The Cuban Triangle

The courtyard of a home in Trinidad that rents rooms to tourists.

From Politico.com , a subcommittee chairman comes out on the losing end of a squabble over legislation to end the Cuba trav...

I have not yet seen legislative language, but the word from Capitol Hill is that the House Appropriations Committee approved $5 million for ...

At the Export Law Blog , a note on recent fines imposed by Treasury on embargo violators – a company that shipped furniture ...

Now this is important: “Tintin was in Cuba,” an article by an independent journalist in Cuba , Aleaga Pesant, claiming that the boy adventu...

If you read Spanish, it’s well worth checking out a magazine that I have picked up for years in Havana : Palabra Nueva , the magazine of the...

Before the Cannes film festival last month, Michael Moore shot back at the U.S Treasury and released Treasury’s letter demanding informati...

In Spanish, a sensitive essay in El Nuevo Herald on the different experiences and outlooks of different generations of the Cuban diaspora, ...

The U.S. prison in Guantanamo should be closed, former Secretary of State Colin Powell says – “not tomorrow, but this afternoon.” ...

Here, from The Sunday Telegraph, is the only account of the meeting between President Bush and Pope Benedict that details their discussion ...

At EU Business.com, a report that at the instigation of Spain and others, the EU may drop its diplomatic sanctions against Cuba , adopted i...

Communications minister and Comandante de la Revolucion Ramiro Valdes spoke about the economy recently; here’s La Jornada’s coverage from H...

A restatement of EU policy toward Cuba – calling for “self-determination through [advances in] democracy, rule of law and fundame...

Now that’s the OAS we know and love – at its general assembly in Panama, it passes a lowest-common-denominator, consensus resolution on med...

The friendly, anonymous, and slightly right-of-center folks at Western Hemisphere Policy Watch noticed something that caught my eye too: a ...

Don’t know what to make of this one – possible intermediaries approach the U.S. government, possibly on behalf of Cuba , ...

Two sites worth watching, both attempting to track presidential candidates’ positions on Cuba policy: one by the Fund for Reconciliation an...

The American military cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy.

Whether or not you like the point of view in this paper (pdf, 19 pages) , it provides lots of good background on the 1996 Helms-Burton law –...