The Cuban Triangle

The Cuban government made its first statement on the detained USAID contractor (see discussion here ), and it came from President Raul Castr...

NPR’s Nick Miroff on Havana’s movie houses , and the crush of business during the annual December film festival. Is the ...

Last Wednesday there was a meeting by videoconference between U.S. travel industry representatives and tourism ministry and company represe...

AP : Two new vice presidents of the Council of State were named: Minister of Communications Ramiro Valdes and Comptroller General...

That’s a Cuban fan speaking to an AFP reporter at the Kool and the Gang concert yesterday on the Malecon. It was held at the Tribuna Ant...

I corrected a post below on a Congressional action affecting U.S. farm sales to Cuba . It changes the rule defining “cash in advance” bu...

The Obama Administration’s moves on Cuba policy – mainly, ending travel and remittance restrictions on Cuban Americans, and opening up more...

More reporting on the detained American USAID contractor from the Herald and Politico , based on Administration briefings to...

Reuters : Venezuela-Cuba “cooperation agreements” worth $3 billion signed in Havana for a variety of economic and other projects,...

From yesterday’s State Department press briefing: QUESTION: P.J., could you give us a little bit more information, if you have it, on t...

Grandma in green window, Santiago de Cuba in Santiago de Cuba A street scene in Santiago from 360cities.net , an incredible websit...

An American citizen working on a USAID contract was arrested in Cuba December 5, according to press reports citing U.S. officials and a st...

This statement was cited in news reports over the weekend: Statement from Dr. Jim Boomgard, President and CEO of Development Alternatives,...

You can chalk it up to an accident of history, the dead weight of socialism, or a triumph of environmental preservation, but the fact is tha...

EFE : Cuba ’s Center for Studies of Defense Information is holding a conference next April on security and defense and announ...

Who’s interested in Aroldis Chapman? Well, who isn’t? The Angels , the Red Sox , the Orioles (my preference), and many more wil...

The American debate over Cuba policy doesn’t exactly lend itself to division along liberal and conservative lines. But when reading ...

...in a Vedado yard, and definitely not for sale. Thanks to reader Russell Bither-Terry for the shot.

“I don’t understand how a name that has brought so much glory to Cuba can be omitted.” – Pianist Chucho Valdes, interviewed in El Pais...

AP : Two of the Cuban Five had their sentences reduced by U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard. CARICOM celebrates its rel...

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry says President Obama has taken “small steps” in Cuba policy – “only a start” – and c...

In addition to making more than 80,000 land grants and raising prices paid to producers (detailed here, pdf ), the Raul Castro government ...