The Cuban Triangle

Palabra Nueva published an interesting interview with Cardinal Jaime Ortega last week; the text is here (pdf) , AP’s coverage is here , a...

The House Ways and Means Committee’s Trade Subcommittee holds a hearing this morning on U.S. policy toward Cuba . The announcement incl...

“I am living my dream,” says former Cuban player Leslie Anderson , now signed by the Tampa Bay Rays, in this profile by St. P...

“The embargo…which is opposed by the whole world is a stupidity…and serves as an excuse for castrismo to justify the failure of a hallucinat...

AP on the very slow development of golf courses in Cuba . Posada Carriles’ trial has been delayed again but as Tracey E...

Thinking of the experience of USAID detainee Alan Gross in the Havana airport, a reader sent me this video of a Cuban television program t...

The Herald has a terrific report on Humberto Rios, a Cuban who won a prize for innovating and spreading organic farming technique...

“Although cellular phone rates are still high for most people,” a Granma report begins, the Cuban phone monopoly Etecsa is cutting rates “w...

I can’t say I understand the stir caused by the Estefans hosting President Obama at their home last week for a Democratic National Committee...

“The concert of the Puerto Ricans of Calle 13 was able to attract 100 times more Cubans than the total of all who participated in the seven ...

He was a revolutionary who edited the magazine Revolución and broke with the Revolution itself, leaving Cuba in 1968. Obits from AP here ...

EFE : Like many thousands of other Cubans, dissident Martha Beatriz Roque has acquired Spanish citizenship. Herald : “...

President Obama goes to Miami today to raise money for the Democratic Party at the city’s arts center and at a high-dollar reception in the...

Former Miami -Dade Democratic Chairman and (now) former Obama Administration Energy Department official is making another run for Congress i...

Secretary Clinton’s statement that “the Castros do not want to see an end to the embargo and do not want to see normalization with the Unite...

As discussed here and here , the Cuban government’s action regarding barber shops and beauty shops begins to address problems that had been...

Secretary Clinton answered a question about Cuba last Friday, where she asserted her “personal belief that the Castros do not want to see ...

Another quake last night, this time 45 miles south of Bayamo, magnitude 4.6. Map here , details here , Cuban civil defense ...

It took a while, but the Cuban government appears to be launching a solution to problems it identified long ago in its small state retail en...

Uncommon Sense : Jailed dissident Darsi Ferrer suspends his hunger strike after his medical and legal demands were addressed; EFE Spanish st...