The Cuban Triangle

Have they taken that old Miami bumper sticker phrase and made it their own in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba? Fo...

I wanted to make a few additional comments on Radio/TV Marti. I listen to Radio Marti from time to time; anyone can listen through it...

The Republican candidates want to court the Cuban American vote. The problem is that they uniformly like the embargo, with the exceptions ...

Not that I aspire to run an election analysis blog, but when the Clinton-Obama flap about dealing with dictators occurred, I scor...

The signal of TV Marti – a “virtual” television station, as a dissident in Havana once described it to me – barely reaches Cuba , according...

Just as the “Sicko” publicity begins to die down, the U.S. government seems to be preparing a lifeline. Michael Moore says he ...

Four desertions from the Cuban team at the Pan American Games, a Fidel commentary complaining about it, a rumor of a mass defection after th...

That’s the title of a July 15 post on the blog Todo el Mundo Habla that contains an interesting idea: that Cuba ’s dissidents should put th...

Just in case you're tired of politics, a few photos. 'Til Monday....

Brian Latell, former national intelligence officer for Latin America, reportedly told Radio France Internationale that U.S. military office...

At Penultimos Dias, Ernesto asks that we all publicize the case of the disappearance of Lailí Pérez Negrín, 37, who left Dominica last Aug...

Raul’s text is available on the Granma website, English here , Spanish here . Read for yourself and look at the comments in last ni...

Politics later. Let’s start with a joke. “I came by land to see that everything is green and beautiful, but the most beautiful thing...

First reports from Raul Castro’s speech in Camaguey : EFE reports that he said “structural” changes are needed, and more foreign investment...

Rui Ferreira digs out of the Cuban press the fact that Carlos Valenciaga, the chief of staff in Fidel Castro’s personal office, who read th...

Uva de Aragon wrote a tender and instructive essay in yesterday’s Diario las Americas , one of a series about her return to Havana in 1999....

Many blogs have commented on this essay (pdf, via Miscelaneas de Cuba) by Katherine Hirschfeld of the University of Oklahoma . It appea...

The good news, they say, is that there’s only one pothole on the road from Moa to Baracoa in eastern Cuba . The bad news is that it cov...

The Clinton and Obama campaigns carry the debate into a second day ; she says he was “irresponsible and, frankly, naïve” to agree to meet wi...