The Cuban Triangle

Chris Simmons, described in media reports as an active duty U.S. Army officer and a top expert on the Cuban intelligence service, will appea...

AP: Senator Arlen Specter plans to go to Cuba , and seeks a meeting with Raul Castro. The New York Times on the Fidel...

The Miami Herald reports on the campaign to free Eduardo Arocena , in jail since 1984 for “gunning down a Cuban diplomat and for several bom...

The New York Times on the amazing variety of offerings left prayerfully by Cubans at the chapel at El Cobre, near Santiago . It...

Just because last year’s speech offered a road map of sorts to some of Raul Castro’s policy actions, it was not guaranteed that this year’s ...

Here are two Congressional letters regarding the USAID Cuba program. Both are from Rep. Howard Berman, Chairman of the House Foreign Affai...

If you have little pangs of nostalgia for the Cold War, the recent story about the possibility of Russian bombers in Cuba turns out to be a...

The Christian Science Monitor on the dissident movement in Cuba , and why women are leading it – because they tend not to get loc...

When Cuba downsized its sugar sector in 2002, the theory was that the land that was freed up – an amount equal to the land already in agric...

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman has withdrawn his objections to disbursement of USAID’s Cuba program funds, except f...

That’s not Granma referring to one of “Los Cinco Heroes” serving time here for espionage – it’s from a Net for Cuba story referring to Edu...

Bloomberg reports on an Isvestiya story where a “highly placed source” says that if a U.S. missile defense system is deployed in Europe , ...

The Export Law Blog digs into last week’s story about a Colorado company accused by the feds of violating the embargo, and is no...

A new book arrived in the mail: Havana Before Castro – When Cuba was a Tropical Playground by Peter Moruzzi, published by Gibbs Smith. (...

A memo that USAID circulated today, signed by Deputy Assistant Administrator Stephen Driesler: This memo is sent to provide you with th...

Cuba has published a decree that provides for the distribution of idle state lands to Cubans – individual private farmers, cooperatives of...

Above the portal of the renovated building that once housed the education ministry, a reflection of the Palacio de los Capitanes Generales.