The Cuban Triangle

Apart from the talks on resuming postal service, a State Department official talked with Cuban officials about other matters including migra...

…unless they are being imposed on you. Here’s Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iranian opposition leader, via AFP : “We are against any sanctions...

On Thursday October 1, the Cuban government will close workers’ cafeterias in four ministries and pay workers 15 pesos daily to bu...

The Center for Strategic and International Studies publishes “Cuba Outlook: Raúl and Beyond,” a report (pdf) that reviews Cu...

Eight days after, the recriminations continue over the Juanes concert. But one benefit is this photo published by Granma, showing the la...

[Update : The United States won the final, 10-5.] Here are video highlights without narration of the 5-3 U.S. victory over Cuba Thur...

This paper of mine contains a description of some of the services being provided by Cubans in Venezuela . There’s plenty of debate abou...

Author Achy Obejas says the real change spurred by last Sunday’s concert was in Miami . Carlos Saladrigas agrees : “The ol...

I just plowed through the Commerce Department’s announcement of new regulations governing the gift packages that Americans can send to Cuba ...

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich starts The Americano , “an Hispanic news service,” and features a commentary on the Juanes concert that ...

Who says blogging isn’t work? Cuban Colada translates Russian newspaper coverage of the visit of General Nikolai Makarov, c...

In today’s Herald , Lydia Martin and Jordan Levin round up the concert itself and the reaction in Miami . Some photos from...

Looked to me like a nice afternoon of music that many thousands of Cubans enjoyed. As I thought about all the huffing and puffing in ...

That seems to be the feeling after the talks on re-establishing postal service that took place in Havana yesterday. From the State D...

Governor Richardson clarifies his position on travel to Cuba : “Let anybody go to Cuba .” He spoke at the University of ...

A photo essay from LIFE magazine, shot in 1956 by Alfred Eisenstaedt.

Well, he’s going. The concert is on Sunday and the lineup, according to a statement released by Juanes and the Cuban music institute ...

…or at least monopolists…in the La Vanguardia story discussed below, there’s a sidebar comparing retail prices in Cuba and Spain : 20...

Spain ’s La Vanguardia reports on the closure of workplace cafeterias , discussed earlier here . The reporter, Fernando Garcia, ...

On September 11, President Obama acted to continue “the exercise of certain authorities” under the Trading with the Enemy Act.

Mexican police rescued 14 Cuban migrants from a house in Cancun where they were being “held in crowded conditions and were being mistreated...