The Cuban Triangle

Palabra Nueva, the magazine of the Havana archdiocese that circulates throughout Cuba , includes in its July/August issue a strong call for...

Diario las Americas welcomes Orquesta Aragon, the “mother of Cuban charanga bands” with “the sound everyone remembers” to Miami ...

Cuba ’s legislature convened its committees yesterday for days of discussions of lots of domestic and foreign policy issues – the need to im...

Canadian Press : The 19-year-old Canadian held in Cuba since an April traffic accident is now out on bail and free to return to C...

Cuba has committed to release 52 political prisoners, and last week parliament chief Ricardo Alarcon said it was “ very clear from the discu...

Missed this one last week: Cuba ’s health minister was replaced, with 78-year-old incumbent Jose Ramon Balaguer moving back t...

Hugo Chavez couldn’t make it to Cuba ’s 26th of July celebration in Santa Clara – an event dedicated this year to Bolivar – because of impe...

The U.S. Agency for International Development is looking to make grants to promote grass-roots economic development in Cuba , but under a sc...

AP : Three more dissidents, released from prison, arrived in Spain today. That makes 15. AFP : The Cuban government’s...

St. Petersburg Times : Rep. Kathy Castor of Tampa becomes the first member of Florida ’s Congressional delegation to support...

Today's New York Times shows how to roast a pig , purchased whole “without the viscera.” Works fine if you have a farm upstate, a back...

On a more serious note, the interesting question about the prospect of gradual, large-scale layoffs in Cuba (as reported in this Reuters st...

…because it’s where they are cutting the size and scope of government .

The State Department spokesman reveals the Obama Administration’s approach to mitigating the risk of an oil spill in Cuban Gulf waters: A...

Unnamed sources tell El Pais that after August, “there will be a broadening of self-employment and above all the conversion of ce...

The Cuba Study Group, the Council of the Americas , and the Brookings Institution published a paper (pdf) last week that describes Cuba ’s ...

Herald : A Cuban rafter is rescued after 25 days at sea; he was drifting 51 miles south of Marathon Key. El Mundo on th...

Fidel Castro visits Havana ’s Center for Research on the World Economy. [Photo from Cubadebate.cu]

And say'st thou yet that exile is not death? – Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 3 Seven of the 52 Cuban political prisoners slated ...

Guillermo Farinas was interviewed by El Pais ; excerpts: “Above all it has been a victory for Cuba , because the repressed won but so d...

Ex-President and Communist Party chief Fidel Castro went to a research facility last week and cell phone pictures appeared on blogs . And ...

The text of three press statements from the Archdiocese of Havana: 1. [July 10] En continuidad con el proceso de liberación de pri...