The Cuban Triangle

● Cardinal Jaime Ortega and bishops and clerics from all Cuba ’s dioceses are in Rome for a week-long encounter with Pope Benedict XVI ...

In Miami last weekend, Senator McCain reiterated his position on Cuba . From El Nuevo Herald (my translation): “Raul Castro wants our ai...

Raul Castro announced yesterday that a communist party congress, the first since 1997, will be held in the second half of 2009. Also, from...

The Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) has issued a thorough report (pdf, 22 pages) on the USAID Cuba program . It traces the histo...

Many of the policy changes made so far under Raul Castro involve public investment (the new bus fleet), ending nuisance regulations (pharm...

In ten days, 7,400 Cubans signed up for cell phone contracts . Cuba has a new education minister, and Fidel Castro took ...

The State Department spokesman started his briefing last Friday and ran into a series of questions on Cuba , where reporters ...

Cuba ’s Damas de Blanco, demonstrating yesterday morning for the release of their jailed relatives near the Plaza de la Revolucion, were f...

Wilfredo Cancio’s story in Sunday’s El Nuevo Herald claims that more reforms are in store. His reporting is based on anonymous government...

Pedro Riera Escalante, a former Cuban intelligence official, last week submitted a petition to the National Assembly in which he seeks a nat...

A statue of the late Antonio Gades , Spanish dancer and choreographer, in the Plaza de la Catedral.

A New York agricultural trade delegation is en route to Cuba . Meanwhile, last year’s trip by an Idaho delegation seems n...

Spain ’s El Pais reports from Havana that the requirement that Cubans obtain an exit permit (tarjeta blanca) from their own government bef...

...atop the Lonja de Comercio.

$1,087, $411.04, $400 – those are fines levied against Americans, according to a recent OFAC enforcement report (H/T Havan...

If there’s one thing that’s clear about the changes taking place in Cuba , it’s that there is no roadmap, no published 20-point plan, no g...

Don Bohning, the Miami Herald’s venerable former Latin America editor and author of The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations Against ...

A mass was celebrated last weekend to re-inaugurate a church that was confiscated in 1975 and used as a warehouse and disco, AFP...

Reuters’ Marc Frank reports on a statement on Cuban television announcing that ceilings on Cuban state-sector salaries will be removed, and...

Raul Castro says Cuba needs more foreign investment. There are three ways to get it. Cuba could work harder to market Cuba as an...