CUBA

Miami sports agent who aided in defections freed from jail

Juan Ignacio Hernández Nodar, a Miami sports agent who served 13 years for trying to help Cuban base...

CUBA

Czechs who insulted Castros to be tried

Two tourists will be tried on a variety of charges stemming from a March scuffle at Havana's airport.

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.

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

Cuban 'not on the prowl' for Dodgers _ or any team

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who lost in a bid to purchase to the Chicago Cubs, apparently still has ...

Cuban 'not on the prowl' for Dodgers _ or any team

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who lost in a bid to purchase to the Chicago Cubs, apparently still has ...

Man to serve 25 years in wife's 1999 scuba slaying

US State Dept 'deplores assault' on Cuban bloggers

The U.S. State Department issued a statement late Monday decrying attacks on three Cuban bloggers, includin...

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 ...

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...

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...

Crecen rumores por visita de Amaury Pérez

Una llamada del cantautor cubano Amaury Pérez al programa de la periodista María Elvira Salaz...

Defunciones de cubanos en la Florida

ALFONSO, Maria, de 99 años, natural de Cuba. Servicios hoy a las 9:30 a.m. Vista Memorial Gardens. F...

YOANI SANCHEZ : La culpa de la víctima

Después de una agresión, hay ciertos miopes que culpan a la propia víctima por lo ocur...

Ejecutan a cubano convicto por asesinato en Houston

El cubano Yosvanis Valle fue ejecutado este martes en el penal de Huntsville (Texas) tras ser declarado cul...

EEUU condena agresión a bloguera cubana

Cuba dice sufrir exceso de personal improductivo en la agricultura

UGranma, portavoz del gobernante Partido Comunista.

Muere maestro del voleibol cubano

Antonio Perdomo, entrenador de voleibol que guió el equipo femenino cubano a la victoria en los Jue...

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 ...