The Cuban Triangle

Senator Lugar writes President Obama to urge two diplomatic steps: naming of an official to conduct talks with Cuba , and droppin...

Two interesting stories on agriculture: Reuters on a change in the food distribution system, and EFE (Spanish) on European aid to the ag...

Cuban artist Tania Bruguera’s idea for a Havana arts festival was an open mike, a red curtain backdrop, one minute per speak...

President Obama will make his first big foray into relations with Latin America and the Caribbean at the April 17-19 Summit of the Americ...

During last year’s campaign, President Obama expressed a willingness to engage in diplomacy with Cuba . Here’s how he addressed the issue ...

Amnesty International says Cuba Should be part of the Summit of the Americas April 17-19 in Trinidad , and for good measure call...

The Washington Post previews a Tuesday press conference where Senate sponsors of a bill to end U.S. travel restrictions will make their ca...

Vice President Biden said in Chile that the Administration is not planning to lift the Cuba embargo. No surprise there, but what did he...

Reuters reports on two apparent retirements announced in Cuba ’s official gazette, those of historicos Osmany Cienfuego...

A provocative February 25 opinion article (pdf, in Spanish and English) by Ivette Leyva in the Nuevo Herald, arguing that th...

Agriculture is the one sector where the Raul Castro government has put forward a comprehensive reform: increased prices paid to producers, d...

Cuba fell to Japan last night, 5-0, and was eliminated from this year’s World Baseball Classic. The New York Times notes that it’s ...

Costa Rica and El Salvador are re-establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba after breaking them, respectively, in 1961 and 1959. ...

A reader wrote to ask why the link I provide (right) to the State Department’s Cuba page was no longer working. The reason is that the pa...

The University of Miami will release tomorrow an exit poll of Cuban American voters from the 2008 election; its press rele...

Fifty-four of the 75 dissidents and independent journalists arrested in 2003 remain in jail today. Their wives and mothers, joined togethe...

Last weekend, Brazil’s president talked with President Obama and said afterwards, “What I told President Obama, and I have hope th...

A Miami Herald editorial doesn’t like the way Congress handled the Cuba issue in the appropriations bill last week – welcome to the club. ...

Off the reservation: Former GOP Congressman Bob Barr, President Clinton’s famous nemesis during the impeachment proceedings, calls...