The Cuban Triangle

I had planned to take a break at 1,500 posts, but the timing didn’t work out. We’re now at 1,566, and it is probably still a bad time to s...

There’s a stir going on because of a comment in the group blog of the conservative magazine National Review, where Mark Krikorian said that...

AFP : The image of Cuba ’s patron saint has started a pilgrimage across Cuba , the first since 1952, that will end in Havan...

“My role is to tell of things and events so that each one may decide, you should understand that the companeros are not people whom I shoul...

For some time there has been talk of a review of Cuba travel regulations by the Obama Administration. The talk is now spilling out, ...

Granma runs an Interior Ministry statement about four Cubans, two of whom work as guards at a “nautical base” east of Havana...

President Obama’s National Security Advisor, James Jones, received Cardinal Ortega at the White House yesterday, EFE reports . Gen. Jon...

An AFP story in today’s El Nuevo Herald looks back at how Cuba ’s small entrepreneurs have been regulated and taxed over the years, now that...

Raul Castro continues to be nonplussed about the Obama Administration, saying that “in essence nothing has changed” in his National Assembly...

Diario las Americas writes about a protest outside the venue of the Orquesta Aragon concert in Miami last week (italics mine): “The p...

Herald : Cardinal Ortega is back in Washington . Miami New Times : Rumors of a high-level official visit to Cuba . At Al...

For the second year in a row, Raul Castro gave a more substantial speech a few days after the 26 th of July celebration than he did at the ...

The State Department continues to appeal for the release of Alan Gross, who was arrested last December while working in Cuba on a USAID sub...

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...