The Cuban Triangle

The House Agriculture Committee just approved H.R. 4645 , the bill that ends Cuba travel restrictions. It is unclear whether it will be c...

With the Cuba travel debate heating up, new arguments are popping up to support the status quo, sometimes stretching credulity and the trut...

The Hill : The U.S. Chamber of Commerce indicates it may “score” the vote on ending Cuba travel restrictions, i.e. incl...

Cardinal George of Chicago , head of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference, made a short visit to eastern Cuba only, visitin...

The House Agriculture Committee will consider H.R. 4645 , the bill that ends Cuba travel restrictions and changes two aspects of the rules...

I’ll let things speak for themselves. Darsi Ferrer, 40, a physician and human rights activist, was jailed last July and went to court y...

Usually, the rap against the Catholic Church in Cuba is that it lacks courage, and doesn’t use its position to push for change on fundament...

Here are statements from the United States and Cuba on the migration talks held in Washington last week. Portia Sie...

Francisco Chaviano is one of the 74 who signed the letter supporting an end to U.S. travel restrictions. (Uncommon Sense wrote about him ...

I don’t know much about Silvio Rodriguez or his music, so I attended his concert here Saturday night to take things in. (EFE story here ; ...

Secretary of State Clinton met yesterday with the family of USAID contractor Alan Gross and issued a statement calling again...

A group of 494 Cubans, including many in prison, has written a letter to the U.S. Congress that Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart describes as “askin...

Cleaning out some very old files, I came across this briefing paper from 2001, “Protecting U.S. National Interests in the Event of a Major ...

The webpage of Havana archdiocese magazine Espacio Laical has the program (pdf) of the Church’s Semana Social confer...

The State Department issued its annual human trafficking report , again placing Cuba in its lowest category, Tier 3, along w...

…and condemnable: “The hatred felt by the State of Israel against the Palestinians is such that they would not hesitate to send the one...

Cuba ’s Catholic Church has been in the headlines for its efforts regarding political prisoners (AP story here ), but an event beginning in ...

It is being claimed that the bill pending in Congress to end Cuba travel restrictions, H.R. 4645 , gives credit to the Cuban government to ...

There is a practice of exclusion in Cuban political culture that is really remarkable. When I see it, I recall the remark often attri...

To my knowledge, this article from Ciego de Avila is the first mention in Cuban media of the reform that is turning barbers and beauticians...