cuba Travel Services, Inc. to Relaunch Non-Stop Flights from L.A. to Havana

Due to increased demand that flooded into Cuba Travel Services, Inc. offices on the heels of the Obama Administration lifting travel restrictions on Cuban Americans, Cuba Travel Services, Inc. will be launching its first non-stop weekly flight from LAX to Havana starting June 30, 2009. Departing on Tuesdays at 11:00 am Cuba Travel Services, Inc. will be utilizing aircraft operated by Continental Airlines.

GOVTRACK.US

Congressional resolution condeming Cuba

Expressing the sense of Congress that with respect to the totalitarian government of Cuba

CBS NEWS

US-Cuba talks increasing, but normal relations far off

The ground under U.S. policy toward Cuba took a significant shift today. Mauricio Funes was inaugurated as President of El Salvador and, as announced previously, he immediately restored diplomatic relations with Havana. That left Washington as the odd man out, the only country in the Americas without normal relations with its Caribbean neighbor and long-time thorn in its side.

IPS

US-CUBA: Obama still moving cautiously toward normalisation

Sunday's announcement by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Washington will begin talks with Cuba on bilateral migration issues and resume direct postal service between the two countries suggests the new administration of President Barack Obama intends to proceed cautiously toward normalising ties with the Caribbean nation, according to veteran experts in Washington.

REUTERS

New U.S.-Cuba relations fuel investor interest

Investors in high risk assets are setting their sights on Cuban securities now more than ever given the cheap prices and the overtures made by the U.S. government toward the island.

NATIONAL POST

Canada: Our man (not) in Havana

Canada's Minister of State for the Americas, Peter Kent, has spent much of the past six months in places like Bogota, Port of Spain and San Salvador, but he's not yet been our man in Havana

PA SPORT

Can Cuban boxers make most of their potential?

For decades they dominated the world of amateur boxing as Fidel Castro's fistic army. Now, the Cubans are ditching the headguards and vests in a bid to make up for lost time in the professional ranks.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Amnesty International report on Cuba

Amnesty International report on Cuba

YOUTUBE

In YouTube parody, Fidel Castro shills for beer

IRISH TIMES

Warning on Irish relations with Cuban regime

A leading Cuban dissident has criticised Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin for not meeting opposition figures during an official visit to the island in February, saying that such visits serve only to legitimise the island’s regime.

AFP

Report: Cuba expelled Spanish intelligence agents

Cuba has expelled Spanish intelligence agents who were tracking members of the Basque separatist group ETA on the communist island, a Spanish newspaper said Thursday

RTT NEWS

Baucus introduces bill easing Cuba restrictions

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), along with 15 other Democratic and Republican Senators, introduced a bill Wednesday to ease US trade and travel restrictions with Cuba.

BBC

Cuba pushes its 'medical diplomacy'

The waiting room at Cuba's largest eye hospital, Pando Ferrer, is packed with patients. Many come from across Latin America and the Caribbean, with everything paid for by the Cuban government